Definitive 'primarily known for one song' band?

Fippy · Nov 28, 2024

Maybe it's just me but i know only this song by them

Kyriakos · Nov 28, 2024

I'm blue - if I was green I would die - da ba dee da ba dae :rockon:

Fippy · Nov 28, 2024

I won't click play Kyr..this song is too addictive :nono:

Gori the Grey · Nov 28, 2024

A couple of different answers:

1) The movie "That Thing You Do," was about a one-hit wonder band (The Wonders, or Oneders as the band's lyricist wishes it was spelled). The tune is very catchy, and totally believable as some 60's group's one-hit-wonder. I've always found it amazing that the songwriters for the film could create a song that was plausible as a one hit wonder. If you can do that at will, why can't you, you know, just go write an actual hit song? (For all I know the authors of the song have written other hits.)

2) Rock me, Amadeus, by Falco. Now, I guess in German-speaking realms, Falco is more than a one-hit-wonder, but the only of his songs that broke through to an English speaking audience was this one. The reason that it is, for me, the pinnacle of one-hit-wonders is that, in the song, there is a little narrative section, where he recounts a timeline of Mozart's life. He extends that narrative up to his composition of "Rock me, Amadeus," as though his composition were an important event in Mozart's life. That's a lot of moxy for a one-hit-wonder.

thetrooper · Nov 28, 2024

Gori the Grey said:
A couple of different answers:

1) The movie "That Thing You Do," was about a one-hit wonder band (The Wonders, or Oneders as the band's lyricist wishes it was spelled). The tune is very catchy, and totally believable as some 60's group's one-hit-wonder. I've always found it amazing that the songwriters for the film could create a song that was plausible as a one hit wonder. If you can do that at will, why can't you, you know, just go write an actual hit song? (For all I know the authors of the song have written other hits.)

2) Rock me, Amadeus, by Falco. Now, I guess in Germany-speaking realms, Falco is more than a one-hit-wonder, but the only of his songs that broke through to an English speaking audience was this one. The reason that it is, for me, the pinnacle of one-hit-wonders is that, in the song, there is a little narrative section, where he recounts a timeline of Mozart's life. He extends that narrative up to his composition of "Rock me, Amadeus," as though his composition were an important event in Mozart's life. That's a lot of moxy for a one-hit-wonder.

For @amadeus:

EvaDK · Nov 28, 2024

^ Speaking of one-hit songs/bands made famous from appearing in feature films:

Great songs

Hygro · Nov 28, 2024

sandstorm

Kyriakos · Nov 28, 2024

Here is a cool one:

And a bizarre one:

EvaDK · Nov 28, 2024

I can't remember a single song from 4NB other than this:

I considered Alanis Morrisette too, since her flame burned very bright and relatively short, but she released a great album (Jagged Little Pill, 1995) with a lot of memorable songs, not just 1 hit song. I'm kinda shocked to read that she has sold +70m albums worldwide.

Kyriakos · Nov 28, 2024

^That always reminds me of the song Dr.Evil wrote (or "wrote" /minime pantomime) :

Samson · Nov 28, 2024

Kyriakos said:
And a bizarre one:

There have been a few I could argue about, but this one I cannot resist. The specials are NOT a one hit wonder.

Spoiler Some other hits :

Gori the Grey · Nov 28, 2024

Who Let the Dogs Out? has got to be in the mix.

Thanks @thetrooper. To get the bit I was referencing, you have to listen to this version, about 1:10.

Here's "That Thing You Do":

Here's Who Let the Dogs Out?

Kyriakos · Nov 28, 2024

Samson said:
There have been a few I could argue about, but this one I cannot resist. The specials are NOT a one hit wonder.

Spoiler Some other hits :

That is probably the only song by them that most people know, though ^^