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<p>No, she had another hit many years earlier with “Society’s Child”. Actually those two hits were so far apart in time that you could argue that Janis Ian was a one hit wonder twice.</p>
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<p>The guy who wrote this song later had another “hit” of sorts: He also wrote the theme song for the “Mary Tyler Moore Show” –> “You can turn the world on with your smile…”</p>
<p>Janis Ian had several of what I call “anti-hits”–they got airplay and were extremely popular–if that’s the right word–with clinically depressed teenage girls. “Do You Love Me”–excellent choice. Grateful Dead–not one-hit wonders! Speaking which (and this is not really a one-hit wonder either) have any of you deadheads heard the Suzanne Vega rendition of “Cassidy”? It was on a Dead tribute album. Much better than the original.</p>
<p>Grateful Dead doesn’t seem to belong here. Wayy before “Touch of Gray” (one of my all-time favorite songs) there was Truckin’, Casey Jones, Uncle Johns band, etc.</p>
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<p>New Entry: “Tubthumping” Chumbawumba</p>
<p>…and who can ever forget Horst Jankowski’s “A walk in the black forest”.</p>
<p>It’s right up there with “Who put the bomp in the bomp, bomp, bomp” by Barry Mann and “I had to much to dream” by the Electric Prunes.</p>
<p>“Touch of Grey” is the Grateful Dead’s only Top 40 hit. So even though I wouldn’t call them a One Hit Wonder, they technically are.</p>
<p>(ETA: I am such a nerd)</p>
<p>That’s an interesting bit of trivia, muppet, not nerdy at all. Still…those guys had more hits than Muhammed Ali. :)</p>
<p>Muppetcoat–Point taken. I do think of one hit wonders, though, as belonging to flash in the pan type groups, not those who are legends but not the top forty type. But that’s just my definition. :)</p>
<p>iTunes shows a bunch of German songs for Nena but they may all be from one album…I dunno.</p>
<p>I think the canonical version of “Abraham, Martin, and John” was by Dion.</p>
<p>What’s eyebrow-raising (to me) is how many people did that…at least five or six. And then there are curiosities, like several excruciating versions of “I’m Not Lisa” with country twang out the nose and up to the ceiling but not the original by Jessi Colter. And the only version of “Angel of the Morning” is by Juice Newton, not Merilee Rush.</p>
<p>And then there’s the truly appalling: punk rock version of everything from “Both Sides Now” to “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.” You can learn a lot, and waste a lot of time, by doing searches with the iTunes search facility.</p>
<p>Now, put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up.</p>
<p>Runaway - Del Shannon
On the Dock of the Bay - Otis Reading
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor</p>
<p>hmm … I need to go look at all those albums I won but never play because they s*ck other than the title song.</p>
<p>TheDad! By implication, are you ignoring the genius of Harry Nilsson that produced “Everybody’s Talkin’” and “I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City” and “Without You” and “One” and everything on “The Point”?</p>
<p>As with Joan Baez earlier, I can’t vote for Nilsson being a one hit wonder. He wasn’t wildly successful on the pop charts, but he was at least moderately known beyond “Coconut”.</p>
<p>TheDad- I love Punk Covers. Me First & the Gimme Gimmes are superb.</p>
<p>Oh! what about One Tin Soldier- The Original Caste</p>
<p>Can’t agree with Del Shannon. He had four Top 40 hits in the same year (1961/1962) that he released “Runaway”. “Hats off to Larry” was a top ten hit. A couple of years later he recorded “A Little Town Flirt” (1963)which was also a top hit.</p>
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<p>can’t forget The Search is Over and High on You ;)</p>
<p>Nilsson definitely not a one hit wonder. His “without you” made the top 100 of the year it came out (I used to collect those lists when Iwas a kid, believe it or not.) And his version was so much better than Mariah Carey’s–hers was shrill and one dimensional.</p>
<p>I believe that his “Spaceman” was a pretty big hit.</p>
<p>But his sweetest song was “The lottery song” which probably no one here knows; it’s pretty obscure.</p>
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<p>Guess again. How about “You’re Breakin’ My Heart” from the same album? Its expressive lyrics were frequently blasted out of our college dorm windows at the apropos times.</p>
<p>Ah, how could I forget?!?!?</p>
<p>I LOVE that album!</p>
<p>"You’re breaking my heart, you’re tearing it apart–</p>
<p>So **** you!"</p>
<p>How about “Incense Peppermints” by The Strawberry Alarm Clock?</p>
<p>My older brother, when on student council at a very small college in Indiana, actually hired The Strawberry Alarm Clock for a concert.</p>
<p>Also, how about “Something in the Air” by Thunderclap Newman?</p>
<p>Staying in a strawberry frame on mind, did anyone else have the soundtrack album to the movie The Strawberry Statement? Lousy movie, pretty good sountrack.</p>
<p>Driver, I think you’ve got me pegged–the Cyrcle indeed. It came out the same time that the Stone Ponies did “Different Drum.” That’s a question–does that count? The band went nowhere, the singer, well I guess we all know what happened to her…</p>
<p>Oh, and I disagree with Otis Redding as a one-hit wonder!! He was a staple of R&B that moved into Motown.</p>