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THE
ROCK ERA'S 1-HIT WONDERS
Artists who have charted
one top 40 hit in the U. S.
1-HIT WONDERS
| Abbott, Gregory |
"Shake You Down" |
1986 |
| After the Fire |
"Der Kommissar" |
1983 |
| a-ha |
"Take on Me" |
1985 |
| Al B. Sure! |
"Nite and Day" |
1988 |
| Albert, Morris |
"Feelings" |
1975 |
| Alive and Kicking |
"Tighter, Tighter" |
1970 |
| Andrea True Connection |
"More, More, More (Part 1)" |
1976 |
| Apollo 100 |
"Joy" |
1972 |
| Arcadia |
"Election Day" |
1985 |
| Argent |
"Hold Your Head Up" |
1972 |
| Astley, Jon |
"Jane's Getting Serious" |
1987 |
| Bainbridge, Merril |
"Mouth" |
1996 |
| Baltimora |
"Tarzan Boy" |
1986 |
| Basil, Toni |
"Mickey" |
1982 |
| Belle Stars |
"Iko Iko" |
1989 |
| Big Country |
"In a Big Country" |
1983 |
| Bingoboys |
"How to Dance" |
1991 |
| Bishop, Elvin |
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" |
1976 |
| Blind Melon |
"No Rain" |
1993 |
| Bloodstone |
"Natural High" |
1973 |
| Bloom, Bobby |
"Montego Bay" |
1970 |
| Blow Monkeys |
"Digging Your Scene" |
1986 |
| Blues Image |
"Ride Captain Ride" |
1970 |
| Bobby Fuller Four |
"I Fought the Law" |
1966 |
| Bonham |
"Wait For You" |
1989 |
| Boomtown Rats |
"I Don't Like Mondays" |
1980 |
| Boone, Debby |
"You Light Up My Life" |
1977 |
| Bourgeois Tagg |
"I Don't Mind At All" |
1987 |
| Bow Wow Wow |
"I Want Candy" |
1982 |
| Boy Meets Girl |
"Waiting for a Star to Fall" |
1988 |
| Boys Don't Cry |
"I Wanna be a Cowboy" |
1986 |
| Breakfast Club |
"Right on Track" |
1987 |
| Brewer & Shipley |
"One Toke Over the Line" |
1971 |
| Brickell, Edie & The New Bohemians |
"What I Am" |
1989 |
| Bridges, Alicia |
"I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round)" |
1978 |
| Brown, Shirley |
"Woman to Woman" |
1974 |
| Brownsville Station |
"Smokin' in the Boys Room" |
1973 |
| Buckner and Garcia |
"Pac-Man Fever" |
1982 |
| Buffalo Springfield |
"For What It's Worth" |
1967 |
| Buggles |
"Video Killed the Radio Star" |
1979 |
| Bullet |
"White Lies, Blue Eyes" |
1972 |
| Buoys |
"Timothy" |
1971 |
| Burnette, Rocky |
"Tired of Toein' the Line" |
1980 |
| Bus Boys |
"The Boys are Back in Town" |
1982? |
| Caldwell, Bobby |
"What You Won't Do for Love" |
1979 |
| Calloway |
"I Wanna Be Rich" |
1990 |
| Cameo |
"Word Up" |
1986 |
| Candyman |
"Knockin' Boots" |
1990 |
| Charlene |
"I've Never Been to Me" |
1982 |
| Child, Jane |
"Don't Wanna Fall in Love" |
1990 |
| Christopher, Gavin |
"One Step Closer to You" |
1986 |
| Climax |
"Precious and Few" |
1972 |
| Climie Fisher |
"Love Changes (Everything)" |
1988 |
| Club Nouveau |
"Lean on Me" |
1987 |
| Cohn, Mark |
"Walkin' in Memphis" |
1991 |
| Company B |
"Fascinated" |
1987 |
| Contraband |
"All the Way from Memphis" |
1991 |
| Corina |
"Temptation" |
1991 |
| Coven |
"One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)" |
1971 |
| Damian, Michael |
"Rock On" |
1989 |
| Danny Wilson |
"Mary's Prayer" |
1987 |
| David & David |
"Welcome to the Boomtown" |
1986 |
| Davis, Jimmy & Junction |
"Kick the Wall" |
1987 |
| Deee-Lite |
"Groove is in the Heart" |
1990 |
| Dees, Rick |
"Disco Duck" |
1976 |
| DeVaughn, William |
"Be Thankful For What You Got" |
1974 |
| Dexy's Midnight Runners |
"Come on Eileen" |
1983 |
| Diesel |
"Sausalito Summernight" |
1981 |
| Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes |
"Get Dancin'" |
1976 |
| Divinyls |
"I Touch Myself" |
1991 |
| Doctor & the Medics |
"Spirit in the Sky" |
1986 |
| Donalds, Andru |
"Mishale" |
1995 |
| Dore, Charlie |
"Pilot of the Airwaves" |
1980 |
| Double |
"The Captain of Her Heart" |
1986 |
| Dream Academy |
"Life in a Northern Town" |
1986 |
| Duice |
"Dazzey Duks" |
1993 |
| Dundas, David |
"Jeans On" |
1977 |
| Edison Lighthouse |
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" |
1970 |
| Edward Bear |
"Last Song" |
1973 |
| Edwards, Jonathan |
"Sunshine" |
1972 |
| Egan, Walter |
"Magnet and Steel" |
1978 |
| Elmo & Patsy |
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" |
1984 |
| EMF |
"Unbelieveable" |
1991 |
| Essex, David |
"Rock On" |
1974 |
| First Class |
"Beach Baby" |
1974 |
| Five Man Electrical Band |
"Signs" |
1971 |
| Floaters |
"Float On" |
1977 |
| Flying Machine |
"Smile a Little Smile for Me" |
1969 |
| Focus |
"Hocus Pocus" |
1973 |
| 4 Non Blondes |
"What's Up" |
1993 |
| Foxy |
"Get Off" |
1978 |
| Frijid Pink |
"House of the Rising Sun" |
1970 |
| Georgia Satellites |
"Keep Your Hands to Yourself" |
1986 |
| Giant |
"I'll See You in My Dreams" |
1990 |
| Giant Steps |
"Another Lover" |
1988 |
| Gilder, Nick |
"Hot Child in the City" |
1978 |
| Giuffria |
"Call to the Heart" |
1985 |
| Glitter, Gary |
"Rock and Roll, Part 2" |
1972 |
| Godfathers |
"Birth, School, Work, Death" |
1988 |
| Gorky Park |
"Bang" |
1989 |
| Green Jelly |
"Three Little Pigs" |
1993 |
| Greenbaum, Norman |
"Spirit in the Sky" |
1970 |
| Gross, Henry |
"Shannon" |
1976 |
| GTR |
"When the Heart Rules the Mind" |
1986 |
| Haircut 100 |
"Love Plus One" |
1982 |
| Hammond, Albert |
"It Never Rains in Southern California" |
1972 |
| Hardcastle, Paul |
"19" |
1985 |
| Harris, Richard |
"MacArthur Park" |
1968 |
| Head East |
"Never Been Any Reason" |
1975 |
| Heatherton, Joey |
"Gone" |
1972 |
| Hernandez, Patrick |
"Born to Be Alive" |
1979 |
| Higgins, Bertie |
"Key Largo" |
1982 |
| Hillside Singers |
"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)" |
1972 |
| Hipsway |
"The Honeythief" |
1987 |
| Holmes, Clint |
"Playground in My Mind" |
1973 |
| Hot Butter |
"Popcorn" |
1972 |
| Hues Corporation |
"Rock the Boat" |
1974 |
| Humphrey, Paul and His Cool Aid Chemists |
"Cool Aid" |
1971 |
| Icicle Works |
"Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)" |
1984 |
| Instant Funk |
"I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl)" |
1979 |
| Iron Butterfly |
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" |
1968 |
| J. J. Fad |
"Supersonic" |
1988 |
| Jacks, Terry |
"Seasons in the Sun" |
1974 |
| Jaggerz |
"The Rapper" |
1970 |
| Jigsaw |
"Sky High" |
1975 |
| Johnny Hates Jazz |
"Shattered Dreams" |
1988 |
| Johns, Sammy |
"Chevy Van" |
1975 |
| Johnson, Don |
"Heartbeat" |
1986 |
| Jump in the Saddle Band |
"Curly Shuffle" |
1983 |
| Kajagoogoo |
"Too Shy" |
1983 |
| Kane Gang |
"Motortown" |
1987 |
| Kershaw, Nik |
"Wouldn't It Be Good" |
1984 |
| King Harvest |
"Dancing in the Moonlight" |
1973 |
| Kingdom Come |
"Get It On" |
1988 |
| Kon Kan |
"I Beg Your Pardon" |
1989 |
| Korgis |
"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" |
1980 |
| L. A. Guns |
"The Ballad of Jayne" |
1989 |
| Laid Back |
"White Horse" |
1984 |
| LaTour |
"People Are Still Having Sex" |
1991 |
| Lawrence, Vicki |
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" |
1973 |
| Lekakis, Paul |
"Boom, Boom, Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)" |
1990 |
| Lemon Pipers |
"Green Tambourine" |
1967 |
| Lipps, Inc. |
"Funkytown" |
1980 |
| Living in a Box |
"Living in a Box" |
1987 |
| Londonbeat |
"I've Been Thinking About You" |
1991 |
| Looking Glass |
"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" |
1972 |
| Los Del Rio |
"Macarena" |
1996 |
| Love Unlimited Orchestra |
"Love's Theme" |
1974 |
| Lowe, Nick |
"Cruel to be Kind" |
1979 |
| L'Trimm |
"Cars with the Boom" |
1988 |
| M |
"Pop Muzik" |
1979 |
| Mad Season |
"River of Deceit" |
1995 |
| Mardones, Benny |
"Into the Night" |
1980 |
| Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch |
"Good Vibration" |
1991 |
| Marmalade |
"Reflections of My Life" |
1970 |
| Mary Jane Girls |
"In My House" |
1985 |
| M/A/R/R/S |
"Pump up the Volume" |
1988 |
| McCall, C. W. |
"Convoy" |
1976 |
| McCoy, Van & The Soul City Symphony |
"The Hustle" |
1975 |
| McCrae, George |
"Rock Your Baby" |
1974 |
| McGovern, Maureen |
"The Morning After" |
1976 |
| MFSB |
"TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" |
1974 |
| Mocedades |
"Eres Tu (Touch the Wind)" |
1974 |
| Modern English |
"I Melt With You" |
1982 |
| MoKenStef |
"He's Mine" |
1995 |
| Mott the Hoople |
"All the Young Dudes" |
1972 |
| Mouth & MacNeal |
"How Do You Do" |
1972 |
| Moving Pictures |
"What About Me" |
1983 |
| Muldaur, Maria |
"Midnight at the Oasis" |
1974 |
| Mungo Jerry |
"In the Summertime" |
1970 |
| Murphy, Walter & The Big Apple Band |
"A Fifth of Beethoven" |
1976 |
| Musical Youth |
"Pass the Dutchie" |
1983 |
| Myles, Allanah |
"Black Velvet" |
1990 |
| Napolean XIV |
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Ha" |
1966 |
| Naughton, David |
"Makin' It" |
1979 |
| Nena |
"99 Luftballoons" ("99 Red Balloons") |
1984 |
| Nolan, Kenny |
"I Like Dreamin'" |
1977 |
| Nu Shooz |
"I Can't Wait" |
1986 |
| Numan, Gary |
"Cars" |
1980 |
| Ocean |
"Put Your Hand in the Hand" |
1971 |
| O'Day, Alan |
"Undercover Angel" |
1977 |
| O'Keefe, Danny |
"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" |
1972 |
| Ollie & Jerry |
"Breakin... There's No Stopping Us" |
1984 |
| Opus |
"Live is Life" |
1986 |
| Oxo |
"Whirly Girl" |
1983 |
| Page, Martin |
"In the House of Stone and Light" |
1995 |
| Paper Lace |
"The Night Chicago Died" |
1974 |
| Penn, Michael |
"No Myth" |
1990 |
| Pilot |
"Magic" |
1975 |
| Poindexter, Buster |
"Hot, Hot, Hot" |
1988? |
| Poppy Family |
"Which Way You Goin' Billy?" |
1970 |
| Pretty Poison |
"Catch Me (I'm Falling)" |
1987 |
| Proclaimers |
"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" |
1993 |
| Pseudo Echo |
"Funkytown" |
1987 |
| Q |
"Dancin' Man" |
1977 |
| Re-Flex |
"The Politics of Dancing" |
1984 |
| Red Rider |
"Lunatic Fringe" |
1981 |
| Rednex |
"Cotton-Eyed Joe" |
1995 |
| Refreshments |
"Banditos" |
1996 |
| Reunion |
"Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" |
1974 |
| Right Said Fred |
"I'm Too Sexy" |
1992 |
| Ripperton, Minnie |
"Lovin' You" |
1975 |
| Robinson, Vicki Sue |
"Turn the Beat Around" |
1976 |
| Rockwell |
"Somebody's Watching Me" |
1984 |
| Rossington-Collins Band |
"Don't Misunderstand Me" |
1980 |
| RTZ |
"Until Your Loves Comes Back Around" |
1992 |
| RuPaul |
"Supermodel (You Better Work)" |
1993 |
| Rush, Merrilee & The Turnabouts |
"Angel of the Morning" |
1968 |
| Saga |
"On the Loose" |
1983 |
| Sanford/Townsend Band |
"Smoke From a Distant Fire" |
1977 |
| Sang, Samantha |
"Emotion" |
1978 |
| Scarbury, Joey |
"Believe It or Not" |
1981 |
| Scarlet & Black |
"You Don't Know" |
1988 |
| Schilling, Peter |
"Major Tom (Coming Home)" |
1983 |
| Scritti Politti |
"Perfect Way" |
1985 |
| Sembello, Michael |
"Maniac" |
1983 |
| Shannon |
"Let the Music Play" |
1984 |
| Sheriff |
"When I'm With You" |
1989 |
| Shocking Blue |
"Venus" |
1970 |
| Sir Mix-A-Lot |
"Baby Got Back" |
1993 |
| 69 Boyz |
"Tootsee Roll" |
1994 |
| Skee-Lo |
"I Wish" |
1995 |
| Skylark |
"Wildflower" |
1973 |
| Sly Fox |
"Let's Go All the Way" |
1986 |
| Sniff 'n' the Tears |
"Driver's Seat" |
1979 |
| Snow |
"Informer" |
1993 |
| So |
"Are You Sure" |
...?... |
| Soft Cell |
"Tainted Love" |
1982 |
| Soul, David |
"Don't Give Up on Us" |
1977 |
| Spiral Staircase |
"More Today Than Yesterday" |
1969 |
| Split Enz |
"I Got You" |
1979 |
| Stacey Q |
"Two of Hearts" |
1986 |
| Stallone, Frank |
"Far From Over" |
1983 |
| Stampeders |
"Sweet City Woman" |
1971 |
| Starbuck |
"Moonlight Feels Right" |
1976 |
| Starland Vocal Band |
"Afternoon Delight" |
1976 |
| Status Quo |
"Pictures of Matchstick Men" |
1968 |
| Stealers Wheel |
"Stuck in the Middle with You" |
1973 |
| Steam |
"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" |
1969 |
| Steinman, Jim |
"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" |
1981 |
| Stewart, Amii |
"Knock on Wood" |
1979 |
| Stone Poneys |
"Different Drum" |
1967 |
| Stories |
"Brother Louie" |
1973 |
| Storm |
"I've Got a Lot to Learn About Love" |
1992 |
| Strawberry Alarm Clock |
"Incense and Peppermints" |
1967 |
| Strunk, Jud |
"Daisy a Day" |
1973 |
| Sugar Hill Gang |
"Rapper's Delight" |
1980 |
| Swan, Billy |
"I Can Help" |
1974 |
| Swayze, Patrick |
"She's Like the Wind" |
1988 |
| Sweet Sensation |
"Sad Sweet Dreamer" |
1975 |
| Swing Out Sister |
"Breakout" |
1987 |
| Swinging Blue Jeans |
"Hippy Hippy Shake" |
1964 |
| Taco |
"Puttin' on the Ritz" |
1983 |
| Tag Team |
"Whoomp... There It Is" |
1993 |
| Thomas, Timmy |
"Why Can't We Live Together" |
1973 |
| Thunderclap Newman |
"Something in the Air" |
1969 |
| Til Tuesday |
"Voices Carry" |
1985 |
| Timbuk 3 |
"The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" |
1986 |
| Timex Social Club |
"Rumors" |
1986 |
| Timmy -T- |
"One More Try" |
1991 |
| Tommy Tutone |
"867-5309/Jenny" |
1982 |
| T'Pau |
"Heart and Soul" |
1987 |
| Tripping Daisy |
"I Got a Girl" |
1995 |
| Ullman, Tracey |
"They Don't Know" |
1984 |
| Umiliani, Piero |
"Mah Na Mah Na" |
1977 |
| Urban Dance Squad |
"Deeper Shade of Soul" |
1991 |
| Vanilla Fudge |
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" |
1968 |
| Vapors |
"Turning Japanese" |
1980 |
| Wagner, Jack |
"All I Need" |
1984 |
| Waitresses |
"I Know What Boys Like" |
1982 |
| Wall of Voodoo |
"Mexican Radio" |
1982 |
| Ward, Anita |
"Ring My Bell" |
1979 |
| Was (Not Was) |
"Walk the Dinosaur" |
1989 |
| When in Rome |
"The Promise" |
1988 |
| White Plains |
"My Baby Loves Lovin'" |
1970 |
| Wild Cherry |
"Play That Funky Music" |
1976 |
| Wilder, Matthew |
"Break My Stride" |
1983 |
| Young MC |
"Bust a Move" |
1989 |
| Young, John Paul |
"Love Is In the Air" |
1978 |
| Zager & Evans |
"In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" |
1969 |
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