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both had regional success but those two songs were known in many more regions thus an overall one hit wonder.
 
Benny Mardones Into the Night
Bobby Bloom Montego Bay
Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky
Blues Image Ride Captain Ride
Autograph Turn up the Radio
Mungo Jerry In the Summertime
Devo Whip It
Lipps, Inc. Funkytown
Gary Numan Cars
Free All Right Now
Soft Cell Tainted Love
Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2U
Barry Mann Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)
Toni Basil Mickey
Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Buffalo Springfield For What It's Worth
The Contours Do You Love Me
The Cascades Rhythm Of The Rain
Swinging Blue Jeans Hippy Hippy Shake
Swingin' Medallions Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
The Capitols Cool Jerk
Lemon Pipers Green Tambourine
Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts Angel of the Morning
Jeannie C. Riley Harper Valley P.T.A.
Zager & Evans In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
Edison Lighthouse Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Ocean Put Your Hand in the Hand
Brewer & Shipley One Toke Over the Line
Hillside Singers I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)
Hot Butter Popcorn
Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen Hot Rod Lincoln
T. Rex Bang A Gong (Get It On)
B.W. Stevenson My Maria
Stories Brother Louie
Jud Strunk Daisy a Day
Vicki Lawrence The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Brownsville Station Smokin' in the Boys Room
David Essex Rock On
MFSB TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
Reunion Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
Rick Derringer Rock & Roll Hootchie Koo
Sister Janet Mead The Lord's Prayer
Minnie Riperton Lovin' You
Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony The Hustle
Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes Get Dancin' 1976 Details
Rick Dees Disco Duck
Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band A Fifth of Beethoven
Thin Lizzy The Boys are Back in Town
Wild Cherry Play that Funky Music 1976 Details
Starland Vocal Band Afternoon Delight
Debby Boone You Light Up My Life
Nick Gilder Hot Child in the City
Anita Ward Ring My Bell
Steve Martin King Tut
The Chords Sh-Boom
The Penguins Earth Angel
The Monotones The Book of Love
Bobby Day Rockin' Robin
Art & Dotty Todd Chanson d'Amour
Jump in the Saddle Band Curly Shuffle
Shannon Let the Music Play
Frankie Goes to Hollywood Relax
Harold Faltermeyer Axl F
Georgia Satellites Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Boys Don't Cry I Wanna Be a Cowboy
Buster Poindexter Hot, Hot, Hot
Club Nouveau Lean on Me
Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock It Takes Two
Belle Stars Iko Iko
Tom Cochrane Life is a Highway
House of Pain Jump Around
US3 Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Proclaimers I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Nicki French Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Lou Bega Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)

These can be found here.
 
Kirby - sorry dont know any other language except English!
 
This was Carlos Santana's brother (Jorge/George's) band Malo (and if my rudimentary Spanish is correct) means Bad.


The Title is:
Spanish Suavecito slow dancing, smoothly, soft 'n' slow.

99% of this song is sung in English and charted in America in 1972.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malo_(album)
 
Randy Vanwarmer? OMG & LMFAO...spit take

Okay I'll play (no pun intended)...

Ali Thomson - "Take A Little Rhythm" from August 1980. Ali is the younger brother of Supertramp bassist Dougie Thomson and this song peaked a few weeks before Supertramp released "Dreamer"
 
Jon Tuck said:
both had regional success but those two songs were known in many more regions thus an overall one hit wonder.
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Gino is no One Hit Wonder:

1974 "People Gotta Move"
1975 "Powerful People"
1975 "Love Me Now"
1976 "Love of My Life"
1978 "I Just Wanna Stop"
1979 "Wheels of Life"
1979 "The River Must Flow"
1981 "Living Inside Myself"
1981 "Nightwalker"
1982 "The Longer You Wait"
1984 "Appaloosa"
1985 "Black Cars"
1985 "Hurts to Be in Love"
1985 "Just A Motion Away"
1987 "Wild Horses"
1987 "In the Name of Money"
1987 "Persona Non Grata"
1990 "The Time of Day"
1991 "Cry of Love"
1991 "If I Should Lose This Love"
1993 "Wheels of Life" with Martine St. Clair
1995 "I Die A Little More Each Day"
2006 "It's Only Love"
 
How do you define a 1 hit wonder? For me it's someone who had 1 song hit the top 40 on Billboard's Hot 100.

Most radio stations use this criteria to define hit versus non-hit material on their playlists.
 
vpver2 said:
How do you define a 1 hit wonder? For me it's someone who had 1 song hit the top 40 on Billboard's Hot 100.

Most radio stations use this criteria to define hit versus non-hit material on their playlists.
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Thomson, Ali - singer/songwriter from Glasgow,Scotland.Younger brother of Supertramp's Dougie Thomson - "Take A Little Rhythm" 7/12/1980 peak position #15 - weeks on chart 9 - label A&M 2243

source: Billboardbook of Top 40 Hits 6th edition Joel Whitburn
 
What...nobody likes Seasons In The Sun? :sqerr:
 
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