One-Hit wonders

[mianfei]

One of the most total one-hit wonders – yet a song I have never seen requested in 29 years since it was a hit and I sang “moo, moo, moo” in place of the real “boom, boom, boom” – is Paul Lekakis:

According to a 3XY chart book covering the period from 1960 to 1989, ‘Boom Boom (Let’s Go Back to My Room)’ was the 49th biggest single of the 1980s, yet I had before googling never heard of any other Paul Lekakis song. He did record one album – not released until 1990, by when the openly gay Lekakis in the decade when gay liberation became a political issue had been diagnosed HIV positive – and several other singles for soundtracks, but not one was ever a hit anywhere except the US Dance charts.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

Geno is another song of theirs that I like.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Mentioned on other threads.

Skatt Brothers - Life At The Outpost
David and David - Welcome To The Boomtown

 

[mianfei]

David and David - Welcome To The Boomtown

That's a relatively rare type in that Boomtown was at the time very much a critically lauded record and has not had it's reputation deteriorate so much as most commercial music of the eighties.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Always loved these 4 songs, but safe to say these artists won't be making any big hits any time soon:

Lenka - The Show

She was on Cheez TV years before that.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

My favourite one hit wonder.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

That's a relatively rare type in that Boomtown was at the time very much a critically lauded record and has not had it's reputation deteriorate so much as most commercial music of the eighties.

This is another song that, like Life At The Outpost, took me years to find online.

Another one that took me years to find and was a one hit wonder is Screaming Jets by Johnny Warman with Peter Gabriel on backing vocals.

 

[worbod]

The great Lee Marvin: "Wandering Star"

 

[sherbrook]

OHW status depends on your standpoint. I listen to BBC radio and heard them list famous OHW songs. One was Howzat by Sherbet, who had a mass of hits here
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The UK band Squeeze is known here for just one hit but had heaps at home.