1979 One Hit Wonders page 1979 One Hit Wonder tune timeline
with weekly chart links,
song links and samples at Tunecaster music encyclopedia
The Ultimate One Hit Wonders Site.
Here are all the one hit wonders, year by year, in tune timeline order. Tunecaster samples, full song or video links, downloads, extras, below each song in green.
Stream amazon samples, click play to the right. Full weekly CHART data, click underlined blue chart peaks, 1975 to date.ROCK chart data, click reddish
underlined peaks, 1980 to date.
41 years of one hit wonders, each on its own page; and late 50s, links to far right. SEARCH and find a song, or browse the alphabet for one hit wonders, at bottom of page.
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A Lotta Love
was a top 20 one
hit wonder for Nicolette Larson. Her second most
popular song was 1979
number 30 song Let Me Go, Love. A Lotta Love was written by
Neil
Young.
Brothers Danny
and Jimmy Faragher gained moderate airplay with Stay The Night.
Months later, the duo released Thanks A Lot. They also had solo
music, and were leading members of Peppermint Trolley Company
and Bones.
Knock On Wood
was a minor hit for Eddie Floyd in 1966. This song the only
top 20 hit for Amii
Stewart. She followed-up with other songs that received
radio airplay.
Actor David
Naughton starred in the comedy TV show Makin' It, and
sung the theme song. He never had another song that received
mentionable radio airplay.
Saturdaynight
was the only rock top 20 hit for Herman Brood. The song also
got moderate airplay on pop stations. He never had another song
that received noticeable airplay.
The extra here is a popular remix video.
Cruel To Be
Kind was the only pop top 20 hit for Nick
Lowe. He received pop and rock airplay for other
songs including the 1985 rock
top 20 remake of the 1977 Dave Edmunds song I Knew
The Bride. In 1996, Spacehog
remade Cruel To Be Kind and received moderate rock radio airplay
with the song.
Although Driver's
Seat was the only top 20 hit for Sniff 'N' The Tears, the group
received slight radio airplay with other songs like New Lines
On Love.
M was Robin
Scott, a singer and musician from the UK. Although Pop Muzik
was the only top 20 hit for M, he followed-up with Moonlight
And Muzak, which received very slight airplay and became a moderate
hit in the UK. Pop Muzik was from the album New York - London
- Paris - Munich.
Video Killed
The Radio Star received some radio airplay, but became a classic
song after it was revived as the opening song on the new video
network MTV in 1981. Buggles also received some airplay years
later with the song I Am A Camera.
Rapper's Delight
borrowed from Good Times by Chic. Modern use of term hip-hop
came from Rapper's Delight, but the term was also used earlier
in 1963 You Can't Sit Down by The Dovells.
