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The
Ultimate One Hit Wonders Site
section
at the free online
music encyclopedia
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The Pure
One Hit Wonders page
for the 1990s
in Tunetimeline®
Chronological Order
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The
PURE
One Hit Wonders Pages in
The Ultimate One Hit Wonders Section
of Tunecaster® lists every pure
one hit wonder on the charts
or near the charts and includes
sound samples for each. Pure One Hit
Wonders are artists or groups that had
only one song with any noticeable radio
airplay. There are very few pure one
hit wonders. Nearly everyone who had
a hit song or a moderately popular song
also had at least one other song that
received some radio airplay. We challenge
you to find another song that received
any radio airplay at all in the United
States for these artists. This is the
1990s page. Choose a different
decade here: 1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
or 1990s..
But that's not enough to cover one
hit wonders...
The
Pure One Hit Wonders and Near
One Hit Wonders pages
of list every possible one hit wonder
on the charts or near
the charts, each with a music sample.
Every one hit wonder or near one hit
wonder song listed has a comment to
explain why it is included on the list.
You can decide if you think it really
is a one hit wonder or just a near one
hit wonder. Each year from 1960 through
1999 has its own page. We also threw
in two additional pages with 50s and
2000s one hit wonders. There are about
800 one hit wonders in all! Select
a year below...
In addition to those pages,
here are some other pages in the
one hit wonders section:
The
Number
One Hit One Hit Wonder
Pages
list every number one hit one
hit wonder, with sound samples.
These are the biggest songs by the
most obscure artists. Choose a decade:
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
or 1990s..
The
SONG Index of One Hit Wonders
lists every song title of every
one hit wonder or near one hit wonder
from 1960 through 1999, and links
you to the page where the song details
are.
The
ARTIST and GROUP Index of One Hit
Wonders lists
every artist or group with a one
hit wonder or near one hit wonder
from 1960 through 1999, and links
you to the page where the song details
are.
The
One Hit Wonder HOME Page
has more information about the ultimate
one hit wonders section of the free
online music encyclopedia.
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This
Is Ponderous was the only song by 2nu
that received noticeable airplay.
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Deeper
Shade Of Soul was the only top
20 hit for Urban Dance Squad.
No other song by the group received any
appreciable radio airplay. |
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All
The Way From Memphis was the only rock
top 20 hit for Contraband,
and the only song by the group to receive
mentionable radio airplay. |
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Power
Windows was the only rock
top 20 hit and the only song
to receive noticeable airplay. Billy Falcon
recorded many songs, and his compositions
were also recorded by other artists. He
cowrote many songs with Bon
Jovi. |
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The
One And Only was the only top
20 hit for Chesney Hawkes.
He never had another popular song. Nik
Kershaw wrote the song. |
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Please
Don't Go was a 1979 number one hit for
KC
And The Sunshine Band. K.W.S.
took the song to number one again, but
the group never had another song with
noticeable radio airplay. |
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Detachable
Penis was the only noticeable song on
the radio by King Missile. |
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Asshole
was the only song that received mentionable
radio airplay by actor Denis Leary. The
song was from the original album No
Cure For Cancer. |
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I
Got A Man was the only top 20 hit for
Positive K. Other Positive K songs were
so obscure as to have had virtually no
radio impact. |
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Three
Little Pigs was the only popular song
by Green Jelly. |
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Hobo
Humpin Slobo Babe was a popular alternative
song. Whale did not have another popular
song on alternative radio or elswhere.
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The
Jingle Cats version of White Christmas
borrowed the idea from the 1970 number
18 song Jingle Bells by The Singing Dogs.
The Jingle Cats never received noticeable
airplay with another song. |
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The
number
one song I Know was the only
song by Dionne Farris to receive noticeable
radio airplay. |
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Cotton
Eye Joe was the only top 20 hit for Rednex.
The group did not receive any mentionable
radio airplay with another song.
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The
rock
number 10 hit Mockingbird Girl
was the only song by The Magnificent Bastards
that received noticeable radio airplay.
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One
Of Us was the only top 20 hit by Joan
Osborne. Although she released
other songs, they received virtually no
radio airplay. |
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Standing
Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money
In My Hand was a number
one rock hit, the top
rock song of the year, and
the only rock
top 20 hit for Primitive Radio
Gods. the group followed-up with Motherfucker,
which, even in the edited version, received
virtually no radio airplay. |
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My
Boo was the only top
20 hit for Ghost Town DJ's.
The group had no mentionable radio airplay
with any other song. |
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Stand
Up was a very popular dance song and received
some pop radio airplay. Love Tribe did
not have another song that received noticeable
radio airplay. |
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