A One-Hit Wonder is a song by a group or an artist which made it into the top 40 on Billboard…these groups and artists may have had other popular songs that made it into the top 100 but didn’t make it into the top 40 with any other song…they may also have received extensive airplay on local radio stations for various songs…
for our Top Ten List please refer to:
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s
One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: Popular and Rare
This list is just a random collection of one-hit wonders and may include a few anecdotes about the group or artist. This is not meant to be an all-inclusive listing as we are very particular as to what songs we want to list.
The links go to ( as with our other lists ) the song we Blipped on Blip. The songs also reflect the year the song charted, and not necessarily the year it was released.
1960 – Ron Holden and the Thunderbirds – Love You So
1960 – Rosie and the Originals – Angel Baby
1961 – Barry Mann – Who Put the Bomp
1961 – The Jarmels – A Little Bit of Soap
1961 – Curtis Lee – Pretty Little Angel Eyes
1962 – The Rebels – Wild Weekend
1962 – Ernie Maresca – Shout! Shout!
1962 – Bruce Channel – Hey! Baby
1962 – Joe Henderson – Snap Your Fingers
1962 – The Contours – Do You Love Me
1962 – The Exciters – Tell Him
1962 – Nathaniel Maye – Village Of Love
1963 – Sukiyaki – Kyu Sakamoto
1963 – The Cascades – Rhythm Of The Rain
1963 – Barry And The Tamerlanes – I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight
1963 – Johnny Cymbal – Mr. Bass Man
1963 – The Murmaids – Popsicles And Icicles
1963 – Joey Powers – Midnight Mary
1963 – Kai Winding – More
1963 – The Rocky Fellers – Killer Joe
1964 – Astrud Gilberto ~ The Girl From Ipanema
1964 – The Reflections – (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet
1964 – The Nashville Teens – Tobacco Road
1964 – J. Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers – Last Kiss
1965 – Castaways – Liar Liar
1965 – Ad Libs – The Boy From New York City
1965 – The Gentrys – Keep On Dancing
1966 – The Music Machine – Talk Talk
1966 – Count Five – Psychotic Reaction
1966 – Swingin’ Medallions – Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love)
1966 – Shades Of Blue – Oh How Happy
1966 – The Standells – Dirty Water
1966 – Verdelle Smith – Tar and Cement
1967 – Every Mothers’ Son – Come On Down To My Boat
1967 – Blues Magoos – (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet
1967 – The Yellow Balloon – Yellow Balloon ( this Canadian group had no other song so the B-side of this single had the same song backwards )
1967 – Jon & Robin and The In Crowd – Do It Again A Little Bit Slower
1967 – The Hombres – Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)
1967 – The Sunshine Company – Back On The Street Again
1967 – Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
1967 – The Soul Survivors – Expressway to Your Heart
1967 – The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
1967 – John Fred & His Playboy Band – Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
1968 – Amboy Dukes – Journey to the Center of the Mind
1968 – Friend and Lover – Reach Out of the Darkness
1968 – Vanilla Fudge – You Keep Me Hangin’ On
1968 – Richard Harris – MacArthur Park
1968 – Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
1968 – Status Quo – Pictures of Matchstick Men
1968 – Four Jacks and A Jill – Master Jack
1968 – Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts – Angel of the Morning
1968 – The Balloon Farm – A Question Of Temperature
1968 – Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues
1969 – Crazy Elephant – Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’
1969 – Smith – Baby It’s You
1969 – Desmond Dekker and the Aces – Israelites
1969 – Steam – Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
1969 – Thunderclap Newman – Something in the Air
1969 – Bubble Puppy – Hot Smoke and Sassafras
1969 – Mercy – Love (Can Make You Happy)
Note: some one-hit wonders found on our other lists may not be included here on this list.
There are in total 60 songs listed…more may be added at a future date.
You might want to check out our other one-hit wonder collection lists:
One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare
Top Twenty One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s
also our number-one hit collections:
Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s
Number One Hits in the UK: 1970s
Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s
Number One Hits in the UK: 1990s
also our hit collections:
100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999
Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists
Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists : Part Two
Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore
Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two
Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Three
Weird and Wacky Rock Classics: sometimes NSFW
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Remember a song from I think 1965 called milady, think by Gary Puckett. Really liked it. Haven’t heard it since 1960s.
You seem to know a lot of different songs. I have one that runs through my head and drives me crazy. It’s from the 1960s. I can’t find it anywhere, probably because I don’t know the lyrics and I don’t know the title and I don’t know who sang it. I think it might have been a British band, but I don’t know. The singer is a female and the chorus starts with: Heart beat, feel the rhythmn of the people. Any idea what this song is?
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You’re absolutely right Ray…forgot all about that one.
The Electric Prunes had two songs hit the Billboard Top 40:
I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) — #11 in 1967
Get Me To The World On Time — #27 in 1967