One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare

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: 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.

We try our best not to duplicate, but occasionally you might find a song on other lists as well…the more song pages we add the more likely duplication will happen.

The links go to ( as with our other lists ) the song we Blipped on Blip.

Adam Faith and The Roulettes – It’s Alright

Crabby Appleton – Go Back

The Glass Bottle – I Ain’t Got Time Anymore

Susan Jacks & The Poppy Family – That’s Where I Went Wrong

Rainbow – Stone Cold

Toni Basil – Mickey

Benny Mardones – Into The Night

Billy Swan – I Can Help

Shirley and Company – Shame Shame Shame

Jonathan Edwards – Sunshine

Jessi Colter – I’m not Lisa

Jo Jo Gunne – Run, Run, Run

The Chakachas – Jungle Fever

Teegarden & VanWinkle – God, Love & Rock And Roll

100% Proof – Somebody’s been Sleeping in my Bed

Bobby Bloom – Montego Bay

Godspell – Day by Day

People! – I Love You – a classic one-hit wonder…with a great beat

Michael Nesmith & The First National Band – Silver Moon

Mike Nesmith and The First National Band – Joanne

Canada, A Centennial Song / Une Chanson du Centenaire (1967)

TV Commercial – Buy the World a Coke

Yellow Balloon – Yellow Balloon – this group had no other song so the B-side was the same song backwards

The Edsels – Rama Lama Ding Dong

Chic- Le freak

The Highwaymen – Michael – This was a just group o’ college kids from America…they broke up when they graduated

The Kalin Twins – When

Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs – Sugar Shack

Little Milton – Feel so Bad

The Danleers – One Summer Night

Sunny & The Sunglows – Talk To Me

Patty & The Emblems – Mixed-Up,Shook-Up Girl

Johnny Thunder – Loop de Loop

The Rocky Fellers – Killer Joe

Larry Verne – Mr. Custer

The Originals – Baby I’m For Real

Edwin Starr – War

Bill Withers – Lean On Me

The Cuff Links – Tracy

The Rubettes – Sugar baby love

Ten Years After – I’d Love To Change The World

Brewer & Shipley – One Toke Over The Line

The Street People – Jennifer Tomkins

The Cleftones – Heart and Soul

Johnny Preston – Running Bear

Don Williams — I Believe In You

The Neighborhood – Big Yellow Taxi

The Jaynetts – Sally go round the Roses

Joey Powers – Midnight Mary

Joey Heatherton – Gone

Chi Coltrane – Thunder and Lightning

Derek – Cinnamon

Cornelius Bros and Sister Rose – Too late to turn back now

You might want to check out our other one-hit wonder collection lists:

One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: 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:

Canadian Rock Classics

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