Are They A One-Hit Wonder?

Spin Doctors
#7 "Two Princes"
#17 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong"
#42 "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast"

I say no way they're considered a OHW subjectively. Both top 40s are still well known.

They also charted with What Time Is It?
"Jimmy Olson Blues" didn't chart? Maybe it was one of those songs that charted only on the Airplay charts.

At any rate, whoever is putting the Spin Doctors on OHW lists needs to be banned from creating OHW lists.
 
Spin Doctors full Hot 100 chart history

#7 "Two Princes"
#17 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong"
#42 "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast"
#72 "Jimmy Olson's Blues"
#84 "Cleopatra's Cat"

Article from Kent Wired (Kent State University):

Although the Spin Doctors have been successful in the past due to cult-classic singles from Kryptonite, the band certainly wants to avoid being lumped into the dreaded one-hit wonder category.

“We’re a band, and it’s our job to entertain people and make really great music,” Barron said. “I’d rather not be thought of as a one-hit wonder, but it’s something that I don’t have control over. All you can do to exert any kind of control over it is to do what you do, and what I do is sing and write songs.”
 
The Spin Doctors did much more betterer on the mainstream rock chart. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong reached #2, Jimmy Olsen's Blues got to #8, Two Princes got to #2, What Time Is It reached #26, How Could You Want Him reached #28, Cleopatra's Cat got to #22 and You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast reached #8.
 
Spin Doctors full Hot 100 chart history

#7 "Two Princes"
#17 "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong"
#42 "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast"
#72 "Jimmy Olson's Blues"
#84 "Cleopatra's Cat"

Article from Kent Wired (Kent State University):

Although the Spin Doctors have been successful in the past due to cult-classic singles from Kryptonite, the band certainly wants to avoid being lumped into the dreaded one-hit wonder category.

“We’re a band, and it’s our job to entertain people and make really great music,” Barron said. “I’d rather not be thought of as a one-hit wonder, but it’s something that I don’t have control over. All you can do to exert any kind of control over it is to do what you do, and what I do is sing and write songs.”
I would say they are a 2 hit (1 album) wonder. What surprises me is that "Two Princes" did better than "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong".
 
The Spin Doctors did much more betterer on the mainstream rock chart. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong reached #2, Jimmy Olsen's Blues got to #8, Two Princes got to #2, What Time Is It reached #26, How Could You Want Him reached #28, Cleopatra's Cat got to #22 and You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast reached #8.
Conveniently, that reinforces my little diatribe about rock songs vs. pop songs.
 
“We’re a band, and it’s our job to entertain people and make really great music,” Barron said. “I’d rather not be thought of as a one-hit wonder, but it’s something that I don’t have control over. All you can do to exert any kind of control over it is to do what you do, and what I do is sing and write songs.”
My response would have been something more like, "Seriously? We have two big Hot 100 hits and three big rock hits."
 
If we're going by the pop chart only, I nominate Bill Doggett. He had eight top-40 instrumentals on the R&B chart, 1956-59, including Honky Tonk which was number one for 15 weeks. On the Billboard Top 100, Honky Tonk reached #2 in October 1956 behind Elvis Presley's Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel. Doggett had two other top-40 pop hits, Slow Walk and Soft, but oldies stations in the 1970s-80s-90s played only Honky Tonk. (Slow Walk was first recorded by saxophonist Sil Austin, who wrote the song. His version reached #17; Doggett's got to 26.)

Here is Honky Tonk. The saxophonist is Clifford Scott, who recorded six albums with Bill Doggett's band. Scott also played piano and clarinet and recorded with James Brown, Lionel Hampton, Rita Coolidge, Bobby Day, Ray Charles, Freddie King and many others.


 
Only one of Rickie Lee Jones' songs made the R&B chart: Chuck E's In Love got to #79. Satellites, her only song on the alternative chart, reached #23 in November 1989. Two of her songs made the mainstream rock chart in 1981: Woody & Dutch On The Slow Train To Peking reached #31 and Pirates reached #40. Note: the mainstream rock chart debuted in March 1981 and the alternative chart debuted in September 1988. Five of Jones' singles never made any chart:

Danny's All-Star Joint, October 1979
We Belong Together, December 1981
Under The Boardwalk, June 1983 – a remake of a 1964 hit by the Drifters
It Must Be Love, February 1985
Makin' Whoopee, April 1989 - a duet with Dr. John
 
Satellites, her only song on the alternative chart, reached #23 in November 1989.
Danny's All-Star Joint, October 1979
We Belong Together, December 1981
Under The Boardwalk, June 1983 – a remake of a 1964 hit by the Drifters
It Must Be Love, February 1985
Makin' Whoopee, April 1989 - a duet with Dr. John
All these songs were on regular rotation on AC radio. As a matter of fact, nowadays the AC stations (or "mix" channels like The Spectrum) are more likely to throw in one of these than Chuck E.
 
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