Are They A One-Hit Wonder?

IdRatherBeSkiing said:
I was a late bloomer (I think we have discussed this). I first started really listening to music in 1978. My tastes admittedly were non-refined at the time and I liked almost everything on the top 40.
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Everyone's experience is different. My brother pulled me away from top 40 when I was 8. And at the same time, I started learning to play musical instruments. Which is why I'm the way I am.
 
O-Town
#3 "All Or Nothing
#10 "Liquid Dreams"

Boy band from the early 2000s. Two hits off the debut album and an opening slot for Britney - then crash & burn. I've heard of them, but don't know any of their music.
 
The Will Glahé Orchestra's Beer Barrel Polka, also known as Roll Out The Barrel, was number one for four weeks in 1939. (A vocal version by the Andrews Sisters reached #4.) Glahé had two other chart hits in 1939, Hot Pretzels and WPA Polka. Each got to #11. In 1957 he reached #16 with Liechtensteiner Polka. I hereby go on the record – no pun intended – as saying Beer Barrel Polka is probably the only one of those four songs that anyone is familiar with today and thus Will Glahé can be considered a one-hit wonder. Here is what Mister scotch wrote in September 2021 in the AT40 1970s discussion: "I've done parades where we're sitting on a flatbed truck and playing Beer Barrel Polka over and over. People like it." There ya go!

 
Connie Stevens
#3 "Sixteen Reasons"
#4 "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)"
#43 "Mr Songwriter"

1959 and 1960. Not only do I not know the songs, I barely understand a word in them. "I got a smog in my noggin"...? "I got my burners lighted"...? "My flaps are gonna bend"...? "Baby, you're the ginchiest"...?
 
Eddie Hodges
#12 "I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door"
#14 "(Girls, Girls, Girls) Made To Love"
#44 "New Orleans"

1961 and 1962. Just learning of his existence today, thanks to a post in the 60's Gold playlist thread.
 
Lonnie Donegan
#5 "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)"
#8 "Rock Island Line"

I've long known "Gum" but I'm listening to the other hit and aside from not knowing it at all, I'm thinking "Is this Arlo Guthrie as a teenager?"

On a side note, TIL what "skiffle" music is. I also learned that "Gum" is a cover song, originally from the 1920s (originally "Does Your Spearmint...")
 
Joe Budden
#38 "Pump It Up"
#39 "Clubbin" (with Marques Houston & Pied Piper)

I know him as a member of the rap supergroup Slaughterhouse, which formed after the four of them were already successful. I don't know his solo work.

Slaughterhouse was an American hip hop supergroup consisting of rappers Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I and Royce da 5'9"

I knew the last two, but not the first two, listed there.
 
Natalie Imbruglia's Torn was number one for 11 weeks in 1998. Her follow-up, Wishing I Was There,
reached #25. I don't recall ever hearing it on the radio. Does anyone?

 
I thought it was written in 1998 by Anne Previn of Ednaswap. At least, that's what she said on the Stern show back in the day

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Torn was written by Ednaswap (Anne Preven, Scott Cutler, Phil Thornalley) but Lis Sørensen was the first to record it, in 1993. Ednaswap finally recorded their own version in 1995.

Kenny Nolan co-wrote LaBelle's Lady Marmalade, Jim Gilstrap's Swing Your Daddy, Frankie Valli's My Eyes Adored You and Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes' Get Dancin'. Nolan had a #3 hit in early 1977 with I Like Dreamin' (which he also wrote). His follow-up, Love's Grown Deep (which he also wrote), reached #20. Is he a one-hit wonder? I'm trying to decide.

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Channel98 said:
Torn was
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Interesting! Always fascinated by a song that gets huge several years after it was originally written and/or recorded. Like Rehab "Sittin' At A Bar", which was originally released by the band in 2000 as a b-side and deep album track, then in 2006 as a bonus track, then finally became a (minor) hit in 2008 after being re-recorded. It was then re-re-recorded featuring Hank Williams Jr singing one of the verses.

Their hit single "Bartender Song (Sittin’ at a Bar)" was the 10th most played song throughout the TouchTunes network in 2009. The band has gained commercial success and recognition due to the single becoming such a viral phenomenon. "Rehab is the first band in my career that we signed based on jukebox airplay," said Avery Lipman, Co-President and COO, Universal Republic Records.
 
Channel98 said:
Kenny Nolan
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Kenny Nolan
#3 "I Like Dreamin'"
#20 "Love's Grown Deep"
#44 "Us and Love (We Go Together)"

Certified two hit wonder! I don't know either song, so I don't know if he's a subjective one hit (or no hit) wonder these days.

Trivia: He wrote some songs for the R&B group Tavares including "A Penny For Your Thoughts", which I have goofed on in the VJ thread.
 
Looking Glass
#1 "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)"
#33 "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne"

Barely know the first one. Don't know the second one.
 
sadchild said:
Looking Glass
#1 "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)"
#33 "Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne"

Barely know the first one. Don't know the second one.
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"Brandy" is an overplayed oldie. Hear it a lot on 70s channel and other soft rock channels. Never heard of Jimmie or Mary-Anne.
 
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