Jennifer Rush is a borderline case. She certainly only had one solo mega hit, her cover of The Power of Love, but she did also do well with a duet with Elton John, which may disqualify her to some, although it's hard to argue that song's success wasn't more Elton than her (and it was modestly successful by his standards). She also had a minor 1989 success in the UK with Plácido Domingo. Anyway, this follow-up to The Power of Love did keep her in the charts in Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), but did nothing in North America or the United Kingdom.
Ides of March "L.A. Goodbye." Here they put aside the BS&T sound of "Vehicle" and instead sound like CSN.
I got Norma’s album not to long after it came out (as a cut-out, no doubt) and remember liking it. But I hadn’t listened to it in a long time until a few months ago. It’s really really good. My favorite is the last track, “I’m the Sky,” which a was also a B-side.
Great song! I think Rice is Nice and Jelly Jungle are both miles better than Green Tambourine, which isn't bad.
That's a territorial issue. In the US, Falco had 2 top 20 hits, so he doesn't qualify, but he didn't have a bunch of US hits...
I really love this song, and Tommy's "unique" voice is the big selling point for me. When he sings "You better run..." and he stretches it out to "You'd bet-ter ruh-ayy-uhhhn!" - it's great! Same with "867-5309" - where they get to for "For a good time, for a good time, call" and he sings "time" as "toooime!" - I love it!
This was the follow-up to the Neon Philharmonic's #17 hit in 1969, "Morning Girl." Not bad per se, just a bit too slow-moving and ponderous to be a hit. Didn't chart in the Hot 100, which made them a true one-hit wonder (unless you count "Heighdy-Ho Princess" from 1970, which hit the Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart).
Lovelier than oil rights?! That’s when I bailed. Never heard that song back in ‘69 and never will listen to the rest. ( Well maybe in the year 2525.)
Speaking only in terms of the Hot 100, Lou Reed is a one-hit wonder. His only entry is "Walk On The Wild Side" which hit #16 in 1973. The followup single "Satellite Of Love" only got to #119 on the Bubbling Under chart. Sad, because "Satellite" has one of Reed's best melodies. Maybe people didn't find the deadpan humor of lines like "I like to watch things on TV" funny. Then again, maybe he wasn't trying to be funny. Which makes it funnier.
She did have a top twenty UK hit before The Power Of Love, called Ring Of Ice so I suppose she is a two hit wonder. It's not a bad song. Would have fit nicely onto any of the big rock soundtracks of the era.
She followed it up with Warwick Avenue, which itself did very well in the UK and everywhere but America, so I wouldn't call her a one-hit wonder beyond the U.S., although her pop run can be condensed into a single year. I was going to call her a one-album wonder, actually, but her second album supposedly did reasonably alright. She was definitely a flash in the pan though, and it's crazy to think her debut album was considered a classic at the time.