Best "One Hit Wonder" band and their signature song

Monello

Monello

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I'm sure everyone has one. A song so great that you figured the band was destined for stardom. Instead they ended up the answer to a trivia question.
 
kom526

kom526

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BOP

BOP

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Monello said:
I'm sure everyone has one. A song so great that you figured the band was destined for stardom. Instead they ended up the answer to a trivia question.
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I'm guessing you are using it in the sense of an obscure group, band, or person having a song that charted (made it into the Top 100). One source I read narrowed it down even further to the Top 40.

Bearing that in mind, Janis, Jimi, Devo, and a bunch of others were technically "one-hit wonders," since they made the Top 40 only once each in their careers.


There are many earlier one-hit wonders, but this is the earliest one I can remember right now. Norman Greenbaum, "Spirit in the Sky."

 
GURPS

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