80s "omg I loved that one" one hit wonders mix tape thread

personal fave:

Mary Jane Girls - "In My House"

Yup -- "Criminal World," one of Let's Dance less onerous album tracks.

and "Switchin' to Glide" by the Kings as a monster regional hit 'round here that never made it out east. Man, I miss the days of regional hits ...

YES, "The Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide" could be heard every 10 minutes on WLS-AM in 1980-81. Probably my most enduring memory of that song is that it was the first non-Beatles/non-Lennon song WLS played after Lennon was killed (which is to say, about five days after Lennon was killed).

Modern English - "I Melt With You"

rational youth "i want to see the light"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJh11ngyIHQ

best lost synth pop song ever

The Timelords - "Doctorin' the Tardis"

You guys!!!

Electric Dreams: Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9foZ7KVSng

Both of those guys are responsible for numerous hits.

Rocky Burnette - Tired of Toein The Line

I hope I'm not the only person who liked this. The video is kinda crepey now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPBwbdRuKPc

Anyway...hairbands

Vixen: Edge of a Broken Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQOmDUnt8Hs

I like that Rocky Burnette song, but I'd never heard it before just now.

Speaking of Rocky...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTRBueh2j6w

LOL I forgot about that!!!

He looks like the saxophone-on-the-beach guy from the Lost Boys

I dunno if she had more hits in other places, but "Touch Me" is the only thing I remember Samantha Fox for in the US..

However, youtube just reminded me of "Naughty Girls Need Love Too". Oh well.

Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok.

Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4O1A-mmBWw

Total Ceolo - I eat cannibals.

Not sure if this was a hit in the US but it got to No. 5 over here (also big across Europe apparently):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weMrzt6W8V8

Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita

Jimmy the Hoover - Tantalise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr9h5xBQz3k

Aw I was going to open my posts today with "I Eat Cannibals"

Scritti Politti - Perfect Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs7Jy2y-33A

Madness that in the US, er, Madness was a one hit wonder. But what a wonderful hit!

Has Spandau Ballet made an appearance yet?

I have that Rocky Burnette song on a 45 at home, amazingly enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAGI7zRqj8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfttQrCGtyw

Has Spandau Ballet made an appearance yet?

Let's hope not!

P. sure this was Rainbow's only Top 40 in the US. (It peaked at 40 lol.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WukfC-6Gpc

I know Deep Purple is hardly a one-hit wonder but it blows my mind that this nearly made the Top Ten in the year of Bruce, Madonna and Prince.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_kez7WVUU

Ollie & Jerry - "There's No Stoppin' Us (Theme from 'Breakin')"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x5JqZNYpRQ

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

(actually they had another hit or two... this was the only one to make it to ·1 tho...)

I would have sworn "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" was a bigger hit.

Yeah, in the US anyway "Dance Hall Days" hit 16 and "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" hit 2 and "Let's Go" hit 9.

Their best song, "Fire In The Twilight" from "The Breakfast Club" soundtrack, wasn't a hit at all ;_;

Yeah, Fire in the Twilight is great.

Yeah, in the US anyway "Dance Hall Days" hit 16 and "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" hit 2 and "Let's Go" hit 9.

I'd include Benjamin Orr's 'Stay The Night' here but I don't know if that technically counts as a One Hit Wonder because of Orr's vocals on The Cars 'Drive'. Two hit wonder then? Sure.

I would count it.

I would too, and it's a better song than "Drive."

There I said it.

Orr-sung Cars singles that hit the Top 40: "Just What I Needed, "Let's Go," "Why Can't I Have You," "You Are The Girl."

huh

I don't think I realized until just now that he sang all of my favorite Cars songs

Ric Ocasek's a one hit wonder too! "Emotion in Motion," remember.

Oh how come noone has mentioned this one:

Don Henley - Boys of Summer

Because Henley had a lot more hit singles?

Orange Juice - Rip it Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESy-Z8vqMrE

They did release several albums and still have some present-day cache, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psT7pKuayYc

xxpost I had never that Orange Juice track and it immediately reminded me of Annie's "Me Plus One".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6zBjYIyz-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJou-XIUywQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRnNpLOhn1Q

Love love love this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-kfmuGHtxo

at what point did we wander away from posting hits

because I have a shitload of things I would post but they are not hits at all

except for this, this was a hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzwstJmxbuY&feature=related