I thought Sir Mix-a-Lot had other top 40 hits...or maybe he was just
bigger in my hometown than he was elsewhere.
Thank you for all of that information!
On 7/23/06, Kevin Lentz <kevinlentz@???> wrote:
> I've got some issues with that list myself. Granted, some songs got more
> play in non-U.S. markets, but it's a U.S. radio station, so I can let them
> focus on U.S. hits. From a wide perspective, you could look at top-40 hits,
> and define a one-hit wonder as any group that only had one top 40 hit. If
> you do that, only 13 of the 31 artist qualify (and that's letting Ace slide
> in, even tough Paul Carrack would have later hits with Mike + the
> Mechanics): Sir Mix-A-Lot, Bobby McFerrin, Right Said Fred, Nena, M,
> Proclaimers, Deep Blue Something, Ace*, Nick Gilder, Marcy Playground, Crash
> Test Dummies, Minnie Ripperton, and Rembrants.
>
> However, looking at the bands' other songs that charted, many of them were
> in the lower half of the chart, and I haven't heard a lot of them. So, I'd
> be willing to broaden the criteria and say any band with only one top-ten
> hit could qualify, which would add the following artists to the list: Tommy
> Tutone, Chirs DeBurgh, Paula Cole, Snow, Mr. Big, Alannah Miles, Bob Welch,
> Matthew Wilder, and Men Without Hats (sorry!), which lets in 22 of their 31
> artists. Of course, by that measure, the Rembrants should fall out, because
> their song only reached #17, but, whatever.
>
> The real issues come in with the other 9 artists. First of all, two of them
> (Weather Girls and Trio) never charted in the top 40 at all. "Raining Men"
> peaked at # 46, and I can't find any information that "Da Da Da" charted in
> the U.S. at all. Of course, you could argue that "Raining Men" was a big
> dance number, or that everyone knows "Da Da Da" from that commercial, but
> somehow a hit has to be a hit.
>
> Even worse, the remaining seven bands not only had other charting hits, they
> had more than one top ten hit: Nelson, Kris Kross, Jesus Jones, Escape Club,
> Cutting Crew, C&C Music Factory, and Martika.
>
> It's clear to me that WRAL's list is purely arbitrary. I guess it attempts
> to be a list of bands that most people will only remember one song from, but
> it's imprecise and faulty even to that end. I know the hits by Nelson &
> Cutting Crew, even though I don't much care for them.
>
> The ultimate irony in WRAL's list, though, is that one artist is actually on
> their one-hit-wonders list TWICE: Martha Wash sings on both C&C Music
> Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat" and on Weather Girls' "Raining Men." If
> that doesn't sum up the inadequacies of their list, I don't know what does.
>
> Here's all the gritty details, if anyone cares to look them over: Except
> where noted, all information is from the 7th Edition of Joel Whitburn's _The
> Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits_, which is current up to 1999 (and a great
> book to own… I've had an edition of the book on my shelf since 1987).
>
> 1. Tommy Tutone is listed for "867-5309/Jenny" (#4 1982); they had
> previously charted with "Angel Say No" (#38 1980).
> 2. Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" (#1 1992) is his only top 40 hit.
> 3. Paula Cole is listed for "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" (#8 1997);
> she also charted with "I Don't Want To Wait" (# 11 1998) and "Me" (#35
> 1998).
> 4. Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy" (#1 1988) is his only top 40 hit.
> 5. Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" (# 1 1992) is their only top 40 hit.
> 6. Chris DeBurgh is listed for "The Lady In Red" (#3 1987); he previously
> charted with "Don't Pay the Ferryman" (#34 1983).
> 7. Nena's "99 Luftballons" (#2 1984) is their only top 40 hit.
> 8. Nelson is listed for "Love and Affection" (#1 1990); they also charted
> with "After the Rain" (#6 1991).
> 9. M's "Pop Muzik" (#1 1979) is his only top 40 hit.
> 10. Kris Kross is listed for "Jump" (#1 1992); they also charted with "Warm
> It Up" (#13 1992), "Alright" (#19 1993), and "Tonite's Tha Night" (#12 1996)
> 11. The Rembrandts are listed for "I'll Be There For You" (#17 1995); they
> had previously charted with "Just The Way It Is, Baby" (#14 1991)
> 12. The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" (#3 1993) is their only top
> 40 hit.
> 13. Jesus Jones is listed for "Right Here, Right Now" (#2 1991); they also
> charted with "Real, Real, Real" (#4 1991).
> 14. The Escape Club is listed for "Wild, Wild West" (#1 1988); they also
> charted with "Shake for the Sheik" (#28 1989) and "I'll Be There" (#8 1991)
> 15. Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (#5 1996) is their only
> top 40 hit.
> 16. Cutting Crew is listed for "I Just Died In Your Arms" (#1 1987); they
> also charted with "One for the Mockingbird" (#38 1987) and "I've Been in
> Love Before" (#9 1987).
> 17. C&C Music Factory is listed for "Make You Sweat" (#1 1991); they also
> charted with "Here We Go (#3 1991), "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" (#4
> 1991), and "Do You Wanna Get Funky" (#40 1994).
> 18. Ace's "How Long" (#3 1975) is the band's only top-40 hit; vocalist Paul
> Carrack would later chart 4 times (including 3 top tens) with Mike + The
> Mechanics.
> 19. Snow is listed for "The Informer" (#1 1993); he also charted with "Girl,
> I've Been Hurt" (#19 1993)
> 20. Mr. Big is listed for "To Be With You" (#1 1992); they also charted with
> "Just Take My Heart" (#16 1992) and "Wild World" (#27 1993).
> 21. Nick Gilder's "Hot Child In the City" (#1 1978) is his only top 40 hit.
> 22. Alannah Miles is listed for "Black Velvet" (#1 1990); she also charted
> with "Love Is" (#36 1990)
> 23. Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy" (#8 1998) is their only top 40 hit.
> 24. Crash Test Dummies' "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" (#4 1994) is their only top 40
> hit.
> 25. Bob Welch is listed for "Sentimental Lady" (#8 1978); he also charted
> with "Ebony Eyes" (#14 1978), "Hot Love, Cold World" (#31 1978), and
> "Precious Love" (#19 1979).
> 26. The Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men" did not make the top 40 (according
> to Wikipedia, it peaked at #46 1982).
> 27. Matthew Wilder's is listed for "Break My Stride" (#5 1984); he also
> charted with "The Kid's American" (#33 1984).
> 28. Men Without Hats are listed for "Safety Dance" (#3 1983); they also
> charted with "Pop Goes the World" (#20 1988).
> 29. Trio's "Da Da Da" does not seem to have made the top 40 in the U.S.
> (according to Wikipedia it was a chart hit in the U.K. and Germany in the
> 1980s, and was "popular" in the U.S. in 1997 after its inclusion in a
> commercial).
> 30. Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You" (#1 1975) is her only top 40 hit.
> 31. Martika is listed for "Toy Soldiers" (#1 1989); she also charted with
> "More Than You Know" (#18 1989), "I Feel The Earth Move" (#25 1989), and
> "Love... Thy Will Be Done" (#10 1991).
>
>
>
>
> -
>
> Kevin Lentz
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>
>
>
>
> >From: Andrew <awerling@???>
> >Reply-To: "You can dance,if you want to."
> ><men-without-hats@???>
> >To: "You can dance, if you want to."
> ><men-without-hats@???>
> >Subject: Re: [Men Without Hats] local tv station's "weekend list" ...
> >Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:02:59 -0600
> >
> >Maybe we can just blame MtV and everything will be okay again! LOL
> >
> >On 7/23/06, moose <moose@???> wrote:
> >>On 22/7/06 10:19 PM, "Andrew" <awerling@???> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Of course, Men Without Hats wasn't a "one-hit wonder." "Pop Goes the
> >> > World" made it into the top thirty in the U.S. anyway.
> >> >
> >> > Pet peeve I guess.
> >>
> >>it amazes me who are classed as 'one hit wonders'... the biggest one that
> >>annoys me is gary numan. maybe he had one big hit over here in the US but
> >>has had 20+ albums in europe and a bucket full of chart singles... and is
> >>still going 28 years later!
> >>
> >>'right said fred' on this list had 4 or 5 uk hits... cant remember any
> >>others.
> >>
> >>
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