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Soft Cell — "Tainted Love"
Dexys Midnight Runners – "Come On Eileen" (I actually liked the whole album)
a-ha — "Take On Me" (One of the great early videos)
"The Safety Dance" — Men Without Hats
"Video Killed the Radio Star" — The Buggles

Wow this list takes me back to junior high. The era when I bough Bruce Willis' album the Return of Bruno on cassette and vinyl. Yikes...

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that place Europe is probably where your ancestors came from Bob ;) And it were European scientists that 'invented' electricity, not Benjamin Franklin. So yeah, we have electricity and we can afford it, not like California ;)

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Hunting high and low & The sun always shines on tv were hits too, also in the US according to wiki .

I had that tape too :r

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Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
I Touch Myself - The DiVinyls
How Bizarre - OMC

Those are all good ones. :tu

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Was Not Was - Walk the Dinosaur
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Cars - Gary Numan
Never Say Never - Romeo Void

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Bust a Move - Young MC.
Now that's a fun song. :D

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Holiday --The Other Ones

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Turning Japanese - The Vapors

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I do a Frank Sinatra version of "I Touch Myself" when I do karaoke. There is never a dry eye in the house.

MCS

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Cyndy Lauper - "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"

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Same era as Drivers Seat, one of the first 45's I ever bought was 'Shakedown Cruise' by Jay Ferguson.


(Just looked this up and he did Thunder Island too! So maybe he doesn't really qualify as a one-hit-wonder!)

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I had the album with "Shakedown Cruise". It was awful!

MCS

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The B-side of Shakedown Cruise was pretty bad as I remember. I owned very few 45's back then that had good B-sides :)

The B-side of Soul Man by the Blues Brothers was 'Rubber Biscuit'. It was probably the best B-side of all my 45s!

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One of Us - Joan Osborne
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla
No Rain - Blind Melon

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Years ago (maybe on Dr. Demento?) I heard a Sinatra-esque version of "Whole Lotta Love". It was hilarious.

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My bad, thanks.

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true colors never made the charts in the US? It was a big hit on this side of the pond.

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I don't know if anyone has said this yet (too lazy to check)

Mambo #5 by Lou Bega :r

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No Rain is so good :tu

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True Colors was a hit in the US, as was Time After Time.

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Oh darn, you're right. Good catch. ;s

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Radar Gun - The Bottle Rockets

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Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen above:

Fire - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (AKA Kingdom Come, AAKA Galactic Zoo)

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Michael Penn - No Myth.

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Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

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For Ferd, Radar Love-Golden Earring. :banger

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They had a hit with "Twilight Zone" years later, Bob. ;)

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Forgot about that one, kind of describes my state of mind during those years. :r

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and they had a bunch of hits here. Why? I don't know. And Barry Hay (the singer) is a prick.

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ok, while we are on Dutch bands, how about Focus - Hocus Pocus ? Or Venus by Shocking Blue? George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag (or was 'una paloma blanca' a hit too in the US?).

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I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred. Nuff said.

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Emilia - Big big world. God, I hate that song

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It was (unfortunately)...but I don't think it was by the George Baker Selection.

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"Eres Tu" - Mocedades (1974)

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Tubular Bells - Mike Olfield

Seasons in the Son - Terry Jacks

Lovin' You - Minnie Ripperton

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Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love

Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down (one of my favorites)

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Rock On-David Essex
Precious and Few-Climax
You'll Never Walk Alone-Gerry and the Pacemakers(for Peter)
Afternoon Delight-Starlight Vocal Band
Play that Funky Music-Wild Cherry

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The original was, he wrote the song. Can't think of anybody sane who would cover that song.

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Ozark Mtn. Daredevils were a two hit wonder....they went to #25 on the charts in 1973 with "If you wanna get to heaven (you've got to raise a little hell) :)

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Jam On It - Newcleus

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Black Betty-Ram Jam

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Just a quick scan from one of my hard drives gave me these one hit wonders:

Alannah Miles _ Black Velvet
Soul II Soul – Back to Life
Charlie Sexton – Beat So Lonely
Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
The Crystal Method – Busy Child
K7 – Come Baby Come
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Army of Lovers – Crucified
Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over
Sonique – Feels So Good
Robert Miles – Children
Lara Fabian – I Will Love Again
Talk Talk – It’s My Life
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch – Good Vibrations
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missle F1-11
E.G. Daily – Mind over Matter
Capt Hollywood – More & More
When in Rome – The Promise
MARRS – Pump Up The Volume
Taco – Putting on the Ritz
Safri Duo – Played A-Live
Real Life – Send me an Angel
Deep Forest – Sweet Lullaby
General Public – Tenderness
Nicki French – Total Eclipse of the Heart
Tatu – All the things she wants

I am sure I have many more that I could list, but there are too many from my DJ days to list.

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In Europe she had a hitsingle with Youssou N'Dour, 7 seconds

edit: I see that only reached number 98 in the US, but I saw that Kisses in the wind reached number 8 in the US

wow, I can't believe that songs like Chocolate Cake, Weather with you, Four season in one day and Fall at your feet never reached the US charts.

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"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" - Mac and Katie Kissoon (early 70s)

:td:rolleyes::D

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Belly-Feed the Tree

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San Francisco Girls (Return Of The Native) - Fever Tree :tu
Back When My Hair Was Short - Gunhill Road :rolleyes:

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hahaha....great tune....in its day.....Was going thru some cd's (remember them?) last year and came upon the Belly disc....had to listen to it to remember why I bought it....

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Raspberries - Go All The Way

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Didn't they have a couple of other hits? "Only Wanna Be With You" and "Overnight Sensation" come to mind.