Strictly speaking, a one-hit wonder is an artist who had one, and only one, Top 40 hit single. Here's a good one to get it started. This record is actually a demo. Someone at the record company listened and said "This is done. This is a record". They transferred it to multi-track and put it out just the way it was. Sold 2 million copies.







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jimi hendrix and janis joplin

Billboard #3, August 13, 1966. This clip includes the rare B-side, which is the A-side, recorded in reverse. Check out the B-side's label (shown at 2:05), a mirror image of the A-side label. Even the Warner Brothers WB logo is reversed!







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#1 hit in 1964. You think it would have made #1 if he'd called it "Charlie"?






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So bad it's good .... almost.

It's Barry's outstanding song here...






I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

Haircut 100's LOVE PLUE ONE





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I saw the Dukes of September (Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald & Boz Scaggs) perform this live at the Greek. It was incredible.

A great summer record from 1969.

Don't know if this made a blip in the U.K. in 1968.



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More successful than any other Stones solo single...





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Summer of '66. Sounds a little like the Stones.






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Perhas Hendrix was a one-hit wonder stateside, but hev had several top-ten hits here in the UK, starting with Hey Joe in 1966 and ending - I think - with Voodoo Child (Slight Return) in 1970.

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My favourite by them.


47 shows...and counting...Hyde Park - July 6 & 13

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My favourite by them.

As far as I know, the Beatles had more than one hit. Please re-read the topic heading.

Thank you.



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I only know that one hit.


47 shows...and counting...Hyde Park - July 6 & 13



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you've never heard of any of these? wow


"She Loves You"
"Love Me Do"
"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
"Can't Buy Me Love"
"A Hard Day's Night"
"I Feel Fine"
"Eight Days a Week"
"Ticket to Ride"
"Help!"
"Yesterday"
"We Can Work It Out"
"Paperback Writer"
Side two
"Penny Lane"
"All You Need Is Love"
"Hello, Goodbye"
"Hey Jude" (edited 5:05 version on LP)
"Get Back"
"Come Together"
"Let It Be"
"The Long and Winding Road"

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jimi hendrix

Perhas Hendrix was a one-hit wonder stateside, but hev had several top-ten hits here in the UK, starting with Hey Joe in 1966 and ending - I think - with Voodoo Child (Slight Return) in 1970.

the cover of "all along the watchtower" was his only top 40 hit here in the states

I remember the first time I heard this. Sounded so weird...and wonderful.


An oddball hit record, 40 years ago.

One Hit Wonder:

As posted e.g. Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun, right, that's a perfect example!

And what comes to my mind:

Danyel Gerard - Butterfly (in various languages),
one hit wonder all over Europe.

Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime,
they had a few hits after this, but are remembered mainly for In the Summertime, with which song they are still kind of doing small time.

And, of course: Scott McKenzie - SF: Maybe the most famous one hit wonder of all. And he's still singing this number on and off in oldie shows on TV programmes.

But what have Kimd Wilde or The Beatles to do with one hit wonders? I am baffled.

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you've never heard of any of these? wow


"She Loves You"
"Love Me Do"
"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
"Can't Buy Me Love"
"A Hard Day's Night"
"I Feel Fine"
"Eight Days a Week"
"Ticket to Ride"
"Help!"
"Yesterday"
"We Can Work It Out"
"Paperback Writer"
Side two
"Penny Lane"
"All You Need Is Love"
"Hello, Goodbye"
"Hey Jude" (edited 5:05 version on LP)
"Get Back"
"Come Together"
"Let It Be"
"The Long and Winding Road"

Agree.

We may call them multi one hit wonders.

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