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One Hit Wonders are songs which are the most popular by an artist.
There are different views on what qualifies a song for a One Hit Wonder.
A One Hit Wonder could be an artist that had only one song in the top 10, top 20, or even top 40.
On these pages, strictly speaking, an artist is a One Hit Wonder
if the artist had exactly one song make the pop or rock top 20.
No artist can be considered a One Hit Wonder who made the top 20 twice.
This strict definition may create some strange results where a supergoup
like Metallica makes the Pop Top 20 charts once, despite a long list of rock number one songs.
Superstar side projects with temporary or transient names may be technical One Hit Wonders.
Additionally, a One Hit Wonder listed on this 1975 page
may be a song that is significantly more popular than other songs by the same artist,
even though it did not make the top 20.
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| Get Dancin' was a top 20 one hit wonder for Disco Tex. It was followed with other songs that were popular in discos, including I Wanna Dance Wit' Choo, which was a top 20 near miss. | |
Mar 1975 |
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Up In A Puff Of Smoke |
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| Up In A Puff Of Smoke was a top 20 one hit wonder for Polly Brown. She released a few other songs that received slight play. In 1970, Polly Brown was in Pickettywitch, and the group had three UK top 20 songs, and later with group Sweet Dreams which, in 1975, had a UK top 10 hit with a remake of Honey Honey by Abba. | |
| Lovin' You was the only top 20 hit for Minnie Riperton, whose follow-up, Inside My Love, received extensive soul and jazz play. Minnie Riperton was well known in those circles for her legendary vocal range. | |
Mar 1975 |
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Shame, Shame, Shame |
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| Shame, Shame, Shame was a top 20 one hit wonder for Shirley And Company. The group had other songs out that received very slight airplay. | |
Mar 1975 |
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Sad Sweet Dreamer |
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| Sad Sweet Dreamer was the only top 20 song for UK soul group Sweet Sensation. Follow-up song Purely By Coincidence received some soul play.
This group Sweet Sensation was from the UK. In the 1980s, another unrelated group also called Sweet Sensation had a string of popular songs. That second group was from New York City. The song Sad Sweet Dreamer was from album Sad Sweet Dreamer. | |
Apr 1975 |
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Chevy Van Sammy Johns |
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| Chevy Van was the only top 20 hit for Sammy Johns. He followed-up with Rag Doll, and had a few other songs that received some radio airplay. | |
| Jackie Blue was a top 20 one hit wonder for Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Almost a year earlier, the group had a top 20 near miss with If You Wanna Get To Heaven. | |
May 1975 |
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Shaving Cream Benny Bell |
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| Shaving Cream was originally released in 1946. The song was banned from some radio stations, but a following of Benny Bell developed. In 1975, as a result of exposure by
Dr. Demento, the song became more popular. Benny Bell also received some radio airplay and jukebox play in the 1940s with songs like Sweet Violets and Take A Ship For Yourself. | |
| Autobahn was the most popular song by dance alternative group Kraftwerk. The group had a string of less known tunes, most of which did not crossover to pop stations. | |
May 1975 |
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Consumer Rapport |
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| Ease On Down The Road was the only top 20 hit, and the only song that received mentionable airplay, for Consumer Rapport. In 1978, a version of this song by Diana Ross & Michael Jackson became a number 18 hit. The song was from the show The Wiz. | |
| How Long was the only top 20 hit for Ace. The group followed-up with Rock And Roll Runaway, which received minor radio play. Ace featured lead singer Paul Carrack, who also sang with Squeeze and Mike + The Mechanics. Ace song How Long was from album Five-A-Side (An Ace Album). | |
Jun 1975 |
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Love Won't Let Me Wait |
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| Love Won't Let Me Wait was the only top 20 hit for Major Harris, who was previously with The Delfonics. His other solo songs had some soul airplay. | |
Jun 1975 |
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I'm Not Lisa Jessi Colter |
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| Although I'm Not Lisa was the only top 20 hit for Jessi Colter, she had a string of songs that were popular on country stations like her 1970 duet with Waylon Jennings, Suspicious Minds. That song was also a 1969 number one hit for Elvis Presley. | |
| Although Magic was the only top 20 hit for Pilot, the group had a string of songs that received some radio airplay, like January. Pilot was led by singer and multi-instrumentalist David Paton, who also sang and played extensively for The Alan Parsons Project and Camel. | |
| The mostly instrumental one hit wonder song The Hustle was a number one song and the only top 20 hit for Van McCoy. He followed up with a string of fairly popular dance and soul songs like Change With The Times. This song was from album Disco Baby. This song was written by Van McCoy. | |
Jul 1975 |
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Tony Camillo's Bazuka |
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| Dynomite was a popular saying by J.J. Walker on the comedy TV show Good Times, and a top 20 one hit wonder hit. This group, sometimes called Tony Camillo's Bazuka, Bazuka Featuring Tony Camillo, or simply Bazuka, had a few other songs that received slight radio airplay like Love Explosion. Dynomite was written by Tony Camillo. | |
Jul 1975 |
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Rockin' Chair Gwen McCrae |
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| Although Rockin' Chair was the only top 20 hit for Gwen McCrae, she had a string of popular soul and dance songs like Funky Sensation. The song was from album Rockin' Chair. | |
| Feelings spent 12 weeks in the top 20 -- a very long time for a song in the 70s. It continued to receive extensive airplay for months after, and became a classic. Morris Albert was sued for stealing Feelings from another song. He lost the lawsuit, and 88 percent of the royalties. Morris Albert followed up with Sweet Loving Man, which received slight radio airplay. | |
| Do It Any Way You Wanna was a top 20 one hit wonder for People's Choice. The group had many popular soul, funk, and dance songs that did not receive much crossover play. | |
| Sky High was a top 20 one hit wonder for Jigsaw. The group had other popular dance songs, including the follow up, Love Fire, which received moderate play. | |
Nov 1975 |
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Eighteen With A Bullet Pete Wingfield |
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| Eighteen With A Bullet was the only top 20 song by Pete Wingfield. He received slight radio airplay with other songs too, like Lovin' As You Wanna Be. | |
Dec 1975 |
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I'm On Fire 5000 Volts |
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| I'm On Fire was the only top 20 hit for dance disco group 5000 Volts. | |
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