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My countdown list of one hit wonders- 1. Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry) (2 Viewers)

McJose said:
JFC, that’s brutal.

I have no idea what the other movie was but I totally remember seeing “Bless the Beasts and the Children” at the drive-in when I was like 7.

WTH 
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I have never like scary horror movies ...I had nightmares for several years.  

yeah, it's lame - but it wasn't for me back then.  

 
59. “Thunder Island”- Jay Ferguson (1978) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKZJp-x-Dc

I really like this song but apparently not everybody does. So maybe it’s a bit too high here? 

In preparing this list I found that, as a general rule, the bottom half of songs chosen are somewhat interchangeable in my rankings. I love them all, but they don’t quite have the quality of the top half, which were more carefully ranked and which will get longer writeups as most of them are IMO truly sublime classics. 

 
Up next: this Billboard #1 hit from the year of 1979 was one of the very few that year that was NOT a disco song, even though the vocals featured a BeeGees like falsetto...

 
timschochet said:
Up next: this Billboard #1 hit from the year of 1979 was one of the very few that year that was NOT a disco song, even though the vocals featured a BeeGees like falsetto...
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I’m gonna get the knack of this.  

Tijuana Brass?

 Duh...missed the obvious.  Great name..lol

 
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Osaurus said:
Didn’t go with M, huh?
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It was originally on my list as a bottom ender. But...I really don’t like that song. Why should I put on any song I don’t like? 

This has caused me to exclude a few songs that many people consider to be “classic” one hit wonders. Another one I excluded was “She Blinded Me With Science” by Thomas Dolby. Huge hit, way bigger that “Thunder Island” or “Magnet and Steel”. But I’ve never cared for it. 

 
timschochet said:
It was originally on my list as a bottom ender. But...I really don’t like that song. Why should I put on any song I don’t like? 

This has caused me to exclude a few songs that many people consider to be “classic” one hit wonders. Another one I excluded was “She Blinded Me With Science” by Thomas Dolby. Huge hit, way bigger that “Thunder Island” or “Magnet and Steel”. But I’ve never cared for it. 
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We will never be friends.

 
Up next: this song was originally recorded by Marc Bolan’s girlfriend, a black singer from Los Angeles who was once part of a gospel group with Billy Preston. 

 
timschochet said:
59. “Thunder Island”- Jay Ferguson (1978) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKZJp-x-Dc

I really like this song but apparently not everybody does. So maybe it’s a bit too high here? 

In preparing this list I found that, as a general rule, the bottom half of songs chosen are somewhat interchangeable in my rankings. I love them all, but they don’t quite have the quality of the top half, which were more carefully ranked and which will get longer writeups as most of them are IMO truly sublime classics. 
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You're starting to question your process now?

 
My daughter is having me listen to Billie Eilish right now. It’s certainly very different. I can’t say I like it...but I don’t exactly dislike it either. 

 
timschochet said:
Sorry. I know lots of people love that tune. 

He actually had another song I really liked- “Europa and the Pirate Twins”- wasn’t a hot though. 
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I love that one and Pop Muzik

these will both be very high entries on my "snub" list

 
57. “Tainted Love”- Soft Cell (1981) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcyCQLewj10

Interesting about this band: after this song, which of course was huge, came out, I can distinctly remember these guys being discussed as one of the big new British bands of the time, on the level of Culture Club, the Cure, Depeche Mode, etc. I even had a girlfriend a few years later who told me that she was in love with everything Marc Almond did and collected his albums, etc. My point is they were not regarded as one hit wonders at the time. 

And yet they never seemed to have any other songs than this one. Not that got any attention anyhow. 

 
timschochet said:
57. “Tainted Love”- Soft Cell (1981) 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcyCQLewj10

Interesting about this band: after this song, which of course was huge, came out, I can distinctly remember these guys being discussed as one of the big new British bands of the time, on the level of Culture Club, the Cure, Depeche Mode, etc. I even had a girlfriend a few years later who told me that she was in love with everything Marc Almond did and collected his albums, etc. My point is they were not regarded as one hit wonders at the time. 

And yet they never seemed to have any other songs than this one. Not that got any attention anyhow. 
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They're one of those many bands, some of which we've covered here, that were very big in the UK but did not have nearly as much success in the US.

 
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