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The Knack, with both 'My Sharona' and 'Good Girls Don't (But I Do)' off of 1979's Get the Knack.

Off the top of my head:

The Romantics - "What I Like About You" & "Talking In Your Sleep"

Matthew Sweet - "Girlfriend" & "Sick of Myself"

The Waitresses - "Christmas Wrapping" and "I Know What Boys Like"

It kinda depends on whether they DISAPPEARED after the second hit, or they simply became a cult band.

Extreme - "More Than Words" and "Hole Hearted"
The Cranberries - "Linger" and "Zombie"
Barenaked Ladies - "One Week" and "Pinch Me"

Flynn, BNL is also responsible for "If I Had $1000000". I thought that was a pretty well-known song on both sides of the border, am I wrong?

Well, that depends on what qualifies as a "hit".

Take the first comments about The Knack, as an example. I think of the band as a one-hit-wonder even though I know "Good Girls Don't" was also on the charts briefly in 1979. However, how many people even remember this song (I haven't heard it in 25 years, and it is now running through my head nonstop- thanks a lot, Aron)?

We need some guidelines as to what qualifies as a hit.

Some of my nominations:

Sister Sledge "He's the Greatest Dancer" and "We Are Family".

Mister Mister "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie"- though I note they also had another top 10 hit, but I don't remember the song at all- does anyone else?

Fine Young Cannibals: "She Drives Me Crazy" & "Good Thing." This topic was also a category on the new season of The World Series of Pop Culture.

This is pretty much as good a comments section as any to reveal this.

A couple of nights ago, I had a dream that I threw a party that all my favorite libertarian bloggers--McArdle, Cowen, Postrel, Drezner, Mankiw, etc.--attended. Except that the party sucked, not because the company was bad but because I was a lousy host--I didn't provide any refreshments, I played lousy music, and I didn't really have anyplace for anyone to sit. After about 35 minutes, everybody left, although everyone was very polite about it.

And I don't really count Don McLean. His second hit was a remake of a much more famous version.

Golden Earring - Radar Love and When the Bullet Hits the Bone

Golden Earring - "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone"

What about "Salvation" from the Cranberries? And yeah, BNL had "If I Had A Million Dollars" and "Brian Wilson", which I believe both count as hits.

Loverboy: "Working For the Weekend" and "This Could be the Night"

Warrant: "Cherry Pie" and "Heaven"

Porno For Pyros: "Pets" and "Cursed Female"

I googled Petula Clark and she had three hits that I recognised. "Down Town", "Don't Sleep On The Subway", and "Elusive Butterfly Of Love", are the three snatches of the songs that I recognised.

Golden Earring - "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone"

Right, Twilight Zone, that's the actual name of the song.

Oooh, one more!

Quiet Riot: "Cum on Feel the Noize" and "Mental Health"

Yancey: "And I don't really count Don McLean. His second hit was a remake of a much more famous version."

What the heck are you talking about? McLean wrote both "American Pie" and "Vincent", and while there have been some great covers of these songs, as far as I can determine quickly he recorded them first.

(Okay, that's interesting -- looking at his wikipedia page, it looks like he had at least three other songs (two that he wrote, one that he covered) that could be described as hits. It was the first that I'd heard of any of them...)

There's an interesting definitional problem that's sort of the converse of the one Yancey raises as well: I think that technically the only "hit" the Grateful Dead had was "Touch of Grey," but it would be pretty clearly absurd to characterize the band as a "one-hit wonder." Similarly, it turns out Pink Floyd and the Beastie Boys have only had two songs on the U.S. charts, but they're equally obviously not candidates for our imaginary station. So there's probably an ineradicable element of "I know it when I see it" in here, because the charts don't capture the fact that often songs that don't get enough initial attention to count as "hits" work there way into the culture over time, until they're often better known than stuff that broke the top-ten briefly.

They've been moderately successful since then, but you can probably qualify Sixpence None the Richer with "There she goes" and "Kiss me".

Veruca Salt - "Volcano Girls" and "Seether"

Garbage - "I think I'm Paranoid" and "Stupid Girl"

Annie Lennox - "Broken Glass" and "No more I Love Yous"

The Mighty Bosstones might qualify. "The Impression that I get" and...?

Natalie Merchant - "Carnival" and...?

You can probably get a lot of two-hit wonders out of the momentary swing revival of the late 1990s. For example, everyone heard the Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Hell" and probably at least one other, but I'm not sure which one other.

Also up for consideration:

Joan Osborne?

Hooty and the Blowfish?

By strict rules, Warren Zevon would probably also qualify, with the hits being "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Werewolves of London" being the only songs performed by hime to make the charts. In terms of influence, though, it's clearly nonsense to class him with the one-album-and-then-gone nonentities on the list.

Sol,

I didn't even realize that McLean every had a hit with "Vincent", or that he had more than the two I knew of.

Julian,

I was all prepared to point that out, but using The Clash as an example, though Pink Floyd was on my mind as well... which reminds me, I haven't played "The Wall" in the laboratory for several weeks now.

Joan Jett - "I Love Rock & Roll" & "I Hate Myself For Loving You" (also known as "I Hate Myself For Loving This Song")?

I don't know if the Bosstones count. They were doing their subculture (ska) since the 80's. It became popular for a blip in the 90's and they had a hit. Then it stopped being popular, and they kept on doing what they were always doing.

If you were looking for another hit from them during that period, I believe "Royal Oil" was the second single, but I'm pretty sure it didn't chart very well.

Adam Ant--"Goody Two Shoes" and "Wonderful."

As I recall, Hootie and the Blowfish had a number of hits (and just on the first album) during the mid-1990s. At one point, the backlash started, and they became uncool to listen to. Lots of writers think they were overexposed, which made people sick of them. I don't know. I was too busy trying to survive grad school to know the exact details.

Maybe Falco qualifies. In addition to "Rock Me Amadeus," his song, "Vienna Calling," was a minor hit. (He also did "Der Kommissar" with some Eurotrash band in the early 1980s. After the Fire did the English-language version.)

How about Twisted Sister? "I Wanna Rock" and "We're Not Gonna Take It" were their two big hits.

Then there are bands that have just one hit album, which produces several hits, and then they fade away. Remember the Gin Blossoms in the mid-1990s? Wilson Philipps' follow-up was considered a commercial letdown.

Other artists seem to do well in one decade. It seems everything Duran Duran and Billy Ocean churned out during the 1980s were successful.

How about Bobbie Gentry with "Ode to Billie Joe" and "Fancy" (the original, non-Bowdlerized version).

Petula Clark had a BUNCH of hits during the 60s, not least of which were: "Downtown," "Don't Sleep in the Subway," "I Know a Place" and "My Love."

Gogi Grant, also with "The Wayward Wind" and "Suddenly There's a Valley."

The other Mighty Mighty Bosstones hit was probably "Someday I Suppose". If I recall correctly, they did both songs in the movie "Clueless".

I love this kind of stuff. How about:

Everclear: "Santa Monica" and, I dunno, "I Will Buy You A New Life"
Fiona Apple: "Criminal" and "Shadowboxer"
Rancid: "Ruby Soho" and "Timebomb" (arguably, they had more hits than that)
Scorpions: "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and "Winds of Change" (again, partisans could say they had more hits than that, but I am no partisan)
Ricky Martin: "Livin' La Vida Loca" and "She Bangs" (...except that "Shake Your Bon Bon" arguably screws that up)
Arrested Development: "Tennessee" and "Mr. Wilson"
Kris Kross: "Jump" and "Warm It Up"
House of Pain: "Jump Around" and "Tap the Bottle"
Another Bad Creation: "Playground" and "Iesha"
Bel Biv Devoe: "Poison" and "Do Me"
Tone Loc: "Funky Cold Medina" and "Wild Thang"

(Boy, I wonder when I went to college.)

I think the two hits need to come off separate albums. I Wanna Rock wasn't so much a hit as it was the continuation of We're Not Gonna Take It. Frequently the 2nd and 3rd hit songs from a single album are not really independent hits as much as they are momentum plays.

Did this man ever have a hit? See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3MGN899yE

Led Zepp never released a single in the UK by this definition, therefore, they were no hit wonders...

john w.: "...(the original, non-Bowdlerized version.)..."

OK, I'll bite: What got bowdlerized?

D-------

I really, really hate you. I did not need to have that image burned into my retnas again.

Natalie Merchant - "Carnival" and...?

"Thank You" the most annoying song in history

I agree this is tricky. Nearly impossible, it seems. I can't imagine counting people like Natalie Merchant, Matthew Sweet, and Barenaked Ladies, because they have big followings and have released many albums. I think Mister Mister is the best one that's been floated so far...

Men Without Hats: "The Safety Dance" and "Pop Goes The World".

Powe Station! "Some Like It Hot" and "Get It on (Bang a Gong)"

Power Station! "Some Like It Hot" and "Get It on (Bang a Gong)"

Everclear also had a hit with Wonderful. And Learning how to smile was successful enough to get airplay.

Lurker: In the original version of "Fancy," the narrator started turning tricks "...the summer I turned fifteen." In later versions, that somehow mysteriously got changed to "the summer I turned eighteen."

Not meaning to hijack Jane's thread, but there's another idea for a hypothetical radio station: The playlist would consist of the original versions of songs that have been subsequently sanitized. .... Like Cole Porter's "I get a kick out of you" where "Cocaine" somehow got turned into "Champagne."

ALSO: "Superstar" where the line "I can hardly wait to SLEEP with you again" got turned into "I can hardly wait to be with you again" by the Carpenters. ..... Or that C&W truck-driver song (can't remember the title) where the narrator in the original version was "popping little white pills" to stay awake in his Semi, but in the revised versions he's "counting little white lines."

I don't think I'd count former frontmen/women from famous groups (Natalie Merchant or Anne Lennox), or one off groupings of famous folks like Powerstation. Most folks don't like to count cult bands who happened to have a hit single or two (Mister Mister had quite a following among the Christian rock fans at my high school).

Off these suggestion I'd only affirm Golden Earring, Ton Loc, and the Knack (I always thought of them as a one-hit, but I didn't realize they did Good Girls Don't). There may be more, but I can't distiguish between hairdo-metal bands or between 80's euro groups, so I don't know what songs came from an individual group. Most of the groups mentioned have at least three hits.

Naked Eyes-- "Always Something There To Remind Me" and "Promises, Promises.

Flock of Seafulls-- "I Ran" and "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You").

Nu Shooz-- "I Can't Wait" and "Point of No Return"

But with those you probably heard some other songs. For classic two hit wonders I think of groups that you definitely heard two songs from, and unless you bought the album you almost certainly didn't hear any other song from. Those would be:

Men Without Hats--"Safety Dance" and "Pop Goes the World"

Spin Doctors--"Two Princes" and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong"

There's a guy named Danny O'Keefe, and he had one hit (although he wrote a few non-hits for prominent recording artists), back in the early '70s, "Good Time Charlie's got the Blues", and if you are going to be a one hit wonder, you can only hope that it is as great a song as O'Keefe's one hit is. It was covered by artists from Mel Torme, to Elvis Presley, to Dwight Yoakam.

It passed the absolute test of great song for me; being able to be played and heard several hundred times, without it ever becoming tiresome. I was in Bangkok for many months in the mid 80s (don't ask), staying in a dive hotel, which had a bar and restaurant attached, in which there was a jukebox. One of the Thai waitresses loved the song, and played it frequently every night, and always, always, played it when the bar closed for a short time before dawn. I was there almost every early morning, after getting done with business around midnight. I probably heard that tune five hundred times at a minimum, and it almost became my sonic talisman, protecting me during a fairly grim era of my life.

If you get a chance to hear the tune, O'Keefe's version is the one I always liked best.

We've made it this far and nobody has mentioned Toto? Has anybody heard of any Toto songs besides Rosanna and Africa?

Bing Crosby, "White Christmans" and "Sioux City Sue"

Looking Glass had "Brandy" and "Jimmy Loves Maryann".

Procol Harum had "Whiter Shade of Pale" and "Conquistador"

Orleans had "Dance with Me" and "Still the One".

Toto doesn't qualify, they had "Hold the Line" before anything else happened.

Michael Franks had "Popsicle Toes" and "Your Secret's Safe with Me".

Yes had "Roundabout" and "Owner of a Lonely Heart".

Peter Frampton had "Baby I Love Your Way" and "Show Me The Way".

Corey,

Toto had a hit in 1979 that is still played regularly on classic rock stations- "Hold the Line".

In addition, they had at least one other hit from the album "Toto IV" other than the two you mentioned. Also, they had, and still continue to have a cult following.

drlivipr,

Yes has had a number of minor hits besides the two you mentioned, but I don't think they qualify for this category for reasons other than that- they were an very successful band for decades, just not lots of singles.

As for Peter Frampton, I am inclined to agree. Those are the only two songs I can remember hearing.

A lot of the previous commenters seem to have missed the point. Acts like Peter Frampton and Pink Floyd, which sold truckloads of albums during the 1970's, and thus didn't depend on having Top 40 hits, can't really qualify here. Genuine two-hit wonders would include:

1. The Electric Prunes ("I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," "Get Me to the World On Time");

2. Strawberry Alarm Clock ("Incense and Peppermints," "Tomorrow");

3. The Seeds ("Pushin' Too Hard," "Can't Seem To Make You Mine"); and

4. The Beau Brummels ("Laugh Laugh," "Just A Little").

The mid-1960's, just before Sgt. Pepper went and ruined everything, were easily the most fertile time for one- and two-hit wonders, since pop was still considered disposable music, rather than "art." Give me "96 Tears" or "Talk Talk" over the entirety of Radiohead's oeuvre, anytime.

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days & Everybody Have Fun Tonight

The Motels - Only the Lonely & Suddenly Last Summer

i think a lot of folk are missing the critical point that a one-hit wonder generally explodes and disappears with no real career, and no one ever really hearing any other song they did (with no interest in doing so). e.g., jermaine stuart, we don't have to take our clothes off, or mickey your so fine or jenny i got your number. so you need a band with two huge hits, but no one interested in any of their other songs, no further career, etc.

by this definition, most of the bands identified don't count because most had very long, fruitful careers (for bands). you need someone with novelty hits, or maybe a band like the sweet. put another way, i think both hits have to come off the same record. by contrast, two huge hits on two separate records is a career. there's gotta be a number of english new wave bands from the early 80s that fit this bill, smashmouth might or some of the other skaesque bands of late 90s, or even squirrel nut zipper or others from the very brief big band craze of late 90s.

e.g.: warrant? they were huge forever. power station? those guys were in duran duran, decided not to keep going. merchant? she was in the maniacs and then solo forever. etc.

djsuper: if we tighten the screws that far, this proposed Internet radio station is going to have, at most, a three hour playlist. It would be nearly like listening to the local oldies station.

fine. but let's at least limit this to real hits (e.g., i really like matt sweet, but few folk remember girlfriend much, let alone sick of myself).

Back in the day, you could hear most of the songs off of Sgt. Peppers on FM radio, but no singles were released from the album.

As for true 2-hit wonders, how about Five Man Electrical Band? The big hit was "Signs", but I also remeber their follow up "Absolutely Right".

Christopher Cross: "Sailing" and the theme to "Arthur".

Human League: "Don't You Want Me Baby?" and "Fascination" (if that's the correct title). They may have had more than two hits in Britain, but I only remember those two tunes getting airplay in the states.

Jasper,

Christopher Cross had three big hits- you are overlooking "Ride Like the Wind", which is arguably his best known song.

Henry,

Those look like two good picks to me. I can't remember any other songs from either band, and remember each of their hits very well.

Yancey, I'm a Yes fan from way back but those were the only two Yes songs I ever heard on radio. Your mileage may vary, as I tend to get stuck in places with odd radio playlists.

How about the Ozark Mountain Daredevils? "If You Want to Get to Heaven" and "Jackie Blue".

When Toto's "Hold the Line" first came out, they played a week in a hotel on Kauai. Two bucks cover charge for three sets. Going back to Honolulu, they were on the plane with us--to open for Peter Frampton.

This has been a real challenge, and it's been fun. Good question, Jane.

Did Donovan do anything other than "Mellow Yellow" and "Sunshine Superman"? For me, those were perhaps the two most barf-inducing songs ever recorded, but they were undeniably hits.

If we really stretch the definition of "hit", there's Starland Vocal Band. They had one genuine hit, "Afternoon Delight." On their first album, there was one other song, "California Day," which sounded almost as good, even though it never got any airplay that I know of. The rest of the album was utter crap.

I would disqualify both Annie Lennox and Natalie Merchant from the list, as they were the driving forces behind two successful bands respectively called Eurythmics and 10,000 Maniacs. And both of those groups have multiple Top 50 hits.

Unfortunately, my two original thoughts of Jewel and Lisa Loeb won't work at all either. Lisa had 3 Top 50 singles and Jewel ended up with 6.

Jasper: I think "Human" charted higher than "(Keep Feeling) Fascination". Also, "I Believe in Love (Love Action)" was well-known enough to make it onto a Grand Theft Auto soundtrack.

New Radicals -- "You Get What You Give" and "Someday We'll Know" (which, admittedly, got five seconds' worth of airplay before it became known that the band had dissolved).

Did the Thompson Twins have more hits than "Coming Up Close" and "Voices Carry"? Unless the Thompson Twins are the ones who did "Hold Me Now" and "Doctor, Doctor." I'm confusing myself.

Tone Loc -- "Funky Cold Medina" and "Wild Thing."

Gerardo -- "Rico Suave" and "We Want the Funk." And yes, I am embarrassed to remember that.

Jane What's-Her-Name (not Galt) with the nose chain -- "I Don't Wanna Fall in Love" and "Welcome to the Real World."

I think Jody Watley had a third hit besides "Don't You Want Me" and "Looking for a New Love." According to Wikipedia, Karyn White had more than just "Superwoman" and "Romantic."

Finally, although this may be far too obscure to qualify: Glass Tiger, "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone" and "Someday."

Bachman Turner Overweight/////drive - "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" and "Takin' Care of Business"

Grand Funk Railroad (almost) - "We're an American Band" and "Loco-Motion", though apparently they had another get to #3 and the song you most often hear on the radio is so horrible that I won't mention it lest you get the stupid thing stuck in your head.

.38 Special, "So Caught Up in You" and "If I'd Been the One", never heard the others.

Wow, there are a lot of songs that got airplay but I never heard at the time... how does the local rock station suck, let me count the ways...OTOH, sometimes the most popular songs were the most sucular.

Saxon - "20,000 Feet" and "Princess of the Night". Oddly, they never actually charted, and the band is still around in the UK

Madness - "Our House" and "One Step Beyond"

This is hard. And it dredges up memories that *should* be suppressed.

No one wants to claim Vanilla Ice? "Ice, Ice Baby" and "Play that Funky Music White Boy."

The Motels had a third, minor hit with "Shame", heavily in the MTV rotation.

Big Country (in the US) with "Fields of Fire" and "In a Big Country" though they had other hits in the UK.

Does Milli Vanilli count? They had, like, four hits, but since they lip synched, does that only count for two?

STOP! HAMMER TIME!!!

2 Legit to Quit....

Josh,

The stats may not bear me out, but I'd say "If I Had $1000000" was their best known song in the states.

And Rex, according to one source, Donovan had 11 songs make top 40. Apparently you're a fellow with highly discriminating taste, as guess which were the two highest placing among them? That's right, your two bad boys... :-)

'65:
Catch the Wind (#23)

'66:
Sunshine Superman (#1)
Mellow Yellow (#2)

'67:
There Is a Mountain (#11)
Epistle to Dippy (#19)
Wear Your Love Like Heaven (#23)

'68:
Hurdy Gurdy Man (#5)
Jennifer Juniper (#26)
Lalena (#33)

'69:
Atlantis (#7)
To Susan on the West Coast Waiting (#35)

(Note the number isn't the rating for the entire year, but rather the peak number it reached in the weekly charts.)

bachman turner overdrive had several successful albums, so i don't think they qualify.

Paula Cole? "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" and that theme song for "Dawson's Creek"

The Grass Roots? "Let's Live for Today" and "Midnight Confessions"

Oh and how about Faith No More - "We Care a Lot" and "Epic"

No to Sebastian's nomination of Spin Doctors-- he forgot "Pocketful of Kryptonite."

Off to buy stuff from iTunes that I haven't thought about in years...

Kate, I posted the link because I find the clip (and everything he sang) so funny! What's ironic is that Shatner recorded them as SERIOUS pieces. Now they have a cult following because they're so bad, they're fun to watch. Give Shatner credit. He embraced it and jumped on the bandwagon.

Many of the artists/bands still find audiences today in small venues. People show up to hear the old songs. I think a much smaller number also go to hear any new material.

I saw Asia last Sept. at some theater in Times Square. Guess which song they did last? "Heat of the Moment," their greatest hit. (They had a few during the early 1980s.)

Glass Tiger and Mr. Mister - those are good ones.

Now, if you limit it to just the U.S. Top 40:

Berlin: "No More Words" and "Take My Breath Away"
(Although "Masquerade" and "The Metro" received airplay/MTV exposure, they didn't break the Top 40.)

Tracy Chapman: "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason"

Katrina and the Waves: "Walking on Sunshine" and "Do You Want Crying," a minor hit that's rarely heard these days and I suppose, being from the same album as "Walking," qualifies as one of those "momentum plays" that COD mentioned.
(By the way, Waves guitarist Kimberly Rew put out a great album a few years back: "Tunnel Into Summer," which I highly recommend. Sadly, it produced no hits and didn't get the attention it deserved. He's also the writer of "Going Down to Liverpool," a song also recorded by the Bangles.)

Funny what you learn looking up certain artists. Could've sworn Squeeze's "Tempted" cracked the Top 40, but it didn't (#49). Yet their single "853-5937" did (#32). It, along with "Hourglass," makes them two-hit wonders. At least, technically. They had many hits in the U.K. and had quite a following for years in the U.S., so I wouldn't call them that.

And I almost put the Greg Kihn Band on the list for "The Breakup Song" and "Jeopardy" until I learned that "Lucky" charted at #30 in 1985.

The same with 10cc of "I'm Not in Love" and "The Things We Do for Love" fame. "People in Love" charted at #40 in 1977 and Godley and Creme had their own success after 10cc.

The Romantics (mentioned already) charted with "Talking In Your Sleep" and "One In A Million," but "What I Like About You" came up short at #49... although, again, how does one define a "hit"? "What I Like About You" is heard everywhere these days -- much more than it was in the early 80s -- in TV commercials, at weddings and sporting events, and it receives heavy airplay on 80s "oldie" stations. For this reason, I call them three-hit "wonders."

This is fun.

Then there are the "comeback" hit wonders, artists/bands that score a hit later in their career when they're written off.

Boy George, as a solo artist, had a hit with "The Crying Game" in 1992.

Boston had a big hit with "Amanda" in 1986 off their third album. Their second was in 1979 or so.

In 1982, KC & the Sunshine Band had "Give It Up." It was a long time after the band's heyday with disco hits such as "Shake Your Booty" and "Get Down Tonight."

I'm sure there are many other examples.

Christopher Cross had three big hits- you are overlooking "Ride Like the Wind", which is arguably his best known song.

Goodness. How could I have overlooked "Ride Like the Wind?"

My friend Ron did a Two-Hit Wonders show back in '96 for his Crap From The Past radio program. It's craptacular!

You can find the archive here. (You can thank me later.) What would we do without community radio?

How about Chris Deburgh? "Don't Pay the Ferryman" and "Lady in Red."

How about Chris Deburgh? "Don't Pay the Ferryman" and "Lady in Red."

I think that third Mr. Mister song is called "Sara." ("No time is a good time for goodbyes...")

WRT the Donovan question, a hit is technically something that charts at all; but I think for the purposes of this discussion it's more useful to consider songs that people who listened to the radio at the time would likely remember--to not include, in other words, a lot of songs that got to #188 or what have you. My own suggestions:

From the 60s, Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man" and "Good Timin"

From the 70s, Mungo Jerry's mega-hit "In the Summertime" and lesser hit "My Lady Rose"

From the 80s (surprised no one mentioned this), Men at Work's "Who Can it Be Now?" and "Down Under"

From the 90s, Better Than Ezra's "Good" and "My Rosalita"

"Sara" is by (Jefferson Airplane) Starship, while "Coming Up Close" and "Voices Carry" are by Til Tuesday.

Incidentally, the last time I heard "Walking on Sunshine" was about a week after the real Katrina with the waves, and I somehow felt it was incredibly insensitive, but in a really subtle way. (I live close enough to the impact point that we had hurricane-force winds here.)

Most "supergroups" seem to have two hits. Blind Faith had "Presence of the Lord" and "Can't Find My Way Home."

The Traveling Wilburys had "End of the Line" and "Handle With Care."

I thought Asia was a two-hit wonder, but I checked, and they had several in the early 1980s.

The Troggs of "Wild Thing" fame also had a chart hit with "Love is All Around" (not the Mary Tyler Moore theme), but as far as I know they had no other hits in the U.S.

Never mind - according to Wikipedia, their "With a Girl Like You" charted at #29 U.S. (I believe it was also in a commercial for some product or other a few years ago.) "Wild Thing" was #1 and "Love Is All Around" was #7, so they were more truly hits. They did have several additional hits in the UK as well.

Thin Lizzy - "Boys are back in Town" and "Jailbreak"
Nazareth - "Hair of the Dog" and "Love Hurts"

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