Boardsies Greatest One Hit Wonder Song

Kolido

Welcome to the Boardsies greatest One Hit Wonder song.


Remember that song but can't remember much else from the act, that's what we are looking for here.


As I can't find a definitive definition of a one hit wonder, I will place some criteria for entries.

The act must not have had no more than 3 top 20 singles in the UK or US charts (mainstream charts)
The act must be primarily known for the song entered
The act may have had success in another band or as a solo artist.

I will leave this opened until I get a good number to go ahead with. Please PM me your 5 song picks, please include the act name.

Spook_ie

Oh yeah one hit wonders coming your way very soon..

Electric Nitwit

Can we discuss in thread? Or do you want nominations in before all the chat?

Spook_ie

And done....

Spook_ie

He ruled me out from "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade because it usually gets to 15-20 in charts most Christmas's with the exception of 1998 to 2006 for some reason! but if we're allowed wild cards then I'd put that in anyway.

Zaph

Spook_ie wrote: »

He ruled me out from "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade because it usually gets to 15-20 in charts most Christmas's with the exception of 1998 to 2006 for some reason! but if we're allowed wild cards then I'd put that in anyway.

Slade had a bucket load of hits, including 6 number ones in the UK. I'm afraid this might be a Slade-free competition Spook.

Zaph

Kolido wrote: »

The act must not have had no more than 3 top 20 singles in the UK or US charts (mainstream charts)

I have a particular act in mind. They had 3 US top 20 hits and none in the UK (2 outside the top 20). However they also had another 5 singles that made the US charts. Based on the criteria above they're in, but do they actually qualify?

Kolido

Discuss away folks. The rules may not be clear, if a song charted multiple times it still counts as one, the 3 only means 3 different songs. Also if a song chated in both regions it still counts as one.

Spook_ie

Zaph wrote: »

Slade had a bucket load of hits, including 6 number ones in the UK. I'm afraid I think this might be a Slade-free competition Spook.

Ah goo on wid tha, "Merry Christmas Everybody" is a one hit Christmas record just like Wizard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"

Zaph

Spook_ie wrote: »

Ah goo on wid tha, "Merry Christmas Everybody" is a one hit Christmas record just like Wizard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"

Surely you're not denying the Holder/Lea genius of "Cum On Feel the Noize", "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" or "Coz I Luv You"?

Weirdly enough, Wizzard had two number ones, and "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" wasn't one of them.

Spook_ie

Zaph wrote: »

Surely you're not denying the Holder/Lea genius of "Cum On Feel the Noize", "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" or "Coz I Luv You"?

Weirdly enough, Wizzard had two number ones, and "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" wasn't one of them.

Nah but Xmas records, come on they're a genre of their own.

tusk

Spook_ie wrote: »

Nah but Xmas records, come on they're a genre of their own.

Get the OP up so Spook

Electric Nitwit

Can we have rule 4, no feçking Christmas songs?!

Anyway, it's clearly Chesney Hawkes

Necro

Submitted there. Chesney Hawkes did not make my list as I'm sure someone else will nominate him.

I was going for Men At Work - Down Under but apparently on some research they did pretty damn well for themselves.

quickbeam

So in.

Electric Nitwit

So close! Sinead O'Connor and Freddie Mercury have both had 4 songs in the UK top 20, I was sure one of them would come second to Chesney...

Edit: so have Evanescence, wow!

Squall Leonhart

Edited to remove submitted songs!!


Here are a few that I was close to submitting..
If I spent even a half hour thinking of this I'd probably have a list a mile long.


Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Joan Osborne - One of Us
Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
The La's - There She Goes
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Modest Mouse - Float On
Ace - How Long

Kolido

Maybe better not to post your submitted songs in the thread but feel free to discuss any songs.

Kolido

If ye think rule 1 is ruling out a lot of songs we would assume are OHW, please shout, maybe we can amend this rule. Possibly change it to 3 top 10 single?

Squall Leonhart

Kolido wrote: »

If ye think rule 1 is ruling out a lot of songs we would assume are OHW, please shout, maybe we can amend this rule. Possibly change it to 3 top 10 single?

Disagree. Top 10 singles are definitely hits, having 3 of them, you're not a OHW

Electric Nitwit

I agree with the rule too, I've just been caught out by a few I thought would count (Nothing Compares, Barcelona, Bring Me To Life)

That's my lack of knowledge though

Kolido

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I agree with the rule too, I've just been caught out by a few I thought would count (Nothing Compares, Barcelona, Bring Me To Life)

That's my lack of knowledge though

Evanescence would qualify if it was only US counted. For example, A-ha are considered a US OHW, yet they had 8 top 10 UK hits. So maybe having both regions are where a lot of act will fall short.

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote:

I agree with the rule too, I've just been caught out by a few I thought would count (Nothing Compares, Barcelona, Bring Me To Life)

One for me too. Dexys Midnight Runners were bigger than Come on Eileen, who knew :pac:

Zaph

Necro wrote: »

One for me too. Dexys Midnight Runners were bigger than Come on Eileen, who knew :pac:

Their first number one, Geno, is a much better song imo. Actually heard it on the radio for the first time in years last week, which reminded me just how good it is.

Necro

Zaph wrote:

Their first number one, Geno, is a much better song imo. Actually heard it on the radio for the first time in years last week, which reminded me just how good it is.

Well now I'm just gonna have to check that out!!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

How exactly does this game work? After songs are submitted, what happens next?

Spook_ie

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

How exactly does this game work? After songs are submitted, what happens next?

After the submissions are compiled and ( I assume seeded) they are put to the popular vote in a series of face offs where you vote for 1 of the songs to go through to the next ko round.

Voting is done in thread and live with usually ribald comments from people who disagree with your vote.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Spook_ie wrote: »

After the submissions are compiled and ( I assume seeded) they are put to the popular vote in a series of face offs where you vote for 1 of the songs to go through to the next ko round.

Voting is done in thread and live with usually ribald comments from people who disagree with your vote.

Ah good, that's what I was hoping for...

Electric Nitwit

I've got a list of nine...

I think I'm going to have to ditch Chesney Hawkes and Rick Astley...

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I've got a list of nine...

I think I'm going to have to ditch Chesney Hawkes and Rick Astley...

Well if it makes you feel any better, Rick Astley had a heap of top 10 hits, not just the obvious one.

Electric Nitwit

Zaph wrote: »

Well if it makes you feel any better, Rick Astley had a heap of top 10 hits, not just the obvious one.

So he has, phew

nthclare

Sabrina boys boy's boy's....

Zaph

nthclare wrote: »

Sabrina boys boy's boy's....

Admit it, you only ever watched the video with the sound turned down.

Irish Aris

Such a great idea for a thread, thanks Kolido!

I went for one hit wonders from the 80's - this is when I started listening to and learning music!!

nthclare

Zaph wrote: »

Admit it, you only ever watched the video with the sound turned down.

I did yeah and ironically ever since I've been attracted to cougar's..

I still think she's hot, denim shorts and leg's, clevage etc

That doe eyed eyetallian look, she did a duet recently with Samantha fox yes and I liked it ðŸ˜

Kolido

Thanks for all the submissions so far. A word of advice for anyone still to submit, dont avoid the obvious expecting someone elae will pick them.

In a break from the norm here, I will be submitting my own 5, I will post them on thread for clarity.

Electric Nitwit

Sent mine in there

I was hoping to have space to wind up Necro but I couldn't fit this beauty in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfZshkNZRw

Spook_ie

Kolido wrote: »

Thanks for all the submissions so far. A word of advice for anyone still to submit, dont avoid the obvious expecting someone elae will pick them.

In a break from the norm here, I will be submitting my own 5, I will post them on thread for clarity.

But 5 is just not enough, I had to leave out BBC radio DJs with one offs, TV series personalities real and not so real, numerous real one hit wonders from the likes of the wurzels, paper lace etc.

As Oliver Twist said " Please sir, can I have some more?"

Mam of 4

In and sent .
Love my picks tbh , memories of a lifetime ago and fun times

Reberetta

Spook_ie wrote: »

But 5 is just not enough, I had to leave out BBC radio DJs with one offs, TV series personalities real and not so real, numerous real one hit wonders from the likes of the wurzels, paper lace etc.

As Oliver Twist said " Please sir, can I have some more?"

I agree. I propose that everyone should be allowed to submit one more one hit wonder.

What ya say Kolido?

Kolido

Everyone can now pick 6 songs, if you have already submitted, please add one more, and remember, you can still change your picks until we close. Anyone who has still to submit, please choose 6 songs when doing so.

We are currently at over 70 unique picks, I will keep this opened for another few days and see how far get.

As mentioned yesterday, I will be picking also. Here are my picks.

Europe - The Final Countdown
Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything
John Waite - Missing You
Chesney Hawkes - You and Only
Unkle Kracker - Follow Me
Sugar Ray - Every Morning

I do this too

mzungu

Some good memories in there.

Sheridan81

I think there's a difference between acts who only had one hit song and acts who'd be described as one hit wonders. I think at least two that I submitted would qualify for the former description. Regardless, this should be an interesting battle for the best.

Kolido

We currently have 95 unique songs, 9 of those are multi nominated and will be seeded. How these will be seeded I'm not sure yet. If we got 128 songs we could run with a straight knock out format, keeping the seeded songs apart in the first round.

If we don't reach this number, we can figure something out. I will leave this opened for another while.

Kolido

We have the song list complete, for clarity, I added some wild card songs as we didn't enough to run with a straight knock out.

I will get the pairing for round 1 sorted and we can start the contest then.

Thanks to everyone for submitting songs, please stand by for live thread.

Kolido

Thread is live, first match will start shortly

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=111756305#post111756305

Weepsie

Weepsie wrote: »

The correct and only acceptable answer is White Town - Your Woman

God damn it, just dawned on me that nobody submitted this in the end.

Really should've listened to Kolidio here....

Kolido wrote: »

Thanks for all the submissions so far. A word of advice for anyone still to submit, dont avoid the obvious expecting someone elae will pick them.

Just listened to Your Woman there, it really is a monster of a tune.

Electric Nitwit

[Deleted User] wrote: »

God damn it, just dawned on me that nobody submitted this in the end.

I had a list of ones that didn't make it and I've been adding to it in the last few days as more pop to mind. I'm up to 34!

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61nxcJ32mVg