Are They A One-Hit Wonder?

sadchild said:
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#8 "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" (with Peter Cetera)
#9 "Last Night"

I barely remember the one with Peter. Doubt any stations in the world aside from nostalgia stations (like 90s on 9) have played it in years. No clue on the other song.

No hit wonder in my book.
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I remember both, but agree they are forgettable. They were a cookie cutter boy band at best.
 
Ol' Dirty Bastard
#15 "Ghetto Supastar" (with Pras Michel)
#33 "Got Your Money" (with Kelis)

I know "Ghetto Supastar" (it basically rips off "Islands In The Stream" - "Ghetto superstar, that is what you are...")

I don't know the other hit. I say he's probably subjectively a OHW.
 
sadchild said:
Ol' Dirty Bastard
#15 "Ghetto Supastar" (with Pras Michel)
#33 "Got Your Money" (with Kelis)

I know "Ghetto Supastar" (it basically rips off "Islands In The Stream" - "Ghetto superstar, that is what you are...")

I don't know the other hit. I say he's probably subjectively a OHW.
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I remember "Got Your Money", but only Kelis singing the chorus. I maybe heard it on the radio or saw the video.
 
Chuck Berry wrote and recorded Memphis in 1959 and released it as the B-side of Back In The USA. A version by Johnny Rivers reached #2 in July 1964. An instrumental version by Lonnie Mack (real name: Lonnie McIntosh) peaked at #5 in July 1963. Mack's follow-up single, Wham! (which he also wrote), got to #24 three months later. Many oldies stations in the 1980s-90s played Mack's version of Memphis while Wham! has been ignored and forgotten. Wham, Lonnie! You're a one-hit wonder!

 
Kut Klose
#2 "Twisted" (with Keith Sweat)
#34 "I Like"

Three women in an R&B group discovered and produced by Keith Sweat. Only released one album in 1995. I don't know either song. I think they're pretty much a subjective zero hit wonder to the mainstream these days?
 
sadchild said:
Kut Klose
#2 "Twisted" (with Keith Sweat)
#34 "I Like"

Three women in an R&B group discovered and produced by Keith Sweat. Only released one album in 1995. I don't know either song. I think they're pretty much a subjective zero hit wonder to the mainstream these days?
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I would agree based on how high "Twisted" charted. I remembered the song/video, but not "I Like".

There were several three girl R&B groups in the 90s (SWV, Jade, Brownstone, Total, etc.). Kut Klose is pretty forgettable.
 
sadchild said:
I was thinking they might be a zero hit wonder these days, are you saying you think subjectively they're a one hit wonder?
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Oops. I see now. :-) I thought you wrote subjective one hit wonder.

I would say yes not only based on the chart position, but the strength of having Keith Sweat on the track too.
 
Shelley Fabares
#1 "Johnny Angel"
#21 "Johnny Loves Me"

I don't know either song, but maybe that chart-topper is a staple on oldies radio?

I see she is also Emmy-nominated for a 90s sitcom Coach. Never saw it.
 
I think I did most (or all?) of the artists we'd all know early on. Now I just post when I stumble on someone who qualifies.

I found Kut Klose while seeing if Keith Sweat (on this week's VJ) was a two-hit artist (he's not).

I found Shelley Fabares while looking at people with a #1 hit in the 1960s (for this week's WAI game)
 
I share interesting details about recently deceased celebrities. Why has nobody ever complained about all the many hundreds of posts that say "29 for 1981," "21 for 1978," "19 for me," "16," "Seven" and on and on and on and on? Huh? Huh?
 
Well, gee, yeah, when you put it that way.......

In August 1954, the Chords reached #2 on the R&B chart and #5 on Billboard's Best Sellers Chart with Sh-Boom. A cover version by the Crew-Cuts was number one on the Best Sellers chart for seven weeks in August-September 1954 and stayed in the top ten for 19 weeks. The Crew-Cuts had eleven other top-40 hits, including a remake of the Penguins' Earth Angel, but does anyone remember any of them today? Can we call the Crew-Cuts a one-hit wonder? It's debatable.

 
Channel98 said:
I share interesting details about recently deceased celebrities. Why has nobody ever complained about all the many hundreds of posts that say "29 for 1981," "21 for 1978," "19 for me," "16," "Seven" and on and on and on and on? Huh? Huh?
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Uhh, because you're missing the point? We're not talking about redundancy, or threads that lend themselves to rudimentary posts.

My comparison was pretty straightforward: in the 2 threads I compared, I similarly see name after name I don't recognize.
 
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