Are They A One-Hit Wonder?

I know Star. KRLA, KIIS, KIQQ and KNX-FM played it in early 1974. Star is included on K-tel's 1975 20-track album Out Of Sight. I have the album. (A few sites say the album is from 1974. They're wrong.)

 
It's One Hit Wonder Wednesday on my local FM. Today they played "Joey" by Concrete Blonde. Now going by the HOT 100, they are correct. But not according to the US Alt Chart or Canada. They had several other hits. I remember hearing "Caroline" a lot which was the followup to "Joey". Given this is a Canadian radio station, I think they were in error.
 
Also, they played "Spirit In The Sky" by Norman Greenspan and are going to play "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc shortly. These songs were hits by different artists are they really a OHW?
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Now going by the HOT 100, they are correct. But not according to the US Alt Chart or Canada.
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Great band. But technically in the US they're a OHW. Subjectively, I'm not sure if any of their other songs are remembered beyond specialty stations like First Wave or similar.

But in Canada they've got FOUR top 40 hits. So if it was a Canadian station (not a US station that can be heard in Canada), they are way off! Unless they're talking 'subjectively a OHW' in Canada because the other three hits are forgotten?

CAN
#4 Joey
#13 Someday
#22 Caroline
#28 Ghost Of A Texas Ladies Man
 
Eric Sermon
#22 "Music" (w/ Marvin Gaye - using previously unreleased recordings of him)
#36 "React" (w/ Redman)

Eric was 1/3 of the rap group EPMD (Eric and Parrish Making Dollars) who hit #42 with "Crossover" in 1992. He went solo and hit #22 in 2001 with a song featuring unreleased recordings of Marvin Gaye).

I don't know either of his solo top 40 hits, but I know some not-top-40 EPMD songs like "You Gots To Chill" and "Strictly Business" (both 1988).
 
Elisa Fiorillo
#16 "Who Found Who" (w/ Jellybean Benitez)
#27 "On the Way Up"

The #16 is on this week's VJ. Wouldn't know it if it weren't for the VJ, and I don't know the other one. Subjective zero hit wonder?
 
.......and........

Jellybean Benitez
#16 "Who Found Who" (w/ Elisa Fiorillo)
#18 "Sidewalk Talk" (written by Madonna)

Only know these from the VJ's. He's mainly remembered as a producer.
 
Steve and Eydie
#28 "I Want to Stay Here"
#35 "I Can't Stop Talking About You"

Saw Steve Lawrence's name in the celebrity death thread and I see he had two (and only two) top 40 hits with Eydie Gormé. I don't know either song, never heard of either of them. Subjectively a zero hit wonder?
 
They were big-time variety show hosts and guests. I kind of remember them covering other people's songs. I don't recognize those songs by title. I'm sure when the west coast wakes up, 98 will have something to say.
 
Kevin Paige
#18 "Don't Shut Me Out"
#29 "Anything I Want"

Listening to the 1989 VJ. This guy has to be totally forgotten aside from those "lost hit" moments on 80s shows. Subjectively a zero hit wonder?
 
I don't remember either song by Kevin Paige but I know the two Steve & Eydie songs. KHJ had an adult contemporary format prior to becoming top-40 "Boss Radio" in 1965 and they played those songs quite often. I Want To Stay Here is one of my favorite songs. It was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. They also wrote I Can't Stop Talking About You and Steve Lawrence's solo hits Walking Proud and Poor Little Rich Girl.

Steve & Eydie are also well known for This Could Be The Start Something. The song, commonly known as This Could Be The Start Of Something Big, was written by Steve Allen. This was released as a single in April 1960 and reached #113 on the Cash Box Looking Ahead chart but did not make the Billboard chart.


 
On the August 25 1963 Tune-Dex survey of top-40 KRLA in Pasadena, I Want To Stay Here was #6. The Beach Boys' Surfer Girl was number one. On the KFWB Fabulous Forty for that week, the song was at its peak of #15. Here is Steve & Eydie's first single, Make Yourself Comfortable, released in December 1954. They mispronounce it as "cumfterble." This never charted but a version by Sarah Vaughan reached #6 in January 1955. It was written by Bob Merrill, who also wrote People, Honeycomb, Mambo Italiano, The Doggie In The Window and many other hits.

 
Craig Mack
#9 "Flava in Ya Ear"
#38 "Get Down"

I know the first one, but only because of SXM years later. Didn't know it back then. I don't think a lot of people today know/remember it though unless they listen to Rock The Bells radio or 90s on 9 (or similar). He's probably subjectively a zero hit wonder?
 
jbnv said:
Timmy T
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He was mentioned but it was never officially posted

Timmy T
#1 "One More Try"
#40 "Time After Time"

1990/1991. I kinda know/remember the first one. The second one, which is not a Cyndi Lauper cover, I have no idea about. I'd say subjectively a OHW, and barely that.
 
We almost had to determine if Neil Young is subjectively a one hit wonder!

#1 "Heart Of Gold"
#31 "Old Man"
#33 "Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
 
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