What is your favorite One Hit Wonder?

Question

do you have more than one favorite?

Answer 1

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
I like that raunchy guitar sound

Answer 2

Wow. This is tough. I love One Hit Wonders. I own all 25 volumes of this. Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m/103-8499354-7140651?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=have+a+nice+day&Go.x=7&Go.y=5

And I own all 15 volumes of this.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Wave-Dance-Hits-COMPLETE/dp/B000B6PZSK/sr=1-1/qid=1157897656/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-8499354-7140651?ie=UTF8&s=music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE1i2zLG9yY

Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

Deborah was a Catholic girl,
she held out to the bitter end.
Carla was a different type,
she's the one who put it in.
Mary was a black girl,
and I was afraid of a girl like that.
Susan painted pictures sitting down
****like the Buddha sat.****

Reno was an aimless girl, --should be-- Reno was a nameless girl
a geographic memory.
Cathy was a Jesus-freak,
she liked that kind of misery.
Vicky had this special way
of turning sex into a song.
****Kamala who couldn't sing,****
kept the beat and kept it strong.

Xylla was an archetype,
the voodoo queen the queen of rap.
Joan thought men were second best
to masturbating in the bath.
Sherri was a feminist,
she really had that gift of gab.
Kathleen's point of view was this:
take whatever you can grab.

Seattle was another girl
who left her mark upon the map.
Karen liked to tie me up,
and left me hanging by a strap.
Jeannie had this nightclub walk
that made grown men feel underage.
Mary Ellen who had a son
said "I must go," but finally stayed.

Gloria the last taboo
was shattered by her tongue one night.
Mimi brought the taboo back
and held it up before the light.
Marilyn who knew no shame,
was never ever satisfied.
Julie came and went so fast,
she didn't even say good-bye.

Well Rhonda had a house in Venice,
lived on brown rice and cocaine.
Patty had a house in Houston,
shot cough syrup in her veins.
Linda thought her life was empty,
filled it up with alcohol.
Katherine was much too pretty,
she didn't do that sh*t at all.

Uh-uh. Not Katherine.

Pauline thought that love was simple,
turn it on and turn it off.
Jean-Marie was complicated,
like some French film-maker's plot.
Gina was the perfect lady,
always kept her stockings straight.
Jackie was a rich punk-rocker,
silver spoon and a paper plate.

Sarah was a modern dancer,
lean pristine transparency.
Janet wrote bad poetry
in a crazy kind of urgency.
Tanya Turkish liked to f*ck
while wearing leather biker boots.
Brenda's strange obsession
****was for certain vegetables and fruit.****

****Roweena was an artist's daughter,****
the deeper image shook her up.
Dee-dee's mother left her father,
took his money and his truck.
Debbie-Rae had no such problems,
perfect Norman Rockwell home.
Nina sixteen had a baby,
left her parents lived alone.
Bobbie joined a new-wave band,
and changed her name to Bobbie-sox.
Eloise who played guitar,
sang songs about whales and cops.
Terri didn't give a sh*t,
****was just a nihilist.****
Ronnie was much more my style,
she wrote songs just like this.
Jezebel went forty days
drinking nothing but Perrier.
Dinah drove her Chevrolet
into the San Francisco bay.
Judy came from Ohio,
she's a Scientologist.
****Amiranta here's a kiss,****
I chose you to end this list.

Eighty-eight lines about forty-four women.

Answer 3

My Girl Wants to Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy

Answer 4

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

Answer 5

For me

Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire 1965.

Try here http://www.onehitwondercenter.com/60s3.htm

SD

Answer 6

The night Chicago died, by Paper Lace

Answer 7

In the Year 2525 by Zagar & Evans

Answer 8

The Church.......song is "Under the Milky Way"

Answer 9

"The Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor

Answer 10

"In the Meantime" by Spacehog