Updated 11-5-01

Instrumental One Hit Wonders
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A Note About This Listing:
These are all artists that have had exactly one hit on Billboard's US Top Forty 

 

One Hit Wonders of the Sixties
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The following songs all made it to number one on Billboard's Top Forty: 

Jeannie C. Riley Harper Valley PTA Steam Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
John Fred and his Playboy Band Judy in Disguise (with Glasses) New Vaudeville Band Winchester Cathedral
The Singing Nun Dominique  Kyu Sakamoto Sukiyaki
Lemon Pipers Green Tambourine Barry McGuire Eve of Destruction

 

Other one hit wonders of the sixties:

Question Mark (?) and the Mysterians 96 Tears Angels My Boyfriend's Back
The Tokens The Lion Sleeps Tonight The Contours Do You Love Me? 
Stone Poneys (featuring Linda Ronstat) Different Drum Spiral Staircase More Today Than Yesterday
Bobby Fuller Four I Fought the Law Zager & Evans In the Year 2525
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown Fire Richard Harris McArthur Park
Buffalo Springfield For What It's Worth The Capitols Cool Jerk
The Standells Dirty Water Rivieras California Sun
Knickerbockers Lies Lou Christie Lightnin' Strikes
Blue Cheer (the first "Heavy Metal" band) Summertime Blues Los Bravos Black is Black
Youngbloods Get Together The Kingsmen Louie Louie
Vanilla Fudge You Keep Me Hangin' On Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense and Peppermints
 The Swingin' Medallions Double Shot of My Baby's Love The Electric Prunes I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
Iron Butterfly (translation: In the Garden of Life) In-a-Gadda-da-Vida Status Quo Pictures of Matchstick Men
Cascades Rhythm of the (Falling) Rain Gentrys Keep on Dancin'
Honeycombs Have I the Right? Castaways Liar, Liar
Jewel Akens The Birds and the Bees Hondells Little Honda
Spiral Staircase More Today than Yesterday Count Five Psychotic Reaction
Robert Parker Barefootin' Napoleon XIV They're Coming to Take Me Away
The Music Explosion Little Bit O' Soul Human Beinz Nobody But Me
The Four Seasons "Don't Think Twice", a number 12 hit by the Wonder Who, was really another group.  They didn't want to hurt the sales of another song of theirs that was currently a hit at the same time.  Who was it?
All Along the Watchtower Hard to believe:  Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix had only one top forty hit.  What was it?

 


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