Updated 11-5-01

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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 Seventies
Name the Artist if you can

The following songs all made it to number one on Billboard's Top Forty: 

Wild Cherry, and yes they were named after the cough drop Play That Funky Music  Shocking Blue Venus 
Vicki Lawrence The Night the Lights Went Out in Geogia Billy Swan I Can Help
John (Lovin' Spoonful) Sebastian Welcome Back  Nick Gilder Hot Child in the City 
Paper Lace The Night Chicago Died  Alan O' Day Undercover Angel 
Ian Lloyd and the Stories Brother Louie M Pop Music 
 

I apologize in advance for the horrific memories the might be conjured up by the following entries, but they did make it all the way to number one, so I'll include them:

Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun Starland Vocal Band Afternoon Delight
Rick Dees Disco Duck Debbie Boone You Light up My Life
Minnie Riperton Loving You Carl Douglas Kung Fu Fighting
David "Hutch" Soul Don't Give Up On Us Baby Bill Conti Gonna Fly Now (Theme to "Rocky")

 

Other one hit wonders of the seventies:

The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star Amazing Rhythm Aces Third Rate Romance 
Mungo Jerry In The Summertime The Main Ingredient Everybody Plays The Fool
Stampeders Sweet City Woman  Five Man Electric Band Signs 
Argent Hold Your Head Up Daniel Boone Beautiful Sunday 
Roxy Music Love is the Drug David Essex Rock On 
Blues Image Ride Captain Ride  The Ides of March Vehicle 
Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky  King Harvest Dancing In The Moonlight 
Rick Derringer Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo C.W. McCall Convoy 
Split Enz I Got You Bobby Russell Saturday Morning Confusion
Jaggerz The Rapper Brewer and Shipley One Toke Over the Line
Malo Suavecito T. Rex Bang a Gong
Climax Precious and Few Alive and Kicking Tighter, Tighter
Arlo Gutherie City of New Orleans Norman "Hurricane" Smith Oh Babe, What Would You Say
Sniff 'n' the Tears Driver's Seat Nick Lowe Cruel to be Kind
Pilot Magic Dr. John Right Place, Wrong Time
Free All Right Now Ace How Long
Phoebe Snow Poetry Man Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen Hot Rod Lincoln
Timmy Thomas Why Can't We Live Together? Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side
Ram Jam Black Betty Sammy Johns Chevy Van
Dave (don't call him "Kenny") Loggins Please Come to Boston Elvin Bishop Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Walter Egan (with Stevie Nicks) Magnet and Steel Thin Lizzy The Boys are Back in Town
Jigsaw Skyhigh Brownsville Station Smokin' in the Boy's Room
Hues Corporation Rock the Boat Jonathan Edwards Sunshine
J.D. Souther You're Only Lonely Nazareth Love Hurts
Danny O'Keefe Good Time Charley's Got the Blues Skylark Wildflower
David Dundas Jeans On Bobby Caldwell What You Won't Do For Love
Lee Michaels Do You Know What I Mean Randy Newman Short People
Suzi "Leather Tuscadero" Quatro Stumblin' In

 

 

Let's Head for the Disco.....

 

Alicia Bridges I Love the Nightlife Amii Stewart Knock on Wood
Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes Get Dancin' Samantha Sang Emotion
Anita Ward Ring My Bell Andrea True Connection More, More, More

 

Lead singer: Tony Burrows

The greatest one hit wonder trivia question of all time:  What do the one-hit wonder groups First Class (Beach Baby '74), White Plains (My Baby Loves Lovin' '70), Edison Lighthouse (Love Goes Where My Rose Marie goes '70), Brotherhood of Man (United We Stand '70) and The Pipkin's (Gimme Dat Ding '70) all have in common?

George and Gwen McCrae What married couple was each a one-hit wonder individually?
(His hit: Rock Your Baby,  Her hit: Rockin' Chair)

 


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