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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 Eighties
Name the Artist (if you can)

Gregory Abbott  

Shake You Down

Bobby McFerrin  

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Philip Bailey (with Phil Collins)  

Easy Lover

Big Country  

In a Big Country

Soft Cell  

Tainted Love

Gary Numan  

Cars

Timbuk 3  

Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades

Geogia Satellites  

Keep Your Hands To Yourself

Wall of Voodoo  

Mexican Radio

The Vapors  

Turning Japanese

Baltimora
Tarzan Boy
(as heard on the Listerine commercial)
 

Love Plus One

Kingdom Come  

Get It On

Paul Hardcastle  

19

Dream Academy  

Life in a Northern Town

Bonham  

Wait For You

Modern English  

I Melt With You

Madness  

Our House

 

Lunatic Fringe

Living in a Box !!  

Living in a Box

Peter Schilling  

Major Tom

Patrick Swayze  

She's Like the Wind

Sugar Hill Gang  

Rapper's Delight

Buster Pointdexter (David Johansen)  

Hot, Hot, Hot

T'Pau  

Heart and Soul

Timex Social Club  

Rumors

Sly Fox  

Let's Go All the Way

Til Tuesday  

Voices Carry

After The Fire (Falco also accepted)  

Der Kommissar (English Version)

Katrina And The Waves  

Walking On Sunshine

Split Enz  

I Got You

Taco  

Puttin' on the Ritz

The Boomtown Rats  

I Don't Like Mondays

Kim Carnes  

Betty Davis Eyes

Donny Iris  

Ah Leah!

Toni Basil  

Mickey

Eddie Grant  

Electric Avenue

Spandu Ballet  

True

Michael Penn (Sean Penn's brother) No Myth Dexy's Midnight Runners  

Come On Eileen

Nena  

99 Luftballons

Tommy Tutone  

867-5309 (Jenny)

Thomas Dolby  

She Blinded Me With Science

Edie Brikel and the New Bohemians (not sure about the spelling)  

What I am

Devo  

Whip It

Aldo Nova  

Fantasy

Kajagoogoo  

Too Shy

Boys Don't Cry  

I Want to be a Cowboy

Suzanne Vega  

Luka

M/A/R/R/S  

Pump up the Volume

Midnight Oil  

Beds are Burning

Touch of Grey    Hard to Believe:  The legendary hippie band The Grateful Dead had only one top forty hit, and it was in the Eighties.  What was it?
Lipps, Inc (#1, '80) and Pseudo Echo (#6, '87)     Too Weird:  Two one hit wonder groups had their hit with the same song, "Funky Town".  Who are they?
Stay the Night and Emotion in Motion
Former Cars front men Benjamin Orr and Ric Ocasek each had a solo hit.  What were they?
RTZ (Return to Zero)
What one-hit band, whose personnel included two former Boston bandmates, had a minor hit with "Until Your Love Comes Back Around"

 

Is this the Seventies All Over Again?

Doctor & the Medics  

Spirit in the Sky

Club Nouveau  

Lean on Me

Michael Damian  

Rock On

Big Mountain  

Baby, I Love Your Way

 

 

Bonus: Nineties One Hit Wonders

I didn't have enough for a separate page so here you are...

Allanah Myles  

Black Velvet

Los Del Rio AND the Bayside Boys  

Macarena

Blind Melon  

No Rain

Sir Mix-a-Lot  

Baby's Got Back

Right Said Fred  

I'm Too Sexy

Tom Cochrane  

Life is a Highway

Sinead O'Connor  

Nothing Compares 2 U

Faith No More  

Epic

House of Pain  

Jump Around

Billy Ray Cyrus  

Achy Breaky Heart

The Proclaimers  

I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles

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