Really, all she’s remembered for is the ‘ hey Mickey you so fine’ chant, though she did exceedingly well in US dance charts until the time she decided to stop recording things. Her 1982 cheerleader sing-a-long put her on the map, hitting #1 in the US and leading more than a few listeners to assume her name really was Mickey. You might not actually have recognized her by name alone, so I decided to be nice and help out. It reached #10 in England, whereas I Ran only made it to #43, and it equaled I Ran in the US with a #3 position. Oddly enough, not only did the Seagulls have several other hits, one of them, Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) performed far better than I Ran despite being largely forgotten about by this point. Perhaps the song’s video, where the lead singer shows off his mad finger-on-piano-key-other-finger-on-other-key skills, had a little something to do with it The song reached #3 in the US, #1 in Australia, and forever pigeonholed the band as having one song and that’s it. This 80’s synth-pop band with a hairstyle made famous in all the wrong ways by There’s Something About Mary got on the map with 1982’s I Ran (So Far Away). If there’s any 80’s group that would be the definition of “one-hit-wonder”, it would be these guys. Perhaps we’re not such a stupid species after all. France even took the imaginatively-titled Mambo Mambo all the way to #11 back in 2000, though nothing since 2001 has even come close to being considered a hit. Seriously, listen to this song and tell me you didn’t sing A LITTLE BIT OF _ in its place.īega appeared to be the very definition of a one-hit novelty wonder, and yet he has at least three follow-ups that did well. He then took his one note and rode it for all it was worth, even recording a song on the same album with the SAME CHORUS. He hit it huge in 1999 with Mambo #5, a poorly-sung ode to all his fictional girlfriends, sung over a very extensive sample of a 1949 instrumental mambo of the same name. Being naked save for a body-stocking in her video probably didn’t hurt either rumor has it Italians like hot women too. Her 2009 single Want, seemingly heard by Natalie and her mom and that’s about it, managed to make it to #6 in Chef Boyardee’s homeland. Italy, however, has it big for her not every one of her singles charts, but when they do, they chart big. She remained quite popular in her native Aussie though, with three additional top-20 hits, though even they have grown sick of her over the past few years.
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However, the song’s overplayed nature, combined with the fact that it was a cover, plus Britney Spears showing up at roughly the same time and being far more blatantly sexual, seemingly sent Natalie back to the Outback permanently. Speaking of pretty Australian girls with pouty lips, Natalie Imbruglia hit the ground running with Torn, a 1997 mega-hit that still gets played incessantly today. And then over in America, the band had a hit before I Touch Myself 1985’s Pleasure and Pain reached #12. From 1981 to 1996, nineteen of their singles charted, with six placing on the top 20. Unless you lived in Australia, because they were all over the place there.
And then, with the public having grown tired of pretty Australian girls with pouty lips singing about touching themselves, the Divinyls disappeared. So it is with the Divinyls, who’s 1990 hit I Touch Myself was a huge success, reaching #2 on US charts and number 1 in Australia. Whenever you write a song about masturbation, featuring a hot girl on vocals, you are almost guaranteed a hit. It was, however the one most likely to stick in your brain twenty years later, and thus it gets the glory. In a couple cases, the song they’re most famous for was NOT even their most popular song. Most of the groups people deemed one-hit wonders actually hit the charts several times over. They were interesting for three minutes and that was it.Įxcept that’s almost never the case. That one song is usually a hook-laden earworm that won’t leave your head for the next week after hearing it, and thus most one-hit wonders are relegated to “novelty” status. Judging by the many, many, many VH1 specials chronicling one-hit wonders, it’s obvious people love the idea of a musician striking gold once and then fading away into utter obscurity.
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