One day I sat down to count how many one hit wonder songs I could think of off the top of my head…and inside of an hour, I had a way bigger list than this one! Lucky for you, I can’t play them all, for any number of reasons, starting with the fact that a lot of them are just plain awful!  But it was still fun to compile--and so I give to you today a list of some of the better ones. These are all guaranteed to get stuck in your head like a good earworm should. They may also, I should add, compel you to threaten the next person you see with some sort of physical assault. Speaking from personal experience, I have especially longed to do such a thing to someone (anyone!) every time I hear the pop song “Playground In My Mind” which was a one-hit wonder from the Olden Days of the 1960s, so long ago I can't even remember the artist. But it still haunts me. It was traumatizing! It hurt!  Some one-hitters are that way, so don't say I didn't warn yas....

ARTISTS:

Wall of Voodoo; Falco; Frankie Goes to Hollywood; Mazzy Star; The Knack; the Hudson Brothers; Right Said Fred; Taco; Chumbawumba; the Lunachicks; Transvision Vamp; Men Without Hats; Eddy Grant; Freedie Johnston; Rickie Lee Jones; Gary Wright; Alannah Myles; Soft Cell