Liste ≡ 160 One Hit Wonder

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Liste ≡ 160 Beste One Hit Wonder seit 1955

One Hit Wonder geraten leider oft in Vergessenheit. Zur Erinnerung gibt’s diese Liste.

Um die vielen One Hit Wonder der Musikgeschichte in Erinnerung zu behalten, haben wir diese Liste erstellt. Sie finden darin die besten und erfolgreichsten 160 One Hit Wonder Songs aller Zeiten von 1955 bis 2014.

Eines dürfen wir dabei aber nicht vergessen: Für viele Musiker, Bands, Sänger oder Sängerinnen ist ihr One Hit Wonder ein trauriger Erfolg, da sie ihn niemals wiederholen konnten. Dennoch haben sie sich mit nur einem einzigen großen Hit unsterblich gemacht. Einige davon haben womöglich sogar die Welt ein wenig verändert. Denken wir beispielsweise an Scott McKenzies „San Francisco“, der heute noch („be sure, to wear some flowers in your hair“) für das Gefühl der 68er-Flower-Power-Generation steht.

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Jahr	Größte One Hit Wonder	Von	Genre
1955	Blue Suede Shoes	Carl Perkins	Rock ’n‘ Roll
1959	Take Five	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Jazz
1960	Money (That’s What I Want)	Barrett Strong	Rock ’n‘ Roll
1961	Stand by Me	Ben E. King	Blues, R&B, Soundtrack
1962	Green Onions	Booker T. & the M. G.’s	Soul, R&B
1962	Hey Baby	Bruce Channel	Rock ’n‘ Roll

1962	The Loco-Motion	Little Eva	Soul
1963	Wipe Out	The Surfaris	Rock ’n‘ Roll
1963	Be My Baby	The Ronettes	Pop
1963	Louie, Louie	The Kingsmen	Rock
1963	Denise	Randy & The Rainbows	Pop
1966	Snoopy vs. The Red Baron	Royal Guardsmen	Pop
1967	San Francisco	Scott McKenzie	Pop
1967	For What It’s Worth	Buffalo Springfield
1967	Pata Pata	Miriam Makeba	Reggae, Weltmusik
1967	Nights in White Satin	The Moody Blues	Blues

1968	Honey	Bobby Goldsboro	Pop
1968	Fire	The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown	Psychedelic Rock
1969	Spirit in the Sky	Norman Greenbaum	Pop
1969	Sugar, Sugar	The Archies	Pop
1969	Venus	Shocking Blue	Rock
1969	Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye	Steam	Pop
1969	In The Year 2525	Zager and Evans	Rock, Pop

1969	Streets of London	Ralph Mc Tell	Songwriter
1970	Mississippi Queen	Mountain	Rock
1970	I Hear You Knocking	Dave Edmunds	Rock
1970	Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)	Edison Lighthouse	Pop
1970	In The Summertime	Mungo Jerry	Blues
1970	All Right Now	Free	Rock
1970	War	Edwin Starr	Disco, Funk
1971	Mr. Big Stuff	Jean Knight	Soul, R&B
1971	Theme from „Shaft“	Isaac Hayes	Soul
1971	Hiroshima	Wishful Thinking	Rock
1972	Me and Mrs. Jones	Billy Paul	Soul
1972	Sylvia’s Mother	Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show	Pop
1972	Popcorn	Hot Butter	Pop
1973	Brother Louie	Stories	Pop
1973	Dobie Gray	Drift Away	Pop, Rock
1974	Hooked On A Feeling	Blue Swede	Pop
1974	Seasons In The Sun	Terry Jacks	Pop
1974	Kung Fu Fighting	Carl Douglas	Pop
1974	Cat’s In The Cradle	Harry Chapin	Pop
1975	The Hustle	Van McCoy	Disco
1975	Tornerò	I Santo California	Pop
1976	Play That Funky Music	Wild Cherry	Funk, Soul
1976	Jeans On	David Dundas	Pop, Rock
1976	A Fifth Of Beethoven	Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band	Pop
1977	Black Betty	Ram Jam	Rock
1977	Baby Come Back	Players	Disco, Soul
1977	You Light Up My Life	Debby Boone	Pop, Blues
1977	If I Can’t Have You	Yvonne Elliman	Disco
1977	Lovemachine	Supermax (alias Kurt Hauenstein)	Electro-Funk
1978	Kiss You All Over	Exile	Pop
1978	Got To Be Real	Cheryl Lynn	Soul, Funk
1978	Dancing In The City	Marshall Hain	Pop
1978	Baker Street	Gerry Rafferty	Pop
1978	Werewolves of London	Warren Zevon	Rock, Pop
1979	Born To Be Alive	Patrick Hernandez	Disco
1979	Knock On Wood	Amii Stewart	Rock
1979	Video Killed The Radio Star	The Buggles	Disco
1979	My Sharona	The Knack	Rock
1979	Ring My Bell	Anita Ward	Disco
1979	Pop Muzik	M alias Robin Scott	Disco, Pop
1979	Money (That’s What I Want)	The Flying Lizards	Punk
1979	Cars	Gary Numan	Elektro, Wave
1979	I Don’t Like Mondays	The Boomtown Rats	Rock
1979	Rapper’s Delight	The Sugarhill Gang	R&B, Rap
1979	Escape (The Piña Colada Song)	Rupert Holmes	Pop
1980	Funkytown	Lipps, Inc.	Disco, Funk
1981	Tainted Love	Soft Cell	Elektro, Wave
1981	Bette Davis Eyes	Kim Carnes	Pop
1981	Shaddap You Face	Joe Dolce	Pop
1982	Mickey	Toni Basil	Pop
1982	It’s Raining Men	The Weather Girls	Soul, Disco
1982	Words	F. R. David	Pop
1982	Pass the Dutchie	Musical Youth	Pop, Reggae
1982	Come On Eileen	Dexys Midnight Runners	Rock
1982	I Love Rock ’n Roll	Joan Jett & The Blackhearts	Rock
1982	Puttin‘ On The Ritz	Taco (Ockerse)	Pop
1983	Living on Video	Trans-X (alias Pascal Languirand)	Synthie Pop
1983	Only You	The Flying Pickets	Pop
1983	The Safety Dance	Men Without Hats	Rock, Pop
1983	Maniac	Michael Sembello	Soundtrack (aus Flashdance)
1983	Last Night a DJ Saved My Life	Indeep	Disco, Soul
1983	Passion	The Flirts	Synthie Pop
1983	Too Shy	Kajagoogoo	Pop
1984	High Energy	Evelyn Thomas	Disco
1984	You Spin Me Round	Dead or Alive	Wave
1984	One Night in Bangkok	Murray Head	Pop
1984	Somebody’s Watching Me	Rockwell	Disco
1985	19	Paul Hardcastle	Pop
1985	Oh Sheila	Ready for the World	Disco, Funk
1985	Party All The Time	Eddie Murphy	Disco, Funk
1986	Take My Breath Away	Berlin	Pop
1986	The Final Countdown	Europe	Rock
1986	C’est la Vie	Robbie Nevil	Pop
1986	(I Just) Died in Your Arms	Cutting Crew	Pop
1986	The Rain	Oran „Juice“ Jones	Funk
1987	Reality	Richard Sanderson	Pop
1987	Voyage, Voyage	Desireless	Pop
1987	(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life	Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes	Soundtrack (aus Dirty Dancing)
1987	You’re The Voice	John Farnham	Rock
1987	Pump Up The Volume	M/A/R/R/S	Elektro-Pop
1988	Don’t Worry, Be Happy!	Bobby McFerrin	Pop
1988	Im Nin’alu	Ofra Haza	Pop
1988	Teardrops	Womack & Womack	Pop
1989	Black Velvet	Alannah Myles	Rock
1989	Lambada	Kaoma	Pop
1990	I Touch Myself	Divinyls	Pop
1990	Nothing Compares 2 U	Sinéad O’Connor	Pop
1990	Unbelievable	EMF	Rock
1991	Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee La Da Da)	Crystal Waters	Disco, R&B
1991	You	Ten Sharp	Pop
1991	The One And Only	Chesney Hawkes	Pop
1991	Summer Dreamin’ (Bacardi Feeling)	Kate Yanai	Reggae
1992	To Be With You	Mr. Big	Pop
1992	Jump	Kris Kross	R&B
1992	Baby Got Back	Sir Mix-a-lot	R&B, Hip-Hop
1992	Would I Lie to You?	Charles & Eddie	Pop
1993	What’s Up?	4 Non Blondes	Rock, Pop
1993	Whoomp! (There It Is)	Tag Team	R&B
1993	Runaway Train	Soul Asylum	Rock
1993	Two Princes	Spin Doctors	Rock
1993	I Like to Move It	Reel 2 Real	R&B
1993	Informer	Snow	Pop
1994	Black Hole Sun	Soundgarden	Rock
1994	Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm	Crash Test Dummies	Rock
1994	Here Comes the Hotstepper	Ini Kamoze	Reggae, Funk
1994	Baby, I Love Your Way	Big Mountain	R&B
1994	Missing	Everything but the Girl	Pop
1994	Saturday Night	Whigfield	Pop
1994	Eins, Zwei, Polizei	Mo-Do	Techno
1995	A Girl Like You	Edwyn Collins	Pop
1995	I Got 5 On It	Luniz	R&B
1995	How Bizarre	OMC	Pop
1995	Lemon Tree	Fools Garden	Pop
1995	One of Us	Joan Osborne	Pop
1996	Return of the Mack	Mark Morrison	R&B
1996	I Love You Always Forever	Donna Lewis	Pop
1996	Breakfast at Tiffany’s	Deep Blue Something	Rock
1996	Macarena	Los del Rio	Pop, Reggae
1997	Bitch	Meredith Brooks	Rock
1997	Torn	Natalie Imbruglia	Rock, Pop
1997	Save Tonight	Eagle-Eye Cherry	Rock, Pop
1997	Your Woman	White Town	Pop
1998	Crush	Jennifer Paige	Pop
1998	Doo Wop (That Thing)	Lauryn Hill	Disco, R&B
1999	Mambo No. 5	Lou Bega	Pop, Reggae
1999	What It’s Like	Everlast	Rock, Pop
2000	Butterfly	Crazy Town	Pop
2000	Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)	Spiller	Pop, Disco
2000	Who Let the Dogs Out	Baha Men	Pop, R&B
2001	Because I Got High	Afroman	R&B, Reggae
2002	A Thousand Miles	Vanessa Carlton	Pop
2002	The Ketchup Song	Las Ketchup	Pop
2005	Bad Day	Daniel Powter	Pop
2005	California	Phantom Planet	Rock, Pop
2006	Crazy	Gnarls Barkley	Pop
2009	Stereo Love	Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina	Pop
2010	We No Speak Americano	Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP	Disco
2011	Somebody That I Used to Know	Gotye	Pop
2013	Say Something	A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera	Pop
2013	Let Her Go	Passenger	Pop
2014	Prayer in C	Lilly Wood & The Prick	Pop