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there was a conversation elsewhere online about one hit wonders and I thought I'd share a long list of ones I like a lot. This is in chronological order:

Earth Angel by the Penguins
Chantilly Lace by the Big Bopper
Sea Cruise by Frankie Ford
I Ran All The Way Home by the Impalas
Do You Love Me by the Contours
The Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett
Pipeline by the Chantays
Wipeout by the Surfaris
most of the songs on the four Nuggets albums
96 Tears by ? and the Mysterions
For What It's Worth (Stop Children) by Buffalo Springfield
Green Tambourine by the Lemon Pipers
Inagaddadavida by Iron Butterfly
Classical Gas by Mason Williams
Mississippi Queen by Mountain
ooh Child by the Five Stairsteps
All Right Now by Free
One Toke Over the Line by Brewer & Shipley
City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie
Walk On the Wild Side by Lou Reed (he did about a zillion great songs but Top 40 wasn't really what Lou was about)
Play That Funky Music (White Boy) by Wild Cherry
Knock On Wood by Amii Stewart
I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats
Whip It by Devo
Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby
Electric Ave by Eddy Grant
Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo
One Night in Bangkok by Murray Head
You Spin Me Right Round by Dead or Alive
Black Velvet by Allanah Myles
Groove Is in the Heart by Deee-lite
Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane (figures heavily in a fanfic I wrote)
Jump Around by House of Pain
Cantaloop Flip Fantasia by Us3
I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles by the Proclaimers
What's Up by 4 Non Blondes
I Know by Dionne Farris (also used in one of my fanfics)
Bitch by Meredith Brooks
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba
Mambo # 5 by Lou Bega