S&D: One Hit Wonders, 1997-present

White Town 'Your Woman'
Olive 'You're Not Alone' (esp. the Osbourne & oakenfold mix if you're in an epic mood)
Bally Sagoo 'Tum Bin Jiy A' (if only for the tearin' Grooverider mix)
Blue Boy 'Remember Me'
The Braxtons 'The Boss'
Energy 52 'Cafe Del Mar'
Eta 'Casual Sub'
Gala 'Freed From Desire'
Heartists 'Bela Horizonti' (unless you've already got Airto's 'Celebration Suite')
Life's Addiction 'Jesus Comin For The Kill'
Nu-Birth 'Anytime'
Rosie Gaines 'Closer Than Close'
Roy Davis Jr 'Gabriel'
Sex-O-Sonique 'I Thought It Was You'
Slacker 'Scared'
Submerge 'Take Me By The Hand'
Tina Moore 'Never Gonna Let You Go'
Wildchild 'Renegade Master'

and thats just 97! 98 escapes me at the mo...from 99 there's

Bran Van 3000 'Drinking In LA'
Brother Brown ft Franke 'Under The Water'
Cuba 'Black Island'
E-Z Rollers 'Walk This Land'
Jordan Knight 'Give It To You' (he used to be in some boy band...;)
Michael Moog 'That Sound'
Paul Johnson 'Get Get Down'
Pete Heller's Big Love 'Big Love'
Raphael Saddiq 'Get Involved' (he's now in Lucy Pearl)
Rob D 'Clubbed To Death' (back when it actually sounded cool)
Scanty Sandwich 'Because Of You'
Scott Grooves 'Mothership Reconnection'
Shanks & Bigfoot 'Sweet Like Chocolate'
Doolally 'Straight From The Heart'
Triple X 'Feel The Same'
Daddy's Favourite 'I Feel Good Things For You'

2000

B15 Project 'Girls Like This'
Christian Falk ft Demetrius 'Make It Right'
Dead Pres 'Hip Hop'
Detroit Grand Pubas 'Sandwiches'
Flickman 'House Of Bamboo'
Made In London 'Dirty Water'
Mary Mary 'Shackles'
Morgan 'Miss Parker'
Richie Dan 'Call It Fate'
Ruff Endz 'No More'
Sia 'Taken For Granted'

and a few from last year...

Grand Theft Audio 'We Love Us'
I Monster 'Daydream In Blue'
Junior Jack 'Thrill Me'
Marcus Nikolai 'Bushes'
The Ones 'Flawless'
Spooks 'Things I've Seen'
Sunshine Anderson 'Heard It All Before'

that song ripped!

1997 owns this thread

'Tubthumping' was from 96 also

obey ze vules ja?

that wasn't even her biggest hit. don't you remember the godawful "feels so good"?

Pete Heller's Big Love 'Big Love'

heller's had a few hits under different aliases eg. xpress-2. the general dance producer's fetish for different nom-de-plumes surely makes them a moot choice for one-hit-wondery.

Oh, and BV3000 (Drinking in LA and Astounded), Olive (You're Not Alone and Outlaw, at least), Bally Sagoo (that one you mentioned and Dil Cheez) and Spooks are not one-hit wonders (how could you forget Karma Hotel? I'd like to know, cos that song is still pissing me off...)

Aqua had more than one hit in the UK & Europe of course (Dr Jones, Turn Back Time, Cartoon heroes etc.)

Sex-O-Sonique - this was the only track i noticed by them that got anywhere in the UK...dont recall 'Feels So Good' at all

Pete Heller has produced many dance tracks over the years including 'Ultra Flava' but as far as i was aware he is not part of X-Press II - thats Ashley Beedle with Rocky & Diesel (so there's 3 of them)...in spite of all this i mentioned several dance tracks by psuedonym loving producers because they're well worth remembering

Bran Van have only had one hit in the UK

i seem to remember 'Tubthumping' being big during Euro 96 AND at the Olympics in Atlanta as unofficial theme - making it 1996 but whatever

and the awful 'Karma Hotel' makes Spooks two-hit wonders then...

sex-o-sonique was a thinly disguised sonique, she's a 6-foot tall bald dj who's 'feel so good' stayed at number one for about half-a-year. you DO know it.

but you're right about Pete Heller re Fire Island...i just used my list as a good excuse to throw in a few good one-off classic dance tracks...Stardust's 'Music Sounds Better With You' could be classed as a one hit wonder because no other singles were released or htis had under that name but of course Stardust's members have had their own hits before and since....same logic

My nominee: Eiffel 65

Wisdome - Off The Wall (these Italians are also behind Plaything, so technically not really one hit wonders).
Wes - Alane
Serious Danger - Deeper
Freestylers - Ruffneck
Meja - All About The Money
Monifah - Touch It
Wamdue Project - King Of My Castle
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat
Ann Lee - 2 Times
Miranda - Vamos A La Playa
Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
Rollergirl - Dear Jessie
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400
Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers

and yes, '97 was a TOP year for good dance music. basically anything on the now terribly errant Hooj Choons label was sure for a hit back in those days.

oh, and Olive did actually have a pretty big hit with a cover of 10CC's I'm Not In Love just last year.

cheers,
rents

DESTROY: "Moment of Weakness" by Bif Naked, "Freshmen" by the Verve Pipe, "Sex & Candy" by Marcy Playground, "Save Tonight" by Eagle-Eye Cherry, "Lullaby" by Shawn Mullins, "I Need to Know" by Marc Anthony,

Siegbran, the Freestylers biggest hit was 'B Boy Stance' - at least in the UK

Mr Oizo and Wamdue Project had at least one other hit with 'Analogue Worms Attack' and 'You're The Reason' respectively - tho they didnt do as well of course so fair enough

and rentboy - yeh i believe the Heartists track was Jaxx produced

cheers,
maksidrom

Anyway... unless we are talking about top 40 then a few more aren't strictly speaking one-hit wonders

Blue Boy 'Remember Me' - they had a minor hit with Sandman as well.
Slacker 'Scared' - Your Face and Psychout Thing were minor hits as well.
Wildchild 'Renegade Master' - minor hit with Bad Boy.
Brother Brown ft Franke 'Under The Water' - minor hit with Star Catching Girl.
Rob D 'Clubbed To Death' - had a minor hit with Furious Angels, not to mention his singles with Rollo.
Sia 'Taken For Granted' - erm... Drink To Get Drunk was a much bigger hit than Taken For Granted, methinks...

cheerio :-)
maksidrom

Blue Boy's 'Sandman' ROOLS! at least one mix of it does...Slacker's 'Your Face' sampled Joanna Law and sounded very Way Out West i recall

however i must point out it was 'boom boom boom boom' by the Vengaboys, you're thinking of 'boom boom boom' by the Outhere Brothers...boy must your face be red...again! ;)

michael, bring it on girlfriend, bring it on

Also Scanty Sandwich DJs a bit and has a track with Jon Carter on Viva Bugged Out called "Need I Say More", it's a pretty fucking cool track too. But don't worry I didn't mean to pick holes in your list this much!

Ronan did you ever hear this track Fatboy was caning a year or so ago which i think was by or at least remixed by Scanty Sandwich - it sampled Blondie's 'Rapture' and i think it was called 'Rock Chic' - complete and utter chown!

On a side note, one of the Sporty Thievz is dead. He got hit by a van whilst walking out of a kebab shop.

where d'you get that? mikereid.com?

"Oh aye, I remember Sweet Female Attitude. Female, they were. And, did they have funny hair..."

thats the one, but its not appalling, its bloody brilliant...at least a DJ like Norman Cook can make it sound bloody brilliant...what could possibly be wrong with it tho?

ARGH, the memories. Chesney Hawkes was more palatable (but only by microns).

YES!!! that was awesome - did u see the video? he was so sexy

and dont forget the sneaker pimps!! even though i really love that album and its one of my non-guilty favs i cant deny that they were just a one-off with "six underground"

V

ps - remember republica?

ARGH again. Though when I recently reheard "Ready to Go" it didn't sting as much.

after 4 years of jessica simpson/bbmak etc. on the radio, what did u expect?

If you bring a boom box with stuff like that and the fucking No Doubt album, you will RUIN A PERFECTLY GOOD MEAL. So don't. Thank you. :-)