Two-Hit Wonders

[620 Soul Train]

Here's a fun little topic! MTV presented this a few years ago. Now I'm going to start this. The same criteria as a one hit wonder would have as mentioned in other topics, really. Two is better than one!


A-ha "Take On Me & The Sun Always Shines On TV

Lita Ford - "Kiss Me Deadly" & "Close My Eyes Forever (w Ozzy Osborne"

Extreme "More Than Words" & "Hole Hearted"

Young MC "Bust A Move" & "Principal's Office"

Terrence Trent D'arby "Wishing Well & "Sign Your Name"
"Dance Little Sister" kinda flopped in the US just barely making the top 30 compared to the two big hits mentioned.

10cc "I'm Not In Love" & "The Things We Do For Love"

Horace Brown - "One For The Money" & "Taste Your Love"

Jeremy Jordan - "The Right Kind Of Love" & "Wannagirl"

The Good Girls - "Your Sweetness" & "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart"

Joey Lawrence - "Nothing My Love Can't Fix" & "Stay Forever"

Will To Power - "Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley" & "I'm Not In Love" Both happen to be remakes!!!

Clay Aiken - "This Is The Night" & "Invisible"

[somelikeitwhen]

Speaking of Clay...

Ruben Studdard- "Sorry 2004" and "What If" (Interchangable with "Flying Without Wings")

[mst3k]

Vanilla Ice - "Ice, Ice Baby" & "Play That Funky Music"

[tico]

Tara Kemp, "Hold You Tight" and "Piece Of My Heart"
KLF, "3am Eternal" and "Justified And Ancient"
Black Box, "Everybody EVerybody" and "Strike It Up"
Kevin Page, "Don't Shut Me Out" and "Anything I Want"
Los Lobos, "La Bamba" and "Let's Go"
Michael Morales, "Who Do You Give Your Love To" and "What I Like About You"
Romantics, "What I Like About You" and "Secrets That You Keep" (though WILAY is debatable because it never hit the top 40 on Billboard, but it's such a recognizable song)
Chumbawumba, "Tubthumping" and "Amnesia"
Stacy Earl, "Love Me All Up" and "Romeo & Juliet
No Mercy, "Where Do You Go" and "Please Don't Go"
Joe Public, "Live and Learn" and "I Miss You"
Men Without Hats, "Safety Dance" and "Pop Goes the World"
Don Johnson, "Heartbeat" and "Till I Loved You"
Michael W. Smith, "Place In This World" and "I Will Be Here For You" (of course, many more hits on contemporary Christian)
Tommy Page, "I'll Be Your Everything" and "When I Dreeam Of You"
Linear, "Sending All My Love" and "TLC"
Johnny Hates Jazz, "Shattered Dreams" and "I Don't Wanna Be a Hero"
Meja, "All 'Bout The Money" and "Private Emotion"

[top40dj]

joshjoel said:

Jeremy Jordan - "The Right Kind Of Love" & "Wannagirl"

I sill get chills thinking of that boy's body! Thank goodness he was of age when he was singing. I wonder what he looks like now.

[Chato]

Switchfoot , Meant To Live and Dare You To Move , those were their only major CHR smash hits to date.

[somelikeitwhen]

Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy" & "Good Things"

[reception]

Kevin Paige - "Don't Shut Me Out" and "Anything I Want."

[tico]

gliben said:

Switchfoot , Meant To Live and Dare You To Move , those were their only major CHR smash hits to date.

How did "Stars" do on the charts?

[tico]

reception said:

Kevin Paige - "Don't Shut Me Out" and "Anything I Want."

I already mentioned him. More that I can think of:

Natural Selection, "Do Anything" and "Hearts Don't Think, They Feel"
Jesus Jones, "Right Here, Right Now" and "Real, Real, Real"
Boy Krazy, "That's What Love Can Do" and "Good Times With Bad Boys" (depending on GTWBB's chart peak, they may actually be a one-hit wonder)
Lisa Fischer, "How Can I Ease the Pain" and "Color Of Love" (did this go top 40?)
Sixpence None the Richer, "Kiss Me" and "There She Goes"
Animotion, "Obsession" and "Room To Move"
Arcadia, "Election Day" and "Goodbye Is Forever"
Power Station, "Some Like It Hot" and "Bang A Gong"


In the cases of Arcadia and Power Station, both are offspring of Duran Duran, but as individual bands, they both have had two hits.

BTW, Fine Young Cannibals had another top 40 hit, "Don't Look Back".

Now that I think about, Lita Ford may be a three-hit wonder. She did have another hit, "One Shot Of Poison". I seem to remember that it hit top 40.

[Wardly]

tico said:

Black Box, "Everybody EVerybody" and "Strike It Up"

They had more hits, including "I Don't Know Anybody Else".

[tico]

In the top 40? Maybe in the UK, but those are the only two I remember.

[620 Soul Train]

Lita Ford peaked at #45 with "Shot Of Poison" in 1991 on the Hot 100. Now this track did not match anywhere near the success of her two huge hits. I honestly do not remember "Poison" too fondly.

[friday]

tico said:

gliben said:

Switchfoot , Meant To Live and Dare You To Move , those were their only major CHR smash hits to date.

How did "Stars" do on the charts?

Not well enough to fairly include it in the company of those two songs.

[Libra]

tico said:

Romantics, "What I Like About You" and "Secrets That You Keep" (though WILAY is debatable because it never hit the top 40 on Billboard, but it's such a recognizable song)

The second song you're thinking of is actually called "Talking in Your Sleep".

"...I hear, the secrets that you keep...when you're talking in your sleep..."

tico said:

Boy Krazy, "That's What Love Can Do" and "Good Times With Bad Boys" (depending on GTWBB's chart peak, they may actually be a one-hit wonder)

"Good Times With Bad Boys" peaked at 21 on R&R and did not go Top 40 on Billboard...but considering that you've listed others whose "second hit" peaked even lower than that (Joe Public, Don Johnson, Tommy Page), I think it only fair to also count Boy Krazy as a two-hit wonder.

[top40dj]

tico said:

gliben said:

Switchfoot , Meant To Live and Dare You To Move , those were their only major CHR smash hits to date.

How did "Stars" do on the charts?

Stars went to #44 I believe

[620 Soul Train]

Amber - "This Your Night" & "Sexual"
Crystal Waters - "Gypsy Woman" & "100 % Pure Love" (and no I am not counting that short lived top 40 hit "Just Say.."

[JCMF3]

gliben said:

Switchfoot , Meant To Live and Dare You To Move , those were their only major CHR smash hits to date.

LOL at Switchfoot being a two hit wonder. This topic only covers top 40 radio I presume? Because even if it were mainstream, Stars was a substantial alternative hit. But overall, Switchfoot is more like a 12 hit wonder.

[friday]

jcmf3 said:

Because even if it were mainstream, Stars was a substantial alternative hit. 

From what I remember, it peaked at #15 and then had the bottom pulled from under it. Considering MTL and DYTM had slow, long runs into the top 10. I'd say that was disappointing. But you're right, they've had a multitude of Christian hits so perhaps that nullifies that for some.

[tortuga]

I never liked these "Two Hit Wonder" or "One Album Wonder" labels. Its just a dumb way to downgrade someone's brief success.

[Michael1973]

Vixen -- "Edge of a Broken Heart" and "Crying"
Ugly Kid Joe -- "Everything About You" and "Cat's In The Cradle"

[mst3k]

AC listeners would disagree, but for mainstream pop I'd include Dan Hill ("Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try"). (And yes, I know he had one other song scrape the bottom of the R&R pop top 40.)

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Paula Cole.
Yeah, she did have 'Me' after her two Top 10s and later on had 'I Believe In Love'. Both songs I like much more than her bigger hits but because 'Cowboys' and 'Don't Wanna Wait' were big hits for her, the other two were trapped in the shadows.

So I'd probably nominate Paula Cole to this topic too.

[Michael1973]

Golden Earring -- "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone"
White Lion -- "Wait" and "When The Children Cry"

[3970]

Didn't 10CC have more hits? I think they did. At least one or two more. Anybody??????

[620 Soul Train]

3970 said:

Didn't 10CC have more hits?  I think they did.  At least one or two more.  Anybody??????

"People In Love" peaked right at #40, and I never ever heard that song. The others that did not make the top 40 are as follows:

1.Rubber Bullets #73
2.Art for Art's Sake #83
3.I'm Mandy Fly Me #60
4.Good Morning Judge #69
5.Dreadlock Holiday #44
6. For You & I (from the movie "Moment By Moment") #85

[eric]

top40dj said:

tico said:

How did "Stars" do on the charts?

Stars went to #44 I believe

Actually squeezed in two weeks at #38.

[Topay]

The Rembrandts come to mind here. "I'll Be There For You" and "That's Just The Way It Is Baby".

[Hervard]

tico said:

Romantics, "What I Like About You" and "Talking In Your Sleep" (though WILAY is debatable because it never hit the top 40 on Billboard, but it's such a recognizable song)

Even so, they did have another Top 40 hit right after "Talking In Your Sleep" called "One In A Million", which peaked at #36.

[top40dj]

How about Rhythm Syndicate "P.A.S.S.I.O.N." and "Hey Donna"