Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart (1990). Then Right Said Fred said ‘I’m Too Sexy’ in the early 1990s, before 1997 brought us both the ‘Teletubbies’ ditty and ‘Barbie Girl’. But for every U2, there was a Babylon Zoo, a flash-in-the-pan artist who would produce a monster hit that would terrorise the Top 40 for weeks on end and then promptly disappear never to be heard of again. [73] In addition to these hits, Planer also had a number two hit as his Young Ones character 'Neil' in 1984. 1 – Six Mix-a-Lot – Baby Got Back – With Los del Rio out of the picture there can only be one choice for top spot on the list of the top 50 best one hit wonders of the 90s. Share This Article. YouTube. [74] Actor Christopher Ryan was the only member of The Young Ones (featured on the record) who did not feature on any other chart entries, whilst missing cast member Alexei Sayle had a hit two years earlier with "'Ullo John! Bands like New Radicals or Spacehog would arrive on the scene, score a huge hit, then land with a colossal thud when they tried to follow it up. Lady Miss Kier now works as a record producer in London. They were an anarchist punk group who famously poured a jug of water over former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at the Brit Awards. Epic Records. Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm (1993). Here are 19 of the best one-hit wonders that you still can’t get out of your head. The following collaborations are classified as "one-hit wonders" by Guinness Hit Singles because each of these particular combinations of artists had a single #1 hit with no other chart entries in this particular configuration. It stayed at number one for an astonishing 20 weeks in France and has since been covered by the likes of Bob the Builder. The song was a version of Cliff Richard and The Shadows' 1959 number one hit "Living Doll", recorded when the band were called The Drifters. [84][85][86][87], In 2015, the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir had the UK Singles Chart Christmas number one, beating Justin Bieber to the top of this chart with their charity release "A Bridge over You". It’s actually a song about fatherhood written by frontman Dan Wilson disguised as a song about being kicked out of a bar so his bandmates wouldn’t get sick of playing tracks about his kids. But it’s easy to forget often some of the one-hit wonders in the charts. BuzzFeed Staff. Bega gave Mambo No 5, an instrumental song composed back in 1949, a new lease of life by adding lyrics and a string of girls’ names. Initially a local floorfiller, it was picked up by radio and became one of the most accidental Top 10 … Question: Who sang 'Save Tonight'? However, in each case, each of the participating artists had at least one additional hit separately. This collaboration released two singles in 2014 and 2015 respectively; both of them failed to chart. It was Fatboy Slim's rework of Brimful Of Asha that made it an dancefloor classic. Tragically, Chris ‘Mac Daddy’ Kelly died of a drugs overdose in 2013 aged 34. From ‘ Kung Fu Fighting ’, released in the mid-1970s, via the Spitting Image ‘Chicken Song’ of 1986. 17. Listen to Absolute Radio 90s The 20 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 1990s: White Town – ‘Your Woman’ (1997) Derby based one-man band White Town – aka Jyoti Mishra – stormed to number one in January 1997 with his beguiling and totally unique electronic pop tour-de-force ‘Your Woman’. Charles and Eddie – Would I Lie To You? If a single is released by two artists with the conjunction 'and' or 'versus' then both artists have equal billing (e.g. This ode to female masturbation by Australian rock band’s Divinyls was a smash hit in 1990 and was even covered by Rolf Harris (erm…). The nineties hosted for some major one-hit wonders that got us moving like never before. Recorded several years earlier, the song's belated success took Charlene by surprise and no new material was available for release afterwards until it was too late. The following line-ups have all reached number one in their only hit under these umbrella group names: Note: there have been a few collaborations and multi-artist EPs which have charted under the name 'Various Artists',[69] none of which match the one singing "Perfect Day" as listed above, which is why this record is eligible for inclusion on this list.