One Hit Wonders

[Drew]

Who are all the country one hit wonders y'all can think of, or at most two-or-three-hit wonders? Here's a few:

Heartland - I Loved Her First
Tommy Shane Steiner - What If She's An Angel?
Kevin Denny - That's Just Jessie
Chad Brock - Yes!, Ordinary Life
Buddy Jewell - Sweet Southern Comfort, Help Pour Out The Rain
Kellie Coffey - When You Lie Next To Me

[Razor X]

Atlanta, Terri Gibbs, Deborah Allen, Eric Heatherly, Linda Davis, Lane Brody

[farmersdaughter]

Mark McGuinn - Mrs. Steven Rudy
David Ball - Thinking Problem, Riding w/Private Malone
Cyndi Thomson - What I Really Meant To Say
Ty England - Should Have Asked Her Faster....actually I like a lot of album cuts on all 3 of his albums
Julie Roberts - Break Down Here, Men & Mascara, Wake Up Old (love this song)
Steve Azar - I Don't Have to Be Me Til Monday (which my radio plays ALL the time still), Waiting On Joe
Jessica Andrews - Unbreakable Heart, Who I Am, More to Me Than You
Mandy Barnett - Now That's All Right With Me
Eric Heatherly - Counting Flowers on the Wall

My mind can't think of many others, but I know there are tons more.

[Razor X]

Mark McGuinn - Mrs. Steven Rudy

I'd forgotten about that one. I really hated that song.

[Trailer]

CW McCall - Convoy
Anita Cochran - What If I Said
Kevin Sharp - Nobody Knows, If You Love Somebody, She's Sure Taking It Well
Sons of the Desert - Whatever Comes First (and background vox on I Hope You Dance)
James Bonamy - I Don't Think I Will, The Swing
George Ducas - Lipstick Promises
Perfect Stranger - You Have the Right to Remain Silent
Heartland - I Loved Her First

[Razor X]

The Girls Next Door -- Love Will Get You Through Times With No Money, Slow Boat to China

[Matt B]

Isn't the whole concept of "one hit wonder" by definition a singer who only has one big hit or top 10 hit? if so then artists like Chad Brock and Kevin Sharp can't be one hit wonders.

[Trailer]

True dat, but I was going by the criteria Drew set forth. I guess Kevin Sharp is more of a one-album wonder.

[Matt B]

True dat, but I was going by the criteria Drew set forth. I guess Kevin Sharp is more of a one-album wonder.

Yeah, he was a "one album wonder" although I liked his 3 CDs. I think there are a TON of people who would qualify as one hit wonders.

Honestly, Mark McGuinn had 2 more hits ("She Doesn't Dance" and "That's A Plan" that both went Top 20-25 so he'd fall under the arbitrary list still But people will remember him as a 'one hit wonder.'
For Example, Sons of the Desert had more than one hit. "Hand of Fate," "What I Did Right" & "Leaving October" before the band went their separate ways.

In general I think that 'one hit wonders" is more common in pop music than country at least historically Although country has seen an increase in such things.

[Razor X]

In general I think that 'one hit wonders" is more common in pop music than country at least historically Although country has seen an increase in such things.

It used to be that in country music, if someone had one hit, then it was pretty much a given that their next single or two would get some airplay. But that really doesn't seem to be the case any longer.

[Kelly]

4-Runner
Darryl Singletary
Alabama

[Jordan Stacey]

Archer/Park - Where There's Smoke.
Sherrie Austin - Streets Of Heaven
Bandana - The Killin' Kind / Outside Looking In
Jeff Bates - The Love Song / Long Slow Kisses
Stephanie Bentley - Heart Half Empty
Billy Hill - Too Much Mothn (At The End Of The Month)
Blue County - Good Little Girls
The Clark Family Experience - Meanwhile Back At The Ranch
Tammy Cochran - Angels In Waiting / I Cry / Life Happened
Amy Dalley - Men Don't Change
Davis Daniel - For Crying Out Loud
Clay Davidson - Unconditional
Ty Englanf - Should've Asked Her Faster
Radney Foster - Just Call ME Lonesome / Nobody Wins / Easier Said Than Done
Billy Gilman - One Voice
Jennifer Hanson - Beautiful Goodbye
Steve Holy - Good Morning Beautiful / Brand New Girlfriend
Rebecca Lynn Howard - Forgive
Shooter Jennings - 4th Of July
Ray Kennedy - What A Way To Go
The Kinleys - Please / Just Between You And Me / Somebody's Out THere Watching
Blaine Larsen - How Do You Get That Lonely
Robin Lee - Black Velvet
Aaron Lines - You Can't Hide Beautiful
Brad MArtin - Before I Knew Better
Mila MAson - That's Enough Of THat
Lila McCann - I Wanna Fall In Love / With You
Brian McComas - 99.9% Sure (I've Nver Been Here Before)
Pake McEntire - Savin' My Love For You / Bad Love
Ken Mellons - Jukebox Junkie
Shane Minor - Slave To The Habit
Rbert Ellis Orrall - Boom! It Was Over
Danielle Peck - Finding A Good Man
Bobby Pinson - Don't Ask Me How I Know
Pirates Of The Mississippi - Feed Jake
Rachel Proctor - Me & Emily
Mike Reid - Walk On Faith / Till You Were Gone / As Simple As THat
THe Remingtons - A Long Time A Go / Two-Timin' Me
Rushow - I Can't Be Your Friend
Tim Rushlow - She Misses Him
Larry Stewart - Alright Already
The Tractors - Baby Likes To Rock It
Van Zant - Help Somebody / Nobody's gonna Tell Me What To Do
The Warren Brothers - Move On
Calvin Wiggett - Missing YOu / Love Music Loves To Dance
THe Wilkinsons - 26 Cents / Fly (The Angel Song)
Chely Wright - Single White Female / It Was
Michelle Wright - Take It Like A Man

[Peter Durward Harris]

Historically, there have been plenty of one-hit wonders in the country charts by pop singers who crossed over. I'm thinking of the Carpenters (Sweet sweet smile) and Bonnie Tyler (It's a heartache) in particular, but there have been plenty of others. On bona-fide country singers, I suspect that C W McCall is regarded as a one-hit wonder though he isn't really. And there's people like Jeannie C Riley, who had a series of hits but is only really remembered for one. There's a lot like that.

Personally, I'm always wary of classifying people as one-hit wonders anyway. It depends what charts you use and how you define a hit. Based on the British charts, most country singers have no hits and most of those that have hits only have one of any size, however minor. In the American pop charts, they do better but there would still be a lot of one-hit wonders.

Canada has its own country chart. Michelle Wright has had 5 #1 hits there and several other big hits too so she's not exactly forgotten in her homeland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Wright_discography

[Razor X]

There's a multi-volume CD collection by Rhino (I think) called One Hit Wonders. It classfies a one hit wonder as anyone who only hit the pop charts one time. They have Lynn Anderson included for Rose Garden, because that's the only pop hit she had. But no country fan would refer to her as a one hit wonder.

[lanibug]

There are several people on Jordan's list that I would not consider one hit wonders -- especially since they have only had one album - which means that they have a chance to score another hit with a new album --

Sadly many of favorite artists are being listed --

[Drew]

Sadly many of favorite artists are being listed --

Heh, I was just about to say... there are lots of real good artists on Jordan's list.

[Matt B]

The Warren Brothers scored 7 Top 40 singles from 1998-2003. I still am surprised that they didn't become a star duo. They may not be 'traditional' country but they put out some good stuff. I like that Robert Ellis Orrall album (and the Orrall & Wright release). I too like many of the 'one hit wonders' listed by Jordan.

[Kelly]

Am I the only one that noticed there are people listing artists names with more than one hit next to it??

[Brody]

Man Jordan, you came prepared for this one.

[Kelly]

Am I the only one that noticed there are people listing artists names with more than one hit next to it??

My bad, i just now noticed that Brody asked about 2-3 hit wonders also...please forgive my ignorance, i often-times can not control it.....