The Second Hits of One-Hit Wonders

It's not easy to create a hit song. (Just ask Danglecrotch, the Seminal Fluids, Buck Tucker, or Phillip Michael Thomas.)

But, even if you are able to make a popular song that shoots its way up the charts, it's still not very easy to create a second hit song. (Just ask Peter Schilling, Chumbawamba, Dexy's Midnight Runners, or Don Johnson.)

With this series of posts, I'll be attempting to take a look at some one-hit wonders to see if any of them had any other songs that might have been good enough to garner some public attention. It might be the song they released right after their hit, or it might be a song from several years later.

And, for my purposes here, I'm going to be the one to determine what constitutes a second hit. Just because a song made the charts doesn't mean it was a hit. Sure, Vanilla Ice may have made it all the way to #4 on the charts with "Play That Funky Music," but does anyone even remember his version of that song? No. Vanilla Ice had one hit, and that hit was "Ice Ice Baby."

If you take this journey with me, we might discover some very good songs. Or, we might be listening to a whole lot of derivative drivel. But maybe, just maybe, it might be interesting and/or fun.