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Derided by satirists as " Sir Bullface Doublefee ," and described by Horace Walpole as one who rose from obscure infamy to that infamous fame which will long stick to him, his character was also assailed by " Junius ".

Derided as " scabs ", they are then attacked by the local miners, but manage to get back on the train and continue their journey.

Derided by critics upon its release, Airport 1975 was nonetheless a massive commercial success.

Derided as " un-Democratic, inquisitorial, and wrong in principle ," it was challenged in federal court.

Despite the subsequent explosion in records from doo wop acts in the later 50s, many failed to chart or were one-hit wonders.

* List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States

These one-hit wonders even made an appearance at that year's Newport Folk Festival before fading into obscurity.

Other reviewers were less complimentary, with Mike Pattenden in The Times writing that " Prolonging the Magic suggests that may well be destined to go down as one-hit wonders ...

As this was their only success in that chart, they are referred to as one-hit wonders.

* List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States

Some one-hit wonders are the result of novelty songs during fads.

More commonly, however, one-hit wonders are serious-minded musicians who struggled to continue their success after their popularity waned.

Because one-hit wonders are popular for only a brief time, their hits often have nostalgic value and are featured on era-centric compilations and soundtracks to period films.

# A small number of artists have the distinction of being regarded as one-hit wonders in both the US and UK, but with different songs.

# Prominent members of popular groups who have only one solo hit typically are not seen as one-hit wonders.

# Conversely, groups led by popular solo artists are usually not called one-hit wonders.

# Many popular British artists like Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Right Said Fred, The Verve, BBMak, James Blunt, All Saints, Billie Piper, and Take That are considered one-hit wonders in the US, although they have many hits in their native UK.

) Similarly, American bands such as Lonestar, Styx, Blue Öyster Cult and Isaac Hayes ( whose lone hit in the UK, " Chocolate Salty Balls ," was in the " Chef " persona from South Park ) are one-hit wonders in the UK but not in their respective native countries.

Conversely, other British acts such as Wang Chung, Breathe and Murray Head, as well as the Anglo-Australian duo Air Supply, are one-hit wonders in the UK but not in the US, and the American group 3T, best known in their homeland as being the three sons of Tito Jackson of The Jackson 5, along with other bands such as Blind Melon and Deep Blue Something, are one-hit wonders in the US but not in the UK.

## Performers who have consistent success in one part of the world but who are known for only one song outside that region are usually considered one-hit wonders in the latter.

Austria's Falco and Germany ’ s Nena were very successful in German-speaking countries, and Canada's Tom Cochrane and Default has had similar success in their homeland, but all are considered one-hit wonders in the US and UK ( except for Default, who never had a hit in the UK ).

# There are many acts who earned a single Billboard Top 40 hit, but who are not typically classified as one-hit wonders due to other successes.

## how the song was released: Cyndi Grecco, Pratt & McClain, Joey Scarbury, David Naughton, and MFSB, for instance, were all technically one-hit wonders, but their hits were solely popularized by their use as themes to television shows ( Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, The Greatest American Hero, Makin ' It, and Soul Train respectively ), although Naughton's hit did also appear on the soundtrack to the film, Meatballs, from the same year the song was released ( 1979 ).

# Performers who are successful in specific genres, but produce only one crossover hit, are generally considered one-hit wonders by the public at large, but not by fans of their respective genres.

# Performers who had more than one Top 40 hit are sometimes considered one-hit wonders, if one signature song greatly overshadows the rest of their repertoire, for example:

## Perhaps most controversially, Animotion is a group who have repeatedly been referred to as one-hit wonders ( for their 1985 # 6 hit, " Obsession "), despite the fact that they have actually had two top-ten hits.

The song is the only single from Teletubbies, making them a one-hit wonder in the United Kingdom, and mostly a remix of the theme song from the hit Television programme performed by the series characters written by Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport.

The greatest of the classic pop writers achieved this with regularity ; yet at the same time, many classic pop standards, such as " Learning the Blues " by Dolores Silver, " Willow Weep for Me " by Ann Ronell were that era's version of the one-hit wonder: songs from writers who never again delivered an eventual standard.

Some one-hit wonder artists have embraced this following openly, while others distance themselves from their hit in an attempt to craft successful songs with different sounds, or embark on new careers as songwriters ( such as Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes and Gregg Alexander of New Radicals ), or even game show hosts ( such as Chuck Woolery of The Avant-Garde ).

Ray Parker, Jr. is frequently referred to as a one-hit wonder for his chart-topping theme from the movie Ghostbusters, even though he had several other top-ten hits on the pop charts ( such as " The Other Woman "), in addition to his hits as the frontman for the disco group Raydio.

In the world of web analytics, one-hit wonder is used to describe a user who comes to a site from a search engine, views the piece of content he was searching for, and then leaves, never clicking an ad or engaging in any way with the site.

This leaves only Toni Basil, Nena and Los del Río from this list as one-hit wonders on both English-speaking sides of the Atlantic, though Nena has continued her success in Germanic countries.

Even this list is riddled with inaccuracies, since at least fifteen of the fifty acts ranked in the Top 50 by the poll had multiple Top 40 hits in the UK singles chart, thus disqualifying them from the appellation ' one-hit wonder ', although the success of the other hits was ( with one very notable exception ) of a lesser measure than those included in the poll:

The role of Pace was then changed from an old, washed up rocker from the 1980s, to a young one-hit wonder in order to accommodate Monaghan's age.

From the creators and executive producers of 3rd Rock from the Sun and That ' 70s Show, Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg ( Ghost ) executive produced and starred in this comedy as one-hit wonder Mavis Rae, a cigarette-smoking, alcohol-drinking, menopausal and especially opinionated hotelier.

* " Whatever Happened To ...," a statement is read about a celebrity ( often a child star or a one-hit wonder ) who had previously made it big but had since faded from the scene, and the contestant had to correctly guess who Ober was speaking of.

Although the band is frequently remembered as a one-hit wonder, it already had another Top-40 hit on the Hot 100 with " Angel Say No " from 1980.

It is removed somewhat from the rest of the band's career, to the effect that Pigbag are sometimes considered one-hit wonders.

While DJ BoBo appeared to have already separated himself from one-hit wonders, he released his next single " Everybody ", in the summer of 1994, which climbed as high as number 2 in Germany and was certified Platinum for selling 500, 000 units there.

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The first single from the album, " Don't Call Me a Country Singer " peaked at No. 7 on the FMQB a / c radio charts, leading people to wonder whether Boys Don't Cry would be the first ever " one-hit wonder band " ever to make a comeback 23 years later and have another hit record.

This version of " Walking on Sunshine " became a pop hit in the United States, leading some to refer to the group as a one-hit wonder, despite the fact that two other singles from this album made it into the Billboard Hot 100, and that the band would score a second U. S. Top 20 hit (" That's the Way ") four years later.

Further hits ensued, including a version of ' March of the Siamese Children ' from ' The King and I ', which topped the pop music magazine, New Musical Express chart in March that year, and such was their popularity in the UK that Ball was featured, alongside Cliff Richard, Brenda Lee, Joe Brown, Craig Douglas and Frank Ifield, on the cover of the New Musical Express in July 1962, although in the U. S. they remained a ' one-hit wonder '.

Martin has claimed that the single had saved them from being a " one-hit wonder " band.

In a review of their album Spice, Ken Tucker from Entertainment Weekly called it " a fearlessly corny ballad ", and added that it " will likely keep them from being one-hit wonders in America ".