1959 One Hit Wonders & Artists Known For One Song
77 Sunset Strip – Don Ralke
A House of Love – Scott Garrett
A String Of Trumpets – The Trumpeteers
Abrose (Part Five) – Linda Laurie
Ballad of a Girl and a Boy – Graduates
Battle Hymn of the Republic – Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Beach Time – Roger Smith
Blah, Blah, Blah – Nicola Paone
Boom – A – Dip – Dip – Stan Robinson
Breaking Up IsHard To Do – Jivin’ Gene and the Jokers
Come Prima – Tony Dallara
Come Softly To Me – Ronnie Height
Fried Eggs – Intruders (not the Philly band from the late 60s/early 70s)
Furry Murray – The Tradewinds
Gazachstahagan – The Wild – Cats
Gilee – Sonny Spencer
Happy Vacation – Jackie Lee
Here Comes Summer – Jerry Keller
High School U.S.A. – Tommy Facenda
(versions included a “generic national version and Virginia, New York, Nashville, North & South Carolina, Los Angeles, Indiana, Washington, DC/Baltimore, Philladelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Texas, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis/St. Paul, St. Louis, Florida, Newark, Alabama/Georgia, Boston, Cleveland, Cinncinatti, Memphis, Buffalo, Seattle, Hartford, Denver and Oklahoma)
Hushabye – The Mystics
I Can’t Sit Down – Marie and Rex
I Cried – Joe Damiano
I Kneel At Your Throne – Joe Medlin
I Love An Angel – Little Bill and the Bluenotes
I Loves You, Porgy – Nina Simone
I’ve Come of Age – Billy Storm
Jimmy Kiss and Run – Diane Maxwell
Jupiter – C – Pat and The Satellites
Just To Be With You – The Passions
Kansas City – Rocky Olson
Kansas City – Wilbert Harrison
Lavender Blue – Sammy Turner
Like Young – Andre Previn
Linda Lu – Ray Sharpe
Little Boy Blue – Huelyn Duvall
Little Dipper – Mickey Mozart Quintet
Lonely Saturday Night – Don French
Makin’ Love – Floyd Robinson
Manhattan Spiritual – Reg Owen
Marina – Rocco Granata (Willy Alberti also 1-Hitted with this)
Midnight Oil – Charlie Blackwell
Midnight Stroll – The Revels
No Regrets – Jimmy Barnes
Nola – The Morgan Brothers
Old Shep – Ralph DeMarco
One More Sunrise (Morgen) – Leslie Uggams
Only You – Frank Purcell
Petite Fleur (Little Flower) – Chris Barber
Pink Shoe Laces – Dodie Stevens
Pipe Dreams – Jimmy Beck
Poco-Loco – Gene and Eunice
Record Hop Blues – The Quarter Notes
Rockin’ In The Jingle – The Eternals
Robbin’ The Cradle – Tony Bellus
Russian Band Stand – Spencer and Spencer
Sea Cruise – Frankie Ford
Sea of Love – Phil Phillips
See You In September – The Tempos
Ski King – E.C. Beatty
Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) – The Impalas
Sugaree – Rusty York
Sweet Someone – Eddie and Betty
Teasin’ – Quaker City Boys
Teen Angel – Mark Dinning
Tell Him No – Dean and Marc
Tell Him No – Travis and Bob
The American Boy – Bobby Bare
The Beat – Rockin’ R’s
The Caterpillar Crawl – The Strangers
The Chick – Lee and Paul
The Clouds – The Spacemen
The Enchanted Sea – The Islanders
The Happy Reindeer – Dancer, Prancer and Nervous
The Little Space Girl – Jesse Lee Turner
The Mummy – Bob McFadden & Dor
The Search – Dean Reed
The Shag (Is Totally Cool) – Billy Graves
The Shape I’m In – Johnny Restivo
The Three Bells (Jimmy Brown) – Dick Flood
There Is Something On Your Mind – Big Jay McNeely
Three Stars – Tommy Dee
To A Soldier Boy – The Tassels
Tragedy – Thomas Wayne
Velvet Waters – The Megatrons
Who’s That Knocking – The Genies
Wicked Ruby – Danny Zella and the Zell Rocks
Wiggle, Wiggle – The Accents
Woo-Hoo – Rock -A-Teens
You Can’t Be True Dear – Mary Kay Trio
Young Ideas – Chico Holiday
