1959 One Hit Wonders & Artists Known For One Song

1959-onehit1959 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