1980 One Hit Wonders & Artists Known For One Song
Ace of Spades – Motorhead
Ah! Leah! – Donnie Iris
All Night Thing – Invisible Man’s Band
Ashes By Now – Rodney Crowell
Back Of My Hand (I’ve Got Your Number) – The Jags
Bounce, Rock, Shake, Roll – Vaughan Mason and Crew
Brite Eyes – Robbin Thompson band
Cars – Gary Numan
Computer Game – Yellow Magic Orchestra
Darlin’ – Yipes!
Dig The Gold – Joyce Cobb
Dirty Water – The Inmates
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina – Festival
Don’t Misunderstand Me – Rossington Collins Band
Don’t Push It Don’t Shove It (Let It Happen Naturally) – Leon Haywood
Don’t Say No – Billy Burnette
Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime – The Korgis
First… Be A Woman – Lenore O’Malley
Funkytown – Lipps Inc.
Gee Whiz – Bernadette Peters
Glide – Pleasure
Goodnight My Love – Mike Pinera
Gypsy Spirit – Pendulum
He Can’t Love You – Michael Stanley Band
High On Your Love – Debbie Jacobs
Honey, Honey – David Hudson
How Do I Survive? – Amy Holland
I Believe In You – Don Williams
I Don’t Like Mondays – Boomtown Rats
(although Up All Night was almost a hit in several countries)
I Got You – Split Enz
I Love Women – Jim Hurt
I Only Want To Be With You – The Tourists
Into The Night – Benny Mardones (also a hit in 1989)
I’ve Just Begun To Love You – Dynasty
Just For The Moment – Ray Kennedy
Leaving L.A. – Deliverance
Let Me Be – Korona
Let Me Sleep Alone – Cugini
Let’s Do Something Cheap and Superficial – Burt Reynolds
Looks Like Love Again – Dann Rogers
Love and Loneliness – The Motors
Love On The Phone – Suzanne Fellini
Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
Magnet and Steel – Walter Egan
Mirage – Eric Troyer
Money – The Flying Lizards
More Bounce To The Ounce – Zapp
My Mistake – The Kingbees
Never Knew Love Like This Before – Stephanie Mills
On The Rebound – Russ Ballard
One In A Million You – Larry Graham
One Life To Live – Wayne Massey
Only A Lonely Heart Sees – Felix Cavaliere
Only The Lonely (Have A Reason To Be Sad) – La Flavour
Peanut Butter – Twennynine
People Who Died – Jim Carroll Band
Pilot of the Airwaves – Charlie Dore
Real Love – The Cretones
Savannah Nights – Tom Johnston
Scandal – RCR
Seasons – Grace Slick
Set Me Free – Utopia
Shiver and Shake – The Silencers
Shooting Star – DollarShotgun Rider – Joe Sun
Solitaire – Peter Mclan
Special Lady – Ray, Goodman & Brown
Stay In Time – Off Broadway USA
Take Your Time (Do It Right) – The S.O.S. Band
Takin’ It Back – Breathless
Teacher Teacher – Rockpile
The Breaks – Kurtis Blow
The Part Of Me That Needs You Most – Jay Black
Tired of Toein’ The Line – Rocky Burnette
Turning Japanese – The Vapors
Voice of Freedom – Jim Kirk/ TM Singers
When Things Go Wrong – Robin Lane and the Chartbusters
Whip It – Devo
Who Shot J.R.? – Gary Burbank
Who Were You Thinkin’ Of – The Doolittle Band
Who’ll Be The Fool Tonight – Larsen – Feiten Band
You and Me – Rockie Robbins . .
