1983 One Hit Wonders & Artists Known For One Song
A Million Miles Away – The Plimsouls
AEIOU Sometimes Y – EBN/OZN
After I Cry Tonight – Lanier & Co
All Touch – Rough Trade
Bad, Bad Billy – Snuff
Beg, Borrow or Steal – Hughes and Thrall
Burning Heart – Vandenberg
Canvas Of Life – Minor Detail
China – Red Rockers
Come On Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Count On Me – Gerard McMahon
Curly Shuffle – The Jump In The Saddle Band
Der Kommissar – After The Fire
Do It Again/Billie Jean – Club House
Drop The Pilot – Joan Armatrading
Electric Avenue – Eddy Grand
Escalator Of Life – Robert Hazard
(Robert also wrote Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)
Everybody Knows Your Name (Cheers Theme) – Gary Portney
Fade Away – Loz Netto
Far From Over – Frank Stallone
Girls Don’t Get Lonely – Glenn Shorrock
I.O.U. – Freeze
I Couldn’t Say No – Robert Ellis Orrall with Carlene Carter
I Eat Cannibals – Total Coelo
I Know There’s Something Going On – Frida
I Melt With You – Modern English
If Love Should Go – Streets
In a Big Country – Big Country
It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls
Juicy Fruit – Mtume
Just Got Lucky – JoBoxers
Keep It Tight – Single Bullett Theory
Let Me Go – Heaven 17
Let The Music Play – Shannon
Major Tom – Peter Schilling
Maniac – Michael Sembello
Maybe This Day – Kissing The Pink
Mexican Radio – Wall of Voodoo
Midnight Blue – Louise Tucker
Never Tell An Angel (When You Heart’s On Fire) – The Stompers
Night Pulse – Double Image
One Thing Leads To Another – The Fixx
Our House – Madness
Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone – Wolf
Please Mr. Postman – Gentle Persuasion
Puttin’ On The Ritz – Taco
Reap The Wild Wind – Ultravox
Safety Dance – Men Without Hats
Scatterlings of Africa – Juluka
Searchin (I Gotta Find a man) – Hazell Dean
She Blinded Me With Science – Thomas Dolby
She’s A Beauty – The Tubes
Shiny Shiny – Haysi Fantayzee
Should I Love You – Cee Farrow
Slang Teacher/Chicken Outlaw – Wide Boy Awake
So Many Men, So Little Time – Miquel Brown
Solid Rock – Goanna
State of the Nation – Industry
Stop Doggin’ Me Around – Klique
Swingin’ – Jon Anderson
Take It Away – Big Ric
Talking In Your Sleep – The Romantics
(Best known for What I LIke About You, which didn’t crack the Top 40)
The Fanatic – Felony
The Salt In My Tears – Martin Briley
Too Shy – Kajagoogoo
What You Do To Me – Carl Wilson
Whirly Girl – Oxo
White Lines – Grandmaster Flash (The Message was released in 1982)
Who’s Behind The Door? – Zebra
Why Me? – Planet PWords – F.R. David . .
