Every decade has its one-hit wonders. I just happened to be the right age to be aware of those acts who hit the top forty during the eighties, never to climb those lofty, payola-ridden heights again.
Keep in mind that just because an act was a “one hit wonder” doesn’t mean that they were otherwise unsuccessful. Frank Zappa only had one U.S. top forty hit (“Valley Girl”), for example, as did the Grateful Dead (“Touch Of Grey”) and The Psychedelic Furs (“Heartbreak Beat”).
Anyway, be glad I wasn’t born a decade earlier. You’d be listening to the Starland Vocal Band right now.
