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Another trip down memory lane... one-hit wonders!!!

Again, forgive if any are repeats (or, for that matter, has multiple hits in your corner of the world).

Martika - "Toy Soldiers"

Luscious Jackson - "Naked Eye"

Sly Fox - "Let's Go All The Way"

Snow - "Informer"

Laid Back - "White Horse"

Boomtown Rats - "I Don't Like Mondays"

David & David - "Welcome to the Boomtown"

Jamiroquoi - "Virtual Insanity"

Wall of Voodoo - "Mexican Radio"

Rockwell - "Somebody's Watching Me"

The Vapors - "Turning Japanese"

Real Life - "Send Me An Angel"

Benny Mardones - "Into the Night"

Moving Pictures - "What About Me"

Sniff 'N' The Tears - "Driver's Seat"

Nick Gilder - "Hot Child in the City"

Yello - "Oh, Yeah"

Eurogliders - "Heaven (Must Be There)"

Peter Schilling - "Major Tom (Coming Home)"

Shakespeare's Sister - "Stay"

Timbuk 3 - "The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)"

Sheila E. - "The Glamorous Life"

Boys Don't Cry - "I Wanna Be A Cowboy"

Baltimora - "Tarzanboy"

Charilie Dore - "Pilot of the Airwaves"

Gerardo - "Rico Suave"

Taco - "Puttin' On The Ritz"

Everything But The Girl - "Missing"

The Tubes - "She's A Beauty" (Okay, they had several "songs of note" that people remember, but this was really the only that qualifies as a "hit".)

Randy Newman - "Short People" (As prolific a movie composer as he is, I'm pretty sure that was his only big radio hit.)

Icehouse - "Crazy"

My brain is dripping out of my head...I'll try and come up with more later. (Disclaimer: Again, this is a US-centric and perhaps even regional list. These artists may have had different success in your part of the world.) :)
Shelia E. followed up "The Glamorous Life" with "A Love Bizarre" w/ co-vocals by Prince.


Macy Gray- "I Try"
 
Aside from the American-centric thing I mentioned earlier, what constitutes a "hit" should enter into this. Is Top 40 good enough to make a "hit"? Top 100? And does what chart it shows up on make any difference?
 
Region has everything to do with what's a one-hit wonder. For example, like I mentioned earlier, David Hasselhoff has ZERO hits in the United States, but in other countries he's made it all the way to No. 1.
 
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