Over 2000 One Hit Wonder Songs!!
Last Update 05/09/16
TV & Movie One Hit Wonders
- Artist
- Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandel
- Year
- 1973
- Song
- Dueling Banjos
- Chart
- 2
The suspense 1972 film 'Deliverance' has, probably, only one scene that quite joyful to watch. It was a duel between traveller's guitar and the local boy's banjo. This pre-Crossroads music duel was performed by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel, and later became the no.2 hit in 1973. It won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance in 1974. It was a brief moment in the music career of Eric Weissberg.
- Artist
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Year
- 1974
- Song
- The Entertainer
- Chart
- 3
The Academy Award winner 1973's 'The Sting' was surely the masterpiece of producer Julia Phillips. Its success also paved way to the popularity of its soundtrack, which top the billboard album chart the following year. The most well-known track is Scott Joplin's ragtime classic "The Entertainer", which was performed by Marvin Hamlisch. The track became Top5 hit and Hamlisch's only apperance on Billboard chart.
- Artist
- MFSB
- Year
- 1974
- Song
- TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
- Chart
- 1
This long-running musical variety show had been a showcase of soul and R&B music for 35 years. Not only it presented famous artists, the show's theme was also great. In fact, "TSOP" by a Philadelphia instrumental group MFSB became extremely popular and topped the US chart in 1974. It was the band's only hit until disbanded in 1981.
- Artist
- Mike Oldfield
- Year
- 1974
- Song
- Tubular Bells
- Chart
- 7
The 1973 'The Exorcist' was undoubtly one of the best horror movie of all time. Beside its terrifying story, the film also gave birth to one of the most iconic tune of all time. Composed by a British multi-instrumental musician Mike Oldfield, the haunting sound of "Tubular Bells" captured the heart of audience world-wide and prompted the song to no.7 spot on the chart. It was Oldfield's only US chart hit so far.
- Artist
- Pratt & McClain
- Year
- 1976
- Song
- Happy Days
- Chart
- 5
'Happy Days' was a very popular American TV sitcom of the 1970s. In season 2, the producers decided to replace the series theme from Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" with the work of pop duo Pratt & McClain. The new theme soon symbolized the show and the decade. It went to no.5 in spring 1976 and became their lone hit until they called it quit some years after.
- Artist
- Keith Carradine
- Year
- 1976
- Song
- I'm Easy
- Chart
- 17
Nashville was a musical film about musicians' life in Nashville, Tennessee. It also presented many songs, and one song made it big. "I'm Easy", written and sung by an actor Keith Carradine won both Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song in 1976. It was also Carradine's only Top40 hit so far.
- Artist
- Barry DeVorzon & Perry Botkin, Jr.
- Year
- 1976
- Song
- Nadia's Theme (The Young and the Restless)
- Chart
- 8
Barry DeVorzon's music piece "Cotton's Theme" was first used in 1971 film 'Bless the Beasts and Children', and later in soap opera 'The Young and the Restless'. It was widely known as "Nadia's Theme" after it was featured as background music for the gymnast Nadia Comaneci's routine shots during the 1976 Summer Olympics. It was DeVorzon's only masterpiece.
- Artist
- Cyndi Grecco
- Year
- 1976
- Song
- Making Our Dreams Come True
- Chart
- 25
Another popular TV sitcom of the 70's, 'Laverne & Shirley' was a spin-off of another 1970s' smash 'Happy Days'. The series theme "Making Our Dream Come True", sang by an American singer Cyndi Grecco, also got huge popularity. It charted at no.25 on Billboard chart in 1976. However, any of Grecco's next efforts went nowhere and she quietly vanish from the scene.
- Artist
- Rhythm Heritage
- Year
- 1976
- Song
- Theme to S.W.A.T.
- Chart
- 1
Rhythm Heritage was an L.A. disco-funk studio group formed in 1975. Their works were mostly unknown to the public. They got a big break in 1976 when their singles of the opening theme from an American crime-fighting series S.W.A.T. went to no.1 spot on Billboard Hot 100 chart. But they could not catch up with the song’s success and disbanded in 1979.
- Artist
- John Sebastian
- Year
- 1976
- Song
- Welcome Back
- Chart
- 1
John Sebastian was well-known as a leader of the popular 1960s band, the Lovin' Spoonful. He went on a solo career after the band split up in 1968, but it didn't go so well. He catched a big break in 1976 when his performance on a theme song "Welcome Back" from the TV series "Welcome Back, Kotter" topped the Billboard chart. That was his only hit in his solo career.
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