Can you name the one hit wonders of the '80s (US)?

Song	Artist	Year
Whip It		1980
Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime		1980
Funkytown		1980
Turning Japanese		1980
Believe It or Not		1981
I Want Candy		1982
Tainted Love		1982
Mexican Radio		1982
Mickey		1982
Major Tom		1983
Come On Eileen		1983
Far From Over		1983
Puttin' On The Ritz		1983
Axel F		1984
99 Luftballons		1984

Song	Artist	Year
Never Ending Story		1985
Turn Up The Radio		1985
Spirit in the Sky		1986
Heartbeat		1986
I Wanna Be a Cowboy		1986
Tarzan Boy		1986
She's Like the Wind		1987
Hot, Hot, Hot		1987
Lean on Me		1987
Pump up the Volume		1988
Don't Worry Be Happy		1988
Supersonic		1988
I Melt With You		1982
Wait For You		1989
When I'm with You		1989

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One Hit Wonders (1980s) Quiz

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	ShouldBeWorking:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 15:35 GMT		11 points
	Ben I helped you make this quiz and I still suck at it

	guyleguy:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 15:57 GMT		6 points
	Damn this one was hard. Got 15/30.

	davidr:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 16:39 GMT		5 points
	Man. Did anyone have a second hit in the 1980s?

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	donruss:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 16:46 GMT		3 points
	I can't believe there is no "Party All the Time" by Eddie Murphy on this list. I thought I really knew 80's music but I only got 16 of 30.

	acfangirl:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 16:50 GMT		5 points
	maybe it's just me but I think this game could be better if you gave us the artist and we had to guess the one hit wonders....just an idea

	Westley:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 16:54 GMT		14 points
	Aha had a second top 20 US hit (The Sun Always Shines on TV); Rick Astley had 5 US top 10s (including 2 #1 hits); Eddie Murphy had a second US top 40 (Put your Mouth on Me). However, a few of these songs weren't actual chart hits in the US, like the Doctor and the Medics songs. Even the Modern English song only went to #78.

	Ben:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:00 GMT		8 points
	Wow.. I cant win when I make a quiz :) Guessing the artist is apparently hard enough for most people, thats why I did it that way, and I was keeping it in line with the first one I did.... I have a couple of sites I used, and I also had some friends help me out on this one, and the 70's one is also done and will be out later... if you have suggestions for anything or quizzes please e-mail me at bjvano@gmail.com

	Ben:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:01 GMT		7 points
	oh.. and Modern English was 1982... :)

	Booger:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:03 GMT		9 points
	Great quiz. Everyone's a critic. I agree, however, that it would be more interesting to be given the group name and have to name the song.

	Ben:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:05 GMT		9 points
	The only reason I didnt do it that way was because I feared that it would be to difficult.. sorry!

	Trevor:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:05 GMT		-2 points
	Eh, Lipps, Inc. aren't really a one-hit wonder. Off the top of my head, I can name "How Long?" as another significant hit for them. So that makes them at least a two-hit wonder.

	g:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:16 GMT		3 points
	Devo ain't no one-hit wonder!

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	davidr:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:40 GMT		1 point
	@taylor: Major Tom is best known from Bowie but somebody else wrote and performed this song, which appears to be actually called `Major Tom (Coming Home)'. @SRG: I'm not sure what the definition of a `hit' is but Wikipedia says the only other Lipps, Inc. track to get into the Billboard Hot 100 was `Rock It', which got to number 64.

	Ben:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:51 GMT		8 points
	david.. I believe that the definition of a hit for one hit wonder purposes is top 40...

	mokos:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 17:52 GMT		22 points
	The Bowie song is called "Space Oddity". Some of these comments are really silly.

	drhaase:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 18:17 GMT		3 points
	never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down

	radiosilence:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 18:22 GMT		5 points
	For the record, Modern English did release "I Melt With You" twice. In 1982 or 1983 it reached the top 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart. They released it again with slightly different percussion around 1990. Regrettably, I remembered Frank Stallone. (lol)

	pftw:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 18:25 GMT		6 points
	Great quiz! I only got 4 of them although I typed MARS out a bunch of times, I forgot there were 2 Rs.

	asanders:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 19:12 GMT		9 points
	Two questions: How did a major talent like Frank Stallone have only one hit? Is Kajagoogoo too hard to spell?

	sdh:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 19:53 GMT		4 points
	Bah! I can HEAR these songs in my head, but I can't think who recorded them: Axel F, Tarzan Boy, I Want to Be a Cowboy.

	heywalt:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 20:25 GMT		11 points
	Peter Schilling's Major Tom is a totally different song than Space Oddity. It goes "4, 3, 2, 1, earth belooooow us...".

	Math Chick:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 21:13 GMT		0 points
	Great quiz. I don't recognize a couple of them. What is that Krogis song-- I don't think I've ever heard it! Help. And I gotta say Spirit in the Sky is definitely by Norm Greenbaum. A cover that hits the charts shouldn't qualify you for a one-hit wonder, IMHO.

	Kicking222:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 21:34 GMT		3 points
	Man, I have never heard of half of these. I'm too young, I suppose. Thanks to Ben and Sporcle for finally getting this quiz out there.

	springmom:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 22:16 GMT		2 points
	@asanders - The never ending story wasn't Kajagoogoo......they fired the lead singer and he recorded Never Ending story......Kajagoogoo' one big hit isn't on here...theirs was Too Shy

	R3doubt:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 22:43 GMT		6 points
	Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok

	Psychlone:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 01:00 GMT		1 point
	Falco hit with Der Kommissar too. The English version is a one hit wonder though, from a band called After the Fire.

	AaronW:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 08:54 GMT		4 points
	I'd just like to point out that soft cell weren't one hit wonders, or bow wow wow, or dexys midnight runners. However in saying that I have just realized this is the U.S version not a British or world in general version!

	egon14:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 16:17 GMT		1 point
	How about Rockwell, with "Somebody's Watching Me"?

	Josh:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 16:39 GMT		4 points
	Wow, I was completely unaware that somebody had covered "Spirit In The Sky".

	mschessplayer:	Nov 2nd, 2008 at 23:26 GMT		0 points
	R3doubt - good choice w/ "One Night In Bangkok". I laughed when I discovered the song is about a chess tournament (thanks lyricsondemand.com).

	Etheridge2:	Feb 3rd, 2009 at 20:51 GMT		3 points
	Is that spirit in the sky song a cover of the Norman Greenbaum one? I never heard of any other song called Spirit in the Sky...tough quiz and I loved 80's music

	Kenne:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 00:14 GMT		0 points
	There's a lot of awful songs by actors on this list, I guess Bruce Willis and Respect Yourself could've been included.

	DerKomissar:	Mar 4th, 2009 at 02:16 GMT		0 points
	Where's Too Shy by Kajagoogoo????

	bball37:	Jul 21st, 2009 at 19:06 GMT		2 points
	It's supposed to be "THE Korgis," not just "Korgis."

	JohnnyLawrence:	Dec 13th, 2009 at 05:31 GMT		1 point
	You should allow alternate spellings.

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