Note: In this post and the more than 50 others about recorded music's "one-hit wonders," keep in mind that this designation should not be taken as an insult to a performer.
Many such people have had long, multi-faceted careers and rich accomplishments. Most were not merely a flash-in-the-pan. Even so, they did indeed have only one big hit recording and are one-hit wonders in that particular sense.
Pop music listerners of my own vintage might well remember Thurston Harris and his one really big hit song, Little Bitty Pretty One, which made it to No. 6 in 1957. The song, written by Bobby Day, had a doo-wop chorus that two college pals and I would often loudly "perform" as we returned to our dorm from our liquid adventures.
A year later, Harris had a second, but far more modestly successful rock recording, the suggestive, grammar-defying Do What You Did.
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