Thursday, March 21, 2019

Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [5 of 16]


*to qualify as a MFD two hit wonder, the artist or group can have placed only two singles in the Billboard Top 40 and those two singles must have entered the Top 40 during the years 1976-85.  Many of these artists are occasionally mistaken for a one hit wonder or have hit other charts in Billboard, but each hit the Top 40 only twice. In no particular order, here's four of the 64 that I found:



BELLAMY BROTHERS
Country duo from Darby, Florida: brothers Howard (born 2/2/46) and David (born 9/16/50) Bellamy.

Title Top 40 Debut Chart Peak
Let Your Love Flow 3/6/76 1
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me 7/14/79 39




ANDREW GOLD
Born on 8/2/51 in Burbank, California. Pop-rock singer/songwriter. Son of conductor Ernest Gold and singer Marni Nixon.

Title Top 40 Debut Chart Peak
Lonely Boy 4/16/77 7
Thank You for Being a Friend 3/4/78 25




NIGHT
Pop-rock group: Stevie Lange (female vocals), Chris Thompson (male vocals), Robbie McIntosh (guitar), Nicky Hopkins (piano), Billy Kristian (bass) and Rick Marotta (drums). Thompson was lead singer of Manfred Mann's Earth Band. McIntosh later joined The Pretenders and Paul McCartney's backing band.

Title Top 40 Debut Chart Peak
Hot Summer Nights 8/4/79 18
If You Remember Me 10/20/79 17




THE TUBES
Pop-rock group from San Francisco: Fee Waybill (vocals), Bill Spooner and Roger Steen (guitars), Michael Cotton and Vince Welnick (keyboards), Rick Anderson (bass) and Prairie Prince (drums).

Title Top 40 Debut Chart Peak
Don't Want to Wait Anymore 8/1/81 35
She's a Beauty 5/7/83 10



Data and artist descriptions taken from The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 7th edition (2000).

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