Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [13 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:

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CON FUNK SHUN
Funk group from Los Angeles: Michael Cooper (vocals, guitar), Danny Thomas (keyboards), Karl Fuller, Paul Harrell and Felton Pilate (horns), Cedric Martin (bass) and Louis McCall (drums)

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Ffun	1/21/78	23
Too Tight	2/28/81	40

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MARY MacGREGOR
Born on 5/6/48 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Pop singer.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Torn Between Two Lovers	12/25/76	1
Good Friend	10/6/79	39

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BONNIE POINTER
Born on 7/11/50 in Oakland. Member of the Pointer Sisters from 1971-78.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Heaven Must Have Sent You	7/28/79	11
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)	2/16/80	40

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STARS ON 45
Studio group assembled in Holland by producer Jaap Eggermont.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Medley*	5/2/81	1
Stars on 45 III**	4/17/82	28

*Intro Venus/Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want to Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going to Lose that Girl/Stars on 45

**Uptight Everything's All Right/My Cherie Amour/Yester Me, Yester You/Master Blaster/You Are the Sunshine of My Life/Isn't She Lovely/Stars On Jingle/Sir Duke/I Wish/I Was Made to Love Her/Superstition/Fingertips

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

Stars On 45 (1981)

Medley: Intro Venus / Sugar Sugar / No Reply / I'll Be Back / Drive My Car / Do You Want to Know a Secret / We Can Work It Out / I Should Have Known Better / Nowhere Man / You're Going to Lose That Girl / Stars on 45
b/w Stars on 45 (Instrumental)

Released: May 1981 (Radio Records) Written by: Lennon/McCartney et.al. Produced by: Jaap Eggermont Album: Stars On Long Play

U. S. Billboard Charts:
Hot 100	1
Dance	18

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"The Stars on 45 keep on turning in your mind!"

Here's the rare #1 single that gets absolutely ZERO play on oldies radio. And why not?  We all loved this cheesy stuff back then. Beatles music over a disco beat?  Count me in!  Shame on you, Mr. Oldies Program Director.

This medley (the longest titled song to ever hit the Billboard charts) started out as a bootleg mix in the Netherlands in 1979, then gradually picked up steam, was re-recorded using Beatles sound-alikes and finally released here in the US in 1981.  These days, anybody with a free download of Audacity could come up with something like this, but at the end of the disco era, we'd never heard anything like it.  After the Beatles got this treatment from Stars on 45, we were treated to similar medleys with Hooked On Classics and the official Beatles Movie Medley.

To this day, I can't hear the Beatles performing No Reply without thinking of the recap at the end of this medley: "and No Reply-hi-hi-hi!"

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