Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [16 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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ENCHANTMENT
R&B vocal group from Detroit: Ed Clanton, Bobby Green, Davis Banks, Emanuel Johnson and Joe Thomas.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Gloria	3/5/77	25
It's You That I Need	3/11/78	33

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MARILYN McCOO & BILLY DAVIS, JR.
Husband and wife vocal duo. McCoo was born on 9/30/43 in Jersey City. Davis was born on 6/26/39 in St. Louis. Both were members of The 5th Dimension. Married in 1969. Duo hosted own summer variety TV series in 1977. McCoo co-hosted TV's "Solid Gold" from 1981-84.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
You Don't Have to be a Star (To be in My Show)	10/23/76	1
Your Love	4/2/77	15

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THE ROMANTICS
Pop-rock group from Detroit: Wally Palmer (vocals, guitar), Coz Canler (guitar), Mike Skill (bass) and Jimmy Marinos (drums)

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Talking in Your Sleep	12/3/83	3
One in a Million	3/31/84	37

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A TASTE OF HONEY
Disco group from Los Angeles: Janice Marie Johnson (vocals, guitar), Hazel Payne (vocals, bass), Perry Kibble (keyboards) and Donald Johnson (drums). Re-formed in 1980 with Janice Johnson and Hazel Payne. Won the 1978 Best New Artist Grammy Award.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Boogie Oogie Oogie	7/22/78	1
Sukiyaki	4/11/81	3

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

Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [15 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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ROBBIE DUPREE
Born Robert Dupuis on 12/23/46 in Brooklyn, New York. Singer/songwriter.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Steal Away	5/3/80	6
Hot Rod Hearts	8/9/80	15

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CHUCK MANGIONE
Born on 11/29/40 in Rochester, New York. Flugelhorn player.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Feels So Good	3/18/78	4
Give It All You Got	2/16/80	18

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ROCKWELL
Born Kennedy Gordy on 3/15/64 in Detroit. R&B singer. Son of Motown chairman Berry Gordy.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Somebody's Watching Me	2/11/84	2
Obscene Phone Caller	6/23/84	35

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FRED KNOBLOCK
Born J. Fred Knobloch on 4/28/53 in Jackson, Mississippi. Pop-country singer/songwriter.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Why Not Me	7/26/80	7
Killin' Time (with Susan Anton)	12/27/80	28

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

Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [14 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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BURTON CUMMINGS
Born on 12/31/47 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Lead singer of The Guess Who.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Stand Tall	11/6/76	10
You Saved My Soul	10/24/81	37

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MADNESS
Ska-rock group formed in London: Graham McPherson (vocals), Chris Foreman (guitar), Mike Barson (keyboards), Carl Smyth (trumpet), Lee Thompson (sax), Mark Bedford (bass) and Don Woodgate (drums).

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Our House	5/28/83	7
It Must Be Love	9/17/83	33

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QUIET RIOT
Heavy-metal group formed in Los Angeles: Kevin DuBrow (vocals), Carlos Cavazo (guitar), Rudy Sarzo (bass) and Frankie Banali (drums). Sarzo later joined Whitesnake.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Cum On Feel the Noize	10/15/83	5
Bang Your Head (Metal Health)	1/28/84	31

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STEEL BREEZE
Pop group from Sacramento, California: Ric Jacobs (vocals), Ken Goorabian and Waylin Carpenter (guitars), Rod Toner (keyboards), Vinnie Pantleoni (bass) and Barry Lowenthal (drums).

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
You Don't Want Me Anymore	9/18/82	16
Dreamin' is Easy	2/19/83	30

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

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).

Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [12 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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CLIMAX BLUES BAND
Blues-rock group from Stafford, England: Colin Cooper (vocals, sax), Peter Haycock (guitar, vocals), Derek Holt (bass) and John Cuffley (drums).

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Couldn't Get It Right	3/26/77	3
I Love You	4/4/81	12

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NICOLETTE LARSON
Born on 7/17/52 in Helena, Montana; raised in Kansas City. Died of a cerebral edema on 12/16/97 (age 45). Former session singer.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Lotta Love	12/23/78	8
Let Me Go, Love (with Michael McDonald)	2/16/80	35

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JIM PHOTOGLO
Born in Los Angeles. Pop singer/songwriter.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
We Were Meant to be Lovers	5/31/80	31
Fool in Love with You	5/30/81	25

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STARBUCK
Pop-rock group from Atlanta: Bruce Blackman (vocals, keyboards), Bo Wagner (marimbas), Sloan Hayes (keyboards), Tom Strain and Ron Norris (guitars), Jim Cobb (bass) and Dave Snavely (drums). Strain, Norris and Snavely left after "Moonlight Feels Alright" [sic] replaced by Darryl Kutz (guitar), Dave Shaver (keyboards) and Ken Crysler (drums).

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Moonlight Feels Right	5/29/76	3
Everybody Be Dancin'	5/21/77	38

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

Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [11 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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THE CLASH
Eclectic new wave rock group from London: John "Joe Strummer" Mellor (vocals), Mick Jones (guitar), Paul Simonon (bass) and Nicky "Topper" Headon (drums). Political activists, who wrote songs protesting racism and oppression. Jones (not to be confused with Mick Jones of Foreigner) left band in 1984 to form Big Audio Dynamite. Strummer appeared in the 1987 movie Straight to Hell. 

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Train in Vain (Stand by Me)	4/26/80	23
Rock the Casbah	11/13/82	8

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RICKIE LEE JONES
Born on 11/8/54 in Chicago. Female singer/songwriter. Won the 1979 Best New Artist Grammy Award.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Chuck E.'s in Love	5/12/79	4
Young Blood	9/1/79	40

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TEDDY PENDERGRASS
Born on 3/26/50 in Philadelphia. R&B singer. Lead singer of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes from 1970-76. Acted in the 1982 movie Soup for One. Auto accident on 3/18/82 left him partially paralyzed.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Close the Door	8/12/78	25
Two Hearts (with Stephanie Mills)	7/4/81	40

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MICHAEL STANLEY BAND
Born Michael Stanley Gee on 3/25/48 in Cleveland. Rock singer/guitarist. His band: Kevin Raleigh (vocals, keyboards), Bob Pelander(keyboards), Gary Markshay (guitar), Rick Bell (sax), Mike Gismondi (bass) and Tom Dobeck (drums). Dan Powers replaced Markshay in 1982.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
He Can't Love You	1/10/81	33
My Town	11/12/83	39

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

Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [10 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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CHILLIWACK
Rock trio from Vancouver: Bill Henderson (vocals, guitar), Ab Bryant (bass) and Brian MacLeod (drums). Bryant was also with Prism.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)	10/31/81	22
I Believe	2/27/82	33

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JULIO IGLESIAS
Born 9/23/43 in Madrid. Latin singer. Father of julio Jr. and Enrique Iglesias.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
To All the Girls I've Loved Before (with Willie Nelson)	3/31/84	5
All of You (with Diana Ross)	8/4/84	19

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JOHN PARR
Born on 11/18/54 in Nottingham, England. Pop-rock singer/songwriter.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Naughty Naughty	2/2/85	23
St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)	7/20/85	1

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SLADE
Hard rock group formed in Wolverhampton, England: Noddy Holder (vocals), David Hill (guitar), Jim Lea (bass, keyboards) and Don Powell (drums)

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Run Runaway	5/5/84	20
My Oh My	8/11/84	37

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

Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [9 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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CHAMPAIGN
R&B group from Champaign, Illinois: Pauli Carman and Rena Jones (vocals), Leon Reader (guitar), Michael Day and Dana Walden (keyboards), Michael Reed (bass) and Rocky Maffit (drums).

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
How 'Bout Us	3/28/81	12
Try Again	5/14/83	23

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THE HONEYDRIPPERS
All-star rock group: Robert Plant (vocals), Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck (guitars), and Nile Rodgers (bass). Plant and Page from Led Zeppelin and Rodgers from Chic.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Sea of Love	10/27/84	3
Good Rockin' at Midnight	1/26/85	25

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CHRISTINE McVIE
Born Christine Perfect on 7/12/43 in Birmingham, England. Singer/keyboardist with Fleetwood Mac since 1970. Married to Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie from 1968-77.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Got a Hold on Me	2/4/84	10
Love Will Show Us How	5/12/84	30

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MICHAEL SEMBELLO
Born on 4/17/54 in Philadelphia. Pop singer/guitarist. Prolific studio musician.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Maniac	7/2/83	1
Automatic Man	10/29/83	34

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

Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [8 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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LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
Born on 10/3/47 in Palo Alto, California. Rock guitarist/singer/songwriter. Formed Buckingham-Nicks duo with then-girlfriend, Stevie Nicks. Both joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Trouble	11/7/81	9
Go Insane	8/25/84	23

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HENRY GROSS
Born on 4/1/51 in Brooklyn, New York. Pop-rock singer.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Shannon	4/3/76	6
Springtime Mama	8/21/76	37

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RHYTHM HERITAGE
Studio group assembled by producers Steve Barri and Michael Omartian. Vocals by Oren and Luther Waters.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Theme from S.W.A.T.	1/10/76	1
Baretta's Theme (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)	5/8/76	20

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TOMMY TUTONE
Rock group formed in San Francisco: Tommy Heath (vocals), Jim Keller (guitar), Jon Lyons (bass) and Victor Carberry (drums).

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Angel Say No	6/21/80	38
867-5309/Jenny	3/13/82	4

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

Two Hit Wonders 1976-85 [7 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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PETER BROWN
Born on 7/11/53 in Blue Island, Illinois. Disco singer/keyboardist.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Do Ya Wanna Get Funky with Me	10/8/77	18
Dance With Me (w/Betty Wright)	5/6/78	8

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EDDY GRANT
Born Edmond Grant on 3/5/48 in Plaisance, Guyana; raised in London. Rock-reggae singer. Member of The Equals.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Electric Avenue	5/21/83	2
Romancing the Stone	6/30/84	26

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MAXINE NIGHTINGALE
Born on 11/2/52 in Wembly, England. Acted in productions of Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell and Savages.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Right Back Where We Started From	3/13/76	2
Lead Me On	7/7/79	5

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PETE TOWNSHEND
Born on 5/19/45 in London. Lead guitarist/songwriter of The Who.

Title	Top 40 Debut	Chart Peak
Let My Love Open the Door	7/5/80	9
Face the Face	12/21/85	26

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