Originally Posted by
Rennadrel
Elvis Presley was probably one of the earliest, but Ritchie Valens was around that time period too. Early Beatles was early pop rock but the shit band of the 60's were The Monkey's. Disco really made music shit as well, since it was just the white man's version of funk, only ten times worse. By the time the 80's rolled around, there were already mountains of garbage artists and one hit wonders. One of the 70's biggest one hit wonders was Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky, never heard from him after that.
Billboard did a list of the top one hit wonders from 1955 to 1992 back in 1997 and it's a lot of usual suspects. Artists like Afroman, Baha Men, Survivor, Lou Bega, Mountain, Free, T-Rex and The Knack have been tossed into many one hit wonders.