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9:30 Coffee Break: One-Hit Wonders

by Jill Riley and Sean McPherson

September 25, 2015

Needle on vinyl record
Needle on vinyl record
Thomas Weidenhaupt - Creative Commons

Today is One-Hit Wonder Day. A one-hit wonder is an artist with just one song that landed in the Top 40; some of those even hit No. 1. But after that one massive hit … crickets.

So let's have some Friday fun with One-Hit Wonder Day!

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what one-hit wonders would you like to hear? Send us your requests.

Songs Played


Strawberry Alarm Clock "Incense and Peppermints"
Blind Melon "No Rain"
Lipps Inc "Funkytown"
Lisa Loeb "Stay"
Gotye "Somebody That I Used to Know"
The Wonders "That Thing You Do!"

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