There are so many acts that have made it to the Top 40 only once, never to do so again. There have even been several people who have charted only once as a solo artist and only once again as part of a group or duo. But there is one artist who holds a very distinctive record among "One-Hit-Wonders".
Tony Burrows, a British session singer, has sung the lead vocals on 4 songs that certainly qualify as "One-Hit-Wonders"! And, if the rules can be bent just a little, he would have 5! The songs and acts in question (along with their U.S. chart position) are as follows:
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by Edison Lighthouse, #5
"United We Stand" by Brotherhood of Man*, #13
"My Baby Loves Lovin'" by White Plains, #13
"Gimme Dat Ding" by The Pipkins, #9
"Beach Baby" by The First Class, #4
The first four of those hits all occurred within four months, April to July of 1970! The last came in October of 1974.
* The original line-up of Brotherhood of Man actually disbanded in 1972, but its creator, producer Tony Hiller, assembled a completely new line-up under the same name, and it was this incarnation of the band that had the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest winner "Save Your Kisses For Me", which peaked at #27 in the U.S. (#1 on the Adult Contemporary chart).
Tony Burrows may not be a household name, but he is definitely entered into the annals of rock history as King of the "One-Hit-Wonders"!
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