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One-Hit Wonders

2002
1 season
17 episodes

One-Hit Wonders is a television series airing on VH1 featuring unsuccessful pop stars and those who were unable to get a big break into popular music. The series began airing on July 29, 2002.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Hour 5

    10-05-200230m

    One hit wonders #20-1.

  • Ep 2

    2.Hour 4

    09-05-200230m

    One hit wonders #40-21.

  • Ep 3

    3.Hour 2

    07-05-200230m

    One hit wonders #80-61.

  • Ep 4

    4.Hour 3

    08-05-200230m

    One hit wonders #60-41.

  • Ep 5

    5.Hour 1

    06-05-200230m

    The first hour of this special deals with one hit wonders from #100-81.

  • Ep 6

    6.Disco Divas

    29-07-200230m

    The disco era gave us more than its fair share of one-time stars who sang the songs that got people on the dance floor, kept them there all night, and took them back home again wit...

  • Ep 7

    7.New Wave

    05-08-200230m

    This episode of One Hit Wonders explores songs from the genre that brought us more bleeps and bloops than a game of Pac-Man. Fire up your synthesizer, wrap on a skinny tie, and do...

  • Ep 8

    8.Metal Mania

    12-08-200230m

    Maybe it's the tight, spandex trousers, or the big hair, but this is just about everybody's favorite genre. One Hit Wonders examines those flash-in-the-pan heavy metal acts that ho...

  • Ep 9

    9.Star Tracks

    19-08-200230m

    What is it that tempts the thespian from the dramatic stage to the recording studio? A need to break character, to show another side? Or is it something as simple as wanting to roc...

  • Ep 10

    10.Hip Hop Nation

    09-09-200230m

    Rap was an underground phenomenon until 1980 when Sugar Hill Gang's ""Rapper's Delight"" became a top forty hit. By the end of the decade, hip hop artists like The Beastie Boys and...

  • Ep 11

    11.TV Tunes

    16-09-200230m

    Most memorable television shows had memorable theme songs and some of those songs became hits in their own right. In the case of The Heights' ""How Do You Talk To Angels?"" the son...

  • Ep 12

    12.Two Timers

    07-10-200230m

    Shooting stars: they burn too bright, too fast and quickly burnout. But on occasion, they're superior to one-hit wonders. They score two hits. This episode of One Hit Wonders exami...

  • Ep 13

    13.Goofy Greats

    07-10-200230m

    Rubik's Cubes. Mood Rings. Pet Rocks. CB Radios. Pac-Man. Fads, trends, and fashions come and go in the blink of the eye, but not before they've been honored with a novelty song. T...

  • Ep 14

    14.Rock Bottoms

    14-10-200230m

    This episode spotlights artists who scored a single hit with a booty-shaking anthem.

  • Ep 15

    15.Jock Jams

    21-10-200230m

    Songs known to some as ""sports anthems"" are spotlighted in this episode.

  • Ep 16

    16.Dirty Dancing

    28-10-200230m

    This episode spotlights songs from one-hit wonders that got bodies moving on the dance floor.

  • Ep 17

    17.VH1's One Hit Wonders Presents: Star Tracks

    18-01-200330m

    A look at actors and actresses who tried to make it big in the music world.

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