Medley One Hit Wonders

Medley is a musical composition made up of a series of whole or short pieces of songs. Since it is the modification of the existing music, it lacks the sense of originality and very unlikely to become a hit. Medley is usually a club favourite or party choice - not the mainstream hit. However, sometimes when the mixture of songs is right, medley can even crack the chart to become a worldwide hit. The following lists are the artists who could make only one hit 'mixture' in their entire career.

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Artist	Johnny Maddox & the Rhythmasters	Year	1955
Song	The Crazy Otto	Chart	2

Johnny Maddox was the ragtime pianoist from 1950s. Despite having as many as 50 albums and more than 80 singles, only one of his singles became a chart hit. In 1955, he pieced together several works of Fritz Schulz-Reichel, a German pianist, to create a medley singles entitled as "The Crazy Otto". It almost topped the chart and became the first million-selling ragtime record ever.

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Artist	The Trashmen	Year	1964
Song	Surfin' Bird	Chart	4

The Trashmen was a rock & roll band from Minneapolis in 1960s. Their huge fame cames from the novelty tune when "Surfin' Bird" became top5 hit in 1964. The song was actually the fusion of two of the Rivingtons' best songs, "The Bird's the Word" and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow", from early 1960s. They never been able to duplicate the success of their lone hit and disbanded in late 1960s.

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Artist	Tom Clay	Year	1971
Song	What the World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin and John	Chart	8

Tom Clay was a popular disc jocky during the 1950s and 1960s, who was also nortorious from 1959 payola scandal. In 1971, Clay created a social commentary record by mixing 2 songs along with a piece of speeches by JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The singles became a runaway smash that year, and probably the only Clay's known work today.

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Artist	The Delegates	Year	1972
Song	Convention '72	Chart	8

In 1972, this short-live novelty group came up with an idea on making a novelty record about an fictional joint national convention between Democrat and Republican party for that year's presidential election. "Convention '72" was an unimaginable smash which climbed to no.8 on Billboard chart that year.

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Artist	John & Ernest	Year	1973
Song	Super Fly Meets Shaft	Chart	31

John Free and Ernest Smith were an American duo comical musician in the early 70s. In 1973, they made a brief moment of fame when their break-in style novelty singles "Super Fly Meet Shaft" became no.31 on Billboard chart that spring. The duo could not catch up with this unexpected success, and disappeared into oblivion.

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Artist	Stars on 45	Year	1981
Song	Stars on 45	Chart	1

In 1981, this Dutch pop novelty group released its first singles "Star on 45", made of songs from the Archies and Beatles. It became the international smash, which hit no.1 in US and no.2 in UK and gained them a brief moment of fortune. Their following singles were not as success and the band quietly vanish from the scene.

royal philharmonic orchestra - hooked on classics

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Artist	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	Year	1982
Song	Hooked On Classics	Chart	10

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is regarded as one of London's five world-class orchestras. In 1981, a former arranger of ELO, Louis Clark, conducted the band for the classical music medley album. Its main titled "Hooked On Classics" became top10 hit and brought classical music to the new generations of audiences.

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Artist	Larry Elgart & His Manhattan Swing Orchestra	Year	1982
Song	Hooked On Swing	Chart	31

Larry Elgart is an American jazz musician and bandleader who has been in the big band business since the mid 1940s. His biggest commercial succes came with the released of the album "Hooked On Swing" in 1982. The title track, which was a medley of popular swing jazz hits, became a top40 on Billboard chart. It was Elgart's only national hit.

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Artist	Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers	Year	1976
Song	Swing the Mood	Chart	1

The band was a brainchild of John and Andy Pickles, a father and son UK DJ tag-team. Their first singles "Swing the Mood" was a medley of several popular songs from the rock&roll era. It went straight to no.1 in UK and no.11 in US. They were the third band in UK history to have all their first three singles topped UK chart - but never again in US.

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Artist	ESPN Presents	Year	1997
Song	Jock Jam Megamix	Chart	31

Tommy Boys Records is one of the hip-hop/dance music specialist label. In the mid 1990s, they started releasing the 'Jock Jams' series, which is the collections of 1980s and 1990s dance/disco/mix music - often cradited to 'ESPN'. On the third volume, the megamix titled as 'Jock Jam Megamix' became an accidental hit - which climbed to no.31 on Billboard chart.