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Some artists manage to strike gold not once, but twice! Join us as we revisit memorable bands and singers that delivered exactly two unforgettable hits. From catchy singalongs to chart-topping anthems, these musicians proved lightning can strike twice—even if just for a moment. Which duo of tunes left you wanting more? Let us know your favorite "two hit" act in the comments!
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00:00Just rock your boys, we'll get wild, wild, wild!
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks
00:10for those musical artists that are known for not one, but two signature tunes.
00:15We can dance, we can dance, everything's out of control.
00:19But we can dance, we can dance.
00:22Number 10, The Rembrandts.
00:24Just the way it is, baby, and I'll be there for you.
00:27No one told you that was gonna be this way.
00:32It's nothing new for television shows to seek out certain pop acts
00:36to craft a theme tune for their show.
00:38I'll Be There For You wasn't the first flirtation with the Billboard Hot 100
00:42for The Rembrandts, however, since this Los Angeles-based band
00:46actually scored a hit with Just The Way It Is Baby off of their self-titled debut.
00:51That song peaked at number 14, while the smash follow-up, I'll Be There For You,
01:04actually wasn't taken from any of the Rembrandts albums.
01:07When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year, but...
01:13Instead, this theme from Friends was released as a single,
01:16and earned the Rembrandts notoriety not only at home, but abroad as well.
01:21I'll be there for you.
01:24When the rain starts to burn.
01:26I'll be there for you.
01:29Number 9, Extreme.
01:31More Than Words and Wholehearted.
01:33Every Bad Boy Has a Soft Side.
01:43This was a quote taken from the advertising for Monster Ballads,
01:47a popular line of power ballad CDs that compiled hits from the world of pop rock and hair metal.
01:52Extreme were a Boston-based hard rock-slash-metal act
01:56that was largely indebted to a style of shredding hard rock in the Van Halen mold.
02:00If you don't like what you see here, nobody wants to take your prison out.
02:07Yet early singles like Get the Funk Out didn't really do the numbers earned by comparatively mellower songs like More Than Words and Wholehearted.
02:15More Than Words to show you feel.
02:19Oh, Extreme certainly retained their fair share of heavy rock fans,
02:23but the proof of the band's acoustic prowess seemed undeniable back in the early 90s.
02:28There's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by you.
02:35Number 8, Katie Tunstall, Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, and Suddenly I See.
02:41Just because an artist earned two hits doesn't necessarily mean that both hits have retained the same level of visibility.
02:47It's more than likely that viewers of a certain age can remember when Katie Tunstall's Black Horse and the Cherry Tree was plastered all over MTV.
02:56I came across a place in the middle of nowhere with a big black horse and a cherry tree.
03:00Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!
03:04That song was notable for its earworm repetition of woo-hoo over an arrangement that felt indebted to traditional folk music, blues and bluegrass.
03:13No, no, no, no, no. I said no, no. You're not the one for me.
03:20Meanwhile, Suddenly I See feels a bit more contemporary, but still with that rootsiness that fans gravitated towards with Tunstall's music.
03:28Suddenly I See, Suddenly I See, This is what I wanna be, Suddenly I See, Suddenly I See.
03:36Both songs are honestly pretty great, but Katie Tunstall struggled to keep the crossover commercial success going in the wake of these tunes.
03:43Number 7, Paula Cole, Where Have All the Cowboys Gone and I Don't Wanna Wait.
03:49Oh, you get me ready in your 56 Chevy Why don't we go sit down in the shade?
03:55The 90s were a pretty good decade for girl power in music.
03:59Traveling music festivals like Lilith Fair highlighted both classic and emerging female talent,
04:05while the latter part of the decade saw two smash hits from Rockport, Massachusetts' own Paula Cole.
04:11Where have all the cowboys gone?
04:15Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.
04:18The singer-songwriter's career actually never stopped, and Paula Cole still regularly releases new music and tours to support her art.
04:27Most passive fans of the radio would likely be hard-pressed to recall Cole's more recent material.
04:33They could, however, probably name both of her hits, Where Have All the Cowboys Gone and I Don't Wanna Wait.
04:39The latter doubled as the theme to the TV show Dawson's Creek, while Paula Cole's impressive resume belies her status as a two-hit wonderer.
04:54I don't wanna wait for all my lives to be over, I want to know right now, what will it be?
05:03Number 6, Men Without Hats, The Safety Dance and Pop Goes the World.
05:07It was the MTV revolution that helped Canada's Men Without Hats crossover big time with their 1982 single, The Safety Dance.
05:16We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance, well they're no friends of mine.
05:25The group's sound was total synth-pop, but the accompanying video felt like something from a sword and sorcery film, complete with period costumes and sets.
05:33We can act if we want to, if we don't nobody will, and you can act real rude and totally removed, and I can act like an imbecile.
05:42This video for The Safety Dance would go on to help define those early years of MTV, but it's something of a misconception that Men Without Hats were a one-hit wonder.
05:51The group actually charted again in 1987 with Pop Goes the World, reaching number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 2 on Canada's Top Singles, and number 1 over on Austria's Top 40.
06:09Number 5, Quiet Riot, Metal Health, Bang Your Head, and Come On Feel the Noise.
06:23This LA band-made history is the first heavy metal act to top the Billboard Top 200 album charts with their third effort, Metal Health.
06:32This LP featured both of Quiet Riot's biggest hits, the title track, and their cover of Slade's Come On Feel the Noise.
06:53The former was an anthemic clarion call for heavy metal's commercial dominance throughout the 80s,
06:58while the latter was a nice connection to Quiet Riot's own glam roots alongside former member Randy Rhodes.
07:13Frontman Kevin Dubrow's frustration with following up the success of Metal Health spilled over into his interviews within the press, however,
07:20with Quiet Riot essentially sealing the roots of their own commercial doom.
07:24Not even yet another Slade cover could help them.
07:33Number 4, Presidents of the United States of America, Lump and Peaches.
07:45It's perhaps a little unfair to label the Presidents of the United States of America as a novelty act.
07:51A little unfair, but also impossible to avoid, since both of the band's hits, Lump and Peaches, were quirky and massively outside the pop music norm.
08:08Moving to the country, I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches, I'm moving to the country.
08:15Shades of acts like they might be giants or even Frank Zappa could be found within the Presidents of the United States of America, thanks to their sense of humor.
08:23And if I had my little way, I'd eat peaches every day.
08:28Meanwhile, both Lump and Peaches had moments of aggro guitar that were surprisingly effective.
08:34But the writing seemed to be on the wall.
08:36These Presidents were just too good for this world.
08:47Number 3, Spin Doctors, Little Miss Can't Be Wrong and Two Princes.
08:51Jam band culture felt alive and well back in the early 90s, thanks to the chart success of the Spin Doctors.
09:04The roots of this New York band can actually be traced back to a group called the Trucking Company,
09:09which featured within its ranks future blues traveler frontman John Popper.
09:14The Spin Doctors occupied a similarly retro space with their jangling, hippie band Guitar Rock,
09:20a sound that first hit charts with 1992's Little Miss Can't Be Wrong.
09:32Fans seemed to respond to that tune's memorable chorus,
09:35so they showed up again big time for the band's second single, Two Princes.
09:47Both songs allowed for the Spin Doctors' debut album, Pocket Full of Kryptonite,
09:51to go an astonishing quintuple platinum.
09:54Number 2, Aha, Take On Me and The Sun Always Shines on TV.
10:16We get it. Take On Me was such a huge and iconic hit for Aha,
10:19that it's easy for some fans to forget that this Norwegian band struck again,
10:23only a year removed from their biggest selling song.
10:34The Sun Always Shines on TV may not have had the same cultural impact as Take On Me,
10:39but the song is also very melodic, memorable and well composed.
10:43Touch me, how can it be?
10:51Lead singer Morton Harkett doesn't hit the same sort of stratospheric high notes on this one,
10:56but The Sun Always Shines on TV is a nice reminder about how the career of Aha
11:01continued long after their MTV flirtation.
11:04The Sun Always Shines on TV
11:12Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
11:16Ugly Kid Joe, Everything About You, and Cats in the Cradle.
11:21Snotty hard rockers cover the Harry Chapin classic.
11:23Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon
11:26Little boy blue and the man on the moon
11:29I hate everything about you
11:34Mr. Mister, Broken Wings, and Kiri
11:3780s power-pop brilliance
11:51LMFAO, Party Rock Anthem, and Sexy and I Know It
11:55Is the world ready for an LMFAO revival?
11:58I'm sexy and I know it
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12:02We're party pockets in the house tonight
12:06Everybody just have a good time
12:10Tesla, Love Song, and Signs
12:13Blazing hard rockers Take a Rest earns some hits
12:16Signs, Signs everywhere, Signs
12:19Locking out the scenery, breaking the night
12:22Love the years from around you
12:26Yeah
12:28Golden Earring, Radar Love, and Twilight Zone
12:31Dutch band graduates from Prague to pop
12:34We've got a thing that's cold with our love
12:38We've got a light in the sky
12:42How am I coming into the Twilight Zone?
12:45This is a madhouse who feels like being cold
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13:05Number 1
13:07The Romantics
13:08What I Like About You
13:09And Talking In Your Sleep
13:11The Detroit Power Pop Machine, known as The Romantics, first hit rock radio with their 1979 single, What I Like About You
13:26That tune continues to be a heritage station staple to this day
13:37But the band definitely bettered their success on album number 4
13:41Thanks to a little song called Talking In Your Sleep
13:44The song is a tour de force of jangling guitar melodies, punctuating bass lines, and driving drums
13:57There's a pre-chorus to die for that leads right into a million dollar chorus
14:02Talking In Your Sleep is economically written, with no fat or extraneous jamming to bog down what the romantics are trying to achieve
14:17Another smash hit
14:19Can you think of any other two hit wonders?
14:21Shout out your favorites in the comments
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14:47The only way
14:48The weight
14:49The conscious
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14:58The place
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