One Hit Wonders of the 90s Videos
#15 Barely Breathing – Duncan Sheik
This hit song spent almost a year on the top 20 charts earning, singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik a BMI Award for most played song of 1997. The video shows the singer serenading a woman in soft and filtered light.
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Barely Breathing – Duncan Sheik
This hit song spent almost a year on the top 20 charts earning, singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik a BMI Award for most played song of 1997. The video shows the singer serenading a woman in soft and filtered light.
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Steal My Sunshine – Len
This 1999 song was inspired by the 1976 disco single "More, More, More", and loops a sample from that song. The two singers are actually brother and sister, Marc and Sharon Costanzo. The video was shot over spring break in Daytona, Florida.
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Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Swedish musician Eagle-Eye Cherry plays many different characters in this 1997 black and white video. Starting with a man going on a date, he encounters himself as a shopkeeper, robber, driver, street musician and bum.
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Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
This eerie song was way more popular in the US in 1994 than it was in the bands' home country Canada. It was spoofed by Weird Al Yankovic as "Headline News."
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Lovefool - The Cardigans
This song was hit when released internationally in 1996 and featured in the film Romeo + Juliet. It has been covered many times and the band performed this song in the graduation episode of Beverly Hills 90210.
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I'm Gonna Be (500 miles) - The Proclaimers
Originally recorded in the 80's, it was made famous in 1993 due to its use in the Johnny Depp film Benny and Joon. A karaoke pick great for getting the crowd to sing along, especially if you can pull off the Scottish accent.
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The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
This English hit from 1997 rose in the charts and still makes many top songs of all time lists. The string samples taken from a 1965 Rolling Stones recording created major legal problems that dragged the band from reaching higher success.
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Mambo #5 – Lou Bega
Ladies and Gentleman, this 1999 single from Germany's Lou Bega topped many charts across the globe, reaching #3 in the U.S. It brought back a little bit of Roaring 20's style, with prohibition era lyrical references, flappers, and trumpets.
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How Do You Talk to an Angel – The Heights
The Heights, an Aaron Spelling show from 1992, is mostly remembered for this song, which topped the charts the same week the show was cancelled. It launched the career of Jamie Walters, who since has left acting and music behind to serve as a paramedic and firefighter in L.A.
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Unbelievable – EMF
A 1990 hit featured in many movies from "Space Jam" to "Coyote Ugly". It contains samples of Andrew Dice Clay, although many of the words in the background are undecipherable without the album/CD liner notes.
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Jump - Kris Kross
Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly and Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith, this song hit the top the charts briefly in 1992. The song sampled The Jackson 5 among other bands and Kris Kross went on to tour with MJ himself.
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You Get What You Give – New Radicals
The New Radicals released one album in 1999 and broke up afterward. We think this One Hit has a timeless and universal pop sound. U2 guitarist The Edge once told Time magazine, "I really would love to have written that."
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Jump Around – House of Pain
This Everlast-ing 1992 hip hop anthem still gets people off their butts to jump around 20 years later. After over a decade, House of Pain recently got back together for a 2011 reunion tour.
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Tubthumping – Chumbawamba
Another inescapable earworm, this song ruled the airwaves for some time after it's 1997 release. According to the album/CD liner a tubthumping is political campaigning, kind of like what we in the U.S call stump speaking.
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Closing Time – Semisonic
An evocative and melancholy hit that captures the universal desperation after last call in every dive bar. This 1998 song cemented the catch phrase "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" in the minds of a generation.
