Word: one-hit
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...hope the works' weaknesses are signs merely of writers still finding their way, not a mark of the Curse of Oprah. Given the pressures of publishing, where marketing and the big chains reign supreme, perhaps all that one-hit wonders need is a bit of quiet time...
...then, she has had 20 No. 1 R. and B. hits and won 17 Grammys. Her breakthrough album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), was a Top 40 smash. Three decades later, after Motown, after disco, after the Macarena, after innumerable musical trendlets and one-hit wonders, Franklin's newest album, her critically acclaimed A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998), is another Top 40 smash. Although her output has sometimes been tagged (unfairly, for the most part) as erratic, she has had a major album in every decade of her career, including Amazing Grace...
...Give some of the money to the Undergraduate Council so it can hire a better band for Springfest. This year's top choice, Sister Hazel, is a one-hit wonder--we have to wonder how their one song has done so well...
...that British pop group Chumbawamba's Tubthumping has shot up the charts to No. 6, one has to ask: Just how far can a really silly name take you? Not so far. In fact, internal rhyme and assonance have long been a trademark of one-hit wonders. A look back suggests that Chumbawamba has just one hit left in them...
...team's spring break trip to the Pioneer Classic, Cupp earned all-tournament team status by going 4-1 with one save to up her overall record to 9-4 on the season. In producing the victories, Cupp managed to no-hit Santa Clara in the semifinals and one-hit Wisconsin-Stout in the finals as the Crimson cruised to a 6-1 record and a tournament victory...