Great One Hit Wonders of History

Finally, a new TSP weekly special feature. Now, these songs are great for a variety of reasons - not many of them involving the actual music. Get ready for big hair, bizarre lyrics and general musical stupidity.

Of course most of the artists who will feature over the next few weeks (months? There's a lot of these duds) did have a second, or in some rather extreme cases, third single. These songs may even have cracked the top 40, but they were nothing compared to what preceded them.

We open the collection with the singer who's futile career inspired this series.

#1. Ann Lee - 2 Times (1999)
1999's #1 singing housewife Ann Lee burst into the charts in August and stayed there until December with this catchy tune. The words made absolutely no sense ("Some never mind, what you're looking for, Easy gone, lettin' on, don't open you now, mh-mh-mh. Easy gone, darling gimme more." - Pardon?) but the tune was so jolly that soon enough everybody was walking around singing "do do do do do do" to themselves. It didn't hurt that the tune was accompanied by a video with wackiness unseen since the hey-day of Frente - she mopped the floor, she put out washing, cooked fried eggs and then she went to bed. Frankly it was utter genius.

Her second, and probably last, single Voices featured exactly the same "do do do" bit (why mess with a winning formula?) as the first and barely cracked the top 40 despite being in the Video Hits interactive countdown for about three months.

In discussing this entry with notorious blogger and public transport stooge Agent FareEvader he admitted to somewhat rigging the Interactive Countdown by spending an alleged $700 on phone calls to stack the vote. I think he should have asked for his money back, because it was always mired in rock bottom last position when I watched no matter how hard they pushed it.

Where Are They Now? - My investigative reporting skills fail me on this one, I can't find one mention of anything she's done since then. Here's a look at her discography though - what a commanding list of tracks that is. Presumably she's busy mopping somebody elses floor and cleaning their dishes for a living now.