It's National "One Hit Wonder" Day!

@tooblue, I know where you're coming from. If you look at the artists listed so far in this thread, only a handful have had a long career with a significant back catalog: JJ Cale; Concrete Blonde; Grateful Dead; Mitch Ryder and Mott the Hoople.

No one's mentioned Richard Thompson yet; but, that's probably because he's never had a top 40 hit, despite a 47 year career as a solo artist. 

"Cuts You Up", Peter Murphy (Yup...)
"Dear Jill". Blodwyn Pig (Deliciously sparse...)
"Mexican Radio", Wall of Voodoo (Any country...including ours)
"Pump Up The Volume", M/A/R/R/S (The birth of 'sample & hold')
"Everyone Wants To Go To Heaven", Ellen McIlwaine (Everyone, Everywhere, Always.)
"Under The Milky Way", The Church (..or Laniakea, for that matter...)

There's a lot of it, out there...*G*

One more:

Shivaree:  "Goodnight Moon"

@avsjerry, + 1 on all of your picks. 

YES for Shivaree!!

Remembered another one:  "I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in", Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.