History OneHitWonder / Country

* '''Girls Next Door''', a rare GirlGroup in country music, had a Top 10 hit in 1986 with "Slow Boat to China". Their career was stunted by their label closing partway through the release of their second album.

* '''Jerry Wallace''' had a long chart history spanning from 1958 to 1980, including the Top 10 pop hit "Primrose Lane" in 1959, but the only song for which most people seem to remember him is "If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry" in 1972. It was his only #1 hit, and its popularity was bolstered by being featured in the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "The Tune in Dan's Cafe".

* '''Tompall & the Glaser Brothers''' (a trio consisting of brothers Jim, Chuck, and Tompall Glaser) had been around since the 1960s, and had formerly sung backing vocals for Music/MartyRobbins. However, they are known almost entirely for their #2 hit "Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" in 1981. During a recording hiatus in TheSeventies, '''Tompall Glaser''' was also a one-hit wonder with the 1975 hit "Put Another Log on the Fire (The Male Chauvinist National Anthem)". After the group broke up again in 1982, Jim would become a TwoHitWonder with "If I Could Only Dance with You" and "You're Gettin' to Me Again", both in 1984.

%%* Music/BigAndRich do ''not'' qualify, as they have had multiple country radio hits (SignatureSong "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" [[ChartDisplacement is only their third-highest on Hot Country Songs]]). Group member John Rich does not qualify either, as he had two surprise political-themed hits a decade apart: "Shuttin' Detroit Down" in 2009 (recorded while Big & Rich was on hiatus), and "Shut Up About Politics" a decade later. However, the latter features credited guest vocals from the hosts of the Creator/FoxNewsChannel panel show '''''Series/{{The Five|2011}}''''', an anomaly very unlikely to be repeated.

* '''Guy Drake''', a house painter who'd never even recorded before, had a hit in 1970 with "Welfare Cadilac" [''sic''], a satire of welfare recipients. The song was the subject of controversy when UsefulNotes/RichardNixon asked Music/JohnnyCash to perform the song at the White House and Cash refused. Drake released one album and a handful of other singles, but quickly disappeared (he was in his 60s at the time of the hit, and died in 1984).

* '''Natasha Bedingfield''' is not a one-hit wonder at pop, but at country, her only success was backing Music/RascalFlatts on the #3 hit "Easy" in 2011.

* Music/EricChurch is nowhere close to a one-hit wonder, but '''Rhiannon Giddens''', his duet partner on his late 2016-early 2017 hit "Kill a Word", is unlikely to have any more country hits because she normally doesn't perform in that genre. (In a bizarre subversion of AdvertisedExtra, the album version featured her and independent pop singer Andrea Davidson on backing vocals, but the radio edit turned it into a true duet by giving Giddens a few lines to herself.) She's better known as the frontwoman for the Americana group Carolina Chocolate Drops and for a critically acclaimed solo career that largely brings her airplay on adult alternative radio.

* '''Norro Wilson''' had only one hit with 1970's "Do It to Someone You Love", which was never even put on an album. He quit singing in the late 70s and became more famous as a RecordProducer.

* '''Johnnie Wright''' had several hits with his brother-in-law Jack Anglin as the duo Johnnie & Jack, most notably with a rendition of "(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely". After Anglin died in a car accident, Wright forged out on his own and had his only major hit in 1965 with the war protest song "Hello Vietnam". Wright's only other claim to fame is being the [[CreatorCouple husband of]] Kitty Wells, best known for being the first female to have a #1 hit on the country charts.

* '''C.W. [=McCall=]''' was originally a truck driver character created for a series of Old Home bread commercials by Omaha, Nebraska advertising executive William Fries, with Fries himself doing the proto-CountryRap narration for the spots. Eventually Fries adopted the [=McCall=] persona, and with writer-producer Chip Davis (future founder of Music/MannheimSteamroller) recorded several albums worth of spoken-word songs about trucking and life on the road. While [=McCall=] did decently on the country charts, with nine Top 40 hits, far and away his biggest success was "Convoy." The [[HollywoodCB CB-jargon]] laced song about rebellious truck drivers frustrated with paying tolls and various other restrictions topped both the country and pop charts in January 1976, and even [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff reached #2 in Britain later in the year]]. He only scored one other Top 10 country hit (the sentimental "Roses for Mama" a year later), and his only other brush with the pop Top 40, 1975's "Wolf Creek Pass", peaked at #40. After retiring from music, [=McCall=] served under his real name as the mayor of Ouray, Colorado.