This American Songwriter opinion piece looks back at four rock acts that scored a single major US hit in 1975, arguing that each deserved more chart success than they achieved. The author's affection for these songs is the through-line: while the bands are remembered as one-hit wonders, the writer contends several of their follow-up singles were unfairly overlooked, even as the tracks themselves remain lodged in the memories of people who grew up in the 1970s.

The four featured songs are the Ozark Mountain Daredevils' "Jackie Blue" (No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, though their 1974 debut "If You Wanna Get To Heaven" reached No. 25), Ace's "How Long" (a No. 3 hit noted for Phil Harris's guitar solo, with the English band splitting in 1977), Scottish group Pilot's "Magic" (No. 5, and singled out as the most memorable of the four despite the band never returning to the Top 40), and Jigsaw's disco-tinged "Sky High" (No. 3, used as the theme for the film The Man From Hong Kong, followed by "Love Fire" at No. 30 in 1976). The piece frames all four as talented acts undone by the fickle nature of the music industry.