Baltimora were an Italian-based pop project fronted by the Northern Irish performer Jimmy McShane, and they gave the mid-1980s one of its most distinctive earworms. "Tarzan Boy", released in 1985, was a glossy slice of italo-disco built around a yodelling "oh-oh-oh" hook, and it became a hit across Europe and the United States, later resurfacing in films and adverts for decades.
The project released more music in the same new-wave-disco style, but nothing came close, and Baltimora are remembered entirely for that one jungle-themed dance track.
On streaming, "Tarzan Boy" sits near 302 million plays, while their next most-streamed track trails at under nine million. That sends the ratio above 35, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Baltimora are a certified one-hit wonder, in the classic italo-disco mould. Theirs is a familiar pattern for the genre: a single, irresistibly catchy song built around a wordless hook that anyone could chant, so huge in its moment and so beloved by soundtrack supervisors ever since that it swallowed everything else the project ever made. Decades on, the "oh-oh-oh" hook still surfaces in films and adverts, while the rest of the catalogue remains all but forgotten.