Stealers Wheel were a Scottish folk-rock band, built around Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan, who made one wry, shuffling classic that has long outlived the group. "Stuck in the Middle with You", released in 1972, was a knowing, Dylan-esque singalong, and its easy charm made it a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
The band were short-lived and fractious, and they never matched that breakthrough before splitting. Rafferty went on to solo success with "Baker Street", but under the Stealers Wheel name, "Stuck in the Middle with You" is the whole story.
The song found a vivid second life decades later when Quentin Tarantino used it, unforgettably, in a notorious scene in his 1992 film Reservoir Dogs, fixing it permanently in pop culture. On streaming it sits near 901 million plays, while their next genuinely different track trails far below. That sends the ratio above 30, many times our 5.0 line.
By our measure Stealers Wheel are a certified one-hit wonder, with the streaming-era caveat for an act of their vintage. One sardonic 70s singalong, lifted back into the spotlight by a film director's ear, has comfortably outlasted everything else the band recorded.