June 30, 2026 • 8 mins
Remember when we spoke to Jon, whose song went viral FIFTEEN years after its release?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Robin Kid and couriots In.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Perhaps you've opened Instagram, TikTok Facebook in the last month,
you will have heard this song. The man behind it
joins us right now, Hey, John, here you go, mate?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You are what about you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Very good mate? What a crazy ride this last couple
of years has been.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This song.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Has just gone crazy and it's you know, fifteen sixteen
years after you recorded it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, we've released in twenty ten or so of January.
So I recorded it the summer two thousand and nine,
and all of a sudden, some person I don't know
who in Eastern europeisode to put it on a video
with John.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Literally happen overnight, like your life changed within a week.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, pretty much. I thought I was done with singing
and I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How does it work with this song? Like when they
put it on that video? How does that work? Do
you get contacted by someone saying, hey, this is going nuts?
Like you know, are you getting paid for this?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Or like? How does that work? Now?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Because it's alwaysy for people to put music on the
songs and then you know that video done well and
they make money from that video. So is that what
this person's done?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I don't know who it is, but someone decided that
this song fit that memes extremely well, that video extremely well. Yeah,
but I got I got a message from a Ukrainean
girl living in Denmark saying this is all over my feet,
and I was like, what's going on? And then a
couple of weeks later, I got this notification from my
Apple Music profile that I haven't used in I don't
(01:50):
know how long. Yeah, and it's said number five in
the world, and so I went in. I said, okay,
it actually looks like it's the hard work from that single.
So I called up the label on a Sunday. It
weren't very happy about that. When they found out what
(02:10):
I wanted. I was like, you know, we're number five
in the world, and they didn't so.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So you were saying that you're out of music. What
have you been doing the last few years?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I managed artists, I worked with DJs. Yeah, I've been
doing that for the last fifteen years. So the first
DJ who was on the first version in twenty ten
was the guy I managed. He didn't have a single
and I had actually stopped singing, but I had this
one song to the last of song, and I said,
you want to jump on it because he needed one,
(02:43):
and then two years later he can live a It.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Did Kato cover was it Jose? The original song?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I worked at a radio station when I didn't really
know what I wanted to do with my life, like you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Guys, Yes, yeah, hanger. So were you like a like
on air DJ type of thing?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, yeah, I had. I had this boss who liked
Dutch music and he played Dutch dance music all the time,
and I heard this eternal lights of song, but say,
and I really liked it, and back then I yeah,
I thought, okay, it's not going to happen here. So
I con sected him and I bought the license for
it and acted as the label. But it didn't really connect.
(03:26):
It didn't really work. So I thought, okay, let me
just re record the vocals, and I did, and I
did a new production and gave it to Cato, and
then he had a single you Are.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So when you re recorded it was the original version
your It wasn't your voice on it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
The first one with was not my voice. The twenty
ten version of Cato was my voice. And then I
re recorded again last year and I did a new one.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, that's pretty cool that you that you've heard
that song and thought, you know what, I can hit
all those notes. This is this is that, it's it's
not you want.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
To want to hear a better story, Yes, I hear
a better one. Yeah. So I heard this instrumental track
friend posted on Facebook and said this is great and
it had like nineteen hundred views I think on YouTube,
and I just wanted that song so and back then
I was buying these licenses. So I kept calling this
(04:19):
manager saying I need this one, and he said, ah,
I just signed it to a Swiss label and I
don't know who you are and I never heard of you,
but you know, try chalking to this dude. So I
kept calling this Swiss guy and apparently they understood that
I meant business, so they sold it to me. And
that song was tim Berke Bromance, his first gold record.
(04:40):
I did that one. Whoa whoah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah right, So that's a good story. You're going to
need it for it.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So when you when you saw the first Netflix documentary
where they were hanging up a gold record within the
first ten minutes, that was my company name on it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Wow, we joined by the man who sang this song,
and where have we got you this morning, John Denmark
in Denmark. So do you like our Princess Mary or
Queen Mary.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's got to be the first Australian.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Question, right, it is. It is the first one. That
she's Tasmanian, right.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, yeah, well you know that, yeah very much. Oh okay,
I thought you were just going to say she's Dasmanian
and leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Okay, now you do like it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay, she's Tasmanian and you like it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
That's important.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That was an important next sentence, John. We're quite parochial
in this country.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
She's just Tasmanian is its own thing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah. Oh, she had just done that, she's Tasmanian. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Are we going to see you in Australia? Are you
thinking about touring? Yeah, you're gonna come and take full
advantage of the fact we're talking to you at five
point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I don't know I've had or show offers from Australia.
Now I need to get back into ship and I
need to start.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That is hard, hard work, that's funny diversity.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I've got to get back in shape before.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's just running around, running around on stage, huffing and
puffing real work.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I mean, you look alright. I don't know what's going
on under that, but you look.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Fine under the audience all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And ever since you said that you work in radio,
I've just been thinking, we've been doing this competition lately.
We're sort of where we're going back to, you know,
to the nineties, where we're doing this thing called posting Olympics.
I don't know if it's if that translates well, but
it's posting where you talk over the start of the
song and you talk right after the lyrics, like old
school DJ thing.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Oh my god, I haven't done it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, So I'm going to make it very easy for
you because I'm going to use your song, right, okay,
So I want you to talk. I think it's a
twenty second intro, so I want you to talk over it.
If you can say, we've got this competition called Cash
or Crash, So if you can just somehow incorporate the
cash or Crash is coming up, and then any other
things you want to mention Australia, Yeah, whatever you get, okay,
(07:35):
and then you talk right up to I'm getting all right,
this is your this is your first workout mate, So
all the way up there, don't crash the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Okay, are you ready? John?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Good morning guys. You're listening to and we are having
to crash crash cress and posting Olympics, Olympus answer. Christ
and Johnahan danced to it, so can you. I know
it's start in the morning. For get your dancing shoes
on and get going.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You still gotta you still.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Worry every day every day.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh, it's been so good to.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Talk to you.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And yeah, if you ever do come to Australia, we'd
love to see you here mate. So and congratulations.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, thanks you really nice. That is right, Robin, Kip
and Court in the morning.
Robin Kid and couriots In.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Perhaps you've opened Instagram, TikTok Facebook in the last month,
you will have heard this song. The man behind it
joins us right now, Hey, John, here you go, mate?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
You are what about you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Very good mate? What a crazy ride this last couple
of years has been.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This song.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Has just gone crazy and it's you know, fifteen sixteen
years after you recorded it.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, we've released in twenty ten or so of January.
So I recorded it the summer two thousand and nine,
and all of a sudden, some person I don't know
who in Eastern europeisode to put it on a video
with John.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Literally happen overnight, like your life changed within a week.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, pretty much. I thought I was done with singing
and I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How does it work with this song? Like when they
put it on that video? How does that work? Do
you get contacted by someone saying, hey, this is going nuts?
Like you know, are you getting paid for this?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Or like? How does that work? Now?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Because it's alwaysy for people to put music on the
songs and then you know that video done well and
they make money from that video. So is that what
this person's done?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I don't know who it is, but someone decided that
this song fit that memes extremely well, that video extremely well. Yeah,
but I got I got a message from a Ukrainean
girl living in Denmark saying this is all over my feet,
and I was like, what's going on? And then a
couple of weeks later, I got this notification from my
Apple Music profile that I haven't used in I don't
(01:50):
know how long. Yeah, and it's said number five in
the world, and so I went in. I said, okay,
it actually looks like it's the hard work from that single.
So I called up the label on a Sunday. It
weren't very happy about that. When they found out what
(02:10):
I wanted. I was like, you know, we're number five
in the world, and they didn't so.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So you were saying that you're out of music. What
have you been doing the last few years?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I managed artists, I worked with DJs. Yeah, I've been
doing that for the last fifteen years. So the first
DJ who was on the first version in twenty ten
was the guy I managed. He didn't have a single
and I had actually stopped singing, but I had this
one song to the last of song, and I said,
you want to jump on it because he needed one,
(02:43):
and then two years later he can live a It.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Did Kato cover was it Jose? The original song?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I worked at a radio station when I didn't really
know what I wanted to do with my life, like you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Guys, Yes, yeah, hanger. So were you like a like
on air DJ type of thing?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, yeah, I had. I had this boss who liked
Dutch music and he played Dutch dance music all the time,
and I heard this eternal lights of song, but say,
and I really liked it, and back then I yeah,
I thought, okay, it's not going to happen here. So
I con sected him and I bought the license for
it and acted as the label. But it didn't really connect.
(03:26):
It didn't really work. So I thought, okay, let me
just re record the vocals, and I did, and I
did a new production and gave it to Cato, and
then he had a single you Are.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So when you re recorded it was the original version
your It wasn't your voice on it.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
The first one with was not my voice. The twenty
ten version of Cato was my voice. And then I
re recorded again last year and I did a new one.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, that's pretty cool that you that you've heard
that song and thought, you know what, I can hit
all those notes. This is this is that, it's it's
not you want.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
To want to hear a better story, Yes, I hear
a better one. Yeah. So I heard this instrumental track
friend posted on Facebook and said this is great and
it had like nineteen hundred views I think on YouTube,
and I just wanted that song so and back then
I was buying these licenses. So I kept calling this
(04:19):
manager saying I need this one, and he said, ah,
I just signed it to a Swiss label and I
don't know who you are and I never heard of you,
but you know, try chalking to this dude. So I
kept calling this Swiss guy and apparently they understood that
I meant business, so they sold it to me. And
that song was tim Berke Bromance, his first gold record.
(04:40):
I did that one. Whoa whoah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah right, So that's a good story. You're going to
need it for it.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So when you when you saw the first Netflix documentary
where they were hanging up a gold record within the
first ten minutes, that was my company name on it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Wow, we joined by the man who sang this song,
and where have we got you this morning, John Denmark
in Denmark. So do you like our Princess Mary or
Queen Mary.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's got to be the first Australian.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Question, right, it is. It is the first one. That
she's Tasmanian, right.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, yeah, well you know that, yeah very much. Oh okay,
I thought you were just going to say she's Dasmanian
and leave it at that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Okay, now you do like it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay, she's Tasmanian and you like it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
That's important.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That was an important next sentence, John. We're quite parochial
in this country.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
She's just Tasmanian is its own thing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah. Oh, she had just done that, she's Tasmanian. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Are we going to see you in Australia? Are you
thinking about touring? Yeah, you're gonna come and take full
advantage of the fact we're talking to you at five
point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I don't know I've had or show offers from Australia.
Now I need to get back into ship and I
need to start.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
That is hard, hard work, that's funny diversity.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I've got to get back in shape before.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's just running around, running around on stage, huffing and
puffing real work.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I mean, you look alright. I don't know what's going
on under that, but you look.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Fine under the audience all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And ever since you said that you work in radio,
I've just been thinking, we've been doing this competition lately.
We're sort of where we're going back to, you know,
to the nineties, where we're doing this thing called posting Olympics.
I don't know if it's if that translates well, but
it's posting where you talk over the start of the
song and you talk right after the lyrics, like old
school DJ thing.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Oh my god, I haven't done it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, So I'm going to make it very easy for
you because I'm going to use your song, right, okay,
So I want you to talk. I think it's a
twenty second intro, so I want you to talk over it.
If you can say, we've got this competition called Cash
or Crash, So if you can just somehow incorporate the
cash or Crash is coming up, and then any other
things you want to mention Australia, Yeah, whatever you get, okay,
(07:35):
and then you talk right up to I'm getting all right,
this is your this is your first workout mate, So
all the way up there, don't crash the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Okay, are you ready? John?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Good morning guys. You're listening to and we are having
to crash crash cress and posting Olympics, Olympus answer. Christ
and Johnahan danced to it, so can you. I know
it's start in the morning. For get your dancing shoes
on and get going.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You still gotta you still.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Worry every day every day.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh, it's been so good to.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Talk to you.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And yeah, if you ever do come to Australia, we'd
love to see you here mate. So and congratulations.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, thanks you really nice. That is right, Robin, Kip
and Court in the morning.
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