One Hit Wonders

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Because you're waking up with fifth in the morning time

(00:02):
Kiss one O seven one.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I don't typically dive into national days. However, we're gonna
have a little bit of fun and some internal competition.
I'm going to play a song for you, and then
I want you to see if you can guess who
it was and what the song title was is rather,
it's National One Hit Wonder Day. Now the definition of
National One Hit Wonder Day, which falls on September twenty fifth.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Obviously, that is today's date.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
If you needed a reminder, Happy Wednesday. A one hit
wonder is a song that reached number one on the
Billboard chart. Church why I'm having a hard time with
the English language today? My bad, everyone, I am a professional.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I promise hits number one on.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
The Billboard chart, but the artist never has a song
break into the top forty chart again. And you just
gotta live off of the money that you once made
on that one hit. So we're gonna start, like I said,
internal competition. You can call in for cloud if you'd like.
You know, my phone line's always open.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
We're gonna go.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
We're gonna like run the gamut when it comes to years,
starting off with number one, Here we go. You know,
maybe it should be more of obviously you know that
was called it Tainted Love. The artist was soft Cell.
But see if you can sing the lyrics in your
head while you're driving along. So that was back in

(01:24):
what like the nineteen eighties. Okay, song number two on
our list this morning, here we go, And if you
don't know the words to this one, you might want
to spend some time listening to this on your own
personal time.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
A little bit of money, a little bit outside.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
I mean I again, that was Mambo number five by
Lou Bega. The man hit the scene hard with that
one and then never came back to the top forty
charts or the Billboard charts songs that have women's names
in them like that. I don't know why I've saved
a special corner of my brain for song lyrics.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I knew every word to that one.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Okay, Now we're going to fast forward a little bit
more into like the later teens.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I'll play it. You guess it? Now, watch me web
kill it? Now watch me na na Okay, now watch me? Well, well,
watch me Nina, why me go? Now watch me web
kill it? Wash me Ana? Okay, watch me.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Na that song Silento, haven't seen him? Hope he's doing well.
I feel like that was the first well maybe like
the Macharino was the first one for us, but one
of the first, like newer age songs where you would
create a dance to a song that was.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
TikTok before TikTok existed.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Haven't heard from Silento since probably a good reason why.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay, here we go.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
The Harlem Shake was one of the first experiences I
had work in a radio office back in like twenty thirteen,
where everyone was filming some sort of video and we
were posting it to social media, and at the time
the modality of that was Facebook.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, we've got time for maybe one or two more.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
The most iconic song of twenty twelve, in the one
that you probably know the lyrics to the most out
of all of these, is this one play thank You
Calling Baby, Hey, I just like youss crazy?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
He call me Laby's how to Look Right?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I say, Carle Ray Jepsy Girl, where are you been?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Actually?

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I think I just saw a social post that she's
engaged or something.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
We're in the midst of talking about one hit Wonders
because today is National One Hit Wonder Day, which the
definition says an artist went number one on the Billboard
charts but then never had a song break into the
Billboard charts ever again after that made their money and
ran all.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Right, coming up bed. Let's save this in a couple
songs from now.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
When you go to someone's house, do you assess their bathroom?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I'll explain why Nex