One Hit Wonders

Melissa Forman talks with Producer Jim about one hit wonders. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I can't do this. I'm never good at one hit
wonders because I'm like, wait, I don't know if they
had other hits, like, I just don't know. But a
list came out. I thought we could what Oh.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
No, I say, I think that you could put some
two hit wonders in there too.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
I mean, I guess so, all right, Well they came
out with the top twenty.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I was going to do the top five. We could
talk about some of.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
The other ones, but I was a little bit shocked. Bities,
are you ready, Jimmy your favorite things ever? There you go?
Number five?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
We actually play this, Oh, Walking on Sunshine.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Katrina in the Waves, Train in the Waves was actually
kind of a one hit wonder back in the eighties.
They made a huge adak.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I have about it.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, twenty one weeks on the Billboard one hundred chart,
and then I don't know where what happened to them?
You know?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Do we see it? Who we hear them? I don't know. Well,
they walked away and they walked in sunshine.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I guess they did Number four. You ready, here we go,
here's the number four. The Lion sleeps Tonight, Yes, the
tokens the Lion Sleeps Tonight for Lion, first released in
nineteen sixty one.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
By The Tokens.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
After that, nobody really heard from them again, but it did,
but it did come back for obviously the Light, so
all right nice yeah. Number three this was one of
the biggest most popular bands in video ever and it
is on the one Hit Wonderless Oh okay, aha take it.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I remember that, yep. I remember that video yep.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
And then what happened to them after that? You know,
didn't really hear see too much about it.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
They just disappeared aha aha right after that.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Number two is another one we play one hit wonder
painted laugh so so yep, Sawso what happened to them
after that? Jimmy, nobody knows.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
They're still touring? Actually are they?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, it was actually lost.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I'll launched the song in nineteen sixty five, Gloria James
recorded it, and then in nineteen eighty one it was transformed,
and then after that, oh yeah, I didn't hear them
from them too much until I guess now are their touring? Okay?
And then number one, I'm the best one hit wonder
list is yes, Shamba Womba top thumping, Let's get to

(02:14):
the Where's a good Card? I don't care? This was
number one. They raced the stage of the eighties, and
then after that, nope, really never saw them again. So
there you go. Some others that are on there, the Macarena.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
What about Mickey by Tony Basil?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh yeah, Oh, and then this one, don't Bobby big Farrin?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh yeah, don't worry, be happy.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, we never really heard or saw him after nineteen
eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Such a good song. So are cute.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'll post these and you could take a peek at
them and enjoy one hit Wonder day. If you think
of any other really good ones we've forgotten.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh there's so many.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
What about do the Hustle?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah it's not on the top twenty, but that is
a good one.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
But it sounds like we play so many of them.
It's like a one. We're like a one hit wonder station.
I already got the liner, you got the liner? Like
our songs. Our host is a one hit one.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Okay, you know what to thank you?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, we're all good.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Thank you for that.