April 20, 2026 • 47 mins
Bobby and Eddie take a trip through some of the biggest one-hit wonders of the ‘90s and 2000s and dig into what happened after the songs that made them famous. From Vanilla Ice and Chumbawamba to Lou Bega, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Blind Melon, Daniel Powter and more, they break down the stories behind the hits, the careers that followed, and why some artists never quite escaped that one song. Along the way, Bobby shares his own thoughts on playing music on the radio, whether being a one-hit wonder is actually better than grinding it out with a long career and puts Eddie to the test trying to guess the final band on the list. Plus, a random Hanson VHS makes an appearance.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, welcome to our episode on one hit Wonders
and where are they Now? The whole reason that I
wanted to do this episode is I watched a documentary
on Netflix about Devo and it's not just one hit wonders,
and it's not just where are they now? But like,
what the crap did they do in between the time
they were one hit wonder? So I did a deep
dive on these one hit wonders who you're gonna know now.
(00:29):
Brought in Eddie, who didn't even know what we were
talking about today, because mostly I want to know how
many songs from these people you know as I talk
about them, because some of these are two hit wonders.
Some of these are one hit wonders. But if you
like became a fan, you knew other songs and that
title one hit wonder. If you ever do a list
of them, people will fight you and go they have
more than one hit, right, And it's mostly because they're
(00:52):
in the fan club. Yeah, so you had no idea
what we're talking about?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No idea?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Up first is Vanilla Ice. So how many Vanilla Eye
songs can you name? One? Yeah, I'm gonna start with
one ice sized baby. I mean that's it. I feel
I did buy that tape.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I had that cassette tape, but I can't tell you
another song that's on there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So I probably was in the fan club and I
could go deeper. I could go, like play that funky
music white Boy, Oh of course I remember that one
wasn't a massive hit. Was awesome. Ninja rap from Ninja
Turtles the movie was awesome. I had the MC hammer
on one side, flip it over Vanilla Ice on the
backside tape so legit. So I have Vanilla Eyes at
(01:36):
number one. So he was massive because he was like
a white rapper.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, that was at that time that he was the one.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So he was the first rapper to top the Billboard
Hot one hundred ever.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Ever And it made him famous probably in a way
that was too big and too fast, and it all
was one. So he got a Grammy nomination for Ice
Ice Baby, which is crazy. It's freaking ice ice baby,
and so he was globally famous. It was such a
rocket ship for him, and the fall off was I
(02:15):
would say purely musical, because credibility questions, massive backlash. Anybody
that gets so big, it doesn't matter there's a reason
people hate Coldplay. It's not because they're not good. It's
because they got so big. There's a reason people hate Knickelback.
It's because they got so big. Anybody that gets so big,
(02:37):
it starts to not be cool to like them anymore.
So even the good bands get backlash. But he was
like a symbol of overexposure, and the public turned on
him quickly because the hip hop purists started to question him.
I never turned on him, but I was like nine.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you, what grade were you
in when he popped? Hmmm, because I feel like I
was in sixth grade. That's yeah, you would probably be
the fifth or sixth grade. Did you have dance offs
in school?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I was much more now, this is like Stone Cold
in the Rock. I was much more of a hampsy
Hammer guy than a Vanilla Ice guy. So I had
hammer Pants. Oh wow, who came first?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Probably Hammer, But I mean they were at the same time,
because again I had the tape of both of them
on the same tape, So I had hammer Pants. I
was much more of a Hammer fan, but I did
like Vanilla Ice, especially when he was in Ninja Turtles,
so he had one massive song, and so a lot
of this was me exploring like what they did after
(03:42):
they fell off. So he went away for a bit.
He's still like playing shows a bit as a nostalgia act,
but he had a second current, real estate and renovation.
No way. He also had the Vanilla Ice Project on
HGTV and Discovery.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Remember that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't I remember that.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I didn't watch a lot of it, but I remember
it was cool to see Vanilla Ice not as a
rapper but as a home TV show guy.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No idea. Yeah, he had success in that after he
had to find a new career. Obviously had the television show.
Right now, he still tours. Obviously it's the nostalgia circuit,
but he kind of did a reinvention. He was a rapper,
a one hit wonder was so massive. Then he became
a joke. Then he kind of became cool again, which
is typically what happens with nostalgia, But it was him
(04:34):
being credible in a whole different area that was interesting
to me.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Was it in Florida basically like based in Florida his
TV show? Because I remember kind of like the Florida
Vibe A one A. Still he kind of still stuck
to that because he was from Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Right sort of. I think he was from Texas originally, really,
and they created a Florida story. A lot of his
come up though, was like in Dallas, and so then
the Florida was created a lot and as part of
his image, I mean, his whole image was create a
one avenue. But he was also like a jet ski racer,
Like he had a version of that as well, Like
(05:08):
he was like there are motorcycle jet skis whatever. He's
like a rapper. But yeah, he blew up so fast
and then he came back. But he made a ton
of money in Holmes.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, and he still I think I saw him in
a few commercials. I think he was in a Super
Bowl commercial, so I know.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm sure the nostalgia part of the yeah yeah, up next.
How many songs can you name from Carl ray Jepson.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
One call Me Maybe that's her?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Right? That is, oh call me maybe, Hey, I just
met you. That song jam still Dude, so good, so catchy.
Twenty twelve. It was a number one hit. It stayed
there for nine weeks. It was in twenty twelve because
every year they look for what was the song of
the summer. This was the song of the summer in
(05:54):
twenty twelve. It was the best selling single of the
year worldwide. So she did have another song and I
think it was her with al City. I think it
was her song and al City was on it called
good Time.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, oh a good Time was not like the other
but I do remember it. But she was a monster.
And the thing about her is like she's still in it.
She's just kind of changed how she's in it. She
still makes music, yeah, and not in a nostalgia way,
like people still really love her current music. So her
(06:28):
whole thing was she didn't have a hit and then
collapse and it's all It's always weird when someone comes
out with her first song and it is massive because
you almost can never actually match that, so then people
look at you as a failure.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Almost. No artists have two worldwide monsters like that. Uh
So she in the last few years just kind of
pivoted her sound. She still makes music, she didn't try
to recreate call me maybe she has a rabid fan base.
She tours still critics lover. She didn't become aware they
(07:06):
now really she became like the artist's artists good for her.
People think she's cool.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I think she's cool. From twenty twelve, I called me
maybe it was awesome. So she stopped chasing mainstream and
then just did art music. So she never really, I
will say, fell off or she had to go away.
She just kind of pivoted who she was.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Were you in, I mean you were in radio when
her song came out? What was what was that like?
Like living it?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I So I got a little credit for being one
of the first people to play that song nationally. I
saw Justin Bieber like lipsninking in on YouTube or something
back that I found. Yeah, So I played it and
then they were very grateful. The record label was and
this is when I was in Austin, Texas, and they
were like, we're so grateful You're one of the first
stations to ever play it. It was one of the
first songs.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That I like, hit hard worked.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Where I was going, oh, I can do this and
people actually care. So yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, So that's interesting because, like, you know, playing music
on a radio station as a morning show guy, that's
not really a thing now, right, I mean, can you
now today still take some of you here and be like, oh,
I'm going to play it on my show or not
you But like a morning you need.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
To be extremely syndicated, which I am now obviously, and
I was then too. I just started my own syndication.
It's just different. There's just so many ways now to
actually make a difference in music. Sure, I think for
me and I've broken a bunch of songs on country
radio to where they became massive hits. But it wasn't
just because I played it. I think at this point
(08:40):
it is if I played something a few times and
it caught the ear of a major record executive that
was then going to invest money in it, that was
then going to build a promo around it, that was
going to do a clipping campaign, that was all the
things they do now. So the instant star of playing
a song on my nationally syndicated show probably doesn't happen
as easy as it used to because that happened a
(09:01):
few times. Yeah, But I do think I could play
something and somebody hears it that has the ability, the resources,
the means to make that person a star because it's
being exposed to them. If that makes sense, It does
make sense. Everything's different now. Back in the day like
they would pay radio dudes in Memphis to play song
over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's pola, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
But they would play it like forty times in three hours.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I never I never been paid a cent to play
a song for the record, never a single cent. But
there have been songs though that, other pop songs that
radio people played and created hits from in a similar
way that I was just talking about, Like I think LFO, I.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Like girls they wear Arabbit Crombie.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I think that was I think it was a guy
in Memphis, just going from my mind. Really who played
that song? Heard somebody heard it, the other stations started
playing it. It was one of those. And then there have
been instance too where bands have cheated the system, smart
the system and bought a bunch of their CDs back
in the day in a certain regional area, which made
(10:10):
the radio station see that and start playing it. It
gets reported. Other radio stations go, well, if they're playing it,
we should play it. But it's all because of a
band going to buy a bunch of the buy CDs
because they get reported. So there's a lot of ways
to manipulate the system. Now the system gets manipulated on
streaming by people just buying streams, like buying billions of streams,
and it's like, look at us, we're number one, but
(10:32):
you just paid to be on that. That's all.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's a little behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Next up, one hit Wonder tumble Wambah.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Tumble wamba the greatest one hit Wonder tub thumping. Yeah,
I get knocked.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Down, massive song. The reason but that that was a
crazy song. The video was crazy all of the It's
absurd in my head looking back at the video in
that song. And the reason they didn't last is because
they weren't supposed to last. They were like a a
bizarre anarchy punk band, really, yes, and they continued to
(11:06):
make like anarchist music. They're anarchists.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Huh. So was their message behind top thumping that we
didn't catch or was it simply I get knocked down?
And then again you never then they pissed the night away,
they did, and then Danny Boy, oh, Danny Boy, and
then they go down whiskey drink, vodka, drink, cider drink.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Not sure what the anarchist message in that was. They
didn't really fail at being a pop band. They were
never trying to be one to begin with. So the
mainstream knew them and still knows them as the I
Get Knocked Down band from that one song. But that
song was basically a prank on the music system because
they were like, how do I get inside the system?
(11:51):
So they created like a song that the system would embrace.
They felt like if they could get inside the system,
they could then bring their anarchist views and music as
one of the group being you know, welcomed in. Yeah,
so it was basically a science experiment by Chumbawamba.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, that didn't work for me because I never went
out to discover more Chumbawamba music. Like I was happy
with tub Thumping. You were good. I never went and
did a Google search. I'm like, well, let me hear
some more Chumbawamba.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Interesting, did you I maybe not Chumbawamba, but I did,
Chase right, said Fred, Oh yeah, and I don't have
them on my list here. It's a good one they
had secret. I did go buy that CD and it sucked.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
They got you man.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Back in the day you had to buy a whole
CD to get one song basically, and I bought it
and I was like, I got to explore more of
this band. It sucked you regret. I was so disappointed
in that. Uh So they stayed active for years. They
formally announced in twenty twelve they were ending the band.
They were together thirty years. Dang, Billboard and other outlets
(12:56):
covered the breakup. Former members moved into films, activism, and
other musical projects. Good So they kept doing what they
set out to do, But their whole story was we're
a movement, and their movement was wasn't to have a hit.
It was we've created all this crazy music. Because I've
heard some pre Tough Dumping. It's all nuts. Really, yeah,
(13:17):
it's exactly what you think anarchists message music would be
punk music, and they kept making it after but they
wanted to create a hit that would get them in
the system so they could then pollute the system. Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
See, Like I'd like to go back and see, because
I'm sure when that hit it was like work, let's tour,
let's tour, And then I'm sure people went to these
shows thinking like, all right, let's hear more about this band,
like and then here tough Dumping. That's cool, and then
the rest be like what is this?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It was like me listening to right, said Fred that
CDs what it is. So the nugget in this one
that I found is one of the biggest like bar
drunk singalongs of the nineties came from a band that
were just trying to uh be provocative. Yeah, that was
the whole point of it. Their whole career makes sense
(14:03):
whenever you look at them, whenever you zoom back out
and go. They were just up to know, not have
to know good. They were just up to trouble anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
For their message, man, they were probably like, dude, it's working.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Unbelievable working. Next up lou Bega. Oh yeah, can you
name the lou Begas?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Obviously Mambo number five? But man, is there another one?
Because I feel like this is the one where I
had to buy the CD so I can listen to
the song. Now all I can think of is Mambo
number five.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's all I can think of too. I bet you
if if you read back to me the second most
streamed Blue Vegas song, I might know it. But for
my purposes too, I didn't dig on the music because
I wanted to see what we knew. Mambo number five,
you know a little bit of Monica in my life?
Massive song, not just in the States, but worldwide. Oh yeah,
(14:54):
so he in that song was so unavoidable. It became
part of just culture. I remember the hat, like the cigar,
the suit.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Let me tell you my dad didn't like music. I
mean he never listened to music, but he would walk
around the house singing woe two three four five it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So it was, and I think he was more musically
than his image of this song was. But because the
image and this song hit so hard, he couldn't really
shake it. And I just pictured the guy in the suit,
the fadora, and so it was such a novelty song
that it kind of trapped him to always be a
novelty to people. Somebody else who reminds me of who
(15:34):
was the one hit wonder is Bobby McFerrin.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, don't Worry Be Happy. I was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Because that guy was like an artist, artist, but everybody
only wanted him to do don't Worry to be Happy.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
He also did theme to the Cosby Show.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Oh he did that. That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
What's lubagas number two song? If you guys could look
it up streaming wise, Sweet Light Cold, I Don't.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Ring a Bell.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He never totally disappeared in that. He just going away,
but he you know, had to tour in a lot
of these countries because he was globally. They they thought
it was cool he was there. Yeah, that is cool.
It's like country acts now that go to really small
towns's Somerville, Kentucky because they're like the we can't believe
(16:17):
he came to Somerville. So lou Bega did that basically
in Europe, he's still now because everything that was cool
that was then lame, it's kind of cool again. So
that did a twenty five year anniversary have Mambo number five.
He just kind of settled into that role the industry
gave him because that's all the industry would accept him
ass So then he just embraced it. Uh. He built
(16:39):
a career around a song that it did sound like
an old classic, not to me because it wasn't classic
to me, but it sounded like an.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Old yeah, like influenced jazz pop.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Song and it's very catchy with the truths in my yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Trump failed.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Next up Semisonic.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Ooh closing Time. Yeah, wasn't there trouble with this song?
Is this the one that could possibly? It was like
Payola Okay, so yeah, tell me the story about this.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Whole different story. We'll talk about the song first. So
closing Time mostly it just became associated with the bar.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yes, closing time it was when the bar shutting down
at two am or whatever time they played the song.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Dan Wilson was the lead singer and the main writer
with Semisonic, and so I was actually talking to him
about this and it had two meanings, so everybody knew
it though as the bar song, it actually wasn't that.
It was that in like fatherhood, impending fatherhood, not just
last call at a bar?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Crazy? Did you know that before? He told you?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I didn't until I looked up what it was about
because I was going to interview him, So I never
knew that naturally from the song. I just knew closing
time was what they would, yeah, because it's it's so
on the nose, one last call for out, so that
would all happen. And so no, I didn't until I
talked to him. But that band's entire identity became that
(18:10):
bar song, yeah, and that bar life. He though, became
an elite songwriter and producer. He wrote Dixie Chicks not
Ready to Make Nice, That's crazy Adeles, someone like you. Yeah,
I have a mind someone like you. He I mean Grant.
He's just crushed so much. And so Semisonics still exists
(18:33):
officially as a band, and they well, they never really
broke up.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So technically they're still together. But I wonder if they
play a lot, like maybe some of these nineties cruises
you know that they do.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I don't think he needs to do that. I think
if you're playing a nineties cruise, you are trying to
live off your nineties nostalgia. I think he's doing just
fine on his yacht with someone like you money, not
ready to make nice money. So this one isn't about
just fading into obscurity through nostalgia. Like he went on
and wrote the biggest, most emotionally durable songs for other
(19:08):
artists that weren't him. So the thing about the Paola thing,
you may want to look this up, but I do
remember there being like one of those shows like twenty
twenty and so Simsonic the band had nothing to do
with it. But I think this was one of those
songs they got flagged whenever. I think Elliott Spitzer was
like in New York and they were like, no paying
(19:28):
is way before me. Again, I have nothing to do
with any of this or the record. I think it
was one of like a whole bunch of songs that
they found that the record labels were promoting through illegal means.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Ok Okay, it.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Wasn't the only one, but this is one they for
sure highlighted on one of those shows. Do you see
anything on that mic?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Drummer says, you have a microphone? Right, that they spent
half a million dollars on promotion.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
But no, that could be anything, right that couldn't that
be like a swag? It literally could be what I
roasters on a telephone pole. What I remember though, is
it was in a news story, for sure. But they
spend that, they would they would spend that they'd buy TV.
It was crazy, Wow, West, different times.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Hang tight, the Bobby Cast will be right back, and
we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Eagle Eye Cherry Ooh saved tonight, great jam, But that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So Eagle Eye Cherry late nineties. I remember him being
played on the Edge in Dallas, the alternative station.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Why the Edge would you get that in Arkansas? No?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
But I had a friend that lived down there and
we didn't have a cool alternative station. So I would
have them record me like an hour on one side
of the tape, flip it, record another hour and mail
it to me.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
No way. I mean, I'm South Texas, You're Arkansas. The
Edge was it. I remember they had Edgefest. Do you
remember edge Fest?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I remember Edgefest? I remember the night guys Cramer and
Twitch there were two dudes that I thought were so cool.
So I listened to the Edge through tape about every
two weeks.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I'd get a new tape.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
And so that's hilarious, Like Eagle Eye Cherry Saved Tonight
was a jam because of that. That and Harvey Danger
flag Poles to.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Remember that one.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You remember that one, everybody that would be on that tape.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
H So Saved Tonight massive. I remember listening hearing it
first Alternative Edge before it crossed over. That was like
his only song.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So Eagle Eye was the guy, Eagle Eye Cherry. He
was a dude.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
His sister was actually a famous artist, Nina Cherry had
a song Buffalo Stance. Really mm hmm. Do you know
if I just say that, I can't sing too much
of it because I'll go to five postcast jail. Also,
it's hard for me to sing it. But it's like
I don't know well enough.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Do you know Eagle Eye's real name was his birth
name Eagle Eye? If his sister was Cherry.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
If I'm gonna bet, I bet you it's that's his
real name. We'll have the fact checkers. Eagle Eyeland Noon, Cherry.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
That's legit.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's a money name. He's one of those American artists
that people just assumed disappeared because he did not have
hits after he did keep making music and mostly maintained
an international presence. So I did not follow the international
presence sharks.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I did not. I didn't either.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Uh. He came to Nashville, one of our guys. He's
written with Cherry. Did you like him? What did you
call him? Eagle?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
He introduced himself to you?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
What did he say, Hey, I'm Eagle Eye. He never
even said his name.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It was just did he sing a sing in the room?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You me sing safe Tonight?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Well? I was going to, because then I think that
would be weird.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh No.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
His own bio says his career changed with Save Tonight,
and then after twenty five years, he returned with back
on track after periods of doubt. Read that wrong, But
I guess he spent a bunch of time probably trying
music until he just embraced he'd go and play safe
to night over and know where again.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, but like to your point though, I mean, it's
if you start like that, that's hard to get back
up to that point.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Almost never, it's it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
He's still making music. Were you guys writing music for
him when he wrote? Yeah, how did how did you?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
If we found out?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
He says, yep, never had we found out? Brandon wrote
Safe Tonight and he's been saying nothing this whole time.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Uh so that's cool. So he still plays.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I would say, this is what I would say. The
nugget that I pulled from this. He's not gone. He's
just not really in America anymore. Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think that's the international part. YEP.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I think he's still having success in other places, because
you know what, we're not the only country that matters. No,
we are not, and people watching this and watch it
from all over the world that we want you to know,
we love everybody. But we're just in the middle of America,
right here, so he's still going, all right, I have
three left. Are you enjoying this?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I love it, dude. I love learning about these guys.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Next up, can you sing me the song from Blind Melon?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Ooh, no, rain All. I can say that my life
is party playing.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
One of them. I would say that was my favorite
song for about five to seven years of my life.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Wow, for that long, Like.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It was in the horse race of favorite songs through
my life for about five to seven years that was
number one. So it's probably falling down to like six
or seven at this point. It's been a bit, but
I loved that song. I loved Blind Melon. I was
somebody who chased more music from them, so it would
be unfair for me. I'd be the person that would
be in the comments going they had more than one song? Yeah, yeah,
but really the b Girl video is what people remember
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from them.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Of course, the Big Girl. They did have another song though,
that I really liked because I bought that album for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Do you know his name by the way, Oh he died,
by the way, Yes, he's dead.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
His name is.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It's like, yeah, you got it?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Hold on something? Coon?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Coons?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Shannon Hoons? Shannon Hoon's He was the lead singer. He
also did backing vocals and a bunch of guns and
roses stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Really and I mean that's similar voices, so that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
One of the more tragic stories of the ten that
I looked up here and so it was addiction. It
was a lot of what that era, that genre's lead
singer syndrome was Yep.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Drugs, drugs and depression and dealing with a bunch of crap.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Died from cocaine overdose in nineteen ninety five at the
age of twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
He was trying to continue the success of No Rain.
They released other material. It didn't hit pop wise, but
that music almost never hit pop wise anyway. That would
just happened to cross over. Yeah. So there's a documentary
called All I Can Say, which is mostly footage that
he shot himself.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Have you seen it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I've seen a lot of it on TikTok meaning full
five clips.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, and I didn't know that was from a documentary
when I saw those clips, which is cool to see
because back then we didn't have access to a bunch
of clips. So like to see more of him is
cool because once someone died like that, you're like, well
that was it, yeah back then? Yeah, you just it's over,
like there's nothing to learn more about this this guy.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
It's interesting to hear him sing live, and I say
live after watching the clips of singing live, because he
does have that same really interesting, peculiar voice.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That's rosh like, yeah, it's cool, it was really cool.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I think the nugget here is that that song is
so positive, but that story from him and with him
is very tragic. Uh So addiction just kind of blew
a hole in the middle of the band, and then
their story is more never got the chance because of
addiction more than fell off.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, so did he he died. It's okay, so you
mentioned this. He died after the success of No Rain,
so it's not like No Rain came out and he
was already dead. Correct.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
That did happen to a Janice Joplin, Bannis freaking Joplin.
Sad story never got to me and Bobby McGee was
out after she. You knew who else that happened to?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Selina?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, you know, when she was about to cross over
in English. They hadn't released her English stuff until she died,
and then once her English stuff came out, it was huge.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I'm going to need to be fact checked on this.
But you know who else that happened to?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Who else?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Otis Redding?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Otis ready.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I do not think sitting on the dock of the
bay hit until after he died.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
No way, And he's the one that died in a
plane crash, plane crash in Wisconsin, because I believe when
we were on tour in Wisconsin we saw the lake
where is plane crashed.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Great memory.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean I just remember someone telling me telling
me that story. Well, we're just saying it, so we're
hoping it's true. Uh, fact checkers, he died before it
was released? And did he die in a plane crash?
Was called ssen nice for it?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
He did?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh good good memory. That's crazy that they all those
people died before. They not Shannon Huon, but Janie Choplin,
so Elena and Otis Redding died before like their massive
song like I wonder and I'd have to look back.
But Janis Choplin, Oh don't you buy Me? Mercedes Bins.
(28:41):
I wonder if that was like a mid hit for
her before she died, or if that also was released
after she.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. Do you
remember Mercedes Bens actually using that song? Yeah, in their commercials.
Have you seen the documentary on Netflix? Yeah? So sad.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
It's so savage, so good. Yeah, it's called Janice.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Right, I don't know. I don't remember the name of it.
It's so good. You know. What's so shocking to me
about that documentary is I didn't know her and Jerry
Garcia had they loved each other. I mean I didn't.
I didn't even know they were together.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
The ice cream guy. That's Cherry. That's Cherry Garcia, grateful
dead man because they lived in San Francisco together.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yes, but they I didn't know they were a thing,
but they loved each other.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Next up, two left? Can you sing the song the
one hit Wonder from OMC?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
How bizarre?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Again, Jam, you want to know the rest?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
By the Rights Ava Ava? That's all was awesome, I know,
but again, I should have done more research on him.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No one is so like instantly recognizable. It's like when
you said trumpets trumpet with lou Bega minus by the Riots.
You want to know the rest by the Riots Global?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, dude, do you remember the music video.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I remember them righting the car, the lowrider kind of car, right,
and the convertible top the charts in several countries, became one
of the biggest songs ever to come out of. What
country do you think they're from? I would have missed it.
I would have guessed South America.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
What country, Yeah, I'm gonna go with Would you.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Have guess South America?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
No, No, I'm I'm thinking of an island like Australia
or New Zealand or something. It's New Zealand, New Zealand. Wow,
all like the.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Horns And I just I thought it to me it
was like the Brazil or South America or something. Wow,
it's freaking New Zealand. Great job. The name itself, O
Tara Millionaires Club. Oh that's still where the sea Okay,
And it referenced a poor Auckland community, which I believe
they were from Auckland, New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
OMC was Polly Fumana and producer co writer Alan Janssen,
And so they eventually got into it looks like big
legal fights after and so that kind of actually that group,
Oh that sucks. Yeah, And that's.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Not the lead singer. That's just these are writers I know.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I think those are the two people though. Yeah, from
what I found, Polly Fumana and producer co writer Alan
Jansen or OMC. And you add an internal conflict and
legal arbitration issues, the momentum fractured instead of compounding. So
they never really had a chance because I think for
them they could have continued to make music internationally in
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America's hard to hit that again. But the sadder years
were later when Polly stopped doing music, focus on family
and then got some rare neurologic disorder that I can't
really pronounce. He died at forty years old, no way,
and so because Polly died, their legacy isn't aware of
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the now because he died.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
And it was really only him and the songwriter. So man,
I always wonder how a band from New Zealand even
gets heard in America.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
The same way LFO got heard in America. One person
doing one thing, having a little success around it, and
it's and someone going, oh it works. It's like a
television show from England who they put on the States,
even though it's slightly different. They know there's success with it.
They think it'll be successful here too, So they invest.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Money in it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
It's like a lottery ticket, but one that has a
pretty good success rate because it's worked somewhere else. Yeah. Wow,
here's the nugget I found that I made a note
of on this one that was a very like fun
upbeat for the friendly song, right, And so it was
crazy because the whole thing was kind of an ironic
joke about poverty because they grew up in a real
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poor town.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
The song is about that.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And so he died tragically a little bit of that
Chumbawamba feel where they were kind of showing something by
doing the opposite thing.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
So yeah, OMC. I never knew what OMC stood for
until I did the research here, and it was I
guess I really didn't care. I'll be honest with you.
It's not like I was dying to know. And I
was like, I just can't figure out what OMC stands
for a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Of these things. I just took it for the one
hit wonder and I was like, all right, don't really
need to.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Know more, okay, And here we go at number ten.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Come on, is this number ten as in you saved
it for the best for last or just randomly number ten?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I'm gonna go for the sake of right now the
best for the last. But really was random? Okay, yeah, really,
I just found ten and did it. But this one
possibly my favorite song from the whole list. Okay, let
me look and see if there's any other ones before
I tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Can you give me a hint?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, I'll tell you now. Blind Melon's my favorite song.
So no Rain has to be number one on my
list of songs.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Okay, and you said right said Freend's not on this.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I'll get too left. I got too left.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Oh you have two left? I have two left. I
skipped over one accidental. Well, then just tell me what
this is and we'll play. We'll play the game in
the last one.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Okay. Uh Daniel Powder, Oh, I had a bad day jam.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
That's see. That's still on my playlist, like my my
music library, Daniel Powder. For some reason, it's on my
It pops up once in a while.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
It was gigantic. I remember from American Idol they would
play wh people got kicked off Idol When I was like,
this is pret me all my years of Idol, this
one Idol was still on Fox And there were years
when that show was a juggernaut and they get kicked off,
had a bad day.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Looking back, it's kind of like that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Someone fouls out. Yeah, it's kind of that. So this
song was a monster atop the Billboard Hot one hundred
for five weeks, earned him a Grammy nomination, became a
signature piano song in that two thousands zero where those
piano songs like Vanessa Carlton like he was one of that.
So it was like idol though, was such a platform.
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And then also it's pretty universal that, well, everybody has
bad days.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
It is there's you can always play that song at
some point in your life.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I was a Daniel Powder fan. I chased other songs
you did, so you know other songs? Do you remember?
I can't. I'm not going to like list titles, but
I did like by record. I bought probably a CD
from that, but I like that music like that was
my favorite kind of music. Little kind of emo, but
not to emo. It was post grunge.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
It was like emo, but it still was kind of happy.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
It was like emo, but you could listen to it
going to and coming home from church.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
That's a good way of putting it. Difficult.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Years after the hit, so still kept playing, still kept touring,
now is doing anniversary era shows. He's doing twenty twenty
six dates. Really yep, still in the game, still singing
the song people came for, and still building a career
around it rather than pretending it didn't happen. Bad Day
became such a giant emotional utility song that it was
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so big it's hard to see anything else around it,
including the artist.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I know, I know, and it makes me think of
like what those shows are like when people are just like.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Just play blessing and a curse to have a song
like that so big.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So early, Hank Tight, The Bobby Cast will be right back.
Welcome back to the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I do have one more than I missed.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Okay, and I have a guess just based on like
one hit wonders that you haven't mentioned. I wonder if
James Blunt is on your list.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
No, that'd be a great one to do though at
some point. Okay, and his story is pretty cool and
that he has stayed extremely relevant because of social media
and has kept putting out records in Europe and obviously
and just been doing good there. But like everybody, if
you're on Twitter for like eight years. You knew James
Blunt also he You're a Beautiful, massive song, but he
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also had another couple close to big songs that were
like almost hits.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Again, I only knew You're Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
If you give me James Blunt's second and third songs,
I would bet you that's the name of the song
called nineteen seventy three. Is that a newer release? Yeah,
I won't know anything newer.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It would be off that album.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, it'd be off the off of Your Your Beautiful,
like his second single. Yeah, Goodbye My Lover, Goodbye my Friend.
You won't be the one.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Oh oh, I've heard that. I've heard that song. Yes,
I didn't realize that was that was uh yeah old
Blunt Goodbye my Lover, Goodbye my Friend. Wow.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Okay, you want to take another.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Shout out here? Let's see. Let's see Colby Kelly. Not
a one hit wonder in my mind, but could be
considered one.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
You know, I'm offended for her and you know what
I see her. We live by each other.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
We've shared a stage together.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yeah, I've I've stopped a couple of times. She's walking
her dog.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
She Uh, I do not accept that. Okay, and we're angry. Uh.
We did have a bunch of hits though, to be fair,
who's the girl that says, girl put your records song? Okay,
so that's Karen Bailey was awesome, great one not it?
We'll give you one more guests as a band.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
So, oh it's a band Redbone Dona. Hey, what's the
matter with it?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I didn't know that you're saying that that that to
me is a TikTok sound.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Was doing what.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna leave out the name
of the song and tell me when you can get it.
Made them this song X song made them MTV famous
and Grammy nominated, and it's the song most people know
them for. But this band were always more musically literate
and craft oriented than a novelty summary gives them credit
for their humor, helped them explode, Oh their humor. But
(38:51):
people underestimate how good the band was. The video massively
famous they were. People would be like, that's the funny
bad because the video was so funny. The video had
a celebrity in it too. You have a guess, Brandon,
He wrote with Egli Cherry, do not question any.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I mean because I thought, aha, but they're not funny.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Now this is again, this is probably two thousands. I'll
say this to you. And I went to a show
and he sang the lead singer, the lead singer sing,
and I'm telling you that they're actually a really good band.
But you just know there was one song. But we
went to a show and the lead singer saying, you
and I went together that Marcy playground. No, we did
go to a show though, and he sang, God, who
(39:35):
could this be? This person? After this band. I won't
say broke up because I'm not sure if they officially
broke up. But the lead singer has written a ton
in film, TV, theater. He's won three Emmys and a Grammy,
the nominated for an Oscar and a Tony. What I
think that I think he's dead. I think he died
(39:55):
now though, I think he's dead. But this guy you're talking, yeah,
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, we saw him before he died.
What so we had a successful career after was very accomplished,
but then he died. He died of COVID.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
He died of COVID. Yeah, Joe Diffy.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
No, uh not country band? Hold On, hold On, hold on,
guess it? Yes, so the lead singer awards level writer
across TV, movies and musicals. The song was funny, the
band was massive. The music video with the famous person
in it. We've also in our band. For those that
don't know, Uh, we have a comedy band. We do
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a lot of comedy stuff. We will cover songs occasionally.
We have covered their biggest song. We've covered their biggest
song thousand times.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
What this? What are you talking?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
You know? How does everybody know?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
But Eddie?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Eddie sang it. And we've been to a show, and
we've been to their show. Well, he only sang by himself.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
The show we went to was at City Winery and
the guy from Marcy Playground played art from ever Claire
play Jim Blossoms. That was no, that was awesome. We
went to that show with Okay, that was a four.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
That was so Maybe that wasn't me. I don't think
I was at the thought we all went together was met.
I thought we all went to so so then I
have not seen this person live.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Oh, I guess okay, then I but let's go to.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
The We've covered his his song, this song, the big one. Yeah.
In our band many times. Who sang that song me?
Speaker 1 (41:32):
But there's a guitar riff? Well he did, but I'm
saying there's a very famous guitar riff. It's like that,
that kind of riff at the beginning. This has turned
into about us so much reluctantly. Okay, great, but we
never covered the massive cake fan Gosh, dude, I have nothing. Okay,
(41:56):
you done?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I have nothing.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
The music video featured a very famous supermodel.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
See the only thing I'm thinking is like Paul Simon, now, uh,
the supermodel Christy Brinkley. No at a pool, Oh, Stacy's mom,
Stacy's mom, Fountains of Wayne, Fountains of Wayne. Wow, is
a good one. But no, I was not there. That
(42:23):
was you and Brandon. I've never seen this guy and
he's dead. He died to COVID dam. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
So we must have gone before obviously before he died.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah, what did he play at that? Did he play
Stay's mom? That's cool?
Speaker 1 (42:35):
What if he didn't?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Just him beccous will.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
It was like a nostalgic show where they all were
touring together playing so crazy. One was the Marcy Playground guy, Like,
what else does he.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Even play sex and candy. It's all we got.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Yeah, didn't play candy and sex played backward. I don't know,
like just keep that up. Uh, but yeah, so one
hit wonder They were actually a really good band, but
because it was kind of like Loubaga, like people just
nw him as a funny he just new him as
that specific type of thing. But then he jumped out
and did all that stuff, all the accolades, won all
the awards across again, TV, Musican movies, musicals in NIGHTI.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Covid wow, jam love that song.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
What'd you learn from this?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
I think I learned that, man, we really just consume music,
Like I just list. I look at this whole list,
and I'm just like, man, I really just took these songs,
and I never questioned what happened to these guys, you know,
and it's cool to me that some of them continue
to play music. But maybe this one hit allowed them
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to live that life, you know, to where they never
had that one hit. They may have had to quit
music to have a you know, work at an office
somewhere and like support their families. But since they had
this hit, they were able to make some kind of
money to be able to just keep playing music for
the rest of their life, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
I think it's an interesting question that I think probably
actors go through once they're typecast, like Arkley, would you
have rather been Urkle and your whole life be known
as Oracle? Or would you like to have a career
acting and struggling some having some moderate success but having
a somewhat steady career. I think that's probably the case. Yeah,
(44:12):
you know, you can't go back, and you know if
I turn back time, you can't do that. But I
think that's a great question, Like had they not blown
up like this, they probably would have all continued music
in some way. Would they have rather when asking them?
If you go, okay, here's a choice. You get the
massive hit, that's all you're gonna be known for, and
you're going to struggle with it and love it and
hate it. And would you want that? Or do you
(44:33):
want to just kind of ebb and flow and never
have a real hit? What would you rather have?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I kind of like the eagle eyed Cherry the way
of doing things, like, you know, just like have a
hit right, I have the hit right with Brandon on
a random Wednesday, and then like just live wherever I
want to and continue to play music and still kind
of have enough money to live my life. I like that.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
There we have it.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
What would you rather do? I mean, you're like, I'd
rather be Bob Dylan with all that sit all the money.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
I think I'm I'd rather have the one hit. Yeah,
I think that. Yeah, I'd There definitely be some times
where I struggle, but I think I'd rather have the
one hit.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
The Dan Wilson's pretty good, you know where you like
have that one hit and then you just start writing
other hits and make a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
All right, Do you want to go to the You're
gonna go to the bank for a second. Every time
we shoot here, we'll pull something out. So I'll pull
out from where set. These are all real, by the way,
real movies.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Wont if I get this out, you're gonna put in
the VCR and play it.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Well, it's a handsoen live concert video. My body won't turn.
Oh you need help, I get it.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
From this one, we're going to focus on.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Are they glued together? It's like one of those sets,
you know, or it's just paper. It's not real.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
There we go, Okay, In the show What.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Year is this from?
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Speaking? And this is you know, not one hit Wonders
now consider it like a one hit. But they man,
they had some chick a big Hanson van. They made
really great music. Uh, this is Hanson Tulsa, Tokyo in
the middle of nowhere. So is it live in Tulsa
and Tokyo it is. Yeah, They're from Oklahoma, Tulsa, Tokyo.
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And then I believe their album was middle of Nowhere.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Dude, that's a trip when you see these American bands
go to uh Tokyo and they're singing back all the lyrics.
Like I saw Jack Johnson clip where he was playing
in Tokyo and they're all like singing all his words.
I love it. We would never do that.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
You want to see something, do you? So? We asked
Zach Hanson in this video, Well, if you want to
see Hanson across the planet everywhere from Tulsa to Tokyo
on back, you have the right tape in your hand.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
It says all that. Yeah, it's like yelling at you.
Then you did it right.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
And you guys think these are just like fake sleeves. No, no,
this is one of my videos.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
All right. Put in the VCR. We'll watch it all
here we go. That's the rest of the podcast. Yeah,
we play it and just watch it for an hour
and a half.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
All right, thank you guys. We will see you guys
next time here on the Bobby Cast. Bye everybody. This
has been a Bobby Cast production.
All right, welcome to our episode on one hit Wonders
and where are they Now? The whole reason that I
wanted to do this episode is I watched a documentary
on Netflix about Devo and it's not just one hit wonders,
and it's not just where are they now? But like,
what the crap did they do in between the time
they were one hit wonder? So I did a deep
dive on these one hit wonders who you're gonna know now.
(00:29):
Brought in Eddie, who didn't even know what we were
talking about today, because mostly I want to know how
many songs from these people you know as I talk
about them, because some of these are two hit wonders.
Some of these are one hit wonders. But if you
like became a fan, you knew other songs and that
title one hit wonder. If you ever do a list
of them, people will fight you and go they have
more than one hit, right, And it's mostly because they're
(00:52):
in the fan club. Yeah, so you had no idea
what we're talking about?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
No idea?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Up first is Vanilla Ice. So how many Vanilla Eye
songs can you name? One? Yeah, I'm gonna start with
one ice sized baby. I mean that's it. I feel
I did buy that tape.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I had that cassette tape, but I can't tell you
another song that's on there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So I probably was in the fan club and I
could go deeper. I could go, like play that funky
music white Boy, Oh of course I remember that one
wasn't a massive hit. Was awesome. Ninja rap from Ninja
Turtles the movie was awesome. I had the MC hammer
on one side, flip it over Vanilla Ice on the
backside tape so legit. So I have Vanilla Eyes at
(01:36):
number one. So he was massive because he was like
a white rapper.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, that was at that time that he was the one.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So he was the first rapper to top the Billboard
Hot one hundred ever.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Ever And it made him famous probably in a way
that was too big and too fast, and it all
was one. So he got a Grammy nomination for Ice
Ice Baby, which is crazy. It's freaking ice ice baby,
and so he was globally famous. It was such a
rocket ship for him, and the fall off was I
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would say purely musical, because credibility questions, massive backlash. Anybody
that gets so big, it doesn't matter there's a reason
people hate Coldplay. It's not because they're not good. It's
because they got so big. There's a reason people hate Knickelback.
It's because they got so big. Anybody that gets so big,
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it starts to not be cool to like them anymore.
So even the good bands get backlash. But he was
like a symbol of overexposure, and the public turned on
him quickly because the hip hop purists started to question him.
I never turned on him, but I was like nine.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you, what grade were you
in when he popped? Hmmm, because I feel like I
was in sixth grade. That's yeah, you would probably be
the fifth or sixth grade. Did you have dance offs
in school?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I was much more now, this is like Stone Cold
in the Rock. I was much more of a hampsy
Hammer guy than a Vanilla Ice guy. So I had
hammer Pants. Oh wow, who came first?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Probably Hammer, But I mean they were at the same time,
because again I had the tape of both of them
on the same tape, So I had hammer Pants. I
was much more of a Hammer fan, but I did
like Vanilla Ice, especially when he was in Ninja Turtles,
so he had one massive song, and so a lot
of this was me exploring like what they did after
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they fell off. So he went away for a bit.
He's still like playing shows a bit as a nostalgia act,
but he had a second current, real estate and renovation.
No way. He also had the Vanilla Ice Project on
HGTV and Discovery.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Remember that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't I remember that.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I didn't watch a lot of it, but I remember
it was cool to see Vanilla Ice not as a
rapper but as a home TV show guy.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No idea. Yeah, he had success in that after he
had to find a new career. Obviously had the television show.
Right now, he still tours. Obviously it's the nostalgia circuit,
but he kind of did a reinvention. He was a rapper,
a one hit wonder was so massive. Then he became
a joke. Then he kind of became cool again, which
is typically what happens with nostalgia, But it was him
(04:34):
being credible in a whole different area that was interesting
to me.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Was it in Florida basically like based in Florida his
TV show? Because I remember kind of like the Florida
Vibe A one A. Still he kind of still stuck
to that because he was from Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Right sort of. I think he was from Texas originally, really,
and they created a Florida story. A lot of his
come up though, was like in Dallas, and so then
the Florida was created a lot and as part of
his image, I mean, his whole image was create a
one avenue. But he was also like a jet ski racer,
Like he had a version of that as well, Like
(05:08):
he was like there are motorcycle jet skis whatever. He's
like a rapper. But yeah, he blew up so fast
and then he came back. But he made a ton
of money in Holmes.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, and he still I think I saw him in
a few commercials. I think he was in a Super
Bowl commercial, so I know.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm sure the nostalgia part of the yeah yeah, up next.
How many songs can you name from Carl ray Jepson.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
One call Me Maybe that's her?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Right? That is, oh call me maybe, Hey, I just
met you. That song jam still Dude, so good, so catchy.
Twenty twelve. It was a number one hit. It stayed
there for nine weeks. It was in twenty twelve because
every year they look for what was the song of
the summer. This was the song of the summer in
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twenty twelve. It was the best selling single of the
year worldwide. So she did have another song and I
think it was her with al City. I think it
was her song and al City was on it called
good Time.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, oh a good Time was not like the other
but I do remember it. But she was a monster.
And the thing about her is like she's still in it.
She's just kind of changed how she's in it. She
still makes music, yeah, and not in a nostalgia way,
like people still really love her current music. So her
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whole thing was she didn't have a hit and then
collapse and it's all It's always weird when someone comes
out with her first song and it is massive because
you almost can never actually match that, so then people
look at you as a failure.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Almost. No artists have two worldwide monsters like that. Uh
So she in the last few years just kind of
pivoted her sound. She still makes music, she didn't try
to recreate call me maybe she has a rabid fan base.
She tours still critics lover. She didn't become aware they
(07:06):
now really she became like the artist's artists good for her.
People think she's cool.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I think she's cool. From twenty twelve, I called me
maybe it was awesome. So she stopped chasing mainstream and
then just did art music. So she never really, I
will say, fell off or she had to go away.
She just kind of pivoted who she was.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Were you in, I mean you were in radio when
her song came out? What was what was that like?
Like living it?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I So I got a little credit for being one
of the first people to play that song nationally. I
saw Justin Bieber like lipsninking in on YouTube or something
back that I found. Yeah, So I played it and
then they were very grateful. The record label was and
this is when I was in Austin, Texas, and they
were like, we're so grateful You're one of the first
stations to ever play it. It was one of the
first songs.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That I like, hit hard worked.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Where I was going, oh, I can do this and
people actually care. So yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, So that's interesting because, like, you know, playing music
on a radio station as a morning show guy, that's
not really a thing now, right, I mean, can you
now today still take some of you here and be like, oh,
I'm going to play it on my show or not
you But like a morning you need.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
To be extremely syndicated, which I am now obviously, and
I was then too. I just started my own syndication.
It's just different. There's just so many ways now to
actually make a difference in music. Sure, I think for
me and I've broken a bunch of songs on country
radio to where they became massive hits. But it wasn't
just because I played it. I think at this point
(08:40):
it is if I played something a few times and
it caught the ear of a major record executive that
was then going to invest money in it, that was
then going to build a promo around it, that was
going to do a clipping campaign, that was all the
things they do now. So the instant star of playing
a song on my nationally syndicated show probably doesn't happen
as easy as it used to because that happened a
(09:01):
few times. Yeah, But I do think I could play
something and somebody hears it that has the ability, the resources,
the means to make that person a star because it's
being exposed to them. If that makes sense, It does
make sense. Everything's different now. Back in the day like
they would pay radio dudes in Memphis to play song
over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's pola, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
But they would play it like forty times in three hours.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I never I never been paid a cent to play
a song for the record, never a single cent. But
there have been songs though that, other pop songs that
radio people played and created hits from in a similar
way that I was just talking about, Like I think LFO, I.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Like girls they wear Arabbit Crombie.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I think that was I think it was a guy
in Memphis, just going from my mind. Really who played
that song? Heard somebody heard it, the other stations started
playing it. It was one of those. And then there have
been instance too where bands have cheated the system, smart
the system and bought a bunch of their CDs back
in the day in a certain regional area, which made
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the radio station see that and start playing it. It
gets reported. Other radio stations go, well, if they're playing it,
we should play it. But it's all because of a
band going to buy a bunch of the buy CDs
because they get reported. So there's a lot of ways
to manipulate the system. Now the system gets manipulated on
streaming by people just buying streams, like buying billions of streams,
and it's like, look at us, we're number one, but
(10:32):
you just paid to be on that. That's all.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's a little behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Next up, one hit Wonder tumble Wambah.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Tumble wamba the greatest one hit Wonder tub thumping. Yeah,
I get knocked.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Down, massive song. The reason but that that was a
crazy song. The video was crazy all of the It's
absurd in my head looking back at the video in
that song. And the reason they didn't last is because
they weren't supposed to last. They were like a a
bizarre anarchy punk band, really, yes, and they continued to
(11:06):
make like anarchist music. They're anarchists.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Huh. So was their message behind top thumping that we
didn't catch or was it simply I get knocked down?
And then again you never then they pissed the night away,
they did, and then Danny Boy, oh, Danny Boy, and
then they go down whiskey drink, vodka, drink, cider drink.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Not sure what the anarchist message in that was. They
didn't really fail at being a pop band. They were
never trying to be one to begin with. So the
mainstream knew them and still knows them as the I
Get Knocked Down band from that one song. But that
song was basically a prank on the music system because
they were like, how do I get inside the system?
(11:51):
So they created like a song that the system would embrace.
They felt like if they could get inside the system,
they could then bring their anarchist views and music as
one of the group being you know, welcomed in. Yeah,
so it was basically a science experiment by Chumbawamba.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, that didn't work for me because I never went
out to discover more Chumbawamba music. Like I was happy
with tub Thumping. You were good. I never went and
did a Google search. I'm like, well, let me hear
some more Chumbawamba.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Interesting, did you I maybe not Chumbawamba, but I did,
Chase right, said Fred, Oh yeah, and I don't have
them on my list here. It's a good one they
had secret. I did go buy that CD and it sucked.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
They got you man.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Back in the day you had to buy a whole
CD to get one song basically, and I bought it
and I was like, I got to explore more of
this band. It sucked you regret. I was so disappointed
in that. Uh So they stayed active for years. They
formally announced in twenty twelve they were ending the band.
They were together thirty years. Dang, Billboard and other outlets
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covered the breakup. Former members moved into films, activism, and
other musical projects. Good So they kept doing what they
set out to do, But their whole story was we're
a movement, and their movement was wasn't to have a hit.
It was we've created all this crazy music. Because I've
heard some pre Tough Dumping. It's all nuts. Really, yeah,
(13:17):
it's exactly what you think anarchists message music would be
punk music, and they kept making it after but they
wanted to create a hit that would get them in
the system so they could then pollute the system. Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
See, Like I'd like to go back and see, because
I'm sure when that hit it was like work, let's tour,
let's tour, And then I'm sure people went to these
shows thinking like, all right, let's hear more about this band,
like and then here tough Dumping. That's cool, and then
the rest be like what is this?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
It was like me listening to right, said Fred that
CDs what it is. So the nugget in this one
that I found is one of the biggest like bar
drunk singalongs of the nineties came from a band that
were just trying to uh be provocative. Yeah, that was
the whole point of it. Their whole career makes sense
(14:03):
whenever you look at them, whenever you zoom back out
and go. They were just up to know, not have
to know good. They were just up to trouble anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
For their message, man, they were probably like, dude, it's working.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Unbelievable working. Next up lou Bega. Oh yeah, can you
name the lou Begas?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Obviously Mambo number five? But man, is there another one?
Because I feel like this is the one where I
had to buy the CD so I can listen to
the song. Now all I can think of is Mambo
number five.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's all I can think of too. I bet you
if if you read back to me the second most
streamed Blue Vegas song, I might know it. But for
my purposes too, I didn't dig on the music because
I wanted to see what we knew. Mambo number five,
you know a little bit of Monica in my life?
Massive song, not just in the States, but worldwide. Oh yeah,
(14:54):
so he in that song was so unavoidable. It became
part of just culture. I remember the hat, like the cigar,
the suit.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Let me tell you my dad didn't like music. I
mean he never listened to music, but he would walk
around the house singing woe two three four five it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So it was, and I think he was more musically
than his image of this song was. But because the
image and this song hit so hard, he couldn't really
shake it. And I just pictured the guy in the suit,
the fadora, and so it was such a novelty song
that it kind of trapped him to always be a
novelty to people. Somebody else who reminds me of who
(15:34):
was the one hit wonder is Bobby McFerrin.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, don't Worry Be Happy. I was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Because that guy was like an artist, artist, but everybody
only wanted him to do don't Worry to be Happy.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
He also did theme to the Cosby Show.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Oh he did that. That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
What's lubagas number two song? If you guys could look
it up streaming wise, Sweet Light Cold, I Don't.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Ring a Bell.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He never totally disappeared in that. He just going away,
but he you know, had to tour in a lot
of these countries because he was globally. They they thought
it was cool he was there. Yeah, that is cool.
It's like country acts now that go to really small
towns's Somerville, Kentucky because they're like the we can't believe
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he came to Somerville. So lou Bega did that basically
in Europe, he's still now because everything that was cool
that was then lame, it's kind of cool again. So
that did a twenty five year anniversary have Mambo number five.
He just kind of settled into that role the industry
gave him because that's all the industry would accept him
ass So then he just embraced it. Uh. He built
(16:39):
a career around a song that it did sound like
an old classic, not to me because it wasn't classic
to me, but it sounded like an.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Old yeah, like influenced jazz pop.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Song and it's very catchy with the truths in my yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Trump failed.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Next up Semisonic.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Ooh closing Time. Yeah, wasn't there trouble with this song?
Is this the one that could possibly? It was like
Payola Okay, so yeah, tell me the story about this.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Whole different story. We'll talk about the song first. So
closing Time mostly it just became associated with the bar.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yes, closing time it was when the bar shutting down
at two am or whatever time they played the song.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Dan Wilson was the lead singer and the main writer
with Semisonic, and so I was actually talking to him
about this and it had two meanings, so everybody knew
it though as the bar song, it actually wasn't that.
It was that in like fatherhood, impending fatherhood, not just
last call at a bar?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Crazy? Did you know that before? He told you?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I didn't until I looked up what it was about
because I was going to interview him, So I never
knew that naturally from the song. I just knew closing
time was what they would, yeah, because it's it's so
on the nose, one last call for out, so that
would all happen. And so no, I didn't until I
talked to him. But that band's entire identity became that
(18:10):
bar song, yeah, and that bar life. He though, became
an elite songwriter and producer. He wrote Dixie Chicks not
Ready to Make Nice, That's crazy Adeles, someone like you. Yeah,
I have a mind someone like you. He I mean Grant.
He's just crushed so much. And so Semisonics still exists
(18:33):
officially as a band, and they well, they never really
broke up.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
So technically they're still together. But I wonder if they
play a lot, like maybe some of these nineties cruises
you know that they do.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I don't think he needs to do that. I think
if you're playing a nineties cruise, you are trying to
live off your nineties nostalgia. I think he's doing just
fine on his yacht with someone like you money, not
ready to make nice money. So this one isn't about
just fading into obscurity through nostalgia. Like he went on
and wrote the biggest, most emotionally durable songs for other
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artists that weren't him. So the thing about the Paola thing,
you may want to look this up, but I do
remember there being like one of those shows like twenty
twenty and so Simsonic the band had nothing to do
with it. But I think this was one of those
songs they got flagged whenever. I think Elliott Spitzer was
like in New York and they were like, no paying
(19:28):
is way before me. Again, I have nothing to do
with any of this or the record. I think it
was one of like a whole bunch of songs that
they found that the record labels were promoting through illegal means.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Ok Okay, it.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Wasn't the only one, but this is one they for
sure highlighted on one of those shows. Do you see
anything on that mic?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Drummer says, you have a microphone? Right, that they spent
half a million dollars on promotion.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
But no, that could be anything, right that couldn't that
be like a swag? It literally could be what I
roasters on a telephone pole. What I remember though, is
it was in a news story, for sure. But they
spend that, they would they would spend that they'd buy TV.
It was crazy, Wow, West, different times.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Hang tight, the Bobby Cast will be right back, and
we're back on the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Eagle Eye Cherry Ooh saved tonight, great jam, But that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So Eagle Eye Cherry late nineties. I remember him being
played on the Edge in Dallas, the alternative station.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Why the Edge would you get that in Arkansas? No?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
But I had a friend that lived down there and
we didn't have a cool alternative station. So I would
have them record me like an hour on one side
of the tape, flip it, record another hour and mail
it to me.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
No way. I mean, I'm South Texas, You're Arkansas. The
Edge was it. I remember they had Edgefest. Do you
remember edge Fest?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I remember Edgefest? I remember the night guys Cramer and
Twitch there were two dudes that I thought were so cool.
So I listened to the Edge through tape about every
two weeks.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I'd get a new tape.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
And so that's hilarious, Like Eagle Eye Cherry Saved Tonight
was a jam because of that. That and Harvey Danger
flag Poles to.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Remember that one.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You remember that one, everybody that would be on that tape.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
H So Saved Tonight massive. I remember listening hearing it
first Alternative Edge before it crossed over. That was like
his only song.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
So Eagle Eye was the guy, Eagle Eye Cherry. He
was a dude.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
His sister was actually a famous artist, Nina Cherry had
a song Buffalo Stance. Really mm hmm. Do you know
if I just say that, I can't sing too much
of it because I'll go to five postcast jail. Also,
it's hard for me to sing it. But it's like
I don't know well enough.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Do you know Eagle Eye's real name was his birth
name Eagle Eye? If his sister was Cherry.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
If I'm gonna bet, I bet you it's that's his
real name. We'll have the fact checkers. Eagle Eyeland Noon, Cherry.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
That's legit.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's a money name. He's one of those American artists
that people just assumed disappeared because he did not have
hits after he did keep making music and mostly maintained
an international presence. So I did not follow the international
presence sharks.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I did not. I didn't either.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Uh. He came to Nashville, one of our guys. He's
written with Cherry. Did you like him? What did you
call him? Eagle?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
He introduced himself to you?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
What did he say, Hey, I'm Eagle Eye. He never
even said his name.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It was just did he sing a sing in the room?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You me sing safe Tonight?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Well? I was going to, because then I think that
would be weird.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh No.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
His own bio says his career changed with Save Tonight,
and then after twenty five years, he returned with back
on track after periods of doubt. Read that wrong, But
I guess he spent a bunch of time probably trying
music until he just embraced he'd go and play safe
to night over and know where again.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, but like to your point though, I mean, it's
if you start like that, that's hard to get back
up to that point.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Almost never, it's it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So I get it.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
He's still making music. Were you guys writing music for
him when he wrote? Yeah, how did how did you?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
If we found out?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
He says, yep, never had we found out? Brandon wrote
Safe Tonight and he's been saying nothing this whole time.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Uh so that's cool. So he still plays.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I would say, this is what I would say. The
nugget that I pulled from this. He's not gone. He's
just not really in America anymore. Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think that's the international part. YEP.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I think he's still having success in other places, because
you know what, we're not the only country that matters. No,
we are not, and people watching this and watch it
from all over the world that we want you to know,
we love everybody. But we're just in the middle of America,
right here, so he's still going, all right, I have
three left. Are you enjoying this?
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I love it, dude. I love learning about these guys.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Next up, can you sing me the song from Blind Melon?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Ooh, no, rain All. I can say that my life
is party playing.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
One of them. I would say that was my favorite
song for about five to seven years of my life.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Wow, for that long, Like.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It was in the horse race of favorite songs through
my life for about five to seven years that was
number one. So it's probably falling down to like six
or seven at this point. It's been a bit, but
I loved that song. I loved Blind Melon. I was
somebody who chased more music from them, so it would
be unfair for me. I'd be the person that would
be in the comments going they had more than one song? Yeah, yeah,
but really the b Girl video is what people remember
(25:02):
from them.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Of course, the Big Girl. They did have another song though,
that I really liked because I bought that album for sure.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Do you know his name by the way, Oh he died,
by the way, Yes, he's dead.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
His name is.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It's like, yeah, you got it?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Hold on something? Coon?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Coons?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Shannon Hoons? Shannon Hoon's He was the lead singer. He
also did backing vocals and a bunch of guns and
roses stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Really and I mean that's similar voices, so that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
One of the more tragic stories of the ten that
I looked up here and so it was addiction. It
was a lot of what that era, that genre's lead
singer syndrome was Yep.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Drugs, drugs and depression and dealing with a bunch of crap.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Died from cocaine overdose in nineteen ninety five at the
age of twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
He was trying to continue the success of No Rain.
They released other material. It didn't hit pop wise, but
that music almost never hit pop wise anyway. That would
just happened to cross over. Yeah. So there's a documentary
called All I Can Say, which is mostly footage that
he shot himself.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Have you seen it.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I've seen a lot of it on TikTok meaning full
five clips.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, and I didn't know that was from a documentary
when I saw those clips, which is cool to see
because back then we didn't have access to a bunch
of clips. So like to see more of him is
cool because once someone died like that, you're like, well
that was it, yeah back then? Yeah, you just it's over,
like there's nothing to learn more about this this guy.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
It's interesting to hear him sing live, and I say
live after watching the clips of singing live, because he
does have that same really interesting, peculiar voice.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That's rosh like, yeah, it's cool, it was really cool.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I think the nugget here is that that song is
so positive, but that story from him and with him
is very tragic. Uh So addiction just kind of blew
a hole in the middle of the band, and then
their story is more never got the chance because of
addiction more than fell off.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, so did he he died. It's okay, so you
mentioned this. He died after the success of No Rain,
so it's not like No Rain came out and he
was already dead. Correct.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
That did happen to a Janice Joplin, Bannis freaking Joplin.
Sad story never got to me and Bobby McGee was
out after she. You knew who else that happened to?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Selina?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Well, you know, when she was about to cross over
in English. They hadn't released her English stuff until she died,
and then once her English stuff came out, it was huge.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I'm going to need to be fact checked on this.
But you know who else that happened to?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Who else?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Otis Redding?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Otis ready.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I do not think sitting on the dock of the
bay hit until after he died.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
No way, And he's the one that died in a
plane crash, plane crash in Wisconsin, because I believe when
we were on tour in Wisconsin we saw the lake
where is plane crashed.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Great memory.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean I just remember someone telling me telling
me that story. Well, we're just saying it, so we're
hoping it's true. Uh, fact checkers, he died before it
was released? And did he die in a plane crash?
Was called ssen nice for it?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
He did?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh good good memory. That's crazy that they all those
people died before. They not Shannon Huon, but Janie Choplin,
so Elena and Otis Redding died before like their massive
song like I wonder and I'd have to look back.
But Janis Choplin, Oh don't you buy Me? Mercedes Bins.
(28:41):
I wonder if that was like a mid hit for
her before she died, or if that also was released
after she.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. Do you
remember Mercedes Bens actually using that song? Yeah, in their commercials.
Have you seen the documentary on Netflix? Yeah? So sad.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
It's so savage, so good. Yeah, it's called Janice.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Right, I don't know. I don't remember the name of it.
It's so good. You know. What's so shocking to me
about that documentary is I didn't know her and Jerry
Garcia had they loved each other. I mean I didn't.
I didn't even know they were together.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
The ice cream guy. That's Cherry. That's Cherry Garcia, grateful
dead man because they lived in San Francisco together.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yes, but they I didn't know they were a thing,
but they loved each other.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Next up, two left? Can you sing the song the
one hit Wonder from OMC?
Speaker 2 (29:24):
How bizarre?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Again, Jam, you want to know the rest?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
By the Rights Ava Ava? That's all was awesome, I know,
but again, I should have done more research on him.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No one is so like instantly recognizable. It's like when
you said trumpets trumpet with lou Bega minus by the Riots.
You want to know the rest by the Riots Global?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, dude, do you remember the music video.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I remember them righting the car, the lowrider kind of car, right,
and the convertible top the charts in several countries, became one
of the biggest songs ever to come out of. What
country do you think they're from? I would have missed it.
I would have guessed South America.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
What country, Yeah, I'm gonna go with Would you.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Have guess South America?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
No, No, I'm I'm thinking of an island like Australia
or New Zealand or something. It's New Zealand, New Zealand. Wow,
all like the.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Horns And I just I thought it to me it
was like the Brazil or South America or something. Wow,
it's freaking New Zealand. Great job. The name itself, O
Tara Millionaires Club. Oh that's still where the sea Okay,
And it referenced a poor Auckland community, which I believe
they were from Auckland, New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
OMC was Polly Fumana and producer co writer Alan Janssen,
And so they eventually got into it looks like big
legal fights after and so that kind of actually that group,
Oh that sucks. Yeah, And that's.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Not the lead singer. That's just these are writers I know.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I think those are the two people though. Yeah, from
what I found, Polly Fumana and producer co writer Alan
Jansen or OMC. And you add an internal conflict and
legal arbitration issues, the momentum fractured instead of compounding. So
they never really had a chance because I think for
them they could have continued to make music internationally in
(31:28):
America's hard to hit that again. But the sadder years
were later when Polly stopped doing music, focus on family
and then got some rare neurologic disorder that I can't
really pronounce. He died at forty years old, no way,
and so because Polly died, their legacy isn't aware of
(31:49):
the now because he died.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
And it was really only him and the songwriter. So man,
I always wonder how a band from New Zealand even
gets heard in America.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
The same way LFO got heard in America. One person
doing one thing, having a little success around it, and
it's and someone going, oh it works. It's like a
television show from England who they put on the States,
even though it's slightly different. They know there's success with it.
They think it'll be successful here too, So they invest.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Money in it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
It's like a lottery ticket, but one that has a
pretty good success rate because it's worked somewhere else. Yeah. Wow,
here's the nugget I found that I made a note
of on this one that was a very like fun
upbeat for the friendly song, right, And so it was
crazy because the whole thing was kind of an ironic
joke about poverty because they grew up in a real
(32:41):
poor town.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
The song is about that.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
And so he died tragically a little bit of that
Chumbawamba feel where they were kind of showing something by
doing the opposite thing.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
So yeah, OMC. I never knew what OMC stood for
until I did the research here, and it was I
guess I really didn't care. I'll be honest with you.
It's not like I was dying to know. And I
was like, I just can't figure out what OMC stands
for a lot.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Of these things. I just took it for the one
hit wonder and I was like, all right, don't really
need to.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Know more, okay, And here we go at number ten.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Come on, is this number ten as in you saved
it for the best for last or just randomly number ten?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I'm gonna go for the sake of right now the
best for the last. But really was random? Okay, yeah, really,
I just found ten and did it. But this one
possibly my favorite song from the whole list. Okay, let
me look and see if there's any other ones before
I tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Can you give me a hint?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, I'll tell you now. Blind Melon's my favorite song.
So no Rain has to be number one on my
list of songs.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Okay, and you said right said Freend's not on this.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I'll get too left. I got too left.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Oh you have two left? I have two left. I
skipped over one accidental. Well, then just tell me what
this is and we'll play. We'll play the game in
the last one.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Okay. Uh Daniel Powder, Oh, I had a bad day jam.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
That's see. That's still on my playlist, like my my
music library, Daniel Powder. For some reason, it's on my
It pops up once in a while.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
It was gigantic. I remember from American Idol they would
play wh people got kicked off Idol When I was like,
this is pret me all my years of Idol, this
one Idol was still on Fox And there were years
when that show was a juggernaut and they get kicked off,
had a bad day.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Looking back, it's kind of like that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Someone fouls out. Yeah, it's kind of that. So this
song was a monster atop the Billboard Hot one hundred
for five weeks, earned him a Grammy nomination, became a
signature piano song in that two thousands zero where those
piano songs like Vanessa Carlton like he was one of that.
So it was like idol though, was such a platform.
(34:48):
And then also it's pretty universal that, well, everybody has
bad days.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
It is there's you can always play that song at
some point in your life.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I was a Daniel Powder fan. I chased other songs
you did, so you know other songs? Do you remember?
I can't. I'm not going to like list titles, but
I did like by record. I bought probably a CD
from that, but I like that music like that was
my favorite kind of music. Little kind of emo, but
not to emo. It was post grunge.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
It was like emo, but it still was kind of happy.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
It was like emo, but you could listen to it
going to and coming home from church.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
That's a good way of putting it. Difficult.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Years after the hit, so still kept playing, still kept touring,
now is doing anniversary era shows. He's doing twenty twenty
six dates. Really yep, still in the game, still singing
the song people came for, and still building a career
around it rather than pretending it didn't happen. Bad Day
became such a giant emotional utility song that it was
(35:51):
so big it's hard to see anything else around it,
including the artist.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I know, I know, and it makes me think of
like what those shows are like when people are just like.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Just play blessing and a curse to have a song
like that so big.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So early, Hank Tight, The Bobby Cast will be right back.
Welcome back to the Bobby Cast.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
I do have one more than I missed.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Okay, and I have a guess just based on like
one hit wonders that you haven't mentioned. I wonder if
James Blunt is on your list.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
No, that'd be a great one to do though at
some point. Okay, and his story is pretty cool and
that he has stayed extremely relevant because of social media
and has kept putting out records in Europe and obviously
and just been doing good there. But like everybody, if
you're on Twitter for like eight years. You knew James
Blunt also he You're a Beautiful, massive song, but he
(36:51):
also had another couple close to big songs that were
like almost hits.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Again, I only knew You're Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
If you give me James Blunt's second and third songs,
I would bet you that's the name of the song
called nineteen seventy three. Is that a newer release? Yeah,
I won't know anything newer.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
It would be off that album.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, it'd be off the off of Your Your Beautiful,
like his second single. Yeah, Goodbye My Lover, Goodbye my Friend.
You won't be the one.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Oh oh, I've heard that. I've heard that song. Yes,
I didn't realize that was that was uh yeah old
Blunt Goodbye my Lover, Goodbye my Friend. Wow.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Okay, you want to take another.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Shout out here? Let's see. Let's see Colby Kelly. Not
a one hit wonder in my mind, but could be
considered one.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
You know, I'm offended for her and you know what
I see her. We live by each other.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
We've shared a stage together.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Yeah, I've I've stopped a couple of times. She's walking
her dog.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
She Uh, I do not accept that. Okay, and we're angry. Uh.
We did have a bunch of hits though, to be fair,
who's the girl that says, girl put your records song? Okay,
so that's Karen Bailey was awesome, great one not it?
We'll give you one more guests as a band.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
So, oh it's a band Redbone Dona. Hey, what's the
matter with it?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I didn't know that you're saying that that that to
me is a TikTok sound.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Was doing what.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna leave out the name
of the song and tell me when you can get it.
Made them this song X song made them MTV famous
and Grammy nominated, and it's the song most people know
them for. But this band were always more musically literate
and craft oriented than a novelty summary gives them credit
for their humor, helped them explode, Oh their humor. But
(38:51):
people underestimate how good the band was. The video massively
famous they were. People would be like, that's the funny
bad because the video was so funny. The video had
a celebrity in it too. You have a guess, Brandon,
He wrote with Egli Cherry, do not question any.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I mean because I thought, aha, but they're not funny.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Now this is again, this is probably two thousands. I'll
say this to you. And I went to a show
and he sang the lead singer, the lead singer sing,
and I'm telling you that they're actually a really good band.
But you just know there was one song. But we
went to a show and the lead singer saying, you
and I went together that Marcy playground. No, we did
go to a show though, and he sang, God, who
(39:35):
could this be? This person? After this band. I won't
say broke up because I'm not sure if they officially
broke up. But the lead singer has written a ton
in film, TV, theater. He's won three Emmys and a Grammy,
the nominated for an Oscar and a Tony. What I
think that I think he's dead. I think he died
(39:55):
now though, I think he's dead. But this guy you're talking, yeah,
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, we saw him before he died.
What so we had a successful career after was very accomplished,
but then he died. He died of COVID.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
He died of COVID. Yeah, Joe Diffy.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
No, uh not country band? Hold On, hold On, hold on,
guess it? Yes, so the lead singer awards level writer
across TV, movies and musicals. The song was funny, the
band was massive. The music video with the famous person
in it. We've also in our band. For those that
don't know, Uh, we have a comedy band. We do
(40:37):
a lot of comedy stuff. We will cover songs occasionally.
We have covered their biggest song. We've covered their biggest
song thousand times.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
What this? What are you talking?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
You know? How does everybody know?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
But Eddie?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Eddie sang it. And we've been to a show, and
we've been to their show. Well, he only sang by himself.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
The show we went to was at City Winery and
the guy from Marcy Playground played art from ever Claire
play Jim Blossoms. That was no, that was awesome. We
went to that show with Okay, that was a four.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
That was so Maybe that wasn't me. I don't think
I was at the thought we all went together was met.
I thought we all went to so so then I
have not seen this person live.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Oh, I guess okay, then I but let's go to.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
The We've covered his his song, this song, the big one. Yeah.
In our band many times. Who sang that song me?
Speaker 1 (41:32):
But there's a guitar riff? Well he did, but I'm
saying there's a very famous guitar riff. It's like that,
that kind of riff at the beginning. This has turned
into about us so much reluctantly. Okay, great, but we
never covered the massive cake fan Gosh, dude, I have nothing. Okay,
(41:56):
you done?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
I have nothing.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
The music video featured a very famous supermodel.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
See the only thing I'm thinking is like Paul Simon, now, uh,
the supermodel Christy Brinkley. No at a pool, Oh, Stacy's mom,
Stacy's mom, Fountains of Wayne, Fountains of Wayne. Wow, is
a good one. But no, I was not there. That
(42:23):
was you and Brandon. I've never seen this guy and
he's dead. He died to COVID dam. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
So we must have gone before obviously before he died.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah, what did he play at that? Did he play
Stay's mom? That's cool?
Speaker 1 (42:35):
What if he didn't?
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Just him beccous will.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
It was like a nostalgic show where they all were
touring together playing so crazy. One was the Marcy Playground guy, Like,
what else does he.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Even play sex and candy. It's all we got.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Yeah, didn't play candy and sex played backward. I don't know,
like just keep that up. Uh, but yeah, so one
hit wonder They were actually a really good band, but
because it was kind of like Loubaga, like people just
nw him as a funny he just new him as
that specific type of thing. But then he jumped out
and did all that stuff, all the accolades, won all
the awards across again, TV, Musican movies, musicals in NIGHTI.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Covid wow, jam love that song.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
What'd you learn from this?
Speaker 2 (43:15):
I think I learned that, man, we really just consume music,
Like I just list. I look at this whole list,
and I'm just like, man, I really just took these songs,
and I never questioned what happened to these guys, you know,
and it's cool to me that some of them continue
to play music. But maybe this one hit allowed them
(43:36):
to live that life, you know, to where they never
had that one hit. They may have had to quit
music to have a you know, work at an office
somewhere and like support their families. But since they had
this hit, they were able to make some kind of
money to be able to just keep playing music for
the rest of their life, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
I think it's an interesting question that I think probably
actors go through once they're typecast, like Arkley, would you
have rather been Urkle and your whole life be known
as Oracle? Or would you like to have a career
acting and struggling some having some moderate success but having
a somewhat steady career. I think that's probably the case. Yeah,
(44:12):
you know, you can't go back, and you know if
I turn back time, you can't do that. But I
think that's a great question, Like had they not blown
up like this, they probably would have all continued music
in some way. Would they have rather when asking them?
If you go, okay, here's a choice. You get the
massive hit, that's all you're gonna be known for, and
you're going to struggle with it and love it and
hate it. And would you want that? Or do you
(44:33):
want to just kind of ebb and flow and never
have a real hit? What would you rather have?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I kind of like the eagle eyed Cherry the way
of doing things, like, you know, just like have a
hit right, I have the hit right with Brandon on
a random Wednesday, and then like just live wherever I
want to and continue to play music and still kind
of have enough money to live my life. I like that.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
There we have it.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
What would you rather do? I mean, you're like, I'd
rather be Bob Dylan with all that sit all the money.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
I think I'm I'd rather have the one hit. Yeah,
I think that. Yeah, I'd There definitely be some times
where I struggle, but I think I'd rather have the
one hit.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
The Dan Wilson's pretty good, you know where you like
have that one hit and then you just start writing
other hits and make a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
All right, Do you want to go to the You're
gonna go to the bank for a second. Every time
we shoot here, we'll pull something out. So I'll pull
out from where set. These are all real, by the way,
real movies.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Wont if I get this out, you're gonna put in
the VCR and play it.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Well, it's a handsoen live concert video. My body won't turn.
Oh you need help, I get it.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
From this one, we're going to focus on.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Are they glued together? It's like one of those sets,
you know, or it's just paper. It's not real.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
There we go, Okay, In the show What.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Year is this from?
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Speaking? And this is you know, not one hit Wonders
now consider it like a one hit. But they man,
they had some chick a big Hanson van. They made
really great music. Uh, this is Hanson Tulsa, Tokyo in
the middle of nowhere. So is it live in Tulsa
and Tokyo it is. Yeah, They're from Oklahoma, Tulsa, Tokyo.
(46:20):
And then I believe their album was middle of Nowhere.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Dude, that's a trip when you see these American bands
go to uh Tokyo and they're singing back all the lyrics.
Like I saw Jack Johnson clip where he was playing
in Tokyo and they're all like singing all his words.
I love it. We would never do that.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
You want to see something, do you? So? We asked
Zach Hanson in this video, Well, if you want to
see Hanson across the planet everywhere from Tulsa to Tokyo
on back, you have the right tape in your hand.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
It says all that. Yeah, it's like yelling at you.
Then you did it right.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
And you guys think these are just like fake sleeves. No, no,
this is one of my videos.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
All right. Put in the VCR. We'll watch it all
here we go. That's the rest of the podcast. Yeah,
we play it and just watch it for an hour
and a half.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
All right, thank you guys. We will see you guys
next time here on the Bobby Cast. Bye everybody. This
has been a Bobby Cast production.
Host
Bobby Bones
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