04-11-25 HS/SS The One Hit Wonders We Love!

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he said she said, I am your hostess by this evening, Aggie,
and with me is the very awesome rowdy Rick. How
are you doing tonight?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
That guy's just acceptable. I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 7 (03:29):
I said what I said.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Anyway, houch things. How's everybody doing on this Friday night?
I see the carat room's already starting to fill up.
I only have one question. Andrew mentioned Games. I want
to know where he is.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
A reference to a quote tweet that I did, And.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, I know what he's What he's referencing, is you
sitting out on the porch last night? Leg everywhere? I'm not.

Speaker 7 (03:58):
It was my knees, that was pretty much. And my drink,
which was which was just you know, cranberry juice, cramp
peach or something, and that that was it. That was
nothing in the drink other than juice. I just want
to make sure that's underlined. But I finally, I finally
got to enjoy being outside because it wasn't raining and

(04:19):
it wasn't cold. What's it, windy?

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Trust me as soon as he as soon as he
as soon as he typed games in the chat, I
know exactly what he's talk about, because I'm like It's
so funny that this woman tells everybody she's completely unattractive,
and she's got legs for me.

Speaker 7 (04:34):
I don't have legs for days. I'm with two.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Legs day.

Speaker 7 (04:41):
I am not I'm not short. My dad said this
to me a long time ago. I am not short.
I am concentrated awesome. And he said that to me
because I was feeling really.

Speaker 8 (04:53):
Low because I had wanted a part in the school play,
but they needed somebody that was taller, and I, you know,
obviously I I didn't make the cut and I was.

Speaker 7 (05:09):
He told me, you're not short, You're just concentrated awesome.
He's nothing in Spanish, but that's kind of like the
rough translation. I've never forgotten that.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
So so just just so the viewers slash listeners understand,
you were feeling low because you were so low to the.

Speaker 7 (05:27):
Yes, that's exactly it, Daniel, how are you?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
But yeah, I know, I mean, you know, it's I
don't know. I may get loopy tonight. I don't know why.
Suddenly I'm really tired. Mind me.

Speaker 7 (05:44):
Well, it's the end of the week. It was that.
I cannot think of any start of the year where
there has been an uneventful week. I mean this this year,
it's every week has been something very bad, something something.
I mean, you know, friend in Chad Calvin Bankes sake

(06:05):
a meme calendar, and I'm like, I don't know how
you're doing it this year because there's so many memes
to choose from every.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Much Uh oh wait that that was an eye, not
an exclamation.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
For a second, I thought Orton Ordy was calling me Dan.
I was like, damn, I am really like I'm imaginary
now or something. I was like, oh wait, that's that's
an eye, not an exclamation But yeah, no, I mean,
this is probably and the irony of this being, you know,

(06:44):
not the first full year that since I started trying
to cover politics, but like the first one where I
was able to cover from like the beginning of the
year with a brand new president. The fact that I
have barely been able to take any time off without
something trying to blow up, I mean, in the hypocrisy
for everybody at this point, I am just so tired
of it because and I didn't I wanted to talk

(07:04):
about this on today's show, but I didn't get a
chance to do it. And I don't even remember who
it was there was somebody that was giving talk somewhere
or something or was on TV that is part of
the Trump team that had a golden Trump head on
their lips, and I'm like, okay, that is just way
too fucking yeah.

Speaker 7 (07:21):
I don't know, what the hell you know that you're
just giving idolatry Now, I'm like, yeah, no, this is gross.
We didn't like it when they did it with Obama.
I sure as hell don't like it when they do
it Trump.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
I mean, I like it even worse when it's coming
from the people that there're supposed to be on our side,
because you know, we're the ones that are supposed to
know better. But I don't know. I mean, I will
say one of the biggest turn offs for me during
the whole, you know, the whole election cycle was you know,
when they started pushing the Trump Bibles, and I'm just like,
you know, this is kind of the exact reason the
separation of church and state thing was created.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Yeah, I honestly, I honestly don't like that. As a
matter of fact, that was one of the reasons that
Bowling and Laura Ingram blocked me back in twenty fifteen
because they both had tweets claiming that Trump was our savior,
and I said, look, I didn't like it when people

(08:14):
refer to Obama in that tone. What makes you think
I'm gonna like it when you refer to Trump and
that in that way. And she just blocked me. She
never replied or anything. I was just blocked. I'm still
blocked to this day. And I consider it a badge
of honor because I stood up for that. And I
understand that she is. She's on the right. And I

(08:35):
watch your show every so often and whatever. And the
same for Eric Folman because I think he's over on
Knesmax now and you know, and they have great shows
and they do have you know, you know, great you
know guests and all that stuff and whatever. But my
points stance, you cannot refer to a politician as a savior.

(08:56):
That is the tydolatrous. And I don't I don't like it.
Our shows are yeah, well that's true. It's true because
it's more fun. We have more fun and we can
test and that's even that's that's part of our charm.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
The FC can suck it around here.

Speaker 7 (09:17):
I do want to give a quick shout out our
friends Stephen and roguelp had their premiere show this past Wednesday,
and it was really cool. I learned a lot. I
was like, I was actually taking notes.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Like your habit, your habit of always having a notepad
came out.

Speaker 7 (09:42):
This is this is why, this is why I cannot
It's right here, right next to me, And this is why.
Because you never know when you're going to need to
take down something of import, something that you want to
research later, something that you want to bring up in
a future you know, podcasts or for you know, future
reference once but he is debating you online or whatever.

(10:02):
So yeah, I'm telling you people, the original PDA was
a notepad and a pencil, not technically.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
The original PDA with a well okay, I mean I
figured the anthropologist.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
Anyway. So so yeah, this, uh, this entire week has
been it has it. I don't I do not see
anything slowing down. It's almost like it's almost like the
president's turning a breakod record within the first hundred days.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I mean, dude, the the only the only thing I
keep thinking is he's done more in the first eighty days,
whether you like what he's done or not, than Biden
did in four years. And I mean I'm just like,
I don't I don't get it, because I mean, you know,

(11:01):
Jenna and I were talking about this a little bit
last night. I have noticed he's kind of lost his
steps sometimes when he's just sitting around and just off
the cuff with people. But other than that, that dude
runs circles around me. And I'm just about to be
fifty two. I don't know how.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
I get you exhausted already because I know it's.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well that thing.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
I mean, it's like, you know, the thing that drives
me crazy is everybody with the tariffs is like, oh
my god, he's trying to destroy the economy with tariffs.
And I know we don't usually try to talk about
this stuff on this program, but I'm going to say
this anyway. If tariffs are so bad, why does every
other country on the planet get to use them?

Speaker 7 (11:38):
Yeah, you'll never get an answer from the left on
that one.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, it's the same as the left with the border.
You know, we're we're we should just have open borders.
And I'm like, okay, so every other country on the
planet gets to control their borders, but us is what
you're saying. And now it's every other country, but US
gets to use tariffs or we're going to destroy the planet.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
The whole control gun control situation, where you know, we
should not have military grade guns or everything, but the
same people were saying we should ship the people of
Ukraine military grade guns so that they can defend themselves
from encroaching government.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
What I'm my congratulations. You know, I never understand the
meaning of the First Amendment, even if you are only
talking to me.

Speaker 7 (12:22):
They want they want the Ukraine to have Second Amendment rights,
but not us. Okay, got it? No today this this week,
my my favorite thing that has been happening this week
is how many journalists are coming out saying how blindsided
they were about the whole Biden situation, how you know

(12:43):
they they were duped by the administration, how they did
not know how bad Biden was. And I'm like, y'all,
y'all don't get to rewrite history. Uh uh, it's not happening.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah wait, we didn't know. You didn't this stuff was
happening on live television. And then when everybody started trying
to point it out, you know, oh that clip was
obviously edited. It wasn't that bad in real time. I'm like, dude,
I fucking watched it in real time. It was worse.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
It was I'm like, no, no, And this is something
that i learned maybe two years into being on Twitter.
I'm twenty seventeen or so. I started taking screenshots of people,
regardless of party, of what they say, because I knew

(13:35):
it would come back and bite them with the as eventually.
Now you will not be surprised that most of the
screenshots I have taken are from liberal journalists. But I'm like,
I'm like, no, no, you don't get to rewrite history.
And I've not been the only one. A lot of

(13:56):
people have come back with. Is this you and a
screenshot of something they said, you know about Biden being
sharp as attacked, Biden being sharper than ever. I cannot
keep up with Biden. Biden just run circles around me,
all of this craft that they were saying, and now
that they're saying, oh, we were completely deep. We didn't
know how.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Bad he was.

Speaker 7 (14:14):
No, no, no, you don't get to rewrite anything. There's
there's a tweet for everything.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
I mean, technically, Danny, I only saw it with one
and a half, but I get your point.

Speaker 7 (14:27):
Yes, hey, yes, Calvin, they were so misled, those poor things.
I mean, I don't know what is a journalist supposed
to do. I mean like, did they do research? Did
they ferret out a story?

Speaker 9 (14:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
I don't know what they do anymore, because I mean
they were so duped, they were so misled. They couldn't
do due diligence and research on anything. That's not what
they do anymore.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
All right, So before we get into the topic, I
do have to bring up one other story because I
thought it was kind of funny today. Did you see
Peter Doocy apparently getting too close to a bird? I
was like, from the way that, I'm pretty sure from the
burde acton, I'm pretty sure you're too.

Speaker 7 (15:09):
Close to the nest. Yeah, And it was funny because
I was I was watching it, and I was I
was drinking my coffee as it happened, and that just
started choking. Yes, take my shirt. I was like, oh
my goodness, And uh, you know, that was the first

(15:30):
thing I popped into my head. Yeah, he's too close
to the nest. The baby, you know, the mom's alarmed
and so she's strafing him too close.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Gotta go, cal I do I do think of the
journals every time I flush.

Speaker 7 (15:48):
Oh goodness, but you know I did hear Peter Deacy's
wife is expecting a baby, So congrats to them. That's
kind of nice to know anyway.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Uh So, yeah, guys, I still think it's funny that
every time they turn Elder Doocy on the loose at
the diners and stuff, they always call him by his
son's name and he tries to do him off. So
I was your first, you fuckers.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
I I remember when the DC's actually released a cookbook.
Do you remember that? Yeah, it was this was several
years ago. I think it was during the first Trump administration.

Speaker 10 (16:34):
And they they were releasing the the cookbook, and so
Fox and Friends decided to run with a whole you know, everybody,
you know, bring their favorite recipes and do them on
the show.

Speaker 7 (16:53):
And this is when Ed Henry was still there. That's
how far back it went. And uh, you know, so
there were a lot of people that came in and
and they would you know, Brian kill me and his
wife and the kids were there that were fixing you know,
that were talking about their favorite dinner, you know, and
they would fix it right there and walk everybody there.

(17:14):
It was really really cute. I ended up buying that
that cookbook, and I took it to my parents because
there was a recipe there that I wanted to cook
for them. I haven't seen the cookbook since my mom
kind of sconded with it. I'm never going to get
back because she loves him so much. He's he's her favorite,

(17:42):
and she was just she actually sat down at the
breakfast table and she perused the entire book. I mean
like she turns each page, she read everything, and she
just because you know, they're the little anecdotes and stuff
like that and everything. And I loved pictures. But the
fact that it was the DC's on the front cover,

(18:04):
you know, it was really sweet. So yeah, I'm never
seeing it again. I'm just gonna have ice bus and
look for it there.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
I don't know, nobody wants to eat leftist Calvin There
two damn streams.

Speaker 7 (18:26):
They taste like they taste like grass all vecans anyway,
donice coming.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
I mean, you know, you know what they say that
you are what you eat.

Speaker 7 (18:38):
I was listening to the running of Tankerfield earlier. He's
talking about how the doctor tells him that he's drinking
too much and he says, why do you say that,
it's like because you urinated in the cup there was
an olive in it. He was He definitely one of

(19:04):
the greats, and he cannot be replicated, never even come
close to being imitated. I don't know. It is just
there's only one. So anyway, either here nor there. We
have a topic for tonight that's about yeah, what yeah,

(19:25):
favorite one hit wonders.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I would like to reiterate for the people that are
going to be at one point threatening to flip tables
and throw chairs, these are our favorite one hit wonders.
Feel free to put yours in the chest there.

Speaker 7 (19:37):
These are the ones that get stuck in my in
my head as earworms. And I mean like, it's not
just the verse, it's not just the chorus, it's the
whole damn thing. And unless I play it all in
my head, it doesn't like and it's not like you know,
getting rickrolled. That's a verse that you know, and I

(19:59):
can I can get of it. These they just said,
as a matter of fact, right now, there's one playing
in my head.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Yeah, And Angie and I still have a running joke
about that whole Rick Worl thing. I will randomly just
find new things that have the Rick roll built into
them and send them to her. They always make her smile.

Speaker 7 (20:15):
So I just I'm surprised. I'm surprised that Brad has
not sent her a picture of the ornament that I
prostitched for them.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, because I'm telling you you should send her that first.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
I really should. I've actually I was stitching it on
eighteen countder cloth, but it's the squares were like really small.
It's very difficult. So I did Brad's on fourteen count,
which made it better. But I think I'll finish that
eighteen count and I'll send it to her. It's the best.

(21:00):
Brad told me that they would every time somebody would
come into it. Hey just scan it. Go ahead, everybody
scan it. And for those of you who are not aware,
I crossed itch Brad a SQR code and when you
scan it, it takes you to YouTube to you know,

(21:23):
Rick athletes never gonna give you up. So everybody that
scans it gets rickrolled.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
We should, we should. We should actually put like a
cocktail lounge logo on the corner of a shirt and
that coat on the back, since you've made it already,
that would be funny. You've been by the cocktail down.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yep, that'd be. That's actually pretty funny. I have that
one and I have I have a couple of charts
for different SQR codes, but that one was that one
was my Favorit it because nobody, nobody expects it, just
like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects it.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
All right, who's going first?

Speaker 7 (22:12):
You can go first?

Speaker 1 (22:14):
All right? So I know we have more than I
know we both have more than five on this one.
Because I'm a music guy, so this was hard for
me too, But I still narrowed it down to my
top five and then I have a few honorable mentions
if we still have time. So my number five, and
everybody knows this one. But since I can cheat a
little bit with this, we're gonna do this. So this

(22:35):
is my number five. Hang on, I just realized it
didn't do what I wanted it to do. There we go,
now it did.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
The funny thing.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
About this song, I used to play this song a lot.
One of my younger cousins was terrified if I didn't
stop listening to the song, I was actually gonna turn Japanese.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
That was.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
Keep misting to that.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
It's gonna turn your Japanese. No it's not, but okay,
but yeah, so my number five is turning Japanese. For
those of you who don't know, I guess because probably
you've been living under a rock or something. That one.

Speaker 11 (23:32):
Hang on, I lost my notes that one.

Speaker 7 (23:42):
Second as well. Yeah, okay, I know it.

Speaker 12 (23:48):
Yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 7 (23:49):
That one came out.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
In nineteen eighty and it was by the Vapors hit
number thirty six, but its cultural footprint is massive new
wave in its dust. The band is all soon after
with no other US chart entries. So the Vapors put
out one hitting and got the Vapors.

Speaker 7 (24:07):
They just disappeared. It was something else, I mean seriously,
it's almost as it got together to do this song
and then poof fetished. But that that's a great song,
and it is a banger, I mean this day. And
of course we can forget when they used it in sixteen.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Candles, right, that's actually that's actually one of the first
times I actually remember hearing that. Well, it was the
first time I really got like into this song. Was
I had a cousin who absolutely loved sixteen Candles, and
anytime we read our house, she would watch it over
and over and over. That's when that's when that song became.

(24:52):
And that's when that's when my younger cousin, who was
actually her brother, was like, you can't keep listening to that,
your eyes are gonna start slant thing and you'll actually
turned Japanese. I'm like, who told you that?

Speaker 12 (25:02):
My dad?

Speaker 7 (25:06):
And yes, I Kristen Dunst Stephen mentioned that Kristin Dues
actually did a cover of Turning Japanese and she was
dressed in cosplay and it was filmed in Japan. It
was a really cute video and I cannot say this enough.
Sheila thropped that gorgeous in it. So if you haven't

(25:26):
checked that out, it's a beilable on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
All right. So yeah, well, well the thing about that
MD is there are some things that are kind of
considered hit one hit wonders, even though the group actually
had other fairly popular songs. It's weird because there's a
couple of other groups that are like that that because
it's the only one anybody really remembers, they're like, oh,
they must have been a one hit wonder and they're like, no,

(25:52):
if you look, they actually had like a couple of
other songs that rose through the charts for fairly well. Yeah,
that they're having a discussion about totally.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
Yes, I'm quietly ignoring the Toto chests anyway, all right.
So fine Number five is most people will will the
moment they hear it, they're like, yes, I remember that song.

(26:21):
It was a It was a banger for nineteen seventy nine,
and I still hear it in my head. It's still
every so often it will resurface. It has been covered
by several different artists for the past several decades actually,
and it's called Born to Be Alive by a gentleman

(26:44):
named Patrick Ernandez, who is actually French. His father was Spanish,
but his mother was French, and he was raised in France,
and he wrote the song and that song took off
like wildfire over in Europe, and uh, it did pretty
well on the charts over here. And to this day,

(27:04):
you hear that song and you just started like wanting
to jam because it is it's very catchy.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yes, the only one that came up for me was
the extended version. I can see a bunch of people
on the dance floor.

Speaker 12 (27:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
And the thing is it was the only song he
did in English, and it's the only one of his
songs that I actually went international. Most of most of
the other stuff that he did was obviously in French,
because Nan is French. But every swaften he'll he'll come out.
He would come out of retirement and just sing it

(27:55):
at some bar or whatever, and people go and say
it was like, it's like ear cocaine. I don't understand it,
but it it for me.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
It was.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
It was peppy, it was fun and you guys don't know,
but when I was growing up, I didn't listen to
rock and roll. One of the things that Brad jokes
about is the fact that I did not know who
Elvis died, who Elvis was until the night he died,

(28:27):
when it made you know, when it broken the news,
and I had to ask my dad who that was.
And I this was nineteen seventy seven, So I did
not listen to rock and roll music. It was mostly
just Spanish music and big band and classical at my house,
that's all that was played. And so when I started

(28:51):
listening to rock and roll, it was, you know, disco
was pretty big, and it was around the time that
this was really ease. I think it's nineteen seventy nine
and it was catchy, and it was being played over
and over and over and nobody will get tired of it.
And only if I recall correctly, one song, which also

(29:15):
happens to be on my list, bumped it off. So anyway, Yeah,
that's that's that's one.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Of fun, that's one of yours. All right, So next one,
I'm sure everybody's gonna recognize.

Speaker 11 (29:31):
But here we go.

Speaker 9 (29:53):
Sometime that was nice.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Drona, debuting in nineteen seventy nine, From the Neck actually
held number one for six weeks. It was considered to
have a driving beat and raw power of pop edge.
It made it as staple. Their next single barely scraped
the top forty, cementing their one hit status. So apparently
the Knack did not have the Knack after it.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
But there you go.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
I remember you remember the movie Reality bites banger soundtrack.
I'm gonna say the word banger a lot on this show.
I'm just wondering you. But that song wasn't that soundtrack
and it had a revival because of that soundtrack, and
herbody was like that, where has that song been all
my life? I'm like, it's been around, But I definitely

(30:49):
remember when Reality Bites came out. It had a really
good eighty soundtrack on it, and everybody loved that song,
and I'm like, I'm surprised that nobody has hurt this before.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Really Okay, yeah, now, well now since this one's already
come up in the chat and there's some dissension in
the rings this this actually didn't make my list, but
it was gonna be one of my honorable mentions. It
was Take on Me by Aha Aha coming out in
nineteen eighty five. It was a number one smash that

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had the awesome groundbreaking animated video.

Speaker 7 (31:22):
Yes that video that's still one of my top ten
videos of all time.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
And it was huge in Europe. But in the US,
Aha never cracked the top forty again, so in America
they were, in fact the one hit wonder. Even though
they do have quite a few popular songs, none of
their music ever cracked the top forty again in America.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
I think the one that came West the Sun always
shines on TV and.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yep, and it peaked it. I think it's been a
while since I've looked it up, but I think it
might have been like right aside on the edge of
the top forty.

Speaker 7 (31:54):
Yeah, I just because I lived in Europe for a
time and they were very pop and still are. I
didn't consider them a one hit hundred wonder because they
had hits over there that I got to listen to.
So that's why it didn't make it on my list.
And there were a lot of people that were that
are considered one hit wonders that I'm like, yeah, that's

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not a one hit wonder because I have almost the
entire discography. It's like I think somebody listed Asia, you know,
and I was like, no, they had a lot of hits,

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and I don't because I was there for them.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
But people like, no, no, they.

Speaker 7 (32:41):
Only had one No, no, or enya. They think Edia
just had one hit. I'm like, that woman is a
multi millionaire just living on in a castle by herself
because she has made so much money from her music.
Don't tell me she was a one hit wonder.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, he's living the life.

Speaker 7 (33:05):
Anyway. Yeah, No, that was My Sharona was a great,
great song. And it's really weird because I honestly thought
that they would have more hits than just My Sharona.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well especially I mean, you know, holding number one for
six weeks is kind of a big deal. I mean
a lot of folks that get to number one, they
manage old it for maybe one, two, three, six weeks
is a long time, even even for when this song
came out. So the fact that they just never really
could seem to get back in there again does seem
a little weird to me, because that really was a
really good song, especially for the time.

Speaker 7 (33:40):
Mm hmm it was.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Well.

Speaker 7 (33:44):
Okay, So my number four is by a group, believe
it or not. They're Italian Baltimora, and their song was
called Tarzan Boy. I don't know why I am so
attracted to that song, but I actually that song has

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been in my head since about three o'clock this afternoon,
which is why I got the idea to do the
one hit Wonders, because I can't remember anything else that
they did, so all.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Right, so okay, well, so this probably isn't going to
help them there. And I have to admit I did

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not recognize this song by name, which is rare for me.
But I absolutely loved this song, yes exactly.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
It came out. I want to say it was my
seated year, nineteen eighty five, and it was very popular
and it knocked off. I can't drive fifty five. Yeah,
I know, I know you do. But Sammy Hager, nobody
can say that he's a one head wonder. So but yeah,

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I loved that song. I thought it was complete, complete, danceable,
and I'd love the melody of it. I'd love the guy.
The guy singing had a great set of pipes. So
every every so often it'll pop into my head and
I have to sing the entire damn song before it
can leave my head. So but yeah, that's one of

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my favorites.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Very cool, very cool. All right. So I guess this
puts us to number three now, all right, So here's
my number three coming at you right now, Live on
Kalen Deo nineteen eighty two by Dexi's Midnight Runners top

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number one with its Celtic folk punk energy. Unfortunately, while
the band had several other US singles, all of them flopped. However,
this song's vibe endures to this day. So just for fun,

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this one always reminds me of I would walk five
hundred miles.

Speaker 7 (36:43):
Oh God, I love that song too.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Later, but I absolutely love that song too. I don't
know what it is. You start mixing rock and Celtic
and I am down I am.

Speaker 7 (36:51):
The Celtic Woman was one of my favorite. You know see,
I think I still have like fives or something like that.
Of course Edna who's that was their sister. But they
had a they had a video. Celticleman had a video
and some of the music they put to rock and
roll and it was so cool. It was so neat.

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I was like, yes, I can be for that. So
so yes, when when you hear stuff like that, yeah,
it's it's awesome. I sent you my list so that
you know that's my number one. But yeah, that was

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total so and I I can't think of I don't think.
I mean, it's been covered, but nobody's owned it. You
know how sometimes you'll know somebody will will cover a
song and they'll completely own it from the original, like
Johnny Cash and Hurt. Well, nobody's been able to own

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this one, and I don't think it's ownable because it's
something about the way the guy sings the songs, every
everything about it. And if y'all watched the video, I
mean it was like there was eye candy for the
guys totally that that little girl was really cute and
she wore a very interesting outfit that left almost nothing

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to the imagination, even though it was overalls and nothing else.
Y'all remember that? Tell me you remember that video?

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Oh no, I remember the video. Sorry, I was answering.

Speaker 7 (38:37):
Okay, Yeah, she's wearing overalls because there's no shirt, no
bra underneath it. And of course you know she's walking
along and every single guy I knew was hoping she
would swing enough that you know, they would chow something.
But they never did.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
And I'm going to say this again for Zelda, and
she was late. This is the song gets stuck in
out head, not necessarily the songs that get stuck in
your head to qualify as one hit wonders, ma'am, and
you can't do I ain't got nothing you can take
away anyway, so me.

Speaker 7 (39:15):
All right, Well my number three is what I consider
to be definitely every single broken hearted woman's antem, and
it when it came out, it was pure fire. This
song was supposed to be it well, actually it was

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released as a B side, but they took it to
Studio fifty four that DJ liked it so much that
the that it was played all over the all over
the place. It's one of the top dance songs of
all time by Billboard, and to this day, I know

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so many women that have sung this at least to
themselves at least once or twice in their lifetime. And
if the song is called I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
That was he you weren't You weren't supposed to give
it away and we were gonna play it in. I mean,

(40:36):
I pan off a lot for music licensing and figure.

Speaker 7 (40:40):
That song is. It is still something that I fall
back on and and it doesn't have to be about heartbreak.
It's about it could be about any kind of loss.
It could be about grief. It can be about mourning
the fact that you know there are people that once
we're close to you who have since broken off and

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moved you know, moved away or whatever. And this is
a pet talk that you can give yourself at any
point in time. And one of my favorite takes on
this was actually in the movie The Replacements. I'd love
that they took this song and ran with it in
this movie. It was, it was classic, it was, it

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was it was perfect to see a bunch of.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
The Replacements is probably like not like I don't even
really know how to describe it, because it's not like
it's one of my all time favorite movies, but it's
just one of those movies where when it's on, I
will watch it. I don't give a shit. If it's
just starting, I don't care. If it's halfway done, I
will sit down and finish watching it.

Speaker 7 (41:41):
Say I will, I stop everything and I will watch it.
And if somebody tries to interrupt me, I will. I mean,
I normally will answer most texts quickly. Uh except for today. Sorry.
I was actually outside putting some plants on the ground,
timing them to see how long it would take me

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before I kill them all. But so I but normally,
most of the time, if I get a text, I
will answer quickly. My sisters, if I don't answer it
within two hours, they know I'm doing one of two things.
Either I am cleaning the house or I'm watching a

(42:24):
Keanu Reeves movie. I will not be interrupted on movie. Now,
you can interrupt me on your ard, butler, but you
cannot interrupt me so anyway. But yeah, that's that's a

(42:44):
It's a total banger. I I love that song. I
have sung it to myself many many times, and I've
actually I remember, oh yeah, I did. I won second place.
By singing that song, I could tell out a talent
show in junior high.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
So yeah, very nice, very very nice. All right, So
I guess let's put the found the number. So for
my number two, a well known song by a certain
group called Soft Soell.

Speaker 13 (43:33):
Sometimes I feel love God.

Speaker 8 (43:36):
Too, run away of got to get away from the pain.

Speaker 12 (43:43):
You drive into the lot of me, the lone show.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
And I lost my light bright Tanton, I can't sleep that.

Speaker 12 (43:59):
Night one all right?

Speaker 1 (44:03):
So that was Soft Cell Tainted Love, released in nineteen
eighty one, hit number eight on the top forty And
for those of you who don't know, it's actually a
cover of a Gloria Jones track, but it also was
one of the defining songs of the eighties new wave
development movement. And before anybody says anything Mark Almon solo career,

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that doesn't count neither to the UK becauess is for
Soft sol because in this list I only counted America,
which is this was the America moment right here.

Speaker 8 (44:41):
Died And you think you's right, But I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
You guys thought I was only kidding when I always
told you I wanted to be a DJ. I'm telling
you give me a music show, I can run with it.

Speaker 7 (44:54):
You can, you totally can.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Actually I filled it on a couple the music stations
here and there before I started doing the talk things,
so you know, but it was always kind of my thing,
and you know, we talked about it before w k
RP was was my thing and my dad was like,
you don't want that career. They pay you in pizza
and T shirts when you feel in. He's not wrong
because you get basically either doughnuts, steal pizza and a
free T shirt because you don't get paid when you

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feel in, which I thought was kind of weird. But
isn't that like la no, technically getting exposure?

Speaker 7 (45:29):
Question, Technically you're getting a exclusure. Now. That was That
was a great, great song, And yeah, it was this
that was what brought in the New Age and it
started the whole techno rise in the eighties for all
of the you know, like The Cure and Engrasure and

(45:52):
Find Young Cannibals and all of these that had that sound.
But they were the first. And it's weird that they
only had the It that was their biggest hit.

Speaker 9 (46:02):
That was it?

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Well, I mean they had they had more. They they
were more successful in the UK, but yeah, in America
that was pretty much just the only that was the
one that was what put them through, and that was
that was I mean, like I said, it hit the charts,
and that's kind of the thing about a one hit wonder.
You know, you get pretty far up on the charts
and then nobody in a certain area ever hears from
you again. So yeah, I mean, but a lot of

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these are surprising to me because when I because you know,
it's like if they can put out that kind of
a song once. I mean, this is this is why
I tell everybody, even with what we're trying to do,
it's like catching lightning in a bottle. Sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesn't, and occasionally you can make it work,
even if it's just for a short time. So if
you can figure out how to make it work once,
you got to work and write it as long as

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you can because you have no guarantee of how long
it's gonna last. And this could proves it. But anyway,
all right, but yeah, that that was my number two.
So I actually they have a tie for number one,
so this is still gonna take longer than everybody thinks.

Speaker 7 (47:03):
Anyway, Well, My number two is a song that is
very near and dear to my heart, came out in
nineteen eighty three.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
I've done a cover of this song. By the way,
I don't have it anymore, but it's actually done a.

Speaker 7 (47:20):
You need you need to do it again. If you
can't find it, you need to do it again. I
mean this it's it's now like mandatory. It's like it's
like it's like an axiom. You need to do it.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
I mean, I figured as soon as I told you
that I covered this once, you're gonna be like, now
you gotta do it again.

Speaker 7 (47:41):
It's I melt with you by modern English, using.

Speaker 12 (48:06):
Real bad.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Not to steal your moment, because I'll let you get
back to it in a minute. But not only have
I covered this song, there was one night that I
was working outside security for a club that was playing
this song, and the sidewalk was empty when I started.
I started singing it, just kind of having fun with it,
and next thing I know, there were like fifty people
standing around watching me sing. I actually got in trouble
for drawing a crowd by my boss. At the time,

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I was like, it's not my fault. Nobody was here.

Speaker 7 (48:36):
Now I I love that one. And it's really funny
because that song is in the soundtrack of Valley Girl
and all of the music from Valley Girl. I love
the entire soundtrack. It had two of my favorite one
hit wonders came from that soundtrack, and that's one of them.

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And I I know that it's been covered by so
many people. It was actually redone for the soundtrack of
Sky High, which was a Disney film, and the lyrics
were we worked because it was a family friendly film,
so being Friends with You was never second best was

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what it was changed to. And I still remember that
because I bought that soundtrack when the movie came out
and my kids were still young, and they loved it. Right,
I didn't say it, and most of the songs in
there were actually, you know, songs from the eighties and
everything that had been covered. And when my kids were

(49:40):
older and they heard the actual modern English version of
I'm Out with You, they were like, the lyrics are wrong.
I said, no, no, no, no, the lyrics are correct.
They were different for the Disney film and they're like, oh,
but they like them both. I've always I always thought

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that that was such a cool song, and I like
the whole concept behind the lyrics. I always thought that
it was really neat. I don't know how else to
describe it.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
No, I mean that that is actually probably that is
one of my top all time favorite songs. Did it
just because I It's one of those ones that I
just enjoyed singing too.

Speaker 7 (50:28):
So Danny and I have had telepathic conferences right now
because almost all of hers are mine.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Oh yeah, she's gotten a couple on my list too,
So yeah.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
But you know this is I think the decade of
the one hit wonders was truly the you know, late
seventies to the early nineties, that the spread of the
eighties and then a couple of years before each one
that had more one hit wonders than I can figure.
I mean, I'm sure that there were more. It's just
that the ones you remember the most came from there,

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and they're still covered today.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Well, this goes back to something amasion I covered on juxtaposition,
not last week, but the week before the world actually
ended somewhere between nineteen eighty eight and nineteen ninety nine,
So that's why we all fondly remember that time frame.
Oh he's like, I'm not even talking here.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
I'm just gonna go back.

Speaker 7 (51:35):
This responding to cow oh, all right, so what's your
number one?

Speaker 1 (51:43):
All right? Well, I actually have two for number one
because I couldn't decide, so this is my first number one.

Speaker 12 (52:15):
I'm not trying.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Now. For those of you who don't know, this was
the moment for Spanish flamenco pop veterans known as Los
del Rio. Peaked at number one for fourteen weeks. That's
a long time in the music.

Speaker 7 (52:38):
It is the dance crazy.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
The dance craze alone makes this thing crazy. Everybody from
weddings to sports fans still can remember the moves. As
a matter of fact, I guarantee you have the people
in the chat, even though they're probably sitting down or
at least doing at least doing the waste up moves
right now.

Speaker 7 (52:57):
I never liked that. I know, no, no, no, it's
a catchy tune, don't get me wrong, But the lyrics
of the song and what the song is say, I've
never liked that.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Yeah, no, that other one that's like that other woman
came out about what eight nine years ago that everybody
was singing, and I'm like, do you know what those
lyrics actually are? I can't even think of the name
of the song right now, but even even my pastor
was talking about it at one point of the church
we used to go to. I'm like, yeah, he's like nobody. No,
It's the funny thing is he spanned he's Mexican. He's like,

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nobody understands these words, and they have no idea what
they're singing, and it's terrible.

Speaker 7 (53:37):
It's not good. Although I don't know if anybody follows,
there's a competition called West Coast Swing and it is
it's basically impromptu swing dancing and they match you with
different dance partners that you're not used to dancing with

(53:59):
to see how you do write. And one of the
more famous ones, she's out of France. She gets partnered
with I want to say, he's from like Great Britainer
or something like that. This was the song and he
was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe that this
this is the song that they're playing, because you don't
know the song that they're going to be playing or anything.

(54:20):
They killed it. They killed it out of the park.
Every The only time that I actually like listening to
that song is when I'm watching them dance to it because,
like I said, it's all improv you know, and everything.
And with swing dancing, it's you have to be able
to communicate with your partner by the way you hold

(54:43):
her back and how you hold her hand, so it
you know, there's a communication going on, and if you've
never danced with each other, it's it's very difficult to do.
So it's a lot of fun for you know, I
love watching it because I be a swing dancer all
the time, and so for me, it's like a lot
of fun. But when they got paired, I about died

(55:05):
because neither of doesn't knew what the song was saying.
They just needed to beat right, But you know, it
was it was pretty funny. But yeah, I never caught
into that one because I do understand what the lyrics
are saying, and I'm like, oh no, this is bad.
The sad part is my youngest sister and my brother

(55:27):
loved that song, but they weren't paying attention to the lyrics. So,
you know, the last time they were in Puerto Rico
when the song first came out, they were dancing out there.
Everybody was loving and everything. And they come back from
vacation and my dad's talking about how they you know,

(55:48):
they loved the song over there and all that stuff,
and I said, Dad, have you ever listened to that song?
He's like, well, no, it's not I don't particularly care
for that style of music or whatever. And I was like, okay,
let me find the lyrics the lyrics and my dad
was like no that I no. My dad was so shocked.

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I don't think you never forgave me. And I'm like,
I'm it's not my fault, it's not my song, but you.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
Know, whatever, I write this song, whatever, due, all right.
So remember I had a time number one and my
my number, my second number one.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Is this one.

Speaker 12 (56:47):
Music. But those products compared people, all right.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
So that was tough. Thumping by Chumbawamba, released in nineteen
ninety seven, peaked at number eight, so it kind of
resonated with everybody. The I Get Knocked Down the Leric
kind of caught on with everybody and had a mix
of rock anthem with an arco pump with pop sheen.
Nothing else they did ever broke through in the US.

(57:47):
As a matter of fact, I bought the entire album
because I liked the song so much, and I was disappointed.
I was like, I should have just figured out a
way to get the single. But there's another inside baseball
thing with this one. This was again in nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
This was.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
About two years after I started working security, and by
this point I already moved on with a new company
called Northeastern, and I was the post supervisor for a
group of clubs. And there was one time when I
was called I was on the other side of the complex,
so I'm like haul an ass and I'm called in
and being called in to break up a bar fight

(58:23):
that it's built out into the parking lot. So I
come around the corner and I see one of my
guys on the ground. So I just launched linebacker style
and hit the dude that's about to go wailing on
one of my guys. And I hit the dude so
hard he actually turned because he heard he heard me coming,
so at that point he was facing me full forward
when I hit him, and I hit him so hard
I knocked him out of his shoes, literally, like he

(58:45):
was laying flat on his back and his shoes were
still on the ground. Everybody was like, dude, this literally
looked like a scene from cartoon. We've never seen anything
like that before. Needless to say, anytime I ever had
to come into that bar again to break up a
bar fight or anything, or even just come in to
do a check, the DJ would play this song. So

(59:07):
it kind of became a little inside joke. And it
got even worse once I actually became the owner of
the company that ran in that area.

Speaker 7 (59:13):
So well, I have my number one was your number three,
I think, which was Dexy's Midnight running Come On, Eileen,
follow Banker to the day.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Soon as soon as I heard how hard you were laughing,
I knew we had crossed and I was like, I
don't know where, but from how hard, but I might
as well just give you the rest of my list.
And I look and that was the number one, and
I'm like, yeah, I knew as soon as I should.

Speaker 7 (59:44):
Have sent you my whole list, because I didn't know
you were going to play the whole the music.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
So you talk enough that I can usually pull them
up while after you've given me the title, it takes.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Like two days.

Speaker 7 (59:56):
Yeah, I did talk a lot though.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Yourself.

Speaker 7 (01:00:03):
It's what I do, Yeah, I do. I do have
some audible mentions, and one of the honorable mentions was
actually mentioned by Steven Big Country by Big Country from
the album Big Country. It's one of my favorite one
hit wonders. I actually owned that in vinyl cassette and CD.

(01:00:23):
I love that album it is. It was really really
good album, and I was bereffed when I found out
that he had passed away the lead singer.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
But all right, I'm not sure i've ever heard this
one before, so I just want to make sure. Is
this the one you're talking about? Yeah, okay, I just
wanted to make sure I found it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Yeah, I've never heard this one.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
I'm not sure how I haven't heard before as often
as I.

Speaker 7 (01:01:02):
Oh no, it's a great song.

Speaker 14 (01:01:05):
Wait, hang on, I think I may actually be starting
to recognize it now, hang on, Okay, yeah, I think
I recognize it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
It's so good.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Minute. I don't think I've ever heard the entire song,
but I've heard it mixed in with other songs before
in some of the clubs I worked in.

Speaker 7 (01:01:26):
Oh yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Recognize that part of the song.

Speaker 7 (01:01:31):
Yeah. I love the album. If I know most people
know that just that song, But the entire album was
really good, and like I said, Vinyl cassette, CD and
the only reason I don't have a track is because
then we're released it on a track. So I do
that every whatever. If I find an album that I

(01:01:54):
really really like, I will track every iteration of it.
So I have all of Asia's albums on album, on
vinyl and cassette and CD.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
I have.

Speaker 7 (01:02:10):
The same for Mike Oldfield, I have everything he's ever
done on album, CD and cassette. And that dude has
what fifty five sixty albums. There's some ridiculous amount. Like
I honestly thought he had died because he had so
many albums. But I mean I thought he was ancient,

(01:02:33):
But no, he's He's not that old. I think he's
like I want to say, he's about twelve years older
than I am, maybe, but I mean he started when
he was like twelve, so and I don't know if
anybody else is familiar with my Coldfield. He's a tubula
bells guy. He's the one that did you know, whenever
you hear the music from the Exorcist, that's where it

(01:02:55):
came from. He also did the soundtrack to The Killing
Fields and was nominated for an Oscar for.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
That sounds right.

Speaker 7 (01:03:03):
Anyway, nice, definitely not a one hit wonder but here
people just know him from two Girl Left, and I'm like, really,
he's done a lot more, all right, So do you
have an Do you have more? I'm sure you do.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Yeah, I've got I've got a couple of honorable mentions
to this one reached number three. It was a It
was a blending of gospel rock and psychedelic our psychedelia.
It had a fuzzy guitar hook, and it's actually been
in quite a few movies and ads. But the person
who wrote it never charted again.

Speaker 7 (01:03:36):
And here we go, down Going.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
Actually accidentally said written. I don't know if he wrote
the song or not, but I know he was the
one that performed it. His name was Norman Greenbaum. But yeah,
everybody knows this song. It's been in ads, it's been
in movies. You've heard it probably a million times, and
it was released in nineteen sixty nine. But dude never
made it into the charts again after this one hit
wonder Wow really dang Yep, Nope, never again. So again

(01:04:52):
Lightning in a bottle. Sometimes when you catch it, you
got to write it for as long as you can
because you never really.

Speaker 7 (01:04:56):
Oh you know, that's what Patrick Da did. I mean,
he was like, Okay, people really like the song. Let's
just go global with it. If you guys look up
the video for this, it is the hopiest thing ever.
But apparently he just did the video like, oh, people
are doing videos. Okay, I'll just be like me and

(01:05:17):
you know, just just swing in my hips, you know,
and that's about it. That's all he does. So anyway,
all right, So my next honorable mention is also from
the soundtrack to Valley Girl, and it is by a
group called the Plum Souls, and the song is called
A Million Miles Away. That song is awesome. I don't

(01:05:43):
care who you are. It is amazing and it's one
of my favorites. I don't know if you can find it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
Yeah, I've got it. It's just my.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
But it was.

Speaker 7 (01:06:01):
Gosh, there were so many songs in that one. I
want to say. It's the very first one on the soundtrack.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Do you remember who was who performed that one, because
there's several.

Speaker 7 (01:06:14):
Different songs with it, them cells, the plam cells.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Okay, I found it to make sure so I didn't
play the wrong one.

Speaker 9 (01:06:31):
Rather than that just got back.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
I am a mask.

Speaker 12 (01:06:40):
I thought about it, lady playing should the God, the
reason I stayed.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
To do a different.

Speaker 7 (01:07:02):
What I mean now that one makes my hair grow
really big and I get my little sweat band or
on my forehead and I'm wearing my my leg warmers.
It brings the eighties all the way back around. And

(01:07:24):
there was I don't know, I don't know if y'all
have ever heard this soundtrack or if you remember the
song so that was sung on Valley Girl, but there
was another banger in there called Johnny Are You Queer?
By JOSEI Miller. It was great. It was You can't
make that song nowadays, but that song was awesome. So
honestly it's out there on YouTube. Go look it up.

(01:07:44):
It's great.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
Nice. You might as well do your last the last
honorable mention you gave me, because that was my next one. Anyway,
A really.

Speaker 7 (01:07:56):
Yep, you can play it, know.

Speaker 12 (01:08:00):
What it is.

Speaker 7 (01:08:10):
We can dance.

Speaker 11 (01:08:14):
Because the friends have their own dads, friends of mine
see a week ago, and we won't well now.

Speaker 12 (01:08:23):
And this world they don't be wrong.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
Safety dands by men without hats and thank you Calvin.
It is Jesse Cotton, not Jessey jose Miller said designer.
I have no idea why, I said, Josie Miller, Jesse Cotton. Yeah,
but yeah, that was when when that song came out,
people just loved it, and it was It's so funny

(01:08:56):
because it's not even my favorite song of theirs. I
like Pop Goes the World more than i'd like Safety Dance,
But for some reason, safety Dance, Safety Dance is me
is the when I get stuck in my head.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
So you and Steven are sharing a brain though, because
he just typed the same thing.

Speaker 7 (01:09:15):
But I love that one Top Girls well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
But yeah, a bit of inside baseball again on my
side of this one. I actually did not like that song.
I've never really been a fan of that song. But
somebody who was was the first guy who made a
point to always camp out in my chat room anytime
I was doing a show who was unfortunately no longer
with us, and he used to start on he started
start teasing me all the time. When he figured out

(01:09:38):
we had music licensing, He's like, why don't you ever
play that song I like? And then everybody else was like,
that song is terrible. So I just kind of started,
you know, going with playing it anyway. So but yeah,
sorry I'm being distracted, but yeah, I know, but yeah,

(01:09:59):
so that that one. Even though it was one of
those things I actually because I realized that everybody else
was give him an hard time for it, I started
playing it just so he'd actually get to hear it.
And I'm I don't know, so now every time I
play that song, I think of him.

Speaker 7 (01:10:12):
All right, Yeah, I'm glad he didn't pick Africa though.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
Yeah, this is.

Speaker 7 (01:10:22):
God love him.

Speaker 12 (01:10:23):
He is so missed.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
He would he would flip right now. If you can
see the kind of numbers that we pull in on
the daily now, he'd be.

Speaker 7 (01:10:30):
Like, oh my god, No, he's still He's still our
number one fan. Regardless, he will always be our number
one fan. So all right, do you have another I
have I.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
Have my final honorable mention, which is coming up right now.
Hang on, now, technically I don't consider this a one
hit wonder, but this is the one everybody remembers him for,
and as I actually shows up as a one hit
wonder when you look. But he's had other songs, but.

Speaker 12 (01:11:03):
This one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
A songless zor so candle what you weave them?

Speaker 12 (01:11:44):
Brant the web song said, so can so can keep
track of the fish?

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Alright?

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
So that was released by Corey Hard, a Canadian singer
and songwriter born in Montreal in nineteen sixty two. Was
released on January twenty first, nineteen eighty four, as the
lead single from his debut album, First Defense, which actually
released in nineteen eighty three. As far as how, as
far as how I performed in the chart. It peaked
at number seven on the US Billboard Hot one hundred,
number twenty four in Canada, and hit top forty in Australia,

(01:12:24):
New Zealand and parts of Europe. It was considered part
of the new wave synth movement of the eighties, and
it was also one of the very first cassette tapes
I ever got the same Christmas that my mom got
me my first boombox, and I played this tape until
it broke.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
So the funny thing is, there's actually there's actually there's
actually a story behind the song that a lot of
people don't know. So this song was actually inspired when
he was younger. He was nineteen. He was recording in England,
where rainy weather meant he couldn't wear his new ray
Ban wayfarers, so he always joked about them wearing it,
wearing them at night. And it sparked the idea and

(01:13:09):
the lyrics evolved from a scrap love song called My
Cigarette His Wed into something darker and more evocative.

Speaker 7 (01:13:20):
It's funny because that song when it came out, almost
everybody in school decided to wear sunglasses at school during
school hours. They were copying his look. That were you know,
all the guys were copying his look and everything. And
remember the parachute pants.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
Oh yeah, oh my god, parachute pants were the jam
back in the day.

Speaker 7 (01:13:49):
It was and it was weird.

Speaker 12 (01:13:52):
I was at a.

Speaker 7 (01:13:54):
I think it was Goodwill and one of my friends,
her son, wants to collect sweatshirts from different colleges across
the country, and so I've been checking out good Wills
and first Stories, you know, looking for those, and I
found a couple and one of the things that I
saw was a pair of parachute pants. And I could

(01:14:16):
not believe they were in excellent condition. And had they
not been excel I would have snagged those suckers because
they were perfect. And I'm like, well, I wonder, I mean,
I'm guessing that the person had them and then they
just put them away and whoever cleared out, you know,

(01:14:39):
they were finally clearing stuff out or something. But I
mean they were literally imperfect condition, and I was just like,
it's it's almost like, what's his name, the singer of Loverboard,
Mike Mike, Mike Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
I can't think of his name, but I know, but
you remember the.

Speaker 7 (01:14:59):
Album cover of his butt, right, yeah? Okay? It was
almost like he went fat and the base with the pants,
So I can't.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
So there's a reason this one stayed in the honorable
mention category because I don't actually consider Corey hard one
hit wonder as a matter of fact. It's actually not.
But if you ask anybody, then that's they remember him
for sunglasses. And the thing about this The thing about
that song is it's been everywhere. So just to give
you an idea where you may have heard this song,
and if you haven't heard it by now, I don't

(01:15:33):
know if maybe you've been living under a rock or
maybe even hanging out with the folks on the Island
of Lost or something. I don't know. But it was
featured in Grand Theft, Auto Vice City, and actually he
showed up in Stranger Things and a twenty twenty five
Go Daddy Super Bowl ad covers and remixes like Tiga
and Xintherius in two thousand and two, where they were

(01:15:53):
in a dance version. Also, Heidi Klum has a recent
take on it. The thing about it is so he
was and this was specifically about Wayfars. He was mad
because he was finally making enough money that he could
afford to wear Wayfars and he never really could ever
seem to wear them. So the thing about those Wayfarers, though,
is that those that song made those sunglasses so da

(01:16:14):
unpopular that they became an iconic part of the eighties.
They were they were kind of a status symbol that
encompassed rebellion and it was just insane, and they even
made a resurgence in vol one trie.

Speaker 7 (01:16:29):
Oh oh yeah. I mean that song inspired other singers
and singer songwriters to actually incorporate ray bands with the
Wayfarers in their songs. I mean, Boys of Summer, it's
right there, right in there. So yeah, I mean that
that was the accessory of the eighties, and to this

(01:16:52):
day people still look for I can't You go to
eBay and you see classic Wayfarers, vintage Wayfarers from the
eighties going for three four five hundred dollars. I'm like, yeah, dude,
but no, I still have a pair that I found

(01:17:13):
when I was going to college. I turned them into
the Lost and Found and after thirty days you go
back and if nobody's claimed it, then you can claim it.
So I went after thirty days and nobody had claimed them,
so I got them. Mind Reportershell, I still have them.
I still Hell. I still have jeans that I wore
when I was in high school, And yes I do
wear them. It's not that I'm refusing to acknowledge anything,

(01:17:39):
you know, I just I still wear my clothes from that.
I am petite.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
It worked hard to make sure I can do this,
so I want to play one more. It's not really
on my honorable mentions list. But I never have understood
why this wasn't the song that pushed him over the top,
because this is such a much better song.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Just a little more times are asking for.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
It's just a little more time could open closing door.

Speaker 7 (01:18:29):
Just a little uncertain tea can bring it down. No
body want to show you have yourself, You.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
Ark room you cannot render.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
So that was actually one of his nine Bill Top
forty singles, arranging from nineteen eighty four to nineteen ninety Serender.
Never Surrender actually hit number three, and it Ain't Enough
hit number seventeen. Now that's just us and cannedy. He
had over thirty top forty hits, eleven in the top ten,
Never Surrender and other hittings, others hitting number one. He

(01:19:19):
sold over sixteen million records globally, albums like Boy in
the Box Going Diamond in Canada. But everybody remembers him
for sunglasses.

Speaker 7 (01:19:30):
Yeah, it's it's like that. It's the same light with
Paul Young. Everyone remembers every time you go Away. And
I'm like, I hate that song, but I like this.
I like this cover of I'm going to Tear Your
Playhouse down a lot better than that song. And people
are like, that's a that's a harsh song. Yeah, I know,

(01:19:50):
but he'd made he gave it justice. I mean, I
was like, he totally owns that song. It's and it's
and it was an older song I want to say.
I want to say it was from early seventies, and
he ended up covering it, you know, like ten twelve
years later, and I and he it was so much

(01:20:11):
better than the original. He completely owned that song. But
everybody likes every Time Away and I'm like, oh god,
I don't want it's so sappy.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Yeah, I don't know that that was. That was a
song I would like to sing too, but it was.
I mean when it was on, I would sing along
with it, but it wasn't anything. I went out of
my way to listen to every ten Yu game. Yeah anyway,
Oh yeah, so I think that I think that might

(01:20:44):
be the end of our one hit Wonders list, unless
you've got any more.

Speaker 7 (01:20:48):
I just had the one, one last one.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Oh I thought that's how I pulled them off. Oh wait,
no I didn't. Ah, Actually, I take that back.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
I forget about.

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
This one was going to make my list too when
I would.

Speaker 12 (01:21:03):
Sence you.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
As far as an honorable mention for a couple of
different reasons. And I'll explain my reasons in a second.
But yeah, so before we get into it, we'll just
let them here at first.

Speaker 9 (01:21:34):
Hm, I forgot how long the intro is.

Speaker 7 (01:22:39):
It's a long intro because the intro is actually a
segue in the musical.

Speaker 13 (01:23:04):
Thank God, orient don't know what The city is trimmed
cram on the Chess World and a show with everything
Brine doesn't.

Speaker 7 (01:23:19):
See the minutes at the Chess bars in.

Speaker 13 (01:23:21):
It all change, don't you know that when you play
at disabled in no ordinary venue, it's all the Philippines.

Speaker 12 (01:23:33):
One night and.

Speaker 11 (01:23:41):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
That's how Stephen got it on the nose.

Speaker 7 (01:23:45):
He knew exactly which one it was. And it's a
very interesting song. It's from the musical Chess, and it
was written by Tim Rice and Benny and Bjorn the
Bees in Abba Okay, and it's the musical is fabulous.
But this particular song was an affront to Thailand and

(01:24:09):
it was banned in Thailand. Thailand has is very jealous
of its culture and its religion, and because the song
actually makes night remarks about certain tourist attractions in Thailand,

(01:24:29):
including the giant statue of Hudha, it was banned. And
I remember the controversy because I want to say the
song came out, I want to say eighty five, and
I remember when I was in college. You know, it's
still a popular song, and news came out that the
song cannot play in Thailand. The actual musical is also

(01:24:55):
banned in Thailand, just like they still have the King
and I band to this day, and Anna and the
King is also banned to this day in Thailand because
of the fact that you cannot have portrayals of the
King of Thailand in such a manner, or portrayals of
Buddhism in in in film that that that are in

(01:25:19):
less than complimentary. So when this song came out, most
of the DJs would only would start at the point
that Murray Hit comes in, you know, rapping and everything.
But there were some DJs that really liked the intro
and so they would actually make room to play the

(01:25:40):
whole thing. It's like I said, it's a very long intro,
but the intro is actually the segue in the in
the musical from from the chess tournament itself to the
point where the guy is taking a tour and he
is not impressed with what he's seeing because his entire

(01:26:00):
world being revolves around chess. For him, Chess is everything,
so he can't even enjoy the tourism, the sights and
the sounds of Thailand as you know in Bangkok, as
he's walking around and everything. And that's that that song.
It did really well here in the United States, but

(01:26:21):
most people didn't even know that it came from a
musical and it wasn't until like three years later that
a lot of people started realizing, oh, because another song
from the musical actually made it big. But years later
and they were saying, oh, oh, oh, it's a musical
what And it was Tim Rice, you know. So I

(01:26:43):
highly recommend that you all listen to the whole soundtrack
because it's actually pretty it's pretty good. But yeah, that's
easily one of my my best honorable mentions because most
people don't think about it, because most people don't know
about that intern but the interest is great.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Yeah, no, so, and honestly, this was one of my
favorite songs when it came out. But it's been put
on my radar again because on the show that we
do on Tuesday Units, occasionally they do a segment they
call Ombre or Senorita, and there's a particular Canadian gentleman
who's often on the show who almost always until recently

(01:27:27):
got it wrong. So we always used to joke with
him that he shouldn't go into Bangkok. So anytime anytime
anybody says that the first thing, the first thing starts
running through my head. One night in bank.

Speaker 7 (01:27:41):
I, you know, And it was funny because when the
musical came out. Like I said, most people knew it
was Tim Rice, and you know who's cooperated with Stephen
Sondheim and done many, many great musicals. But a lot
of people didn't know that the main writers were not

(01:28:02):
Tim Rice was a collaborator, not the main writer. It
was Benny and Bjorn from Abba who wrote most of
the music for that particular musical. So there's a there's
an Abba tribute concert that has been on tour and

(01:28:27):
it's Abba songs but with I don't know what, I
don't know what to call them. They're like on a
screen and they're like AI figures or something and it's
not them, but they're performing the songs. And I'm not
joking when I say this ship has sold out everywhere.

(01:28:49):
There are no tickets to be had, and it just
started like last year and it's not even halfway through.
And because Abba is so popular in Europe, I cannot
stress that enough. And they had them, they interviewed them,
you know, and I believe Frida is, you know, poor thing.

(01:29:12):
She's using a cane, but they but they still look
great and everything, and they were talking about the successes
that they had after Abba, and that was the one
thing that Benny and Born were talking about how they
actually stepped away from the concept of Abba to be
able to have a career in making musicals and doing

(01:29:33):
you know, songwriting for other venues and other other people,
and it was it was really cool. Can y'all tell
that I'm an ABBA freak?

Speaker 1 (01:29:45):
No, not at all? Anyway, would get along great because
she loved the group Abba when.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
We were younger.

Speaker 7 (01:29:54):
I still do. I make no apologies, so yes, album
CD to set all of them. All Right, Well, I
guess with that we can end the show.

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
Yep, we've we've we've hit our mark. Actually we're a
little bit over, but we technically started a couple of
minutes late, so we've officially hit our mark.

Speaker 7 (01:30:17):
All right, Well, Rick, why don't you go ahead and
tell us why we can find you?

Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
Don't find me, it's a trap. Don't even look no
bother just kidding. You can find me at Rowdy Rick
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buttons for the front porch forensics crew, and then it's
juxtaposition night, So I'll be working from about eight Eastern

(01:30:45):
until midnight, doing back to back shows, first in the
production role and then producing and co hosting. And I
think tomorrow night, Almish and I are going to be
kind of doing a Bailey week of a show. We're
going to be talking about theles of AI Dead, Internet theory,
revisiting because there's been some changes there, the growing number

(01:31:06):
of bots everywhere, all that fun stuff. So yeah, just
make sure you guys come hang out for that Sunday night.
I am off, but we have plenty of good programming,
so make sure you guys come back and hang out
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Media is the Edge of Liberty show hosted by Sean Lewis.

(01:31:27):
That should be the closing act for the night. So
that should put us with content ranging anywhere between about
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(01:31:50):
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(01:32:12):
working folks find you.

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With the awesome you except that huh exccept no no, no.

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No awesome, I said it. I will die on that hill.
Also on Friday nights. The second Wednesday of every month
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(01:32:59):
we review books and we match libation to each book
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Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
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Everybody.

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