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Hey, everybody, chuck here and it's Saturday,

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and that means that I am hungover. I'm just

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kidding. I feel like a fresh daisy. And

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right now I'm going to listen to this one again, and I

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think you should too. The Stuff you Should Know select

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this week is called what makes a One Hit

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Wonder? Super super Cool stuff about

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pop culture and music. From March

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two, enjoy

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m Welcome

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to Stuff you Should Know, a production of I Heart

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Radios How Stuff Works. Hey,

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and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh

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Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

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Say something. Um,

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yeah, I didn't even say say something funny.

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I just said say something I know. Frozen.

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Yeah, it's all right, man. That's good quality in a broadcaster

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to freeze up on the air and a professional talker.

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Yeah, yeah, how you doing was great?

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Freezing? Um? I'm good man.

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I'm This is a fun, goofy

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little topic and we haven't done one like that in a while. This

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was a fun article written by a guy

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named Charles W. Bryant, the writer for the

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site. Yeah, I will go ahead and say one thing

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I was disappointed in in this article, and I would

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still like to see someone tackle this in documentary

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style. Maybe is the psychology

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of being a one hit

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wonder? Oh, like what it does to your

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psyche? Yeah? Is it better to have

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that one hit and fade away and

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at least you had that? Or is it better to have never?

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You know? I just I would be real

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curious to see a series of interviews with

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one hit wonders to see like how

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they feel about it. You're saying, is it better to

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have hit and lost than never to have hit at

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all? Exactly? And I couldn't really find anything

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on that. So I'm sure there's one or two who like,

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listen to the podcast, and if you do, right

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in, let us know how it is. We're interested.

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Loue Bega, Yeah, the

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very least lou Vega listens, the

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fake loue Vega. So, Chuck,

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I wanted to commend you for this article

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because you really like

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this is a tough one for With how stuff works

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articles, we typically take a topic

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that is, you know, has a lot of research done

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on it, it's very well defined, and then we deconstruct

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it. This one is like I

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looked on the internet and if you type in one hit

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wonder, there is like zero scholarly

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work done on it for good reason. Yeah,

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well, I mean it's interesting though too. Like you brought up the

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psychology of being a one there shouldn't been anyone

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ever done a study like that. There is nothing.

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It's all just lists. And I actually did

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find one good website. It's called um one

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Hit Wonder Central dot Com

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and they have everything and you can play like every

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song they have it by years who

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the one hit wonder was from like the sixties to the

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two thousand's, maybe fifties. There are some

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of the greatest songs to me, or some of the one hit

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Wonders. And I mean that's the points, Like

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you know, one hit Wonder is just something

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that everybody liked at one time. We just didn't

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like whatever else they were making, right, Um,

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at least as a large collective group. Anyway,

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back to me commending you, Um,

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you had to take something that was really amorphous

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that everybody knew and we knew if

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you got wrong, and whipping into

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shape like a definable shape, and you

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got it right. I think you did a great job. So

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Um. The first thing you pointed out was that

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no one is certain of the

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origin of this phrase. That's right, but

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we figured out that it was it first came in print.

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Right, Well, that's what phrases dot org says,

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and I couldn't find anything to dispute it. But a

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writer there wrote the

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sentence in July seventy seven about

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Abba instead of becoming

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what everyone expected a one hit wonder, they

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soon had a string of hits behind them.

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And although the website

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phrase dot org does say it appears to have already

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been a used phrase, but this is

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the first time they've seen it in print, right, and

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and so, and there actually is like a

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definition for one hit wonder,

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like there's well,

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a hit, I guess you define a hit, and

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then it's got to be on the because

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we're so American centric, has

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to be on the billboard top and

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then specifically in the top forty to be

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considered a hit. Right, Yeah, technically

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for like when most people like there have been books

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written about one hit wonders and that's usually what

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what they say. Okay, so that wasn't

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just you or anything saying. And I thought it was a great definition.

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No, it's a good definition, but that's the generally

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held definition. But then that's where it gets

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really blurry. As we're about to

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find out right, Well, in many

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ways, I mean, yeah, you make a point that there's

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a lot of one hit wonders by

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that definition. Who are legendary musicians

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like Jimi Hendrix one hit, Janis

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Joplin one hit, Garth

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Brooks as Chris

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Gaines. Yeah, that's this only

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Billboard hit. Yeah, this is only Billboard

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Top forty hit. Yeah, but he had country

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hits, just lived on the country

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top ten. But yeah, as

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in the mainstream top forty. His only

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hit was Chris Kayes with the haircut

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and the soul patch Man.

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That was Yeah, I don't know what

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the song that was even I don't um

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beck Yeah, the

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Dead, The Dead, the White Stripes, lou

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Reid, Iggy pop Divo, some

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like iconic bands and musicians

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that have only had one hit. Um.

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And then you've got artists who never had that

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hit but are still considered one hit wonders.

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Because what you end up

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realizing is, despite the definition

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of what a hit is, a one hit wonder

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is something different. It's just an artist and

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a song who captured something

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for a moment in time. It doesn't

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matter if it was a top forty hit. Right

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like you you say, um, Wallavoodoo's

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Mexican Radio. Absolutely, it's not a

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top forty hit. No, but that's definitely

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a hit. Sure in the zeitgeist

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did you put it? Absolutely? Who else?

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I'll melt with you Modern English, the

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Weather Girls, it's raining man, Like

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you would say, all of these are definitely one hit wonders,

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and none of them had top forty hits. Right, So,

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but sticking to the strict definition,

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um that, I mean that still works too.

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Write like the Penguins, Earth Angel.

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Yeah, in the fifties, right, Um,

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in the sixties you had um

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Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer, but

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they really spent blue on like their one there,

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one thing there, one shot was covered in blue.

6:27

Blue Cheer did Summertime Blues? Green

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tambourine? Remember that song? No, I

6:32

didn't mean tambourine. It

6:34

was very like psychedelic No and

6:38

the Lemon Pipers. You know. It's one of those songs

6:40

where sort of like h in the

6:43

seventies, Argents, hold your head up like

6:45

everybody knows that song. But

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I bet ninety nine people

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out of a hundred I've never heard of the band Argent.

6:52

No, they probably think, oh, wasn't that The guests who

6:54

or wasn't that in Joe Dirt? Or yes,

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wasn't that in? Was it? Yeah?

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Really I never saw that movie. What

7:02

I never saw Joe Dirt? Oh man, such

7:04

a great like keep your Chin

7:06

up movie is so

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good. Like I really can hate

7:11

David Spade, you can hate all

7:14

of that kind of comedy, but that

7:16

movie has such like it's got

7:18

heart, it's a cute movie. Well, I had friends.

7:21

It's on Netflix streaming. Yeah, I had friends

7:23

that worked on it. And that's where I have my Gary Busey insider

7:25

story. Oh yeah, yeah, I think I told you. You

7:27

You know he was He was supposed to play the father

7:30

and if you'll notice in the film, he does not play the father. No,

7:32

it's done by one Fred Ward. Yeah. So

7:34

Gary Bucy was on set for a day and

7:36

it didn't work out. He made it. Wish I could tell

7:39

the whole story. He made it into Black

7:41

Sheep with Chris Farley and um, David

7:43

Spade. That. Yeah, he was like the crazy

7:45

guy who lived in a school bus in the woods. It

7:49

was the part he was born to play exactly.

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Please don't come to our office, Gary. Um.

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All right, So that was the fifties and

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that's generally when the

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rock era in the fifties is when you people

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say you can start talking about things like one hit wonders,

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like not some guy who had one big band hit in

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the nineteen thirties, although I'm sure they were

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there, you know that's true.

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Uh, there's been one song that was

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a one hit wonder for two bands, which

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is interesting. Oh yeah, let's hear funky Town

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really yeah, Lips Incorporated. And

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then I don't know if you remember Pseudo Echo.

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They did a version of that in it

8:27

was a little more electric and upbeat, and

8:30

that was a bona fide top

8:32

forty hit as well. Seems can't

8:34

people couldn't get enough of Funky Town. I hope whoever

8:36

wrote that like really cast in. Yeah,

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so the sixties

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all right, Now, the sixties was the green tambour in seventies

8:47

songs like Spirit in the Sky by

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Norman Greenbaum. Yeah it's a good song.

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Uh, it was an Apollo thirteen one

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took over the line. I I literally

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wrote shutter next to that, what

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like, oh you hate

9:01

that song? It's pretty bad. Brewer and Shipley

9:04

and then Seasons in the Sun, great song.

9:07

Terry Jack's never heard of the guy no

9:10

no, no rev no re um. And

9:12

you also make the point that the seventies were lousy

9:15

with disco one hit wonders. And in our

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Disco episode we talked about why

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because it was all producer driven rather than artists

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driven. Exactly. I didn't even bother to like list

9:23

any in here. You know, it's you can just

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name a disco song and there you have it. The

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eighties, of course, you had bands like Soft Cells, Tainted

9:31

Love and Oh Mickey, You're So Fine, Tony

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Basil, Uh, I Want

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Candy by Bow Wow Wow Kajago.

9:40

Remember what song I don't remember?

9:42

Is that who? That was too shy shy? Yeah. Uh

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so the eighties was lousy with it, but a lot of

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those songs are great songs, and a lot of the

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artists in the eighties were

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popular in other countries. Yeah, and

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are known as one hit wonders here in the US.

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Like I was reading an article

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on I think Cracked

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maybe about one hit

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Wonders and they were saying, like, Aha

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had Take on Me, which

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was a hit here in the United States, but that

10:10

was it. But they're like one of the top fifty

10:13

grossing bands of all time worldwide.

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Yeah. Well, and Aha falls into another weird

10:17

category, which is a band that's

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known as a one hit wonder who actually had a

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quieter second hit. Oh really

10:24

Yeah, they had a song called the

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Sun Always Shines on TV that was like a

10:28

top twenty hit. I nick, wow, I don't remember

10:30

that one. Nobody does. They're good though,

10:33

now they're awesome. Um. And then remember right

10:35

said Fred on Too Sexy huge

10:37

in England, Yes, like there

10:40

I'm Too Sexy was actually only

10:43

hit number two in England. They had another one that hit

10:45

number one, but here in the States, I

10:47

think it hit number one here. And

10:49

then that was it for right side Fred. Uh, the

10:51

same with Frankie Goes to Hollywood and

10:54

uh yeah, they were really big in Europe. And Gary

10:57

Newman, Yeah that was a good

10:59

song. That song holds up car go back

11:01

and listen to cars. Yeah, that dude was a

11:03

good musician. Well, and he was hugely

11:06

popular and still like tours today. Yeah,

11:08

so he's he's one of those guys that's like, please

11:10

don't call me a one hit wonder. I had a long successful

11:13

career. Look at my house. You

11:15

know it's a car No,

11:18

I think it's like a mansion. He lives

11:20

in his car. It's predel safest,

11:23

he can lock all his doors. Uh

11:26

Falco and oh yeah, Nina,

11:29

we're really big in German speaking countries. Yeah

11:31

yeah, I could see that. But you know, had

11:33

the ninety nine red balloons

11:36

balloons and then Falco's rock

11:39

Me on My Dais. Yeah, huge hit

11:41

here. It's like

11:43

it didn't occur to my young brain that

11:45

that wasn't from the Ama Dais

11:47

soundtrack, because remember it came out at about the same

11:49

time as the movie, and um,

11:53

like I just thought it was part of the soundtrack, yeah,

11:55

the movie soundtrack. Well, the

11:57

point with this, though, is that one hit

11:59

one or is sort of a sort of a

12:01

derogatory term to throw on unearnest. So

12:04

a lot of these people are like in

12:07

America, like you jerks, I was

12:09

huge in Europe or maybe some other country

12:12

and uh yeah,

12:15

who cares so much for you? One hit the

12:18

nineties crash Test Dummies,

12:20

remember those dudes. Well

12:22

that was the song. Oh yeah, yeah,

12:25

that's right, the Makrana, even though

12:27

I don't even like to count that. Um, what

12:29

about Faith No More is epic? Yeah,

12:32

see that's a band that hugely

12:34

critically popular and had a big

12:36

cult following. But yeah, just

12:38

the one hit the epic.

12:41

Yeah, that was the name of it, right, you

12:44

want it all, but you can't have it. That was I remember

12:46

here that song in the first time. This is the

12:48

coolest thing I've ever heard. Yeah, and that lead

12:50

singer, what's his name, Mike something,

12:53

he's like super respected. He's been another band

12:55

like Mr. Bungle. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's

12:57

a big like has a big cult fall

13:00

and not not among colts, even like

13:03

among people who aren't in cults. All

13:05

right, so that's music, that's an overview.

13:07

Yeah. You make a really good point in this article that, like

13:09

one hit wonder, that derogatory

13:11

term isn't just um aimed at people

13:14

only in the music industry, although that's where

13:16

the lion's share of it is, but it shows

13:19

up in sports. You pointed out a couple

13:21

of them, a couple of instances. Yeah, well,

13:23

if you have one hit in baseball, then you've been

13:25

a complete and utter failure. But a

13:27

couple of guys have had one hit and that one hit was

13:29

a home run, which is pretty cool, which is pretty interesting.

13:32

Who was that? There was a guy named um Chris

13:35

Jellic whose name might recognize

13:38

for some reason. Yeah, And I don't

13:40

follow the Mets or anything, but I guess I just

13:42

saw that that bit of trivia before

13:45

that he had one hit and there was a home run. Yeah.

13:47

Maybe. So there's a guy who didn't

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have a hit UM named

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Eddie Goodell. He

13:53

had one plate appearance in a nineteen

13:56

fifty one game for the Yankees, and

13:58

he was a little person. Oh yeah,

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and they put him in against the St. Louis Browns

14:03

and he drew four consecutive

14:06

um uh balls

14:08

and got a walk. Really yeah,

14:10

and his jerseys in the Hall of Fame, and

14:12

it's you

14:14

can't see me doing this right now, I'm rubbing my face. His

14:17

number was one eight really

14:19

yeah. But he was I guess you could

14:21

say a one hit sports wonder. It was kind of

14:23

a fun story until then. Yeah,

14:26

but I mean that's that was his jam. That's what he got

14:28

paid for, and that's I mean, he

14:30

was aware that he was a little person. So money

14:32

off. What about the art world, design world,

14:35

there's a very famous person, Harvey

14:38

Belle, who has the perfect name

14:40

for what he did. Why is it

14:42

the perfect name, Harvey bell It sounds like the

14:44

creator of the smiley face. Yeah, the iconic

14:47

seventy smiley face. He created

14:49

that as a marketing campaign UM

14:51

kind it sounded like an internal um

14:54

morale campaign for State

14:57

UH Mutual Life Assurance company

15:00

UM and it took off.

15:02

I don't know if the company made the money or what, but

15:04

he was paid two forty bucks for it.

15:07

And he never had another artistic hit.

15:11

And I looked to see if there were any other

15:13

artists who were considered one hit wonder and I found

15:15

some, but I didn't recognize any of them. I did recognize

15:17

one grant would the painter

15:19

of American Gothic. Oh, yeah,

15:22

he painted that and was He won

15:24

all sorts of prizes, became like this like

15:26

caused celeb like all over the art

15:29

world, and the media started

15:31

digging into his life and realized

15:33

that he was a middle aged

15:35

bachelor who lived at home with his mother and sister,

15:38

and like wanted to know more about that, and all of

15:40

a sudden, he like just really couldn't handle the

15:43

the limelight. And it's it's a pretty sad story.

15:46

I think I read an article about it on Mental flass.

15:49

It was worth reading. So he never painted again,

15:51

or I don't think he ever kind of went

15:53

for the Gusto if he didn't just stop painting altogether.

15:55

I don't remember the end of the article. Well, the art

15:57

world certainly has a lot of people famous, pre

16:00

famous for a single painting, but they may

16:02

have been, you know, very revered in other

16:04

areas like faith no More. That's

16:07

right there, the Faith no More of the art world. I

16:10

told just all the scream this last trip to New York.

16:12

Oh yeah, and you're like, yeah, this

16:15

was like I

16:17

can't see what you're I mean, like you build

16:19

something like that up in your head, see it everywhere,

16:22

and then just to see the real one. It's either going to go

16:24

one of two ways. You're gonna be underwhelmed

16:26

or amazed. You know, I

16:28

completely agree. And that's been

16:30

my uh, it's been what's happened to me with

16:33

art because you know how I feel about art. I

16:35

know how you feel about art. I love it.

16:37

Well, now we're on the road,

16:40

driving in your truck. Want to learn

16:42

a thing or two from Josh

16:44

can chuck it stuff you should

16:46

know? All

16:49

right?

17:07

What about books? Yeah? Um,

17:10

To Kill a Mockingbird. Yeah, that's the

17:12

one most often cited

17:15

as the one hit wonder because Harperlely wrote

17:17

one book that's um one

17:19

of those rare ones where I actually think

17:21

the movie is better than the book. And

17:24

I love the book. It's one of my favorite books of all

17:26

time. And I hadn't read it in a while,

17:28

and I went back and read it, and then I watched

17:30

the movie shortly after. I was like, holy cow, the movies

17:33

better than the book. Yeah, Gregory Peck, I mean

17:35

yeah, talk about one of the best casting. But

17:37

everybody, like all of those actors were

17:39

amazing, every single one of them. Yeah,

17:41

Yeah, that's good stuff. She wrote,

17:44

um, the one book, and she worked on

17:46

a second for a while called The Long Goodbye, but shelved

17:48

it. Then in the nineteen eighties she started another

17:51

book and never finished

17:53

that one either. And I guess she just procrastinated.

17:56

I think she just I don't know. I don't

17:58

know if anyone has an answer why she never wrote

18:01

again. Same with the Sallenger, Yeah,

18:04

Catching the Rye. That was it, except he wrote short

18:06

stories too, but I mean I think he never published

18:08

another novel. Yeah, And I will never

18:10

know. And John Kennedy tool sure,

18:13

Confederacy of Dunce is how often

18:15

do you think about that book just

18:18

in your normal life? How

18:20

I don't know. Almost never.

18:22

Maybe yeah, a couple of times a year, maybe

18:24

when it's like a movie in

18:26

the works that never happens. I

18:29

was thinking about that movie or

18:31

that book yesterday and

18:33

I hadn't read this article yet. Have you read it?

18:36

No? Yeah, it's good. It's like I think

18:38

a lot of people have these expectations because

18:40

it's known as his like genius work after

18:42

this guy committed suicide, and it is really good.

18:45

But um, I don't think it's

18:47

like one of the greatest books of all time or anything. Yeah,

18:49

so what happened to him? Do you know? No? I

18:52

I just I've never read the book. I don't know much

18:54

about it. I know it's kind of like a wacky Southern Gothic

18:57

yea yeah, um kind of novel I

18:59

lived his aunts, I think, or something like, yeah, this crazy

19:02

character in Louisiana. It's

19:04

always grabbed my attention because it's

19:06

just like a perfect title, and then

19:08

the guy's name is perfect as well, John

19:11

Kennedy tool or the character

19:13

his the author got you, well, he

19:16

killed himself. He was clearly

19:18

now suffered some sort of mental illness, and

19:20

um could not get published,

19:23

and that drove him to eventually

19:26

commit suicide in nineteen nine, and

19:29

his mother made it her life's work to get it published

19:32

and did so. And

19:34

then his second book was published, The Neon Bible,

19:36

I think in six and that was made into a movie.

19:38

So he's not a one hit wonder then, well,

19:41

Neon Bible wasn't a huge hit. But

19:44

but yeah, I would say he's

19:46

a one hit wonder. Um. And

19:48

you also bring up movies too, man, Yeah,

19:51

and on books again, Sylvia

19:53

Plath is on here for the Bell Jar. I kinda

19:55

wish I hadn't put that in here because she was a well

19:57

known poet. That's why I hadn't mentioned it, you know.

20:00

But she did write the one book and then would

20:03

you do stick her head in the oven or something. I don't

20:05

know how she killed herself. I think Virginia

20:07

Wolf drowned herself, right, Sylvia

20:10

herself on herself? I think did she That

20:13

sounds right? I remember that scene

20:15

in Wonder Boys where Toby McGuire

20:18

rattles off the famous celebrity suicides.

20:20

It was really great. That was a great movie. Joseph

20:23

Heller with Catch twenty two. Yeah, that's certainly

20:25

a one hit wonder um.

20:27

So yeah, movies, um,

20:29

I mean there more directors

20:32

and actors that you could even mention that had

20:34

one hit, but legit

20:37

super super hits, people like Michael is

20:39

it Chimino or Samino? Samino? I

20:41

think, although if it's if you're speaking

20:44

in the Italian, it would be Chimino.

20:47

Uh. He did The Deer Hunter, of course, one

20:49

Best Picture in four other Academy Awards.

20:51

Did he mal? Huh? Did

20:54

he mal? That's what they

20:56

tell him when they're like making them play Russian Roulette?

20:58

Did he Yeah, except they scream it. Yeah.

21:01

Yeah, that scene was so intense. I

21:03

saw that very young, really

21:06

young to be seeing that movie in retrospect, like it

21:08

made an impression on you. Oh yeah, huge?

21:10

Um. But yeah. He famously made

21:12

Heaven's Gate um

21:15

as his follow up, which was one of the

21:17

notorious disasters along

21:19

with Ishtar. Wasn't like water World

21:22

Skate Warren Baby movie too? Or

21:25

is that Heaven Can Wait? He

21:27

was in Heaven Can Wait an Ishtar? So

21:29

what about Heaven's Gate? What was that about?

21:32

Yeah? I think it was a Western if

21:34

I'm not mistaken. Yeah,

21:36

And it was just a notorious failure and a

21:39

very expensive one. And then Tomino

21:41

never he made a few other movies, but you

21:44

haven't heard of many of them. He did a year of the Dragon

21:46

was like with Mickey Rourke, which the only

21:48

other like notable movie that was supposed

21:50

to be a good one. Yeah, but it was far from a hit,

21:53

you know what I'm saying. And then my favorite,

21:55

uh, Steve Gordon, one

21:58

of my favorite movies of all time. I have not seen

22:00

it. You didn't see Arthur. Not only

22:02

have I not seen the original Arthur, I haven't

22:04

seen the remake that includes our friend

22:06

Hodgeman as a candy store

22:08

manager. I believe that was terrible, by the way,

22:11

not Hodgman's bit, not Hodgement was great, but

22:13

the remake was really bad.

22:16

And it was so sad because Arthur is

22:18

one of the movies that I hold very very

22:20

dear to me, and Steve

22:23

Gordon wrote and directed it and then died afterwards.

22:25

It was the only movie he ever made by his own hand.

22:28

No. I think he had a heart attack or something and

22:30

died young but young ish,

22:33

uh. And it was just so like it

22:36

was a gut wrenching experience

22:39

watching the remake for me? Why did you watch

22:41

it? Like? For example, I think Red Dawn

22:44

is one of my favorite movies of all time. There's not

22:46

a chance that I will ever see the remake of Red

22:48

Dawn. Well, I'm not either, And I learned after

22:51

Arthur. Yeah, so that's the one that taught

22:53

you the lesson. Yeah, I'm not gonna watch anything

22:55

that was really precious to me if they

22:57

rebooted or remake it again. Never again.

23:00

It sounds like Hodgeman tell you a valuable

23:02

lesson. Yeah. And I like Russell Brand, you know, and I thought,

23:05

you know, they made Helen Mirre and John Gielgood's

23:07

character and was just enough of a

23:09

spin where I was like, well, that's could be interesting. But

23:12

then everything about the movie was

23:14

just some new little spin to

23:17

make it different. And it was like,

23:19

hey, let's make the man a woman, Let's

23:21

make the the white guy, uh

23:23

Puerto Rican, you know, and it

23:26

was like Louis Guzman and it was just it

23:28

was bad, so bad.

23:31

Yeah. Well that's it

23:33

for Arthur. Yeah. Um,

23:36

if you want to learn more about Arthur, you can

23:38

type that word in this search part. Isn't

23:40

that what this podcast is about? I forgot? Yeah,

23:42

this Arthur one hit wonders More,

23:45

that's what it was. You should read this article by

23:47

Chuck, it's a good one. Um. You can type one

23:49

hit wonders in the search bar how

23:51

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23:53

up this article again. Uh,

23:56

commendable article. Thanks Uh

23:58

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24:32

it's time for listener mail. Josh,

24:36

I'm gonna call this. Uh, we're gonna give this guy's

24:38

wife a tongue last year. Oh jeez,

24:40

what you do? You'll see dudes

24:43

have been an avid listener since shortly after

24:45

its inception. I'm a huge fan, especially

24:47

enjoy listening to it while I'm stressed out. That

24:50

always a soues my nerves to hear your band. Over

24:52

the years, I've tried to convince my now wife Elizabeth

24:55

to listen. Unfortunately,

24:57

she's always insists that you two are stoner

25:00

and that you're retty Repartee is

25:02

contrived. It is so far off.

25:05

She makes me change over to this American Life or Radio

25:07

Lab great shows, which are

25:09

podcast I download to fill the time between

25:12

stuff you should know releases. I've

25:14

repeatedly informed her that you guys are

25:16

not stoners. You've done frequent

25:18

podcasts on the l effects of drugs, and

25:20

this is not uh convinced her still

25:24

listen within the When you read letters during listener

25:26

mail about couples who enjoy listening together,

25:28

that's so sad. If I'm

25:31

not mistaken, one pair even became engaged during

25:33

a listener mail segment. Yeah,

25:35

we don't know about that yet. I'm not vouch you for

25:37

that. Um. It recently

25:39

struck me that perhaps if you were

25:41

to give Elizabeth a shout out at the end of the show,

25:44

she might be impressed enough to become a fan as

25:46

well. You could say hi to Elizabeth at

25:48

the end of the show, you'd be contributing to

25:51

my marital blizz. So wait a second,

25:53

way second, you realize what's going

25:55

on here? For being manipulated, Yeah,

25:57

to to say hey to somebody

26:00

who doesn't even like us, I

26:01

know, I feel like there should be

26:03

some money exchange for this. Well, no, I

26:05

feel instead of saying hi to Elizabeth, but she needs to

26:07

get a tongue lashing for these

26:10

baseless accusations.

26:13

Yea of us sitting around like

26:15

in a garage smoking marijuanaking a marijuana

26:17

and just like talking. Yeah, that's

26:20

b s. That's someone who's never listened

26:22

to the show. We had banter. We might go off

26:24

on tangents and we might say like five million

26:27

times in this sentence, but we're not

26:29

sitting around smoking weed just rambling.

26:31

Yeah, we're just relaxed. A lot of work goes into

26:33

the show. So Elizabeth

26:38

mellow out. Dude, Yeah, seriously, maybe

26:40

you need to go in the garage.

26:43

Not so

26:46

Anyway, this guy is a neurologist and

26:48

he said the alien hand syndrome part struck

26:51

close to his heart. Awesome. And Devin,

26:54

if this doesn't do it, then Elizabeth, you

26:56

can just go listen to this American Life and Radio

26:58

life. Let her hang out with our glass. It's cool.

27:00

And I'm sorry for your marriage because it is clearly

27:03

clearly headed in the wrong direction. I think we had

27:05

her until just that last sence

27:07

right there. No, she's great in Churchill

27:09

Partill tune in. Um, we'll find

27:11

out. Let us know, Devin, will you if

27:14

you want us to say something specific

27:16

to somebody you know, Um,

27:19

we very well might do it if you ask you

27:21

might. We have before um.

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