#597 - Where Are They Now? One Hit Wonders of the 90s and 00s

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human. All right, welcome to our episode on One Hit Wonders. And where are they now? The whole reason that I wanted to do this episode is I watched a documentary on Netflix about Devo. And it's not just One Hit Wonders. And it's not just where are they now? But like what the crap did they do in between the time they were One Hit Wonders? So I did a deep dive on these One Hit Wonders who you're going to know. And I brought in Eddie, who didn't even know what we were talking about today, because mostly I want to know how many songs from these people you know, as I talk about them, because some of these are two Hit Wonders. Some of these are One Hit Wonders. But if you like became a fan, you knew other songs and that title, One Hit Wonders, if you ever do a list of them, people will fight you and go, they have more than one hit. Right. And it's mostly because they're in the fan club. Yeah. So you had no idea what we're talking about. No idea. Up first is Vanilla Ice. So how many Vanilla Ice songs can you name? One. Yeah. I'm starting with one Ice Ice Baby. I mean, that's it. I feel I did buy that tape. I had that cassette tape, but I can't tell you another song that's on there. So I probably was in the fan club and I could go deeper. I could go like play that funky music, White Boy. Oh, of course. I remember that one. It wasn't a massive hit. It was awesome. A Ninja Rap from Ninja Turtles, the movie was awesome. I had the MC Hammer on one side, flip it over Vanilla Ice on the backside tape. So legit. So I have Vanilla Ice at number one. So he was massive because he was like a white rapper. Yeah. That was it. At that time, he was the one. So he was the first rapper to top the Billboard Hot 100 ever. Wow. That's crazy. Ever. And it made him famous probably in a way that was too big and too fast. And it all was one song. He got a Grammy nomination for Ice Ice Baby, which is crazy. Freakin' Ice Ice Baby. And so he was globally famous. It was such a rocket ship for him. And the fall off was, I would say, purely musical because credibility questions, massive backlash. Anybody that gets so big, it doesn't matter. There's a reason people hate Coldplay. It's not because they're not good. It's because they got so big. Yeah. There's a reason people hate Nickelback. It's because they got so big. OK, yeah. Anybody that gets so big, it starts to not be cool to like them anymore. So even the good bands get backlash. But he was like a symbol of overexposure. And the public turned on him quickly because the hip hop purists started to question him. I never turned on him, but I was like, nine. Yeah, I was going to ask you, what grade were you in when he pops? Because I feel like I was in sixth grade. That's yeah, probably. You probably in fifth grade. Or sixth grade. Did you have dance-offs in school? I was much more. Now this is like Stone Cold in the rock. I was much more of an MC Hammer guy than a Vanilla Ice guy. So I had Hammer Pants. Oh, wow. Who came first? Yeah, probably Hammer. Probably. But I mean, they were at the same time because again, I had the tape of both of them on the same tape. So I had Hammer Pants. I was much more of a Hammer fan, but I did like Vanilla Ice, especially when he was in Ninja Turtles. So he had one massive song. And so a lot of this was me exploring like what they did after they fell off. So he went away for a bit. He still like playing shows a bit as a nostalgia act, but he had a second career in real estate and renovation. No way. He also had the Vanilla Ice project on HGTV and Discovery. I remember that. I don't. I remember that. I didn't watch a lot of it, but I remember it was cool to see Vanilla Ice not as a rapper, but as a home TV show guy. No idea. Yeah. He had success in that after he had to find a new career. Obviously had the television show. Right now he still tours. Obviously it's the nostalgia circuit, but he kind of did a reinvention. He was a rapper, a one hit wonder, was so massive. Then he became a joke. Then he kind of became cool again, which is typically what happens with nostalgia, but it was him being credible in a whole different area that was interesting to me. Was it in Florida based like based in Florida, his TV show? Because I remember kind of like the Florida vibe, a one a still. He kind of still stuck to that because he was from Florida, right? Sort of. I think he was from Texas originally and they created a Florida story. A lot of his come up, though, was like in Dallas. And so then the Florida was created. Oh, I didn't know that part of his image. I mean, his whole image was created. Yes. A one A. Yeah, but he was also like a jet ski racer. Like he had a version of that as well. Like he was like a motorcycle jet skis, whatever. He's like a rapper. But yeah, he blew up so fast and then he came back, but he made a ton of money in homes. Yeah. And he's still, I think I saw him in a few commercials. He I think he was in a Super Bowl commercial. So I'm sure the nostalgia part of it. Yeah. Yeah. Up next, how many songs can you name from Carly Ray Jepsen? One. Call me maybe. That's her, right? That is her. Call me maybe. Hey, I just met you. That song jam. Still awesome. Dude, so good. It's so catchy. 2012. It was a number one hit. It stayed there for nine weeks. It was in 2012 because every year they look for what was the song of the summer? This was the song of the summer in 2012. It was the best selling single of the year worldwide. So she did have another song. And I think it was her with Al City. I think it was her song and Al City was on it called Good Time. Yeah. Yeah. For a good time. Was not like the other, but I do remember it. But she was a monster. And the thing about her is like she's still in it. She's just kind of changed how she's in it. She still makes music. Yeah. And not in an nostalgia way. Like people still really love her current music. So her whole thing was she didn't have a hit and then collapse. And it's all it's always weird when someone comes out with our first song and it is massive because you almost can never actually match that. So then people look at you as a failure. Yeah. Almost no artists have two worldwide monsters like that. So she in the last few years just kind of pivoted her sound. She still makes music. She didn't try to recreate Call Me Maybe. She has a rabid fan base. She tours still critics lover. She didn't become aware. They now really she became like the artist's artist. Good for her. People think she's cool. Yeah, that's really cool. I think she's called up from 2012. I call me maybe it was awesome. So she stopped chasing mainstream and then just did. Art music. So she never really I would say fell off or she had to go away. She just kind of pivoted who she was. Were you in I mean you were in radio when her song came out. Yeah. What was what was that like? Like living it. I so I got a little credit for being one of the first people to play that song nationally. I saw Justin Bieber like lip syncing it on YouTube or something. That's how you first heard. That's how I found it. Yeah. So I played it and then they were very grateful. The record label was and this is when I was in Austin, Texas and they were like we're so grateful you're one of the first stations to ever play it. It was one of the first songs that I like hit hard. Wow. Where I was going. Oh, I can do this and people actually care. So yeah. See it. Yeah. So that's interesting because like, you know, playing music on a radio station as a morning show guy, that's not really a thing now. Right. I mean, can you now today still take some of you here and be like, oh, I'm going to play it on my show or not you, but like a morning radio. You need to be extremely syndicated. Yeah. Which I am now, obviously. And I was then to I just started my own syndication. It's just different. There's just so many ways now to actually make a difference in music. Sure. I think for me and I've broken a bunch of songs on country radio to where they became massive hits, but it wasn't just because I played it. I think at this point it is if I played something a few times and it caught the ear of a major record executive that was then going to invest money in it, that was then going to build the promo around it. That was going to do a clipping campaign. That was all the things they do now. So the instant star of playing a song on my nationally syndicated show probably doesn't happen as easy as it used to because that happened a few times. Yeah. But I do think I could play something and somebody hears it that has the ability, the resources, the means to make that person a star because it's being exposed to them. If that makes sense, it does make sense. Everything's different now. Back in the day, like they would pay radio dudes in Memphis to play a song over and over and over again. And that's payola. Yeah. But they'd play it like 40 times in three hours. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I know. I never been paid a cent to play a song. For the record, never a single cent. But there have been songs though that. Other pop songs that radio people played and created hits from in a similar way that I was just talking about, like, I think LFO, I like girls that wear Abacrambian stitch. I think that was, I think it was a guy in Memphis. Just going from my mind. Really? Who played that song, heard somebody heard it. They other stations started playing. It was one of those. And then there have been instances too where bands have cheated the system, smarter the system and bought a bunch of their CDs back in the day in a certain regional area, which made the radio stations see that and start playing it. It gets reported. Other radio stations go, well, if they're playing it, we should play it. But it's all because of a band going to buy a bunch of the CDs. Yeah. By their own CDs. Wow. And because they get reported. Yeah. So there's a lot of ways to manipulate the system. Now the system gets manipulated on streaming by people just buying streams, like buying billions of streams. Yeah. And then it's like, look at us. We're number one, but you just paid to be on that. That's all. It's a little behind the scenes. Next up, one hit wonder, Chumbawamba. Oh, Chumbawamba, the greatest one hit wonder. Tub thumping. Yeah. I get knocked down. Massive song. The reason that that was a crazy song. The video was crazy. All of the it's absurd in my head looking back at the video and that song. And the reason they didn't last is because they weren't supposed to last. They were like a bizarre, anarchy punk band. Really? Yes. Oh, I didn't know that. And they continued to make like anarchist music. They're anarchists. Huh. So was their message behind tub thumping that we didn't catch? Or was it simply I get knocked down and I get up again. You ain't never gonna keep me down. Then they pissed the night away. They did. They did. Piss the night in and then Danny boy. Oh, Danny boy. Mm hmm. And then they go down whiskey drink vodka drink cider drink. Not sure what the anarchist message in that was. They didn't really fail at being a pop band. They were never trying to be one to begin with. So the mainstream knew them and still knows them as the I get knocked down band from that one song. But that song was basically a prank on the music system because they were like, how do I get inside the system? So they created like a song that the system would embrace. They felt like if they could get inside the system, they could then bring their anarchist views and music as one of the group being, you know, welcomed in. Yeah. So it was basically a science experiment by Chumbawamba. Yeah, that didn't work for me because I never went out to discover more Chumbawamba music. Like I was happy with tub thumping. You were good. I never went and did a Google search on like, well, let me hear some more Chumbawamba. Interesting. Did you? I maybe not Chumbawamba, but I did chase rights at Fred. Oh, yeah. And I don't have them on my list here. It's a good one. They had I'm do sexy. Yeah, I did go buy that CD and it sucked. They got you, man. Back in the day, you had to buy a whole CD to get one song, basically. And I bought it and I was like, I got to explore more of this band. It sucked. You regret it. I was so disappointed in that. So they stayed active for years. They formally announced in 2012. They were ending the band. They were together 30 years. Dang it. Billboard and other outlets covered the breakup. Former members moved into films, activism and other musical projects. Good. So they kept doing what they set out to do. But their whole story was we're a movement and their movement was wasn't to have a hit. It was we've created all this crazy music because I've heard some pre tub dumping. It's all nuts. Really? Yeah. It's exactly what you think anarchist message music would be. Punk music. And they kept making it after, but they wanted to create a hit that would get them in the system so they could then pollute the system. Wow. See, like I'd like to go back and see, because I'm sure when that hit, it was like, let's tour, let's tour. And then I'm sure people went to these shows thinking like, all right, let's hear more of what this man like, and then here to updump in, that's cool. And then the rest be like, what is this? It was like me listening to rights at Fred CDs. What is this? So the nugget in this one that I found is one of the biggest like bar drunk sing-alongs of the nineties came from a band that we're just trying to be provocative. Yeah. That was the whole point of it. Their whole career makes sense whenever you look at them, whenever you zoom back out and go, they were just up to note, not up to no good. They were just up to trouble anyway for their message. Man, they were probably like, dude, it's working. Unbelievable. This is crazy. Can you believe it? This is working. Next up. Lou Bega. Oh yeah. Ooh. Ooh. Can you name the Lou Bega song? Obviously, Mambo number five, but man, is there another one? Cause I feel like this is the one where I had to buy the CD so I can listen to the song. No, all I can think of is a Mambo number five. It's all I can think of too. I bet you if you read back to me the second most streamed Lou Bega song, I might know it, but for my purposes too, I didn't dig on the music cause I wanted to see what we knew. Mambo number five, you know, a little bit of Monica in my life, massive song, not just in the States, but worldwide. Oh yeah. So he, and that song was so unavoidable. It became part of just culture. I remember the hat. Oh yeah. Like the cigar, the suit. Dude, let me tell you, my dad didn't like music. I mean, he never listened to music, but he would walk around the house singing one, two, three, four, five. It's still so catchy. It was, and I think he was more musically than his image of this song was, but because the image and this song hit so hard, he couldn't really shake it. And I just picture the guy in the suit with the hat, the hat, the hat, the hat. And so it was such a novelty song that it kind of trapped him to always be a novelty to people. Somebody else who reminds me of who was the one hit wonders, Bobby McFerrin. Yeah. Don't worry, be happy. I was thinking the same thing. Cause that guy was like an artist artist, but everybody only wanted him to do. Don't worry, be happy. Yeah. You know, he also did the theme to the Cosby show. Oh, he did. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. What's Lou Beg is number two song. If you guys could look it up streaming wise. Sweet light, Cole. I don't remember. Then ring a bell. He never totally disappeared in that. He just going away, but he, you know, had to tour in a lot of these countries. Cause he was globally. They thought it was cool. He was there. Yeah, that is cool. It's like country acts now that go to really small towns. Yeah. Somerville, Kentucky. Cause they're like, dang, we can't believe he came to Somerville. So Lou Beg did that basically in Europe. He's still now, because everything that was cool, that was in lame, it's kind of cool again. So that did a 25 year anniversary of mumbo number five. He just kind of settled into that role the industry gave him because that's all the industry would accept him as. So then he just embraced it. He built a career around a song that it did sound like an old classic. It went to me because that wasn't classic to me, but it sounded like an old. Yeah, like a Cuban influence jazz pop song. And it's very catchy with a trap. Yeah. Next up, Semisonic. Oh, closing time. Yeah. Wasn't there trouble with this song? Is this the one that could possibly was like Paola? OK, so yeah, tell me the story about this whole different story. We'll talk about the song first. So closing time, mostly just became associated with the bar. Yes. Closing time. It was when the bar shutting down at 2 a.m. or whatever time they play the song. Dan Wilson was the lead singer and the main writer with Semisonic. And so I was actually talking to him about this and it had two meanings. So everybody knew it, though, as the bar song. It actually wasn't that it was that and like fatherhood impending fatherhood, not just last call at a bar. Crazy. Did you know that before he told you? I didn't until I looked up what it was about because I was going to interview him. So I never knew that naturally from the song. I just knew closing time is what they would. Yeah, because it's it's so on the nose. One last call for alcohol. So that would all happen. So no, I didn't until I talked to him. But that band's entire identity became that bar song. That bar life. He, though, became an elite songwriter and producer. He wrote Dixie Chicks, Not Ready to Make Nice. That's crazy. Adele's Someone Like You. Yeah. Never mind that. Someone like you. He I mean, Grant, he's just crushed so much. And so Semisonic still exists officially as a band. And they play. Well, they never really broke up. So technically, they're still together. But I wonder if they play a lot like maybe some of these 90s cruises, you know, that they do, I don't think he needs to do that. I think if you're playing in 90s cruise, you are trying to live off your 90s nostalgia. I think he's doing just fine on his yacht with someone like you, money, not ready to make nice money. So this one isn't about just fading into obscurity through nostalgia. Like he went on and wrote the biggest, most. Emotionally durable songs for other artists that weren't him. So the thing about the Paola thing may want to look this up. But I do remember there being like one of those shows like 2020. And so Semisonic, the band had nothing to do with it. But I think this was one of those songs that got flagged whenever I think Elliot Spitzer was like in New York and they were like, no paying is way before me. I can have nothing to do with any of this or the record. I think it was one of like a whole bunch of songs that they found that the record labels were. Promoting through illegal means. OK, OK. It wasn't the only one. But this is one they for sure highlighted in one of those shows. Do you see anything on that, Mike? Yeah, if you remember, it says that they spent five hundred thousand dollars the drummer says you have a microphone, right? That they spent half a million dollars on promotion. Well, but but no details. That could be anything. Right. That couldn't that be like a swag? It literally could be what I was on a telephone pole. What I remember, though, is it was in a news story for sure. And but they spend that they would have spent that they'd buy TV. It was crazy. Wild West. Yeah, different times. Hang tight. The Bobby cast will be right back. And we're back on the Bobby cast. Eagle Eye Cherry. Oh, save tonight. Great jam. But that's it. So Eagle Eye Cherry late nineties. I remember him being played on the edge in Dallas, the alternative station. What? Why the edge? Would you get that in Arkansas? No, but I had a friend that lived down there and we didn't have a cool alternative station. So I would have him record me like an hour on one side of the tape, flip it, record another hour and send it to me. No way. So living I mean, I'm South Texas, you're Arkansas. The edge was it. I remember they had Edge Fest. You remember Edge Fest? I remember Edge Fest. I remember the night guys, Kramer and Twitch. There were two dudes that I thought were so cool. So I listened to the edge through tape about every two weeks. I'd get a new tape. And so that's hilarious. Like Eagle Eye Cherry saves and I was a jam because of that. That and Harvey Danger flagpole. Sit up. Remember that one? You remember that one? Paranoia, paranoia. Everybody come and get me. That would be on that tape. That's funny. So save tonight. Massive. Remember listening, hearing it first, alternative edge before it crossed over. That was like his only song. So Eagle Eye was the guy. Eagle Eye Cherry, he was a dude. His sister was actually a famous artist. Nina Cherry had a song Buffalo Stance. Really? Didn't know that. Do you know if I just say that? I can't sing too much of it because I'll go to podcast jail. Also, it's hard for me to sing it, but it's like, I don't know. Well, enough. Do you know Eagle Eye's real name? Was his birth name Eagle Eye? If his sister was Nina Cherry, he's Eagle Eye. If I'm going to bet, I bet you that's his real name. That'd be awesome. We'll have the fact checkers. Eagle Island. Eagle Island noon. Cherry, that's legit. That's a money. Thank you, mom and dad. He's one of those American artists that people just assumed disappeared because he did not have hits after he did keep making music and mostly maintained an international presence. So I did not follow the international presence charts. I did not. I didn't either. Uh, he came to Nashville. What? One of our guys, he's said he's written with Eagle Eye Cherry. No way. Did you like him? Great. What did you call him? Eagle? I didn't know what. How did he introduce himself to you? What did he say? Hey, I'm Eagle Eye. No, he never even said his name. He was friends with the guys that I was writing with. That's crazy. And it was just like, did he sing a sing in the room? You could ask him to sing safe to the wall. I was going to, but then I think that would be weird. Oh, no. His own bio says his career changed with Save Tonight and that after 25 years, he returned with Back on Track after periods of doubt. I may have read that wrong, but I guess he spent a bunch of time probably trying music until he just embraced he'd go and play Save Tonight over and over again. Yeah, but like to your point, though, I mean, it's if you start like that, that's hard to get back up to that point. Almost never. Like it's impossible. So I get it. He's still making music. Were you guys writing music for him when you wrote? Yeah. How did? How do you? If we find out he says, never happened, we found out Brandon wrote Save Tonight and he's been saying nothing this whole time. So that's cool. So he still plays. I would say this is what I would say. The nugget that I pulled from this, he's not gone. He's just not really in America anymore. OK, I think that's the international part. Yep. I think he's still having success in other places. Because you know what? We're not the only country that matters. No, we are not. And people watching this and watching from all over the world that we want you to know we love everybody. But we're just in the middle of America right here. So we still going. All right, I have three left. Are you enjoying this? I love it, dude. I love learning about these guys. Next up. Can you sing me the song from Blind Mellon? Oh, no rain. All I can say is that my life is pretty plain. One of I would say that was my favorite song for about five to seven years of my life. Wow, for that long. Like it was in the horse race of favorite songs through my life for about five to seven years. That was number one. So it's probably falling down to like six or seven at this point. Yes, it's been a bit. But I loved that song. I loved Blind Mellon. I was somebody who chased more music from them, so it would be unfair for me. I'd be the person that would be in the comments going, they had more than one song. Yeah, yeah. But really, the B girl video is what people remember from them. Of course, the B girl. They did have another song, though, that I really liked because I bought that album for sure. Do you know his name, by the way? Oh, he died by the way. Yes, he's he's dead. His name is. It's like, yeah, you got it. Hold on. Something. Is it Coons? Shannon Hoon. Shannon Hoon. He was the lead singer. He also did backing vocals and a bunch of guns and roses stuff. Really? I mean, that's similar voices. So that makes sense. One of the more tragic stories of the ten that I looked up here. And so it was addiction. It was a lot of what? That era, that genre's lead singer syndrome was. Yeah, drugs, drugs and depression and dealing with a bunch of crap. Died from cocaine overdose in 1995 at the age of 28. Wow. He was trying to continue the success of No Rain. They released other material. It didn't hit pop wise, but that music almost never hit pop wise anyway. That one just happened to cross over. Yeah. So there's a documentary called All I Can Say, which is mostly footage that he shot himself. Have you seen it? I've seen a lot of it on TikTok, meaning full five clips. Yeah. So by and I didn't know that was from a documentary when I saw those clips, which is cool to see because back then we didn't have access to a bunch of clips. So like to see more of him is cool because once someone died like that, you're like, well, that was it. Yeah, back then. Yeah. You just. That's over. Like that was nothing to learn more about this. This guy. It's interesting to hear him sing live. And I say live after watching the clips and singing live because he does have that same really interesting peculiar voice. Axl Rosesh. Like, yeah, yeah. It's cool. It was really cool. I think the nugget here is that that song is so positive, but that story from him and with him is very tragic. So addiction just kind of blew a hole in the middle of the band. And then. Their story is more. Never got the chance because of addiction more than fell off. Yeah. So, so did he, he died. So, OK, so you, you mentioned this, he died after the success of no rain. So it's not like no rain came out and he was already dead. Correct. But you knew that did happen to a Janice Joplin, Janice freaking Joplin. Sad story. Never got to me and Bobby McGee was that after she knew who else that happened to Selena. Oh, I didn't know that. Well, you know, when she was about to cross over in English, they hadn't released her English stuff until she died. And then once her English stuff came out, it was huge. I'm going to need to be fact checked on this, but you know, who else that happened to? Who else? Otis Redding. Otis Redding. I do not think sitting on the dock of the bay hit until after he died. No way. And he's the one that died in a plane crash, plane crash in Wisconsin. Because I believe when we were on tour in Wisconsin, we saw the lake where his plane crashed. Great memory. Yeah. And then I just remember someone telling me that story. Well, we're just saying it. So we're hoping it's true. Fact checkers. He died before it was released. And did he die in a plane crash in Wisconsin? Nice work. He did. Thank you. Oh, but you didn't have a crash. Good. Good memory. That's crazy that they all those people died before they, not Shannon, who and but sure Janice Joplin, um, Selena and Otis Redding died before, like they're massive songs. Like I wonder and I'd have to look back, but Janice Joplin. Oh, won't you buy me Mercedes Benz? I wonder if that was like a mid hit for her before she died or if that also was released after she. Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. Do you remember Mercedes Benz actually using that song in their commercials? Have you seen the documentary on Netflix? Yeah, so sad. It's so sad. It's so good. Yeah. It's called Janice, right? I don't know. I don't remember the name of it. It's so good. You know what's so shocking to me about that documentary is I didn't know her and Jerry Garcia had. They loved each other. I mean, I didn't, I didn't even know they were together. The ice cream guy. That's cherry. That's cherry Garcia. Grateful dead man. Yeah, because they lived in San Francisco together, right? Yes. But they, I didn't know they were a thing, but they loved each other. Next up to left. Okay. Can you sing the song? The one hit wonder from OMC. How bizarre. How bizarre. Jam. You want to know the rest by the rights. How bizarre. How bizarre. That song was awesome. I know. But again, I should have done more research on him. That one is so like, incidentally, recognizable. It's like when you said Trump is a trumpet with Lou Vega minus by the rights. You want to know the rest by the rights. Global. Yeah, dude. Global song. Do you remember the music video? Yeah. And the car. I remember the car. Low rider in the car, right? In the convertible. Top the charts in several countries became one of the biggest songs ever to come out of what country do you think they're from? I would have missed it. I would have guessed South America. What country? Yeah. I'm going to go with. Would you have guessed South America? No, no, I'm thinking of an island like Australia or New Zealand or something. It's New Zealand. New Zealand. Wow. All like the horns. And I just thought to me was like, I don't know, the Brazil or South America or something. Wow. It's frigging New Zealand. Great job. Thank you. The name itself, Otara Millionaires Club. Oh, because I stood for that. OK. And it referenced a poor Auckland community, which I believe they were from Auckland, New Zealand. Wow. OMC was Pauli Fumana and producer, co-writer Alan Jansen. And so they eventually got into it. It looks like big legal fights after. And so that kind of fractured that group. Oh, that sucks. Yeah. And that's not the lead singer. That's just these are writers. And no, I think those are the two people, though. The. Oh, yeah. From what I found Pauli Fumana and producer, co-writer Alan Jansen were OMC. OK. And. You add in internal conflict and legal arbitration issues, the momentum fractured instead of compounding, so they never really had a chance because. Dang, I think for them, they could have continued to make music internationally. And America is hard to hit that again. But the Saturday years were later when Pauli stopped doing music, focused on family and then got some rare neurologic disorder that I can't really pronounce. He died at 40 years old. No way. And so because Pauli died, their legacy isn't aware of the now because he died. And it was really only him and the songwriter to be. Yeah. So man, I always wonder how a band from New Zealand even gets heard in America. The same way LFO got heard in America, one person doing one thing, having a little success around it and it's in someone going, oh, it works. It's like a television show from England, who they put on the States, even though it's slightly different. They know their success with it. They think it'll be successful here too. So they invest money in it. It's like a lottery ticket. And but one that has a pretty good success rate because it's worked somewhere else. Yeah. Wow. Here's the nugget I found that I made a note of on this one. That was a very like fun upbeat, friendly song, right? And so it was crazy because. The whole thing was kind of an ironic joke about poverty because they grew up in a real poor town. The song is about that. And so. He died tragically. A little bit of that Chumbawamba feel where they were kind of showing something by doing the opposite thing. Interesting. So yeah, OMC, I never knew what OMC stood for until I did the research here. And it was, I guess I really didn't care. I'll be honest with you. No, I'm telling you. It's not like I was dying to know and I was like, I just can't figure out what OMC stands for. A lot of these things, I just took it for the one hit wonder. And I was like, all right, don't really need to know more. Okay. And here we go. At number 10. Come on. Is this number 10? As in you saved it for the, the best for last or just randomly number 10? I'm going to go for the sake of right now, the best for last, but really it was random. Okay. Yeah, really. I just found 10 and did it with this one. Possibly my favorite song from the whole list. Okay. Let me look and see if there's any other ones before I tell you what it is. Can you give me a hint? Yeah, I'll tell you now a blind melons, my favorite song. So no rain has to be number one on my list of songs. Okay. And you said, right? I said, Fred's not on this list. I've got two left. I got two left. Oh, you have two left. I have two left. I skipped over one accidentally. Well, then just tell me what this is. And we'll play, we'll play the game in the last one. Okay. Uh, Daniel powder. Oh, I had a bad day. Jam. Jam. I, that's, that's still on my playlist, like my, uh, my music library. Daniel powder for some reason. It's on my, it pops up once in a while. It was gigantic. I remember from American Idol, they would play with people, get kicked off idol. When I was like, this is pre me all my years on idol. This one idol was still on Fox and there were years when that show was a juggernaut and they get kicked off. Had a bad day. Looking back. Kind of cruel. It is cruel. It's kind of like the na na na. When someone fouls out. Yeah. It's kind of bad. So this song was a monster at top the billboard hot 100 for five weeks, earned a Magrame nomination, became a signature piano song in that 2000s era where those piano songs like Vanessa Carlton. Oh yeah. He was one of that. Um, so it was like idol though was such a platform and then also it's pretty universal that everybody has bad days. It is. There's, you can always play that song at some point in your life. I was a Daniel powder fan. I chased other songs. But you did. So you know what the songs do you remember? I can't, I'm not going to like list titles, but I did like chase by record. I bought probably a CD from that. Um, but I like that music. Like that was my favorite kind of music. Little emo, kind of emo, but not too emo. It was post grunge. It was like emo, but it still was kind of happy. It was like emo, but you could listen to it going to and coming home from church. That's a good way of putting it. Uh, difficult years after the hit. So still kept playing, still kept touring. Now is doing anniversary era shows. Um, he's doing 2026 dates. Really? Yep. I'm boy, still in the game, still singing this song. Some people came for and still building a career around it rather than pretending it didn't happen. Um, bad day became such a giant emotional utility song that it was so big. It's hard to see anything else around it, including the artist. I know. I know. And it makes me think of like what those shows are like when people are just like, just play that day. Blessing in a curse to have a song like that. So big, so early. Hang tight. The Bobby cast will be right back. Welcome back to the Bobby cast. Uh, I do have one more than I missed. Okay. And I have a guess just based on like one hit wonders that you haven't mentioned. I wonder if James Blunt is on your list. No, that'd be a great one to do though at some point. Okay. And his story is pretty cool in that he has stayed extremely relevant because of social media and has kept putting out records in Europe and obviously I'm just doing good there. Um, but like everybody, if you're on Twitter for like eight years, you knew James Blunt also he, you're beautiful, massive song, but he also had another couple close to big songs that were like almost hits again. I only knew you're beautiful. If you give me James Blunt's second and third songs, I would bet you that's the name of the song called 1973. Is that a newer release? Yeah. I won't know anything newer. It would be off that album. Yeah. It'd be off the off of your, your beautiful, like his second single. Yeah. Goodbye, my lover. Goodbye, my friend. You will be the one. Oh, oh, I've heard that. I've heard that song. Yes. I didn't realize that was, that was a, oh, blunt. Goodbye, my lover. Goodbye, my friend. Wow. Okay. Um, you want to take another shot at it? Let's see. Let's see. Colby Kelly. Not a one hit wonder in my mind, but could be considered one. Um, you know, I'm offended for her. And you know what? I see her. We live by each other. Uh, we've shared a stage together. Oh, yeah. I've, I've stopped a couple of times as she's walking her dog. Yeah, that's right. That's right. She, uh, I do not accept that. Okay. And, um, we're angry. Um, who's Colby, he did have a bunch of hits. So to be fair, who's the girl that's saying girl, put your records on. Okay. So that's Karen Bailey. Right. And Bailey. Right. She was awesome. Great one. Not it. Let me give you one more guess. It's a band. So. Oh, it's a band. Ah, Redbone. Da. Na. Na. Na. Na. Da. Na. Hey. Hey. What's the matter with you? I didn't know that. You're saying that. That, that to me is a TikTok sound. Where everybody's doing. What. It is. It's a plan. I'm going to give you. I'm going to leave out the name of the song and tell me when you can get it. Made them, this song, X song made them MTV famous and Grammy nominated. And it's the song most people know them for. But this band were always more musically literate and craft oriented than a novelty summary gives them credit for their humor. Help them explode. Oh, they're humor. But people underestimate how good the band was. The video massively famous. They were, people would be like, that's the funny band because the video was so funny. The video had a celebrity in it too. You have a guess, Brandon? He wrote with Eagle Eye Cherry. Do not question him. I mean, cause I thought, aha, but they're not funny. No, this is again, this is probably 2000s. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll say this to you and I went to a show and he sang the lead singer. The lead singer saying. And I'm telling you, they're actually a really good band, but you just know that was one song. Oh my God. But we went to a show and the lead singer saying you and I went together. Not Marcy playground. No, we did go to a show though. And he's saying. God, who could this be? This person after this band. I won't say broke up because I'm not sure if they officially broke up, but the lead singer has written a ton in film, TV, theater. He's won three Emmys and a Grammy and nominated for an Oscar and a Tony. What? I think that I think he's dead. I think he died now though. I think he's dead, but this guy. You're telling me he's this. Yeah, I think, yeah. Yeah. I think I got it. Yeah. We saw him before he died. What? So he had a successful career after was very accomplished, but then he died. Uh, he died of COVID. He died of COVID. Yeah. Yeah. Joe Diffie. No, not country. Band. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Don't guess it. Yes. So the lead singer awards level writer across TV, movies and musicals. The song was funny. The band was massive. The music video with the famous person in it. We've also in our band, for those that don't know, uh, we have a comedy band. We do a lot of comedy stuff, but we will cover songs occasionally. We have covered their biggest song. We've covered their biggest song a thousand times. What is this? What are you talking about? Mike, do you know it? How does everybody know? But Eddie, Eddie's saying it. And we've been to a show. And we've been to their show. Well, he only sang by himself. You know, the show we went to was at City Winery. And the guy from, uh, Marcy Playground played. Art from Everclear played. Jim Blossoms. Uh, that was, no, that was Austin. We went to that show with him. Okay. That was a full. I was at that show. That was. So maybe that wasn't me. I don't think I was at that show. I thought we all went together. No, it was just me. Oh, it was just me and Brannon. That's funny. You thought me and Brandon. I thought we all went together. So, so then I have not seen this person live. Oh, I guess. Okay. Then I, but, but let's go to the, we've covered his, his song. Uh-huh. This song, the big one. Yeah. In our band. Many times. Who's saying that song? Me, but there's a guitar riff. Wait, he did, but I'm saying when we did it. There's a very famous guitar riff. It's like a. That kind of riff at the beginning. This has turned into us talking about us so much. Reluctantly. Okay. Great. But we never covered that massive cake fan. Gosh, dude, I have nothing. Okay. You done? I have nothing. The music video featured a very famous supermodel. See the only thing I'm thinking is like Paul Simon now. The supermodel. Christy Brinkley. No. At a pool. Oh, Stacy's mom. Stacy's mom. Fountains of Wayne. Fountains of Wayne. Wow. This is a good one. But no, I was not there. That was you and Brandon. Okay. Never seen this guy. And he's dead. He died of COVID. Dang, I didn't know that. So we must have gone before, obviously before he died. Yeah. What did he play at that? Did he play Stacy's mom? Mm-hmm. That's cool. What if he didn't? Just him. Who's the world's? It was all in a stall. Maybe he was. But it was like a nostalgic show where they all were touring together. Playing. The crazy one was the Marcy Playground guy. Like what else does he even play? I know. Sex and Candy. It's all we got. Yeah. Then play Candy and Sex. Play it backward. I don't know. Like just keep that up. But yeah. So one hit wonder. They were actually a really good band. But because it was kind of like Lou Vega. Like people just knew him as a funny. Just knew him as that specific type of thing. But then he jumped out and did all that stuff. Got all the accolades. Won all the awards across again, TV, movies, musicals, died of COVID. Wow. Jam. Love that song. What did you learn from this? I think I learned that, man, we really just consume music. Like I just look at this whole list and I'm just like, man, I really just took these songs. And I never questioned what happened to these guys. And it's cool to me that some of them continue to play music. But maybe this one hit allowed them to live that life. To where they never had that one hit. They may have had to quit music to have a work at an office somewhere and like support their families. But since they had this hit, they were able to make some kind of money to be able to just keep playing music for the rest of their life, which is kind of cool. I think it's an interesting question that I think probably actors go through once they're typecast, like Erkel. Yes. Would you have rather been Erkel and your whole life be known as Erkel? Or would you like to have a career acting and struggling some, having some moderate success, but having a somewhat steady career? I think that's probably the case. You can't go back and you know, if I could turn back time, you can't do that. But I think that's a great question. Like, had they not blown up like this, they probably would have all continued music in some way. Would they have rather when asking them if you go, okay, here's the choice. You get the massive hit. That's all you're going to be known for. And you're going to struggle with it and love it and hate it. And would you want that? Or do you want to just kind of ebb and flow and never have a real hit? What would you rather have? I kind of like the eagle eye cherry way of doing things. Like, you know, just like have a hit, right? What brand hit right with Brandon on a random Wednesday. And then like just live wherever I want to and continue to play music and still kind of have enough money to live my life. I like that. There we have it. What would you rather do? I mean, you're like, I'd rather be Bob Dylan with all the hits and all the money. I think I'm, I'd rather have the one hit. Yeah. I think that yeah, I'd, there definitely be some times where I struggle, but I think I'd rather have the one hit. The Dan Wilson's pretty good, you know, where you like have that one hit and then you just start writing other hits and make a lot of money. All right. Do you want to go to the, we're going to go to the bank for a second. Every time we shoot here, we'll pull something out. So I'll pull out from our set. These are all real, by the way, real movies. I wonder if I can get this out. You're going to put in the VCR and play it. Well, it's a Hanson live concert video. My body won't turn. Oh, do you need help? I get it. Hold on. Okay. Okay. On this one, we're going to focus on. Are they glued together? It's like one of those sets, you know, or it's just paper. It's not real. There we go. Okay. To end the show. What year is this from? Speaking, and this is, you know, not one hit wonders. No. Consider it and bop like a one hit, but they, man, they had some jick. I've been Hanson fan. They made really great music. This is Hanson Tulsa Tokyo in the middle of nowhere. So is it live in Tulsa and Tokyo? It is. Yeah. It's live in. They're from Oklahoma. Tulsa Tokyo. And then there I believe their album was middle of nowhere. That's a trip when you see these American bands go to Tokyo and they're singing back all the lyrics. Like I saw a Jack Johnson clip where he was playing in Tokyo and they're all singing all his words. I love it. We would never do that. You want to see something, do you? So ask Zach Hanson in this video. Well, if you want to see Hanson across the planet, everywhere from Tulsa to Tokyo and back, you have the right tape in your hand. It says all that. Yeah. It's like yelling at you. Then you did it right. And you guys think these are just like fake sleeves? No, no. This is one of my videos. All right. Put in the VCR. We'll watch it all. Here we go. That's the rest of the podcast. Here we go. We play it and just watch it for an hour and a half. All right. Thank you guys. We will see you guys next time here on The BobbyCast. Bye, everybody. This has been a BobbyCast production.