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Bobby Bones
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 a one hit wonder? So I did a deep dive on these one hit wonders, who you're gonna 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 Wonder, if you ever do a list of them, people will fight you and go, they have more than one hit.
Eddie
Right.
Bobby Bones
And it's mostly because they're in the fan club.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So you had no idea what we're talking about.
Eddie
No idea.
Bobby Bones
Up first is Vanilla Ice. So how many Vanilla Ice songs?
Eddie
Can you name one? Yeah. Start with One Eye Sized Baby. I mean, that's it. I. I feel I did buy that tape. I had that cassette tape, but I can't tell you another song that's on there.
Bobby Bones
So I probably was in the fan club and I could go deeper. I could go like, play that funky music, White boy.
Eddie
Oh, of course, I remember.
Bobby Bones
That one wasn't a massive hit. Was awesome. Ninja Rap from Ninja Turtles. The movie was awesome. I had the MC Hammer on one side, flip it over. Vanilla Ice on the backside tape. So legit. So I have Vanilla Ice at number one. So he was massive because he was like a white rapper.
Eddie
Yeah, that was it at that time that he was the one.
Bobby Bones
So he was the first rapper to top the Billboard Hot 100 ever.
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Eddie
That's crazy.
Bobby Bones
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 wow. Which is crazy. It's freaking nice. 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, and 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.
Eddie
Okay. Yeah.
Bobby Bones
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.
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Eddie
I was gonna ask you, what grade were you in when he popped? Because I feel like I was in sixth grade.
Bobby Bones
That's. Yeah, probably.
Eddie
You were probably in fifth grade.
Bobby Bones
Sixth grade.
Eddie
Did you have dance offs in school?
Bobby Bones
I. I was much more. Now this is like stone Cold in the Rock. I was much more of an empty hammer guy than a Vanilla Ice guy.
Eddie
Okay.
Bobby Bones
So I.
Eddie
Hammer King first.
Bobby Bones
I had hammer pants.
Eddie
Oh, wow.
Bobby Bones
Who came first? Yeah, probably Hammer.
Eddie
Probably.
Bobby Bones
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 Heist, 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 liked playing shows a bit as a nostalgia act. But he had a second career in real estate and renovation.
Eddie
No way.
Bobby Bones
He also had the Vanilla Ice Project on HGTV and Discovery.
Eddie
I remember that.
Bobby Bones
I don't.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Was it in Florida? Basically, like, based in Florida. His TV show. Because I remember kind of like the Florida vibe. A1A still. He kind of still stuck to that. Because he was from Florida, right?
Bobby Bones
Sort of. I think he was from Texas originally.
Eddie
Really.
Bobby Bones
And they created a Florida story. A lot of his come up though was like in Dallas and so then the Florida was created.
Eddie
Oh, wow. I didn't know.
Bobby Bones
That's part of his image. I mean, his whole image was created A1A Avenue. But he was also like a jet ski racer. Like he had a version of that as well. Like he was like 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.
Eddie
Yeah. And he still. I think I saw him in a few commercials. He. I think he was even a Super bowl commercial.
Bobby Bones
So, I mean, I'm sure the nostalgia part of it.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Up next, how many songs can you name from Carly Rae Jepsen?
Eddie
One. Call Me maybe. That's her, right?
Bobby Bones
That is her. Call Me maybe. Hey, I just met you. That song Jam still.
Eddie
Awesome, dude. So good.
Bobby Bones
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 for Good was not like the other, but I do remember it. But she was a monster. And the thing about her is like, she is still in it. She's just kind of changed how she's in it.
Eddie
She still makes music.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. And not in a 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 her first song and it is massive because you almost can never actually match that. So then people look at you as a failure.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
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 love her. She didn't become aware. They now really. She became like the artist's artist. Good for her. People think she's cool.
Eddie
Yeah, that's really cool.
Bobby Bones
I think she's cool though. From 2012. Like Homie Navy was awesome. So she stopped chasing mainstream and then just did art music. So she never really, I will say, fell off where she had to go away. She just kind of pivoted who she was.
Eddie
Were you in. I mean, you were in radio when her song came out?
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
What was. What was that like? Like living it.
Bobby Bones
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 back then.
Eddie
That's how you first heard it.
Bobby Bones
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 work where I was going, oh, I can do this. And people actually care. So. Yeah.
Eddie
See?
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
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 something you hear and be like, oh, I'm going to play it on my show or not. You. But like a morning.
Bobby Bones
You need to be extremely syndicated.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
Which I am now, obviously. And I was then, too. I just started my own syndication. It's just different. There's just so many ways now to actually make a difference in music. Sure. I think for me. And I've broken a bunch of songs on country radio to where they became massive hits. But it wasn't just because I played it. I think at this point, 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 done to 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.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
It does make sense.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
That's payola.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. But they'd play it like 40 times in three hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I never. I never been paid a cent to play a song for the record. Never a single cent. But there have been songs though that other pop songs that radio people played and created hits from in a similar way that I was just talking about. Like, I think lfo. I like girls that wear Abercrombie. I think that was. I. 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. It was one of those. And then there have been instances too where bands have cheated the system, smarted the system and bought a bunch of their CDs back in the day in a certain regional area, which made the radio station see that and start playing it. It gets reported. Other radio stations go, well, if they're playing it, we should play it. But it's all because of a band going to buy a bunch of their own cds. Yeah.
Eddie
Wow.
Bobby Bones
And because they get reported.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
And it's like, look at us, we're number one. But you just paid to beyond that.
Eddie
That's all. It's a little behind the scenes.
Bobby Bones
Next up, one hit wonder. Chumba Wumba.
Eddie
Oh, Chumba Wumba. The greatest One hit wonder. Tub thumping.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I Get Knocked Down. Massive song. The reason that that was the 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. A bizarre anarchy punk band.
Eddie
Really. Yes.
Bobby Bones
And they continue to make like anarchist music. They're anarchists, huh?
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
You ain't never gonna keep me down. Then they pissed a night away.
Eddie
They did. They didn't piss the knight. And then Danny boy, oh, Danny boy. And then they go down. Whiskey drink, vodka drink, cider drink.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So it was basically a science experiment by Chumbawamba.
Eddie
Yeah, that didn't work for me because I never went out to discover more Chumbawamba music. Like, I was happy with tub thumping.
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Eddie
I never went and did a Google search. I'm like, well, let me hear some more Chumbawamba.
Bobby Bones
Interesting.
Eddie
Did you?
Bobby Bones
I. Maybe not Chumbawamba, but I did chase. Right? Said Fred.
Eddie
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
And I don't have them on my list here.
Eddie
That's a good one.
Bobby Bones
They had I'm Sexy. I did go buy that cd and it sucked.
Eddie
They got you, man.
Bobby Bones
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.
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Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Dang.
Bobby Bones
Billboard and other outlets covered the breakup. Former members moved into films, activism, and other musical projects.
Eddie
Good.
Bobby Bones
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 thumping. It's all nuts.
Eddie
Really.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, it's exactly what you think anarchist
Eddie
message music would be punk music.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
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 about this, man. Like, and then hear tub thumping. That's cool. And then the rest be like, what is this?
Bobby Bones
It was like me listening to. Right. Said Fred. That cd, what is this? So the nugget in this one that I found is one of the biggest, like, bar drunk sing alongs of the 90s. Came from a band that were just trying to be provocative.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
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 no, not up to no good. They were just up to trouble anyway, for their message, man, they were probably
Eddie
like, dude, it's working.
Bobby Bones
Unbelievable.
Eddie
This is can you believe it?
Bobby Bones
This is working. Next up, Lubega.
Eddie
Oh, yeah. Ooh, ooh.
Bobby Bones
Can you name the Lubega?
Eddie
Obviously Mambo Number five. But man, is there another one Because I feel like this is the one where I had to buy the CD so I can listen the song. No, all I can think of is Mambo Number five.
Bobby Bones
That's all I can think of too. I bet you if you read back to me the second most streamed Lou Vegas song, I might know it. But for my purposes too, I didn't dig on the music because I wanted to see what we knew. Mambo number five. A little bit of Monica in my life. Massive song. Not just in the states, but worldwide.
Eddie
Yeah, yeah.
Bobby Bones
So he. And that song was so unavoidable, it became part of just culture. I remember the hat.
Eddie
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
Like the cigar, the suit.
Eddie
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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
But the hat, fedora. And so it was such a novelty song that it kind of trapped him to always be a novelty to people. Somebody else who it reminds me of, who was a one hit Wonder is Bobby McFerrin.
Eddie
Yeah. Don't worry, be happy. I was thinking the same thing because
Bobby Bones
that guy was like an artist artist. But everybody only wanted him to do Don't Worry, be happy.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
You know, he also did the theme to the Cosby Show. Oh, he did.
Eddie
That's right.
Bobby Bones
What's Lubega's number two song? If you guys could look it up streaming wise Sweet like cola don't 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 because he was globally. They thought it was cool he was there.
Eddie
Yeah, that is cool.
Bobby Bones
It's like country acts now that goes to really small towns.
Eddie
Somerville, Kentucky.
Bobby Bones
Because they're like, dang, we can't believe you came to Somerville.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So Lou Vega did that basically in Europe. He's still now because everything that was cool. That was then lame. It's kind of cool again. So the did a 25 year anniversary of Mambo 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 embrace it. Uh, he built a career around a song that. It did sound like an old classic. It did, yeah. Well, not to me because it wasn't classic to me, but it sounded like an old.
Eddie
Yeah, like a Cuban influence jazz pop song.
Bobby Bones
And it's very catchy with a trumpet.
Eddie
Yeah, trumpet.
Bobby Bones
Next up, Simasonic.
Eddie
Oh, closing time. Yeah. Wasn't there trouble with this song? Is this the one that could possibly. It was like payola. Okay, so, yeah, tell me the story about this one.
Bobby Bones
Whole different story. We'll talk about the song first. So closing time. Mostly it just became associated with the bar.
Eddie
Yes, Closing time. It was when the bar shutting down at 2am or whatever time they play the song.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Crazy. Did you know that before he told you?
Bobby Bones
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. And so. No, I didn't until I talked to him. But that band's entire identity became that bar song. Yeah, that bar life. He, though, became an elite songwriter and producer. He wrote Dixie Chicks Not Ready to Make Nice.
Eddie
That's crazy.
Bobby Bones
Adele's someone like you. Yeah, never mind. I like you. He. I mean, Grant, he's just crushed so much. And so Semisonic still exists officially as a band. They never play well.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
I don't think he needs to do that. I think if you're playing a 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 payola thing, you may want to look this up, but I. I do remember there being like one of those shows, like 2020 and so Cinema Sonic. 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. This is way before me. Again, 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.
Eddie
Okay, okay.
Bobby Bones
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. The drummer says they spent $500,000. The drummer says you have a microphone. Right. That they spent half a million dollars on promotion.
Eddie
Wow.
Bobby Bones
But.
Eddie
But no details. That could be anything, right? That couldn't that be like swag?
Bobby Bones
It literally could be whatever.
Eddie
Posters on a telephone pole.
Bobby Bones
What I remember though is it was in a news story for sure. But they spend that. They would spend that. They'd buy TVs every week. It was crazy wild west.
Eddie
Different times.
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Bobby Bones
Eagle Eye Cherry.
Eddie
Ooh, save tonight. Great jam, but that's it.
Bobby Bones
So Eagle eye cherry late 90s. I remember him being played on the edge in Dallas. The alternative station.
Eddie
Why? Why the Edge? Would you get that in Arkansas?
Bobby Bones
No, but 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 set it and just sit and mail it to me.
Eddie
No way. Living. I mean, I'm South Texas, you're Arkansas. The Edge was it. I remember they had Edge Fest. Do you remember Edge Fest?
Bobby Bones
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 Sitter.
Eddie
Remember that one?
Bobby Bones
You remember that one? Paranoia, Paranoia. Everybody's Coming to Get Me. That would be on that tape.
Eddie
That's funny.
Bobby Bones
So save tonight. Massive. I remember listening, hearing it first. Alternative Edge before it crossed over. That was like his only song.
Eddie
So Eagle Eye was the guy. Eagle Eye Cherry. He was a dude.
Bobby Bones
His sister was actually a famous artist. Nina Cherry had a song, Buffalo Stance.
Eddie
Really didn't know that.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Do you know Eagle Eyes real name or was his birth name Eagle Eye?
Bobby Bones
If his sister was Nina Cherry, he's Eagle Eye. If I'm going to bet, I bet you it's. That's his real name.
Eddie
That'd be.
Bobby Bones
But let's have the fact checkers. Eagle Eye, La Noon Cherry.
Eddie
That's legit.
Bobby Bones
That's a money name.
Eddie
Thank you, mom and dad.
Bobby Bones
He's one of those American artists that people just assume 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.
Eddie
I did not. I didn't either.
Bobby Bones
He came to Nashville.
Eddie
What?
Bobby Bones
One of our guys. He's written. He's written with Eagle Eye Cherry.
Eddie
No way.
Bobby Bones
Did you like him?
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Bobby Bones
What'd you call him? Eagle.
Eddie
How did he introduce himself to you?
Bobby Bones
Hey, man. What did he say? Hey, I'm Eagle Eye? No, he never even said his name.
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Bobby Bones
Dude, that's crazy. And it was just like. Did he sing? He sing in the room. 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 read that wrong. But I guess he spent a bunch of time probably trying music until he just embraced. He'd go and play safe tonight over and over again.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
Almost never.
Eddie
Like, it's impossible. So I get it.
Bobby Bones
He's still making music. Were you guys writing music for him when you wrote?
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
How did. How to do. If we found out, he says, nope, never. We found out. Brandon wrote say Tonight, and he's been
Eddie
saying nothing this whole time, so that's cool. So he still plays.
Bobby Bones
I would say. This is what I would say. The nugget that I pulled from this. He's not gone. He's just not really in America anymore. Okay.
Eddie
That's the international part. Yep.
Bobby Bones
I think he's still having success in other places. Because you know what? We're not the only country that matters.
Eddie
No, we are not.
Bobby Bones
And people watching this are watching from all over the world. And we want you to know we love everybody, but we're just in the middle of America right here. So he's still going. All right, I have three left. Are you enjoying this?
Eddie
I love it, dude. I love learning about these guys.
Bobby Bones
Next up, can you sing me the song from Blind Melon?
Eddie
Ooh, no rain All I can say is that my life is plenty plain One of.
Bobby Bones
I would say that was my favorite song for about five to seven years of my life.
Eddie
Wow. For that long?
Bobby Bones
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. It's been a bit, but I loved that song. I loved Blind Melon. I was somebody who chased more music from them, so it'd be unfair for me. I'd be the person that would be in the comments going, they had more than one song.
Eddie
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bobby Bones
But really, the B Girl video is what people remember from them.
Eddie
Of course, the B Girl. They did have another song, though, that I really liked because I bought that album for sure.
Bobby Bones
Do you know his name, by the way? Oh, he died, by the way.
Eddie
He's. He's dead. His name is. It's like.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, you got it.
Eddie
Hold on. Something. Is it Coons?
Bobby Bones
Shannon Hoon.
Eddie
Shannon Hoons.
Bobby Bones
He was the lead singer. He also did backing vocals and a bunch of Guns N Roses.
Eddie
Stuff, really. And I mean, that's similar voices, so that makes sense.
Bobby Bones
One of the more tragic stories of the 10 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.
Eddie
Yep. Drugs. Drugs and depression and dealing with a bunch of crap.
Bobby Bones
Died from cocaine overdose in 1995 at the age of 28.
Eddie
Wow.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
So there's a documentary called All I Can say, which is mostly footage that he shot himself.
Eddie
Have you seen it?
Bobby Bones
I've seen a lot of it on TikTok, meaning full five clips.
Eddie
Yeah, so have I. 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.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Back then.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
You just.
Eddie
It's over.
Bobby Bones
Like, that was.
Eddie
There's nothing to learn more about this. This guy.
Bobby Bones
It's interesting to hear him sing live. And I say live. I have to watch the clips of singing live because he does have that same really interesting, peculiar voice.
Eddie
Axl Rose. Ish.
Bobby Bones
Like.
Eddie
Yeah, yeah, it's cool. It was really cool.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Yeah, so. So did he. He died. So, okay, 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.
Bobby Bones
Correct. But you know who that did happen to?
Eddie
A Janis Joplin.
Bobby Bones
Janice freaking Joplin.
Eddie
Sad story.
Bobby Bones
Never got to me. And Bobby McGee was out after she died. You know who else that happened to Selena? Oh, I didn't know that.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
I'm gonna need to be fact checked on this. But you know who else that happened to?
Eddie
Okay, who else?
Bobby Bones
Otis Redding.
Eddie
Otis Redding.
Bobby Bones
I do not think sitting on the dock of the bay hit until after he died.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
Great memory.
Eddie
Yeah. I mean, I just remember someone telling me that story.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
Thank you.
Bobby Bones
Oh, but he died in a plane crash. Good.
Eddie
Good memory.
Bobby Bones
That's crazy that they. All those people died before they. Not Shannon Hoon, but sure. Janis Joplin, Selena, and Otis Redding died before, like, their massive songs, like I Wonder and I'd have to look back, but Janis 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.
Eddie
Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. Do you remember Mercedes Benz actually using that song?
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
In their commercials.
Bobby Bones
Have you seen the documentary on Netflix?
Eddie
Yeah. So sad.
Bobby Bones
It's so sad. So good.
Eddie
Yep.
Bobby Bones
It's called Janice, right?
Eddie
I don't know. I don't remember the name of it.
Bobby Bones
It's so good.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
The ice cream guy.
Eddie
That's Cherry. That's Cherry Garcia.
Bobby Bones
Oh, my God.
Eddie
Grateful Dead, man.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, because they lived in San Francisco together, right?
Eddie
Yes, but they. I didn't know they were a thing. But they loved each other.
Bobby Bones
Next up, two left.
Eddie
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Can you sing the song? The one hit Wonder from omc.
Eddie
How bizarre. Again, Jam.
Bobby Bones
You want to know the rest? By the rights. That song was awesome.
Eddie
I know, but again, I should have done more research on him.
Bobby Bones
That one is so, like, instantly recognizable. It's like when you said trumpet. A trumpet with Linus. By the rights.
Eddie
You want to know the rest?
Bobby Bones
By the rights. Global.
Eddie
Yeah. Dude, do you remember the music video?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I remember.
Eddie
Right in the car.
Bobby Bones
The lowrider kind of car. Right.
Eddie
They're in the convertible.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
What country? Yeah, I'm gonna go with.
Bobby Bones
Would you have guessed South America?
Eddie
No, no, I'm thinking of an island like Australia or New Zealand or something.
Bobby Bones
It's New Zealand.
Eddie
New Zealand. Wow.
Bobby Bones
All like the horns. And I just. That, to me, was like, I don't know, that Brazil or South America or something.
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Bobby Bones
It's freaking New Zealand. Great job.
Eddie
Thank you.
Bobby Bones
The name itself, Otara Millionaires Club.
Eddie
Oh, that's still okay.
Bobby Bones
And it referenced a poor Auckland community, which I believe they were from Auckland, New Zealand.
Eddie
Wow.
Bobby Bones
OMC was Polly Fumana and producer co writer Alan Jansen. And so they eventually got into. It looks like big legal fights after. And so that kind of fractured that group.
Eddie
Oh, that sucks.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
And that's not the lead singer. That's just. These are writers.
Bobby Bones
No, I think those are the two people, though.
Eddie
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
From what I found, Polly Fumana and producer co writer Alan Jansen were omc.
Eddie
Okay.
Bobby Bones
And you add in internal conflict and legal arbitration issues, the momentum fractured instead of compounding. So they never really had a chance because I think for them, they could have continued to make music internationally in America. It's hard to hit that again. But the sadder years were later when Paulie 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.
Eddie
No way.
Bobby Bones
And so because Paulie died, their legacy isn't aware. They now. Because he died,
Eddie
and it was really only him and the songwriter to be.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
So, man, I always wonder how a band from New Zealand even gets heard in America.
Bobby Bones
The same way LFO got heard in America. One person doing one thing, having a little success around it, and it's. And someone going, oh, it works. It's like a television show from England who they put on the States. Even though it's slightly different, they know their success with it. They think it'll be successful here too. So they invest money in it. It's like a lottery ticket, but one that has a pretty good success rate because it's work somewhere else.
Eddie
Yeah. Wow.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
The song is about that.
Bobby Bones
And so he died tragically. A little bit of that chumbawamba feel where they were kind of showing something by doing the opposite.
Eddie
Interesting.
Bobby Bones
So, yeah, omc. I never knew what OMC stood for until I did the research here. And it was. I guess I really didn't care. I'll be honest with you. It's not like I was dying to know. And I was like, I just can't figure out what OMC stands for.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
And here we go at number 10.
Eddie
Come on. Is this number 10 as in you saved it for the the best for last or just randomly number 10?
Bobby Bones
I'm gonna go for the sake of right now. The best for last. But really, it was random.
Eddie
Okay.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, really. I just found 10 and did it. But this one, possibly my favorite song from the whole list. Okay, let me look and see if there's any other ones before I tell you what it is.
Eddie
Can you give me a hint?
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I'll tell you now. Blind Melon's my favorite song, so no, Rain has to be number one on my list of songs.
Eddie
Okay. And you said. Right. Said Fred's not on.
Bobby Bones
I've got two left. I got two left.
Eddie
Oh, you have two left.
Bobby Bones
I have two left. I skipped over one accident.
Eddie
Well, then just tell me what this is and we'll play. We'll play the game in the last one.
Bobby Bones
Okay. Daniel Powder.
Eddie
Oh, I had a bad day. Jam.
Bobby Bones
Jam.
Eddie
That's it. That's still on my playlist. Like my. My music library.
Bobby Bones
Daniel Powder.
Eddie
For some reason, it's on my. It pops up once in a while.
Bobby Bones
It was gigantic. I remember from American Idol they would play when people get kicked off Idol when Idol was like, right. This is pre Me. All my years in Idaho. This is when Idol was still on Fox and there were years when that show was a juggernaut and they get kicked off.
Eddie
Had a bad day.
Bobby Bones
Looking back, kind of cruel.
Eddie
It is cruel. It's kind of like the Nah, nah, nah, nah.
Bobby Bones
When someone fouls out.
Eddie
Yeah, it's kind of good.
Bobby Bones
So this song was a monster. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks. Earned him a Grammy nomination. Became a signature piano song in that 2000s era where those piano songs, like Vanessa Carlton.
Eddie
Oh, yeah.
Bobby Bones
Like, he was one of that. So it was like Idol, though, was such a platform. And then also it's pretty universal that, well, everybody has bad days.
Eddie
It is.
Bobby Bones
There's.
Eddie
You can always play that song at some point in your life.
Bobby Bones
I was a Daniel Powder fan. I chased other songs.
Eddie
So you know, other songs. Do you remember?
Bobby Bones
I can't. I'm not gonna, like, list titles, but I did, like, buy records.
Eddie
Really?
Bobby Bones
I bought probably a CD from that, but I like that music. Like, that was my favorite kind of music. Kind of emo, but not too emo. It was post grunge.
Eddie
It was like emo, but it still was kind of happy.
Bobby Bones
It was like emo, but you could listen to it. Going to and coming home from church.
Eddie
That's a good way of putting it.
Bobby Bones
Difficult years after the hit. So still kept playing, still kept touring. Now is doing anniversary era shows. He's doing 20, 26 dates.
Eddie
Really?
Bobby Bones
Yep. Still in the game. Still singing the song people came for and still building a career around it rather than pretending it didn't happen. Bad day became such a giant emotional utility song that it was so big it's hard to see anything else around it, including the artist.
Eddie
I know, I know. And it makes me think of like what those shows are like when people are just like, just play, play Bad day.
Bobby Bones
Blessing and a curse to have a song like that. So big so early.
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Bobby Bones
I do have one more that I missed.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
No, that'd be a great one to do though at some point.
Eddie
Okay.
Bobby Bones
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 and just been doing good There's. But like, everybody, if you're on Twitter for like eight years, you knew James Blunt. Also.
Eddie
He.
Bobby Bones
You're beautiful. Massive song. But he also had another couple close to big songs that were like almost hits.
Eddie
Again, I only knew you're beautiful.
Bobby Bones
If you give me James Blunt's second and third songs, I would bet you that's the name. There's a song called 1973. Is that a newer release? Yeah, I won't do anything newer.
Eddie
It would be off that album.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, it'd be off the. Off of your. Your beautiful. Like his second single. Yeah. Goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend, you won't be the one.
Eddie
Oh, oh, I've heard that. I've heard that song. Yes. I didn't realize that was. That was. Yeah. Oh, Blunt.
Bobby Bones
Goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend.
Eddie
Wow. Okay.
Bobby Bones
You want to take another shot at it? Okay, let's see.
Eddie
Let's see. Colby Calais. Not a one hit wonder in my mind, but could be considered one.
Bobby Bones
You know, I'm offended for her. And you know what? I see her. We live by each other.
Eddie
We've shared a stage together.
Bobby Bones
Yeah, I've. I've stopped a couple of times. She's walking her dog.
Eddie
Yeah, that's right. That's right.
Bobby Bones
She. I do not accept that.
Eddie
Okay.
Bobby Bones
And we're angry. Who's Colby? He did have a bunch of hits though, to be fair.
Eddie
Who's the girl that sings? Girl. Put your records on.
Bobby Bones
Okay, so that's Corinne. Bailey.
Eddie
Bailey Ray. She was awesome.
Bobby Bones
Great one. Not it. We'll give you one more guess. The band. So.
Eddie
Oh, it's a band. Ah, Red bone. Hey, what's the matter with you?
Bobby Bones
I didn't know that you sang that. That. That to me is a TikTok sound.
Eddie
It is where everybody's doing what it is.
Bobby Bones
It's like I'm going to give you. I'm going to leave out the name of the song. Okay. And tell me when you can get it. Made them. This song X song made them MTV famous and Grammy nominated and it's the song most people know them for. But this band were always more musically literate and craft oriented than a novelty summary gives them credit for. Their humor helped them explode.
Eddie
Oh, their humor.
Bobby Bones
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.
Eddie
You have a guess. Brandon.
Bobby Bones
He wrote with Eagle. Ey Cherry. Do not question him.
Eddie
I mean, because I thought, aha. But they're not funny now.
Bobby Bones
This is. Again, this is probably 2000s.
Eddie
Okay, okay, okay.
Bobby Bones
I'll say this too. You and I went to a show and he sang. The lead singer.
Eddie
The lead singer sang.
Bobby Bones
And I'm telling you, they're actually a really good band. But you just know. There was one song. But we went to a show and the lead singer sang. You and I went together.
Eddie
Not Marcy Playground.
Bobby Bones
No, we did go to a show,
Eddie
though, and he's saying, God, who could this be?
Bobby Bones
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, been nominated for an Oscar and a Tony.
Eddie
What?
Bobby Bones
I think that. I think he's dead. I think he died now, though. I think he's dead. But this guy you're talking about. Yeah, but he's dead. Yeah, I think. Yeah, yeah, I think I got it.
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
We saw him before he died.
Eddie
What on.
Bobby Bones
So he had a successful career after. Was very accomplished. But then he died. He died of COVID He died of COVID Yeah.
Eddie
Joe Diffie.
Bobby Bones
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, we have a comedy band. We do a lot of comedy stuff. We will cover songs occasionally. We have covered their biggest song.
Eddie
We've covered their biggest song a thousand times. What is this? What are you talking about, Mike?
Bobby Bones
Do you know it? How does everybody know but Eddie. Eddie's saying it. And we've been to a show and
Eddie
we've been to their show.
Bobby Bones
Well, he only sang by himself. You know, the show we went to was at City Winery and the guy from Marcy Playground played Art from Everclear played.
Eddie
Yeah. Jim Blossoms.
Bobby Bones
That was. No, that was Austin. We went to that show. Okay, that was a full.
Eddie
So maybe that wasn't me. I don't think I was at that.
Bobby Bones
I thought we all went together. Oh, it was just me. Is it me and Eli?
Eddie
That's funny. You thought me and Brandon.
Bobby Bones
I thought we all went together.
Eddie
So. So then I have not seen this person live.
Bobby Bones
Oh, I guess. Okay, then I. But.
Eddie
But let' go to the. The. We've covered his. His song.
Bobby Bones
Uhhuh.
Eddie
This song. The big one.
Bobby Bones
Yeah.
Eddie
In our band many Times. Who sang that song?
Bobby Bones
Me. But there's a guitar ri. Well, he did, but I'm saying 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.
Eddie
Reluctant leaves. Oh.
Bobby Bones
Oh, Cake.
Eddie
Great.
Bobby Bones
But we never covered a massive Cake fan.
Eddie
Gosh, dude, I have nothing.
Bobby Bones
Okay, you done?
Eddie
I have nothing.
Bobby Bones
The music video featured a very famous supermodel.
Eddie
See, the only thing I'm thinking is, like, Paul Simon. Now the supermodel Christie Brinkley.
Bobby Bones
No. At a pool.
Eddie
Oh. Stacy's mom. Stacy's mom.
Bobby Bones
Fountains of Wayne.
Eddie
Fountains of Wayne.
Bobby Bones
Wow.
Eddie
This is a good one. But no, I. I was not there. That was you and Brandon. Never, Never seen this guy.
Bobby Bones
And he's dead. He died of COVID Dang.
Eddie
I didn't know that.
Bobby Bones
So we must have gone before, obviously. Before he died.
Eddie
Yeah. What did he play at that? Did he play Stacy's mom? That's cool.
Bobby Bones
What if he didn't? Just him.
Eddie
Acoustic will.
Bobby Bones
It was all it was.
Eddie
Maybe he was.
Bobby Bones
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?
Eddie
I know. Sex and candy. That's all we got.
Bobby Bones
Yeah. Then play candy and sex. Play backward.
Eddie
I don't know.
Bobby Bones
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 lubega. Like, people just know him as a funny. Just know 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, music, movies, musicals. Night of COVID Wow.
Eddie
Jam. Love that song.
Bobby Bones
What'd you learn from this?
Eddie
I think I learned that, man, we. We really just consume music. Like, I just. Lit list. I look at this whole list and I'm just like, man, I really just took these songs and I never questioned what happened to these guys, you know? And it's cool to me that some of them continue to play music, but maybe this one hit allowed them to live that life, you know, to where they never had that one hit. They may have had to quit music to have a. You know, work at an office somewhere and, like, support their families. But since they had this hit, they were able to make some kind of money to be able to just keep playing music for the rest of their life, which. It's kind of cool, I think.
Bobby Bones
It's an interesting question that I think probably actors go through Once they're typecast, like Urkel. Yes. Would you have rather been Urkel and your whole life be known as Urkel, or would you like to have a career acting and struggling some having some moderate success, but having a somewhat steady career? I think that's probably the case, yeah. You know, you can't go back and, you know, if I could turn back time. You can't do that. Yeah, 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. Yeah, 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?
Eddie
I kind of like the Eagle Eyed Cherry. The way of doing things like, you
Bobby Bones
know, just like, have a hit right.
Eddie
Have the hit right with Brandon on a random Wednesday and then like, just live wherever I want to and continue to play music and still kind of have enough money to live my life. I like that.
Bobby Bones
There we have it. What would you rather do? I mean, you're like, I'd rather be
Eddie
Bob Dylan with all the hits and all the money.
Bobby Bones
I think I'm. I'd rather have the one hit. Yeah, I think that, yeah, there definitely be some times where I'd struggle, but I think I'd rather have the one hit.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
All right. Do you want to go to the. You want to go to the bank for a second?
Eddie
Yeah.
Bobby Bones
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. Wonder if I can get this out.
Eddie
You're gonna put in the VCR and play it well.
Bobby Bones
It's a Hanson live concert video. My body won't turn.
Eddie
Oh, do you need help?
Bobby Bones
I get it.
Eddie
Hold on. Okay.
Bobby Bones
Okay, from this one, we're going to focus on.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
Okay. To end the show.
Eddie
What year is this from speaking?
Bobby Bones
And this is, you know, not one hit wonders. Consider, like a one hit. But they. Man, they had some. I was a big Hanson fan. They made really great music. This is Hanson, Tulsa, Tokyo, in the middle of nowhere.
Eddie
So is it live in Tulsa and Tokyo?
Bobby Bones
It is, yeah. They're from Oklahoma. Tulsa, Tokyo, and then there. I believe their album was Middle of Nowhere.
Eddie
Dude, 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 like singing all his words. I love it. We would never do that.
Bobby Bones
You want to see something? Do you? So ask Zach Hansen 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.
Eddie
It says all that. Yeah, it's like yelling at you, then you did it right.
Bobby Bones
And you guys think these are just like fake sleeves? No, no, this is one of my videos.
Eddie
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.
Bobby Bones
All right, thank you, guys. We will see you guys next time here on the Bobby Cast. Bye, everybody.
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Host: Bobby Bones
Guest: Eddie
Date: April 20, 2026
This episode of the Bobbycast is a nostalgic, humorous, and thoughtful dive into the stories behind some of the most iconic one-hit wonders from the 1990s and 2000s. With his friend and regular collaborator Eddie, Bobby Bones explores what happened to artists after their moment in the spotlight, separating myth from reality, and unpacking why some musical phenomena remain enduring pop-culture memories—while others faded away or found unlikely new paths. The discussion blends personal memories, fun facts, fan perspectives, and music industry insights.
The episode concludes with a lighthearted chat about the fate of “one-hit” artists—are they defined by their hit, or by what comes after? Bobby and Eddie close by returning to their set for a VHS nostalgia moment (Hanson concert video), celebrating the joys and quirks of revisiting the past, and appreciating the wide-ranging impact of songs that may have only briefly ruled radio—but still evoke maximum emotion.
This episode offers a multi-faceted look at the legacy of one-hit wonders—their flash of fame, the personal and professional transitions that followed, and the tension between being frozen in time and continually reinventing oneself. Packed with pop nostalgia, honest industry takes, and genuine affection for the music, it’s a must-listen (or summary-read) for anyone who grew up on—or is rediscovering—the soundtrack of those eras.