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

Summary

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Bobbycast #597 – “Where Are They Now? One Hit Wonders of the 90s and 00s”

Host: Bobby Bones
Guest: Eddie
Date: April 20, 2026

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Episode Overview

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.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

Introduction: The “One Hit Wonder” Conundrum

• Bobby was inspired to dig into one-hit wonders after watching a Devo documentary on Netflix.
• The episode doesn’t just ask, “Where are they now?” – it seeks to uncover what these artists did in between their one hit and now, often finding surprising career pivots and deeper stories.
• Fan debates: Bobby notes that true fans bristle at the “one hit wonder” label since many have follow-up songs or solid fanbases. (02:54–03:37)

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1. Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby”

• Cultural impact: First rapper to top the Billboard Hot 100.
  • “He got a Grammy nomination for ‘Ice Ice Baby’… Which is crazy.” – Bobby (04:40)
• Backlash and comeback: Overexposure caused the public and hip hop purists to turn; nostalgia brought him back to “cool” years later (05:22–05:44).
• Life after fame:
  • Found second act as a real estate investor and TV host (HGTV/Discovery’s “The Vanilla Ice Project”) (06:40–06:58).
  • Continues to perform and returned to popularity via commercials and nostalgia tours.
• Notable moment: Bobby and Eddie swap memories about hammer pants and grade school dance-offs. (06:04–06:11)

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2. Carly Rae Jepsen – “Call Me Maybe”

• Breakout hit: 2012’s “Song of the Summer”—sat at #1 for 9 weeks and was the year’s best-selling single globally.
  • “So catchy. 2012. It was a number one hit. It stayed there for nine weeks.” – Bobby (09:09)
• What happened next?
  • Avoided being pigeonholed by pivoting to “art music” instead of chasing pop chart dominance.
  • Built a rabid, even “cool,” fanbase; acclaimed by critics; continues recording and touring internationally (09:30–10:17).
• Inside radio: Bobby tells how he was one of the first to play “Call Me Maybe” nationally after discovering it via Justin Bieber’s YouTube lip sync (10:23–10:32).
• Radio then vs. now: They discuss how breaking hits via national radio has changed drastically due to streaming and corporate playlisting (10:51–13:18).
  • “Now the system gets manipulated on streaming by people just buying streams. Like buying billions of streams.” – Bobby (13:09–13:18)

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3. Chumbawamba – “Tubthumping”

• Background: The band was an anarchist punk group that viewed their hit song as a “science experiment” to sneak their message inside mainstream pop (13:31–14:55).
  • “That song was basically a prank on the music system.” – Bobby (14:52)
• What happened next?
  • Continued making activist music and eventually disbanded after 30 years (15:31–15:40).
  • Band members moved on to film, activism, and other projects.
• The reveal: Their biggest hit was an act of subversion, hidden in a party anthem. (16:29–16:48)

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4. Lou Bega – “Mambo No. 5”

• Smash hit: Globally unavoidable; became a cultural earworm (17:21–17:41).
• Beyond the hit: Struggled to escape the “novelty” box; continued to tour, especially in Europe (18:55–19:16).
• Recent activity: Celebrated a 25-year anniversary and embraced his role as a nostalgia act. (19:05–19:16)
• Notable quote: “He built a career around a song that... sounded like an old classic.” – Bobby (19:01–19:33)

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5. Semisonic – “Closing Time”

• Meaning of the hit: Though known as “the bar song,” the lyrics were also about impending fatherhood (20:05–20:32).
• What’s next?
  • Lead singer Dan Wilson became a prolific, elite songwriter (e.g., Dixie Chicks’ “Not Ready to Make Nice,” Adele’s “Someone Like You”). (21:09–21:23)
  • Semisonic never broke up officially, but Wilson’s success largely shifted behind the scenes.
• Industry talk: Discussion of radio promotion costs and “payola” in the 90s (22:30–23:03).

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6. Eagle Eye Cherry – “Save Tonight”

• International focus: After U.S. fame, he kept a steady career abroad, recording and touring primarily in Europe (28:21–30:08).
  • “He’s not gone. He’s just not really in America anymore.” – Bobby (30:01–30:08)
• Family connection: Sister is Neneh Cherry (“Buffalo Stance”). (27:47–27:53)
• Personal memory: Bobby recalls trading tapes with friends to access new music pre-internet (26:45–27:34).

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7. Blind Melon – “No Rain”

• Core story: Beloved for the “Bee Girl” video; deeply positive song with a tragic backdrop (30:33–32:56)
• Lead singer’s fate:
  • Shannon Hoon died at age 28 of a cocaine overdose in 1995 (31:27–32:03).
• Aftermath: Band couldn’t sustain momentum; a documentary (“All I Can Say”) uses Hoon’s own footage (32:12–32:24).
• Bigger context: Bobby relates stories of Janis Joplin, Selena, and Otis Redding, all of whom died before their greatest hits peaked. (33:19–34:26)

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8. OMC – “How Bizarre”

• Hit power: Instantly recognizable, massive international hit (35:59–36:02)
• Origin: From Auckland, New Zealand – surprising to many (36:28–36:29).
• Band legacy: Main member Paulie Fuemana died young; legal disputes also contributed to their fade from sight (37:07–37:49).
• Song meaning: An ironic take on poverty, disguising social commentary in an upbeat pop song (38:48–39:00).

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9. Daniel Powter – “Bad Day”

• Signature:
  • The ultimate “elimination” song from American Idol (40:08–40:28).
  • Universal lyrics (“everyone has bad days”) drove popularity across generations.
  • “Topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks.” – Bobby (40:36–40:47)
• Career since:
  • Continued touring and performing, leaning into anniversary shows and nostalgia gigs (41:42–42:00).

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10. Fountains of Wayne – “Stacy’s Mom”

• Power pop hit: Famous for a humorous, celebrity-filled video and cheeky lyrics (49:41–50:02).
• Band depth: Bobby notes they were “always more musically literate and craft oriented than a novelty summary gives them credit for” (47:00–48:14).
• After the hit: Lead singer Adam Schlesinger became an acclaimed songwriter for TV, film, and musicals (three Emmys, Grammy, Oscar and Tony nominations); tragically died of COVID-19 (49:15–51:56).
• Fun Fact: The song’s video starred model Rachel Hunter.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “It all was one song... and the fall off was, I would say, purely musical because credibility questions, massive backlash.” – Bobby Bones, on Vanilla Ice (04:40–05:22)
• “She stopped chasing mainstream and then just did art music.” – Bobby Bones, on Carly Rae Jepsen’s evolution (10:00–10:17)
• “That song was basically a prank on the music system because they were like, 'how do I get inside the system?'” – Bobby Bones, on Chumbawamba (14:52)
• “He built a career around a song that... sounded like an old classic.” – Bobby Bones, on Lou Bega (19:31–19:33)
• “He went on and wrote the biggest, most emotionally durable songs for other artists that weren’t him.” – Bobby Bones, on Dan Wilson of Semisonic (21:23)
• “He’s not gone. He’s just not really in America anymore.” – Bobby Bones, on Eagle Eye Cherry (30:01–30:08)
• “That song is so positive. But that story from him and with him is very tragic.” – Bobby Bones, on Blind Melon’s “No Rain” and Shannon Hoon (32:56–33:19)
• “A little bit of that Chumbawamba feel where they were kind of showing something by doing the opposite.” – Bobby Bones, on OMC (38:48–39:00)
• “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.” – Bobby Bones (42:00)
• “They were always more musically literate and craft oriented than a novelty summary gives them credit for. Their humor helped them explode.” – Bobby Bones, on Fountains of Wayne (48:14)

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The “Best/Worst Case Scenario” for One Hit Wonders

• Eddie and Bobby ponder whether artists would prefer one massive, career-defining hit—or a steady, less spectacular career:
  • “Would you have rather been Urkel and your whole life be known as Urkel, or would you like to have… a somewhat steady career?” – Bobby (53:16)
  • “I kind of like the Eagle Eye Cherry way of doing things—have a hit, right with Brandon on a random Wednesday, then just continue to play music…” – Eddie (54:02–54:18)
  • Bobby and Eddie both note the bittersweet reality: an enormous hit can be both a blessing and a curse.

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Noteworthy, Fun, and Unexpected Moments

• Behind the scenes music industry: Payola, radio station influence, and the rise of streaming manipulation.
• Personal memories: Swapping mixtapes, childhood dance battles, and nostalgia for 90s music videos and MTV.
• Mind blown: Realizations about band origins (e.g., OMC from New Zealand), artist sibling connections, and hidden song meanings.
• Fountains of Wayne deep dive: Eddie struggles to guess “Stacy’s Mom,” leading to a lighthearted guessing game with Bobby guiding him via hints and band trivia (47:00–51:56).

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Final Reflection

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.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening & Introduction to One Hit Wonders: 02:54–03:37
• Vanilla Ice: 03:44–08:11
• Carly Rae Jepsen: 08:17–11:49
• Radio industry insights: 11:49–13:18
• Chumbawamba: 13:26–16:48
• Lou Bega: 17:05–19:33
• Semisonic: 19:47–23:04
• Eagle Eye Cherry: 26:39–30:08
• Blind Melon: 30:33–33:19
• OMC: 35:30–39:00
• Daniel Powter: 39:57–42:00
• Fountains of Wayne (“Stacy’s Mom”): 47:00–52:36
• Reflection: The Dilemma of Success: 53:16–54:41

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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.

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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.

[Public Investing Advertiser]

Wow.

[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.

[Home Depot Advertiser]

Yeah.

[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.

[Home Depot Advertiser]

You were good.

[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.

[Home Depot Advertiser]

You regret it.

[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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