WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: What Makes a One-hit Wonder? 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.559 Hey, everybody, chuck here and it's Saturday, and that means 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.120 that I am hungover. I'm just kidding. I feel like 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.960 a fresh daisy. And right now I'm going to listen 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:10.719 to this one again, and I think you should too. 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.399 The Stuff you Should Know select this week is called 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.160 what makes a One Hit Wonder? Super super Cool stuff 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:22.919 about pop culture and music. From March two, enjoy m 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.840 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of I 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:38.479 Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:45.560 I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Say something. Um, yeah, 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:47.800 I didn't even say say something funny. I just said 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.680 say something I know. Frozen. Yeah, it's all right, man. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.920 That's good quality in a broadcaster to freeze up on 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.000 the air and a professional talker. Yeah, yeah, how you 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.600 doing was great? Freezing? Um? I'm good man. I'm This 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.560 is a fun, goofy little topic and we haven't done 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.160 one like that in a while. This was a fun 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.160 article written by a guy named Charles W. Bryant, the 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.560 writer for the site. Yeah, I will go ahead and 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.639 say one thing I was disappointed in in this article, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.640 and I would still like to see someone tackle this 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:20.280 in documentary style. Maybe is the psychology of being a 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.760 one hit wonder? Oh, like what it does to your psyche? Yeah? 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.400 Is it better to have that one hit and fade 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.400 away and at least you had that? Or is it 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.679 better to have never? You know? I just I would 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.080 be real curious to see a series of interviews with 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.160 one hit wonders to see like how they feel about it. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.479 You're saying, is it better to have hit and lost 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.680 than never to have hit at all? Exactly? And I 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.800 couldn't really find anything on that. So I'm sure there's 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.000 one or two who like, listen to the podcast, and 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.120 if you do, right in, let us know how it is. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:53.919 We're interested. Loue Bega, Yeah, the very least lou Vega listens, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.640 the fake loue Vega. So, Chuck, I wanted to commend 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:03.280 you for this article because you really like this is 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.760 a tough one for With how stuff works articles, we 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.200 typically take a topic that is, you know, has a 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.200 lot of research done on it, it's very well defined, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.480 and then we deconstruct it. This one is like I 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.960 looked on the internet and if you type in one 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.520 hit wonder, there is like zero scholarly work done on 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.320 it for good reason. Yeah, well, I mean it's interesting 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.240 though too. Like you brought up the psychology of being 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.440 a one there shouldn't been anyone ever done a study 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.760 like that. There is nothing. It's all just lists. And 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.160 I actually did find one good website. It's called um 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.160 one Hit Wonder Central dot Com and they have everything 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.000 and you can play like every song they have it 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.720 by years who the one hit wonder was from like 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.560 the sixties to the two thousand's, maybe fifties. There are 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.600 some of the greatest songs to me, or some of 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.919 the one hit Wonders. And I mean that's the points, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.760 Like you know, one hit Wonder is just something that 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.640 everybody liked at one time. We just didn't like whatever 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.160 else they were making, right, Um, at least as a 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:03.080 large collective group. Anyway, back to me commending you, Um, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.440 you had to take something that was really amorphous that 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.720 everybody knew and we knew if you got wrong, and 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.760 whipping into shape like a definable shape, and you got 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.840 it right. I think you did a great job. So Um. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.040 The first thing you pointed out was that no one 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.440 is certain of the origin of this phrase. That's right, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.760 but we figured out that it was it first came 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.360 in print. Right, Well, that's what phrases dot org says, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.600 and I couldn't find anything to dispute it. But a 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:33.240 writer there wrote the sentence in July seventy seven about 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.320 Abba instead of becoming what everyone expected a one hit wonder, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.920 they soon had a string of hits behind them. And 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.680 although the website phrase dot org does say it appears 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.440 to have already been a used phrase, but this is 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.839 the first time they've seen it in print, right, and 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.160 and so, and there actually is like a definition for 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:57.120 one hit wonder, like there's well, a hit, I guess 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.360 you define a hit, and then it's got to be 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.480 on the because we're so American centric, has to be 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.640 on the billboard top and then specifically in the top 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.160 forty to be considered a hit. Right, Yeah, technically for 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.400 like when most people like there have been books written 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.240 about one hit wonders and that's usually what what they say. Okay, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.640 so that wasn't just you or anything saying. And I 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.120 thought it was a great definition. No, it's a good definition, 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.720 but that's the generally held definition. But then that's where 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:27.360 it gets really blurry. As we're about to find out right, Well, 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.560 in many ways, I mean, yeah, you make a point 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.960 that there's a lot of one hit wonders by that definition. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:37.920 Who are legendary musicians like Jimi Hendrix one hit, Janis 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:44.839 Joplin one hit, Garth Brooks as Chris Gaines. Yeah, that's 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.200 this only Billboard hit. Yeah, this is only Billboard Top 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.520 forty hit. Yeah, but he had country hits, just lived 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:57.039 on the country top ten. But yeah, as in the 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.839 mainstream top forty. His only hit was Chris Kayes with 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:05.080 the haircut and the soul patch Man. That was Yeah, 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:06.920 I don't know what the song that was even I 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:12.920 don't um beck Yeah, the Dead, The Dead, the White Stripes, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:17.160 lou Reid, Iggy pop Divo, some like iconic bands and 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:22.440 musicians that have only had one hit. Um. And then 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.200 you've got artists who never had that hit but are 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.919 still considered one hit wonders. Because what you end up 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.279 realizing is, despite the definition of what a hit is, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.320 a one hit wonder is something different. It's just an 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:40.320 artist and a song who captured something for a moment 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.760 in time. It doesn't matter if it was a top 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:48.000 forty hit. Right like you you say, um, Wallavoodoo's Mexican Radio. Absolutely, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.960 it's not a top forty hit. No, but that's definitely 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.880 a hit. Sure in the zeitgeist did you put it? Absolutely? 0:05:55.160 --> 0:06:00.120 Who else? I'll melt with you Modern English, the Weather Girls, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.040 it's raining man, Like you would say, all of these 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.360 are definitely one hit wonders, and none of them had 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.880 top forty hits. Right, So, but sticking to the strict definition, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.400 um that, I mean that still works too. Write like 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:17.160 the Penguins, Earth Angel. Yeah, in the fifties, right, Um, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.359 in the sixties you had um Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer, 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.640 but they really spent blue on like their one there, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.560 one thing there, one shot was covered in blue. Blue 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.080 Cheer did Summertime Blues? Green tambourine? Remember that song? No, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.280 I didn't mean tambourine. It was very like psychedelic No 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.080 and the Lemon Pipers. You know. It's one of those 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.039 songs where sort of like h in the seventies, Argents, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.680 hold your head up like everybody knows that song. But 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.719 I bet ninety nine people out of a hundred I've 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.760 never heard of the band Argent. No, they probably think, oh, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.280 wasn't that The guests who or wasn't that in Joe Dirt? 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.159 Or yes, wasn't that in? Was it? Yeah? Really I 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.359 never saw that movie. What I never saw Joe Dirt? 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.040 Oh man, such a great like keep your Chin up 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:12.120 movie is so good. Like I really can hate David Spade, 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.000 you can hate all of that kind of comedy, but 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.320 that movie has such like it's got heart, it's a 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.720 cute movie. Well, I had friends. It's on Netflix streaming. Yeah, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.120 I had friends that worked on it. And that's where 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.920 I have my Gary Busey insider story. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:28.320 I think I told you. You You know he was He 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.040 was supposed to play the father and if you'll notice 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.440 in the film, he does not play the father. No, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.360 it's done by one Fred Ward. Yeah. So Gary Bucy 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.760 was on set for a day and it didn't work out. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.559 He made it. Wish I could tell the whole story. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.720 He made it into Black Sheep with Chris Farley and um, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.720 David Spade. That. Yeah, he was like the crazy guy 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.280 who lived in a school bus in the woods. It 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.360 was the part he was born to play exactly. Please 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.360 don't come to our office, Gary. Um. All right, So 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.880 that was the fifties and that's generally when the rock 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.280 era in the fifties is when you people say you 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.920 can start talking about things like one hit wonders, like 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.120 not some guy who had one big band hit in 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.480 the nineteen thirties, although I'm sure they were there, you 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.280 know that's true. Uh, there's been one song that was 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.120 a one hit wonder for two bands, which is interesting. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.960 Oh yeah, let's hear funky Town really yeah, Lips Incorporated. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.720 And then I don't know if you remember Pseudo Echo. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.800 They did a version of that in it was a 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.760 little more electric and upbeat, and that was a bona 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.960 fide top forty hit as well. Seems can't people couldn't 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.400 get enough of Funky Town. I hope whoever wrote that 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:45.240 like really cast in. Yeah, so the sixties all right, Now, 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.840 the sixties was the green tambour in seventies songs like 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:52.079 Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. Yeah it's a 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.560 good song. Uh, it was an Apollo thirteen one took 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.240 over the line. I I literally wrote shutter next to that, 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.160 what like, oh you hate that song? It's pretty bad. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:07.120 Brewer and Shipley and then Seasons in the Sun, great song. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.120 Terry Jack's never heard of the guy no no, no 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.840 rev no re um. And you also make the point 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.800 that the seventies were lousy with disco one hit wonders. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.720 And in our Disco episode we talked about why because 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.240 it was all producer driven rather than artists driven. Exactly. 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.280 I didn't even bother to like list any in here. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.720 You know, it's you can just name a disco song 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.599 and there you have it. The eighties, of course, you 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.240 had bands like Soft Cells, Tainted Love and Oh Mickey, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:37.040 You're So Fine, Tony Basil, Uh, I Want Candy by 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:42.000 Bow Wow Wow Kajago. Remember what song I don't remember? 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.360 Is that who? That was too shy shy? Yeah. Uh 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.280 so the eighties was lousy with it, but a lot 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.360 of those songs are great songs, and a lot of 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:54.480 the artists in the eighties were popular in other countries. Yeah, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.679 and are known as one hit wonders here in the US. 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:02.079 Like I was reading an article on I think Cracked 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.559 maybe about one hit Wonders and they were saying, like, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.400 Aha had Take on Me, which was a hit here 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.839 in the United States, but that was it. But they're 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.120 like one of the top fifty grossing bands of all 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:18.240 time worldwide. Yeah. Well, and Aha falls into another weird category, 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.520 which is a band that's known as a one hit 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.360 wonder who actually had a quieter second hit. Oh really Yeah, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.160 they had a song called the Sun Always Shines on 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.960 TV that was like a top twenty hit. I nick, wow, 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.760 I don't remember that one. Nobody does. They're good though, 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.880 now they're awesome. Um. And then remember right said Fred 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:40.640 on Too Sexy huge in England, Yes, like there I'm 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.240 Too Sexy was actually only hit number two in England. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.199 They had another one that hit number one, but here 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.640 in the States, I think it hit number one here. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.440 And then that was it for right side Fred. Uh, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.840 the same with Frankie Goes to Hollywood and uh yeah, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.920 they were really big in Europe. And Gary Newman, Yeah 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.240 that was a good song. That song holds up car 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.480 go back and listen to cars. Yeah, that dude was 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.640 a good musician. Well, and he was hugely popular and 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.920 still like tours today. Yeah, so he's he's one of 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.080 those guys that's like, please don't call me a one 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.280 hit wonder. I had a long successful career. Look at 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:18.360 my house. You know it's a car No, I think 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.480 it's like a mansion. He lives in his car. It's 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:26.760 predel safest, he can lock all his doors. Uh Falco 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.920 and oh yeah, Nina, we're really big in German speaking countries. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.480 Yeah yeah, I could see that. But you know, had 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.959 the ninety nine red balloons balloons and then Falco's rock 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.160 Me on My Dais. Yeah, huge hit here. It's like 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.320 it didn't occur to my young brain that that wasn't 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.240 from the Ama Dais soundtrack, because remember it came out 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.679 at about the same time as the movie, and um, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.600 like I just thought it was part of the soundtrack, yeah, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.640 the movie soundtrack. Well, the point with this, though, is 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.640 that one hit one or is sort of a sort 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.640 of a derogatory term to throw on unearnest. So a 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.920 lot of these people are like in America, like you jerks, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.000 I was huge in Europe or maybe some other country 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:17.200 and uh yeah, who cares so much for you? One 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:22.640 hit the nineties crash Test Dummies, remember those dudes. Well 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.000 that was the song. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right, the Makrana, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.200 even though I don't even like to count that. Um, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.959 what about Faith No More is epic? Yeah, see that's 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.720 a band that hugely critically popular and had a big 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:41.760 cult following. But yeah, just the one hit the epic. Yeah, 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.600 that was the name of it, right, you want it all, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.520 but you can't have it. That was I remember here 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.000 that song in the first time. This is the coolest 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.160 thing I've ever heard. Yeah, and that lead singer, what's 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.880 his name, Mike something, he's like super respected. He's been 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.960 another band like Mr. Bungle. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's a 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.360 big like has a big cult fall and not not 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.640 among colts, even like among people who aren't in cults. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.800 All right, so that's music, that's an overview. Yeah. You 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:09.600 make a really good point in this article that, like 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.720 one hit wonder, that derogatory term isn't just um aimed 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.800 at people only in the music industry, although that's where 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.240 the lion's share of it is, but it shows up 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.680 in sports. You pointed out a couple of them, a 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.959 couple of instances. Yeah, well, if you have one hit 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.800 in baseball, then you've been a complete and utter failure. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.160 But a couple of guys have had one hit and 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.160 that one hit was a home run, which is pretty cool, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.400 which is pretty interesting. Who was that? There was a 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:38.720 guy named um Chris Jellic whose name might recognize for 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.960 some reason. Yeah, And I don't follow the Mets or anything, 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.200 but I guess I just saw that that bit of 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.120 trivia before that he had one hit and there was 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.840 a home run. Yeah. Maybe. So there's a guy who 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:53.760 didn't have a hit UM named Eddie Goodell. He had 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.120 one plate appearance in a nineteen fifty one game for 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.760 the Yankees, and he was a little person. Oh yeah, 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.080 and they put him in against the St. Louis Browns 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:08.880 and he drew four consecutive um uh balls and got 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.880 a walk. Really yeah, and his jerseys in the Hall 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.520 of Fame, and it's you can't see me doing this 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.959 right now, I'm rubbing my face. His number was one 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.640 eight really yeah. But he was I guess you could 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.720 say a one hit sports wonder. It was kind of 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.600 a fun story until then. Yeah, but I mean that's 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.480 that was his jam. That's what he got paid for, 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.080 and that's I mean, he was aware that he was 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.320 a little person. So money off. What about the art world, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:39.800 design world, there's a very famous person, Harvey Belle, who 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.640 has the perfect name for what he did. Why is 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.800 it the perfect name, Harvey bell It sounds like the 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.200 creator of the smiley face. Yeah, the iconic seventy smiley face. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.920 He created that as a marketing campaign UM kind it 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:58.040 sounded like an internal um morale campaign for State UH 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.720 Mutual Life Assurance company UM and it took off. I 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.600 don't know if the company made the money or what, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.720 but he was paid two forty bucks for it. And 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.360 he never had another artistic hit. And I looked to 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.480 see if there were any other artists who were considered 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.160 one hit wonder and I found some, but I didn't 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.160 recognize any of them. I did recognize one grant would 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.120 the painter of American Gothic. Oh, yeah, he painted that 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.160 and was He won all sorts of prizes, became like 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.360 this like caused celeb like all over the art world, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.560 and the media started digging into his life and realized 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.720 that he was a middle aged bachelor who lived at 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.280 home with his mother and sister, and like wanted to 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.080 know more about that, and all of a sudden, he 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.240 like just really couldn't handle the the limelight. And it's 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.840 it's a pretty sad story. I think I read an 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.880 article about it on Mental flass. It was worth reading. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.440 So he never painted again, or I don't think he 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.480 ever kind of went for the Gusto if he didn't 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.480 just stop painting altogether. I don't remember the end of 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.480 the article. Well, the art world certainly has a lot 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.960 of people famous, pre famous for a single painting, but 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.480 they may have been, you know, very revered in other 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.360 areas like faith no More. That's right there, the Faith 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.840 no More of the art world. I told just all 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.040 the scream this last trip to New York. Oh yeah, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.960 and you're like, yeah, this was like I can't see 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.400 what you're I mean, like you build something like that 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.520 up in your head, see it everywhere, and then just 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.280 to see the real one. It's either going to go 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.800 one of two ways. You're gonna be underwhelmed or amazed. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.520 You know, I completely agree. And that's been my uh, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.200 it's been what's happened to me with art because you 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.640 know how I feel about art. I know how you 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.160 feel about art. I love it. Well, now we're on 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.560 the road, driving in your truck. Want to learn a 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.400 thing or two from Josh can chuck it stuff you 0:16:46.440 --> 0:17:10.359 should know? All right? What about books? Yeah? Um, To 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:15.359 Kill a Mockingbird. Yeah, that's the one most often cited 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.840 as the one hit wonder because Harperlely wrote one book 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.240 that's um one of those rare ones where I actually 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.520 think the movie is better than the book. And I 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.359 love the book. It's one of my favorite books of 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.600 all time. And I hadn't read it in a while, 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.480 and I went back and read it, and then I 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.680 watched the movie shortly after. I was like, holy cow, 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.119 the movies better than the book. Yeah, Gregory Peck, I 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.000 mean yeah, talk about one of the best casting. But everybody, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.080 like all of those actors were amazing, every single one 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.800 of them. Yeah, Yeah, that's good stuff. She wrote, um, 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.080 the one book, and she worked on a second for 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.320 a while called The Long Goodbye, but shelved it. Then 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.240 in the nineteen eighties she started another book and never 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.920 finished that one either. And I guess she just procrastinated. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:58.920 I think she just I don't know. I don't know 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.280 if anyone has an answer why she never wrote again. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.199 Same with the Sallenger, Yeah, Catching the Rye. That was it, 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.520 except he wrote short stories too, but I mean I 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.440 think he never published another novel. Yeah, And I will 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:14.480 never know. And John Kennedy tool sure, Confederacy of Dunce 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.919 is how often do you think about that book just 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.400 in your normal life? How I don't know. Almost never. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.760 Maybe yeah, a couple of times a year, maybe when 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.719 it's like a movie in the works that never happens. 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.760 I was thinking about that movie or that book yesterday 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.760 and I hadn't read this article yet. Have you read it? No? Yeah, 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.760 it's good. It's like I think a lot of people 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.560 have these expectations because it's known as his like genius 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.680 work after this guy committed suicide, and it is really good. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.639 But um, I don't think it's like one of the 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.040 greatest books of all time or anything. Yeah, so what 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.840 happened to him? Do you know? No? I I just 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.119 I've never read the book. I don't know much about it. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.160 I know it's kind of like a wacky Southern Gothic 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.440 yea yeah, um kind of novel I lived his aunts, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.439 I think, or something like, yeah, this crazy character in Louisiana. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.040 It's always grabbed my attention because it's just like a 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.480 perfect title, and then the guy's name is perfect as well, 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:15.680 John Kennedy tool or the character his the author got you, well, 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:19.680 he killed himself. He was clearly now suffered some sort 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.639 of mental illness, and um could not get published, and 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:28.720 that drove him to eventually commit suicide in nineteen nine, 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:30.919 and his mother made it her life's work to get 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:35.200 it published and did so. And then his second book 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.440 was published, The Neon Bible, I think in six and 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.240 that was made into a movie. So he's not a 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.040 one hit wonder then, well, Neon Bible wasn't a huge hit. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:48.080 But but yeah, I would say he's a one hit wonder. Um. 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.400 And you also bring up movies too, man, Yeah, and 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.199 on books again, Sylvia Plath is on here for the 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.359 Bell Jar. I kinda wish I hadn't put that in 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.800 here because she was a well known poet. That's why 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.440 I hadn't mentioned it, you know. But she did write 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:03.840 the one book and then would you do stick her 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:05.800 head in the oven or something. I don't know how 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.080 she killed herself. I think Virginia Wolf drowned herself, right, 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:14.280 Sylvia herself on herself? I think did she That sounds right? 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:18.200 I remember that scene in Wonder Boys where Toby McGuire 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.480 rattles off the famous celebrity suicides. It was really great. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:25.000 That was a great movie. Joseph Heller with Catch twenty two. Yeah, 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:29.720 that's certainly a one hit wonder um. So yeah, movies, um, 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.560 I mean there more directors and actors that you could 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:38.040 even mention that had one hit, but legit super super hits, 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:42.120 people like Michael is it Chimino or Samino? Samino? I think, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.960 although if it's if you're speaking in the Italian, it 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.000 would be Chimino. Uh. He did The Deer Hunter, of course, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:53.760 one Best Picture in four other Academy Awards. Did he mal? Huh? 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.880 Did he mal? That's what they tell him when they're 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.639 like making them play Russian Roulette? Did he Yeah, except 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.840 they scream it. Yeah. Yeah, that scene was so intense. 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:06.600 I saw that very young, really young to be seeing 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.000 that movie in retrospect, like it made an impression on you. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.320 Oh yeah, huge? Um. But yeah. He famously made Heaven's 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.879 Gate um as his follow up, which was one of 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:22.000 the notorious disasters along with Ishtar. Wasn't like water World 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.240 Skate Warren Baby movie too? Or is that Heaven Can Wait? 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:29.960 He was in Heaven Can Wait an Ishtar? So what 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.800 about Heaven's Gate? What was that about? Yeah? I think 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:36.879 it was a Western if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, And 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.840 it was just a notorious failure and a very expensive one. 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.879 And then Tomino never he made a few other movies, 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.359 but you haven't heard of many of them. He did 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.760 a year of the Dragon was like with Mickey Rourke, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.480 which the only other like notable movie that was supposed 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.080 to be a good one. Yeah, but it was far 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:54.560 from a hit, you know what I'm saying. And then 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:59.040 my favorite, uh, Steve Gordon, one of my favorite movies 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.359 of all time. I have not seen it. You didn't 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:04.520 see Arthur. Not only have I not seen the original Arthur, 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:07.320