ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" by Edison Lighthouse
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- How does a minor '70s bubblegum band become a one-hit wonder five different times?
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Okay, I'm going to put up a correction/disclaimer here: Tony claims to have sung on the "I'd Like To Buy the World a Coke" commercial but I'm having a lot of trouble verifying that. He might be lying! I feel that full disclosure requires me to admit that.
Who does that impress? Not journalistic integrity, being in the Coke chorus.
PSSH. next you'll be saying Don Draper didn't create that commercial.
Tony actually has FOUR other “one hit wonder” hits to his name.
That’s wild, cause listening to that Coke jingle again, you can really hear his voice (or someone who sounds EXACTLY like him) at one point unmistakably.
*As an old Boomer who remembers Rosemary well, allow me to point you towards a very similar "artist", but an artist in the early "Christian Rock" genre. Listen to any of Amy Grant's first three albums, and you'll be constantly thinking of "Edison"!*
Hey Todd. I'm 61 and love your channel. I have a feeling I'm not the only boomer here.. LOL. I'm a life long musician and really appreciate the way you hit on all decades. Keep up the great work brother.
Reading comments like this is always cool
Wholesome wholesome wholesome!
I'm not a boomer, but my dad is (he had me when he was 53) and I like a lot of boomer music. I think that era of music gets an unfair reputation for badness when there was actually a lot of great, cheerful, upbeat music in the 70's, 60's and 50's that is of relatively high quality. Never give up on music! My dad learned to play piano from my mom in his 60's and this year got into jazz piano, of all random things. Music is a joy at any age.
I'm not a boomer but I support music nerds of all ages. There's no better thing to be a nerd about in my opinion.
@@JPD2587 I'm 20 and that feels old online there's a lot of kids. Plus I have a son so
I want to die eeeee
Main takeaway from this: the Bubblegum Pop era basically pioneered the concept of the "industry plant"
Main takeway from this: You're a furry.
The Archies paved the way for Hololive and all that.
@@atanvardecunambiel8917 This is easily the most radical take I've ever agreed with.
@@atanvardecunambiel8917 Mind. Fucking. Blown.
Also AI name generators before computers could even be so complex; with titles like those LOL!
Todd, You are great! I am a 66 year old boomer who lived through hearing Rosemary on the radio a thousand times in 1970. I love all that back story stuff. I had a copy of Rosemary and Gimme Dat thing, don't judge me.
Hey, I'm 66 too, and I remember almost all of these songs -- that last one by Burrows I don't remember.. I think I was on my classical music kick in '74. The other four were on the radio a lot in Denver, CO.
You’re gonna have to battle John Foster for the UBC title (ultimate boomer crown, obviously) I’m rooting for you man, get dat get dat getdatgetdatgetdat get dat thing
My big memory of this song is discovering it several years ago, figuring out how to play the main riff on the bass, and having my 70 year old dad INSTANTLY recognize what I was playing.
Hello! I am half boomer (41) and I really enjoy the older songs as well. I had a pretty hefty dose of 'oldies' from my mother growing up. I love seeing a lot of them covered on here
You are a Gen-Xer. Your parents are/were Boomers because your Greatest Generation grandparents were making goodbye babies (before) and hello babies (after) WWII creating a boom in the American (and world) population.
Why can't your generation do anything right?
I appreciate how Todd has gone from making rants about Kesha and The Black Eyed Peas to making incredibly well-researched episodes about obscure corners of the music ecosystem that 95% of even music geeks like me had no idea existed.
All the good critics grew and matured from fake outrage machines to insightful thoughtful analysis over the years. You can only do the yells at camera/gets progressively drunker bit so many times before it gets old, and the only way for them to make a decades long career out of it is to put a little more art into it.
@@robbybevard8034 A couple of years ago, I decided to watch every You Suck at Cooking video. He was drunk in the first few. It was a very obvious issue, and it was clear to me he wanted more from his videos, because he was still taking the time to produce songs.
@@robbybevard8034 except if you’re Doug Walker
@@sonofaspyder3000 I did say all the *good* critics.
Even Walker has moved away from the shout at the camera bit, even if his analysis and comprehension hasn't really improved.
@@robbybevard8034 yeah you have a point
I watched this today. I hope you read this because you should. My father actually arranged this song, and hundreds of others around that time. In those days, you got an arranger to sort out all the music, write the parts and basically decide how the song went. You should look his credits up. His name was Lew Warburton. He was the top musical arranger in the UK in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. I met Tony Burrows, and loads of others too. I remember that time very well.
Haha that’s great.
Cool cool cool!
Yeah, my dad worked at Nintendo in the 80's too :)
@@jojoversus1100
It was true
That's really cool. Ppl really underestimate how much a decent arrangement can change a song from bad to good
It took 37 years, but Tony Burrows' final band, Magic, finally had a hit in 2013 with the song Rude.
Another one hit wonder for him.
I guess he's why the other Magic! had to add punctuation to the name
before that he made a deal with a witch to appear as a good looking jewish guy and had a hit "crazy for this girl"
There are so many stories in these episodes of the 1-hit wonder writer being involved with a completely different hit potentially decades later that you had no idea they were involved with, that I thought you were being dead serious for a second.
I guess he has the unusual distinction of being a one hit wonder several times.
It's so wierd that this song popped into my head today for no reason
Todd should do a list of "Foreign acts trying to talk about America without knowing anything about it"
"country song" by Happy Mondays would win. Pothead from manchester talking about "rednecks" and indian wars
I love Todd as much as the next guy, but I would like to see Sean from diamond axe studios and mode reviews do that one.
Craig David's What's Your Flava will be probably in.
He already did the night Chicago died by paper lace
@@littlekingtrashmouth9219 I was just going to reference that one! If you ever want to visit the east side of Chicago you better wear your swim trunks, because that's Lake Michigan.
"This guy became a one-hit-wonder five times" So he was basically the Neil Cicierega of his day
Neil Cicierega controls the world, don't you know
Hmm,
Ultimate Showdown
Mysterious Ticking Noise
Brodyquest
Bustin
Can't think of a 5th and I'm a huge Ciccirega fan. (Two trucks?)
@@monkeyzebraproductionsacon4328 Absolutely two trucks.
Could you also count the Hey Ya remix he did?
@@brendanb2982 He went viral with that Animutation flash video set to the Japanese end theme to Pokemon.
And Potter Puppet Pals.
@@brendanb2982 Perhaps a controversial opinion but I don't think Two Trucks is very funny and I love all of those other hits. Barely Political/The Key of Awesome's Truck Love is the better song about truck intercourse in my opinion.
I adore all the older members of the audience making themselves heard. :’)
It's funny how I'm reading these comments like they're from golden oldies, when my parents are the same age and don't act or look old at all 😭
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Meanwhile my parents barely existed when this song was big.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep My parents are both in the same age as a lot of the commenters (just reached 60s) , but my mom was listening to stuff like Midnight Oil, the Moody Blues, and Creedence Clearwater. My dad didn't listen to music as a young adult (he bought books instead and it was expensive to buy records at the time) but he likes "Fire" and "Walk on the wild side"
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Please tell your parents that. It will make their day!!! 😍💕
@@EpicBMy mom was 16 years old when this song was a hit.
This is the perfect song for when you're ten and own an iPod and have no larger context for what pop music even is so sometimes you hear a fun song in an AMV or something so you open limewire and go about your business and then your dad checks through said iPod out of sheer curiosity and nestled between Chris Brown's With You and MIKAs Grace Kelly and SMiLE.dk's Butterfly he encounters Love Grows Where My Rosemary Grows and asks with a surprised tone you if you like old seventies music which is a terrible question to ask a ten year old in 2007 because like, to you none of this means anything, all these songs are fundamentally the same because you are ten, but clearly your dad has just had a moment of whiplash and the point of this is that I now know how he feels because that iPod is long lost to the sands of time but the other day I overheard this song on someone's TikTok.
oh yeah this happened to me last week
I like the breathless tone of your storytelling.
I hate that I perfectly understood this, by having that experience. Also, Life in Cartoon Motion is still a good pop album. Even though nowadays it feels like half of a double album, with the follow-up, The Boy Who Knew Too Much being the depressed, night-time half.
@@baileyr7553 good God MIKA is so good I've been listening to Tomorrow on repeat all winter
All Mika does is remind me that the 2000's were a... unique time for Pop.
"Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes by Edison Lighthouse" sounds like a Jefferson Airplane cover band doing a Simon and Garfunkel pastiche as a joke encore.
I literally couldn't say it better than that.
Wow, that’s such an apt description of their sound. How did you get it so right?
The specificity of this comment, dear lord Sean.
😂😂😂
Not that I can prove it, but from word choice and cadence, I assume 'Edison Lighthouse' came from brainstorming up the closest name possible to 'Jefferson Airplane'.
The name was originally Eddystone Lighthouse which is a famous...well.. lighthouse in England.
However fans kept asking in the record stores for the song by Edison Lighthouse so they just changed the name to accommodate the public.
Robertson Candlestick
Jackson Bicycle
Madison Paintbrush
Grayson Hairdryer
Harrison Armchair
Watson Helicopter
Nelson Trenchcoat
Emmerson Sunglasses
Bryson Cathedral
@@exquisitecorpse__ I think I saw Bryson Cathedral open for Curved Air back in '72.
Reminded me of Jefferson Airplane right away as well.
@@exquisitecorpse__
I took so much acid at the Aluminum Sweatshirt concert that I don’t remember them.
I really enjoy these episodes on older bands you do too. They remind me of riding around with my parents when I was little, listening to the oldies station. 😀
I kinda forgot about this song and didn't rediscover it until it was used for the credits of "Shallow Hal", weirdly enough. Then it got stuck somewhere in the back of my brain.
realjims remains a man of taste
Love your channel!!
Love your Simpsons videos
Oh damn realjims I didn’t know you watched Todd, cool!
@@patricklauer4452 Of course he does. He’s a man of refined culture
Hearing Jimmy Savile's voice on the Top of the Pops footage is sending shivers down my spine.
yep
Now then, now then.
I laughed my ass off! I'm 73 and remember hearing these "gems" on the radio at work, my boss loved this crap! One guy did all this, whew!
I'm 29 and twice watching this song I exclaimed "Oh shit, I know that song too!"
Here to add that the name "Flowerpot Men" was very likely a reference to the fifties-sixties British children's TV show "Bill and Ben, The Flowerpot Men." They were little marionettes of little guys made out of flowerpots who lived in a garden and played pranks. I only know about this because the giant flower headdress Peter Gabriel wore while doing "Willow Farm" with Genesis was apparently a reference to it. It would be like calling your band The Teletubbies.
Teletubbies in return kinda meets that weird intersection of hippies/acid heads and possibly registered s** offenders, if we're gonna bring up "She Works in a Woman's Way".
The Teletubbies... there's a reason why they're such tubby aliens...
"To Serve Man... it's... it's... a cookbook!"
There are teletubbies already among you.
They used bunnies to help further their insidious alien invasion and now... *YOU'RE DOOOOOOMED!!!*
Beware of teletubbies bearing gifts.
The greatest trick aliens ever played was to convince you that they're no danger.
Weeeed!
"I love when brits talk about America, like, no one has ever said 'old LA'. " made me spit my drink out. I feel this! It's so cute when they do that and we do the same thing to London and whatever other cities they have.
The closest I’ve heard is a debate over Old Vegas versus the new strip
Except I know of at least one American singer who spoke the words "old LA" in a song: Darlene Love on her recording of "White Christmas" from the Phil Spector Christmas album. She speaks the words of the song's mostly-forgotten intro, including the line, "There's never been such a day in old LA." (Although in the original, I think it was "Beverly Hills, LA.") Another example of a European city where Americans do this sort of thing is Paris (as in "gay Pair-ee.")
They are so annoying in their condescending attitude when speaking of the USA and L.A in particular. Like we will always be a poor imitation of Brit life. Yet...they have horrible teeth and skin, spend their lives on bar stools in the pub, their diet is horrible and their cooking is worse! But the most annoying is they say "whilst, straight-away, cheers" and they use "hospital" and "university" without "the"!!!
@@kendallevans4079 Brits don't actually have bad teeth; they just prefer to go for a natural look. Your teeth don't have to be perfectly white or straight to be healthy, and in fact, they generally aren't.
@@christiangarza8122 there's also Old Florida, when it was southern. Before the condos, golf courses and snowbirds
Tony Burrows is like the benevolent spirit of Bubblegum 70s pop. He shows up one day and supports weird named bands with one or two songs, doesn't really make any physical appearances, and then vanishes as quickly as he came to help the next group of ragtag musicians feel like stars for a day. If it wasn't for the limited documentation we have people might begin to wonder if he even existed.
00:30 Honestly, I'd think delving into "oldies" One Hit Wonders would be fascinating. There's so much to cover- despite your channel's demographics, some of these songs are just ingrained in collective memory.
Concur. In fact, if Todd ever changes his mind about "oldies," I'd like to make a suggestion: "Green Tambourine." I literally did not exist when this song was released, but I always liked its pseudo-exoticism. (Well, at least it _sounded_ exotic to me. When I was 6.)
I agree. Todd even admits to knowing many oldies music in his other videos. I'm 33 and grew up listening to the Oldies radio station with my parents. I imagine a lot of people in their 30's and 40's had a similar experience.
@@nerdygrl647 Yep, I'm nearly 40 and I can confirm that.
@@nerdygrl647 Same here. I know footage is always an issue, but I'd love videos on "In the Year 2525," "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)," "Ride Captain Ride," and...well, I don't know if there's anything to say about this, but "Liar Liar" by the Castaways. Maybe also "Keep On Dancing" by the Gentrys, which at least has an interesting hook in that one of the members was future wrestling manager "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart.
I REALLY want one on 2525, as Zager & Evans are pretty much THE quintessential one-hit wonder (none of this "But they had another top-5 hit in Switzerland" or "But this other song went to #39" shit here) and the song is so dark and yet so goofy.
@@pronkb000 I second Brandy!
Fun fact: this song is mentioned in Reservoir Dogs by Stephen Wright, playing the radio DJ talking about their 70s throwback weekend. He says “that was Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes” as his first line.
KBIL-ly, the station where the 70's survived
Super Sounds of the '70s
Reservoir Dogs is what brought me here, in fact. I wonder how many one-hit wonder songs Tarantino has in his head. He seems to have infinite memory, and lots of love, for the trivial things that made the 70s unique.
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this series might be the most reliable way to unlock supressed memories
😂😅😍 Agreed!
Fr lol. I was born in the 90s and have definitely heard this song on the radio a lot. Not to mention, one of my middle names is Rosemary - you can bet this has been woven into references to the song by people I've told this
Not to mention hearing Jimmy Saville, ugh; and "Gimme Dat Thing" instantly bribg back how awful "The Benny Hill Show" was.
Know its a limitation of the footage, but damn hearing Jimmy Savile's voice over those old clips is spine chilling
Yeah ☹️
I'm glad I wasn't the only one that noticed and cringed ever-so-slightly at it.
Yeah, it took me out of the video quite a bit when I recognised his voice... I didn't realise how on hearing it again could freak me out so much.
I knew it was that fucker
@@MrDalevich blech it made my skin hurt a bit
Possibly related fact: The Flower Pot Men was also a UK kid's TV show from the 50's. It features two puppet men whose bodies are flower pots.
Bill and Ben the Flower Pot men. Wouldn't be surprised if that was the reference rather than a hippy one.
Definitely what the Flower Pot Men were named after, Britain didn't have drugs back then. I mean they genuinely thought Ebenezer Goode was about a guy called Ebenezer Goode.
@@nejdalej Are you saying that Little Weed WASN'T a reference to marijuana? 🤔
@@lostsock9852 It still could be. This was the era of The Magic Roundabout after all.
@@someguy3752 If there were references to drugs in any of these things, trust me most of the Brits would have missed them lmao x
I'm assigned British on my passport to clarify.
"That was The Partridge Family's 'Doesn't Somebody Want to be Wanted?', followed by Edison Lighthouse's 'Love Grows where my Rosemary Goes' as K-Billy's Super Sounds of the 70's weekend just keeps on... truckin'."
Fun fact: Elton John has some obscure covers of both "My Baby Loves Lovin'" and "United We Stand". Never knew they were written by the same guy, who also sings backing vocals on "Tiny Dancer".
Tony Burrows didn't write those songs. He sang them.
This is good input...witch ever is correct...
He had a pretty nice sound back then IMO.
Personally I wouldn't mind seeing more One Hit Wonderlands on oldies bands. I may not know many of them but that's exactly what I find so interesting about them.
I'd like to add a "yes, please!" to that! Yeah, it's difficult, but Todd's got the chops for it!
He did Eve of Destruction, Fire and One Tin Soldier and Monster Mash, all from the Sixties so now he has so many others.
Personally I'm such a music geek that I would love for you to do more one hit wonderlands from like the 70s and 60s. Plus I think it's kind of interesting to get your point of view on some of these songs, like as in Edison lighthouse was kind of a staple of 90% of the mixtapes and compilation discs from 70s music that I heard as a kid ( I grew up in the 90's). So for me this song is so ubiquitous when it comes to like barbecues, or music that you put on when you drink a beer & chill.
Shut up
Nailed it with this comment. Todd can make anything interesting and I'd love to hear about music I haven't really explored. As for compilation discs, MAN did you nail it again. This is the kind of tune that would have been on one of those "AM Radio Gold" compilations in the 90s that were trying to cash in on Boomer nostalgia. Only 3 payments of $14.95, call now.
@@jadedheartsz Really? That's actually super interesting. I'm going to look up that song, thanks!
Same here!
As a child, my first favourite album was Chart Hits of the Sixties Volume 2 (Kaz Records)* and my first favourite song was Eve of Destruction (which Todd has covered) from that Album. I think plenty of peeps who grew up in the 90s have sufficient familiarity with the music of the 60s and 70s to appreciate these kind of videos.
*Genuinely a great compilation - I made a public playlist on UA-cam music of it.
Literally hadn't heard this song since high school (and it was old then). My 15yo daughter heard the opening and started jamming and singing it word for word. Thanks a lot, TikTok
Has that “Gimme that gimme that gimme that thing” song toward the end made it to Kid Tok yet??
There's something surreal and also adorable about that. I kinda love it. XD
I've always thought that playing in an Edison Lighthouse tribute band would be the easiest job ever. You'd come on stage, play "Rosemary," thank the audience for coming out, go home, and get a good nights sleep.
I remember calling a request to the radio station for Gimme Dat Ding and waiting for hours for them to play it. I was a strange child.
Tony Burrows' story is one of the most fascinating in rock music history. 5 #1 hit singles with 5 different acts, and nobody's ever heard of the guy.
I'm always hyped when Todd drops an episode about a 70's act. My dad was 53 when I was born, so the 70's were his golden era of pop that he delights in, and I can always share these rare 70's dives with my dad and get his reactions. Good times.
Edit: Holy crap, I did not expect the Tiktok plot twist!
Did he enjoy it
Edit: I mean did your father enjoy this song
My mom was 44 when I was born so I could do the same with her!
Hey, another person with an old dad! My dad was 57 when I was born, and... Well, I don't how old you are but my dad was born in 1930. Lol, I knew small details about the great depression that even my history teachers didn't know.
@@llcdrdndgrbd My dad likes it and was delighted when I texted him the link to this episode and told him "the guy who made the song made more songs!" and replied "YES. GOOD. I APPROVE." because my dad uses caps when excited, but not exclamation marks, for some reason.
@@Hakajin My dad was born in 1949. He loathes the way history is taught in schools and has all kinds of insights that I find legitimately interesting. And like you, I totally picked up on those and knew stuff my teachers didn't, to the point I used to argue with my teachers sometimes as a kid. He's a fountain of knowledge - but any time I compliment him on how smart he is he's like "oh I'm not smart, I didn't complete college" like that's his metric for who a 'smart' person is. People always look at me funny when I say how old my dad is, but honestly he's super smart, insightful, and really chill because he's old enough to have made peace with most of his sources of anxiety. Wouldn't trade him for any dad in the world.
Plus he got me into ABBA, the Beatles, and the BeeGees early on and thus solidified my love of cheesy music, which continues to bring me joy in college now that I'm super overworked and need the cheese. Again: my dad is the best.
I presume the name "Edison Lighthouse" was concocted to resemble Jefferson Airplane, using the formula "famous man from history + impressive feat of engineering"
Gonna name my psychedelic band Franklin Steamboat
My mom's name is Rosemary, so you can imagine how much I heard my dad sing this song growing up lol. Which, on the one hand, is incredibly adorable, and on the other hand, got old to us kids veeeeery quick. Anyway, seeing you cover this seems kind of surreal and I'm super into it- I'd LOVE to hear you cover more oldies and "boomer" music, there's tons of fascinating material there.
I think Tony Burrows is incredible. Five "one-hit wonders". I believe he actually appeared three times in a single episode of Top of the Pops in the UK. You should also look (if you haven't already) at the story of Paul Da Vinci, who sang the original lead vocals for the Rubettes hit Sugar Baby Love, although he never actually joined the group.
Clear talent, but if I was him I would’ve been pissed seeing the guy pretending to be Tony in the music video. Even being me, seeing that dude randomly fumble around on that guitar while not matching the voice irrationally made my blood boil. Almost like the guitar.... wasn’t doing anything?! Really grinds my gears ya kno?
@@kevindube7096 hey you don't have to do the road and music videos didn't mean much in the pre MTV days
@@nate567987 YOU’RE GRINDIN MY GEARS NATHAN!!!!! 🤬
Seriously though I would love to have experienced that time where all the necessary promo of modern times simply wasn’t a thing
Incense And Peppermints by The Strawberry Alarm Clock had a lead vocal by a 16 year old who was not in the group. He was a friend of the group who accompanied the recording session.
Especially when Tony didn't even write the song. He would've barely gotten any attention for singing and wouldn't have gotten royalties either.
"I believe this song is best described as...inessential" is starting to become one of Todd's catchphrases.
'I don't know how but my gut tells me this is racist' might be one of your best lines ever Todd and it works in so many situations.
I was surprised he didn't follow that up with "...but I'm not exactly sure who against."
This video got me thinking about the year distribution of One Hit Wonderland videos, so I made a quick spreadsheet! OHW spans from 1962 to 2009. The 60s and 00s are sparsely represented, but the 70s, 80s, and 90s are well-covered, with only 1978, 1988, and 1994 unrepresented. The year with the most OHW songs is 1982 (7 songs), followed by 1998 (6 songs).
IDK if this is useful or interesting to anyone but me but! It's true!
I thought it was interesting! Especially 1983, considered one of the best years of music.
Thank you for your contribution!
The whole "Spotify fake artist" controversy (which far more people should know about) was very nicely alluded to here; in the beginning.
This song's a great pick for the series. I've honestly been wanting to see you cover more oldies for a good while now. To heck with the idea that not enough kids know pop culture from before their lifetimes. What's even the point of recorded history if people only limit their knowledge to a narrow, arbitrary frame of time?
Speaking as a 20 year old: a lot of people I know at college are actually getting into old music. There's even a swing dance club on my campus full of 50's nerds. And with Tiktok resurrecting 70's songs and tumblr appreciating 80's music a lot lately, I think people are more up for the idea of engaging with old songs than you'd think. I got my girlfriend into Sinatra and Billie Holiday just this last month.
@@morganqorishchi8181 it's nice old music continues to come back bit knowing how much I despise tik tok and tumblr, I'm sort of half and half on those 2 playing a part in them getting 20th century music into more ears
@@morganqorishchi8181 I think there is not as clear demarcation between the oldies and modern music as there has been in the past. Accessibility to older music is at an all time high and random things can pop off on social media (like this song)
I was reading statistics recently that old music is actually taking over the music industry. Over 70% of music sales are older songs now, and new musicians are less and less successful.
Todd stated in the Disco Duck review that it's understandably hard to find video footage of older songs that WEREN'T hits, so there's no good Failed Follow Up videos
Yet another song which I thought I'd never heard of but got exposed to via TikTok, the necromancer of the music industry that won't let dead hits rest undisturbed by memes.
I'm in that age group that's too young for the original and too old for TikTok. Never heard it before today.
@@davidozab2753 same, I heard it on a tiktok thing idk why i was watching tiktok doe but I liked the song.
I knew it and went "huh? TikTok did what now?"
There's a song popular on there with emo kids called "I can't handle change", by a band called ROAR. It was a track released in roughly 2012 to no mainstream acclaim on a short free EP. How do I know this? That year I downloaded it in a search for free and obscure music and tossed it aside for being too angsty for my tastes. Needless to say, suddenly hearing it on some kid's tiktok and realising where I heard it and that it was now popular in (at the time) 2021 smacked me in the face.
@@davidozab2753 I knew it from Shallow Hal. Great song
Fun fact: Jimmy Webb HATED bubblegum pop, and wrote "Up Up And Away (In My Beautiful Balloon)" as a sarcastic parody... and it was taken without irony by the public and became his big hit.
You could do a whole series on songs that were written as sarcastic parodies, that became paragons of said genre. Two I can think of off the top of my head are Song 2 by Blur, and Fight For Your Right (To Party) by Beastie Boys.
@@vanellopemint Am curious if Todd could cover Roger Daltrys Without Your Love and Becks Loser for OHW? Roger Daltrey could be in a similar position of Jordan Knight as the 2 both come from popular music groups but didnt hit it too high on their own and Beck is a strange case where he only had Loser be his biggest hit while doing a lot in the industry
I guess you mean "Up, Up & Away"
I've heard this, I'm sure he did actually claim this was the case, but I'm still a bit skeptical as to how true it actually was. I mean, when the flagship song of the genre is "Sugar Sugar" you have to know that the genre is basically beyond parody, nothing you can possibly come up with is going to be any more dopey & ridiculous than the actual music, the goofiness is already built in. So you might as well just cash in with your own well-crafted, radio friendly example and then just try to save face & claim you were being sarcastic when people call you out on it.
You mean up up and away?
Ok, now I'm questioning just how much of 1970's rock was basically the pop music equivalent to shell companies
Todd if you did a deep dive on that, I'd watch it twice in a row
Well most British Punk from the late 1970s is shell music, great way to tell is how political they are, the less blunt they are, the more likely they're a act made up by suits
Never forget the Sex Pistols were manufactured by EMI
The runaways were manufactured too
Saul Goodman should have been a music executive instead of a lawyer. 😂
Arguable, so we're the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Here's an interesting idea for a future One Hit Wonderland: "Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star. Mazzy Star have become quite popular again thanks to one of their deep cuts showing up on a Euphoria episode and it'd be the perfect opportunity to discuss dream pop, the Paisley Underground, shoegaze and a whole bunch of real fascinating scenes in the alternative/indie world around that time that never really had much of a mainstream splash the way grunge did. And even if Mazzy Star weren't shoegaze themselves, they were very much adjacent to it - the drummer from My Bloody Valentine went on to form a side project with Mazzy Star's frontwoman Hope Sandoval. Also I just personally _really_ wanna give Todd an excuse to talk about shoegaze, since all the actual shoegaze bands were no-hit-wonders.
Oh my God. My has a Mazzy Star CD. I have no idea what shoegaze is though
@@DestinyKiller Shoegaze is like a niche subgenre of alt rock that was originally associated with a specific scene in the UK which included bands like Cocteau Twins, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. It's characterized by very prominent guitars with lots of reverb, distortion and other effects combined with very quiet and wistful vocals to create a very ethereal sound. Mazzy Star did not make shoegaze music but they had a lot of friends in the original shoegaze scene and these days are often lumped in with the shoegaze bands. If you want a sample of what shoegaze sounds like I'd recommend the albums "Heaven or Las Vegas" by Cocteau Twins and "Loveless" by My Bloody Valentine.
@@jmckenzie962 thank you so much! I'll check it out! I'm always on there lookout for more music to dig into
Also you do much for giving me a starting point because sometimes I'd like to check out certain things mentioned but don't have a starting point to go by
@@DestinyKiller It's called Shoegaze because all the distortion effects meant the guitarists had to play while focusing on their analog effects pedals to get the right sounds for the song and it looks like they're just staring at their feet not doing anything. The visual is probably really funny to look at because next to singers the guitarist is traditionally the most animated guy on stage while the bassist is the stiff one.
@@Anomaly188 ahhh ok, that makes sense, thanks!
46 seconds in: "None of my viewers know these songs."
I've seen almost all your videos, Todd, and I jumped at watching this one because I remember and love this song (and plenty more oldies). I may be in the minority, but I'd love for you to cover more of the boomer songs if you can find enough footage and info to do so. Love your work as ever.
Seriously, it sounded like sitting in the back seat of my parents' old Taurus wagon while they listed to the local Golden Oldies station.
Yes, more history of boomer songs :)
I find these videos interesting. I'm a kid of the 80s, with all the overly-commerical baggage that comes along with. My generation is one of the most documented things on the internet today.
I love hearing the backstory and seeing footage of the bands my parents and aunts/uncles used to play when I was a kid and shamefully admitted they liked and blasted on full on summer Saturday nights on the back porch after a barbecue when I was an adult
I know all the "boomer" songs he's done but am basically never familiar with the current hits (or year-end songs) he talks about.
Not like in a "oh I'm so unique, modern music is stupid teehee" way.
These songs are a lot more interesting than any of the new stuff coming out over the last 20 years.
This was on of the "my parents manually recorded their record collection to cassette before selling them in grad school" tapes we kept in the car. I must have heard it a cumulative thousand times at least on road trips. It's to the song's credit that I don't hate it after that.
And honestly? The more historical episodes, about the 80's and back, are my favorites.
Oof, the idea of recording perfectly good records onto cassette tapes of all things hurts my heart, but I hope your parents got a decent education out of it at least.
This definitely sounds like the type of cheesy and anonymous ‘60s and ‘70s pop that would fit onto a Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack
Back when Todd covered "Hooked on a Feeling", he played a clip from Blue Swede's earlier single "Silly Milly", and the tune was literally the bridge of this song but pitched down a couple notes. So yeah, definitely some connections there.
Hocus Pocus by Focus. A classic one hit wonder that also deserves an episode, such a unique song.
4:01 Cashed in on that San Francisco trend so quickly they forgot to use spell check
I won’t lie, “Hey, You’re Great, Constance” and “My Girl Marlene” are actually pretty good names for bubblegum love songs.
I dont understand why they didnt stick with the plant theme and go with the name Petunia as the same in the band's follow up.
Hell, I think Rosemary, Petula, Constance & Marlene would all be great, unique, somewhat-quirky-but-not-off-puttingly-weird names for girls in 2022.
I almost expected Todd to add "or 'Dear Prudence'...oh wait, that one's taken."
My girl Marlene
Can really make the scene
Never treats a-me mean
That's...myyyy...girl ....Marlene!!
@@Phished123 Maybe they were trying to confuse people or reference Petula Clark?
I would KILL for Todd to cover “Sugar Sugar.” By The Archie’s, sure their not “real,” but they still got a number 1 hit and if there ain’t a story there I don’t know what does.
Sorry, but they’re not a one-hit wonder - Sugar Sugar’s follow-up, Jingle Jangle, reached #10 a few months after Sugar Sugar became the biggest hit of 1969, somehow
Oh, there’s a story. The dude’s name is Ron Dante. Look him up.
Ron Dante might be a one hitter if you count his time in The Cuff Links but not The Archie's.
I can just imagine: And the “legacy” for today’s artist is… the birth of Vocaloid and Vtubers?
The Archies walked so the Caramella Girls could fly! ua-cam.com/video/rI3yD3WAcz4/v-deo.html
FYI, The Flower Pot Men was a reference to a British children's TV show from the 50s called "Bill and Ben" who were literally puppets made out of flower pots...
Which is weird because Pipkins was also British TV children's show...
Ah yes, Pipkins. The show in which one of the main character puppets, Harley Hare, looked like he’d been made from sack cloth in the 1800s and dragged up from the sewer and hastily repaired and put on television.
@@cecelias_ I agreed with you right up until the 'repaired' part
Bill and Ben ... and their friend Weed. Are we *sure* that it wasn't a hippie thing?
@@qwertyTRiG fairly certain. Bill and Ben is older than the hippie movement, having first broadcast in 1952
Blows my mind that this series is yet to cover "Your Love" by The Outfield. definitely one that deserves a video.
Oh my god you're reading my mind.
Yeah, they arent new wave and could be a nice return to 80s one hit wonders.
Quite a decent amount of follow up hits that should have the band get more recognition:
1. Since You've Been Gone. Before Kelly Clarkson's song of the same name, the Outfield recorded a pretty good song of that title and their video was shot at a disused gas station previously used for filming of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket film
2. All The Love In The Wprld
3. Voices Of Babylon. This song proved they could do more than Love Songs
4. For You. Notable for being their last music video
@@Thomasmemoryscentral honestly another good 80s one hit wonder or in general would be most of the european or elsewhere stuff that only spawned one hit, I prefer international stuff honestly.
@@Thomasmemoryscentral You know, you got me thinking about 80s one-hit wonders that aren't new wave and i feel like an underexplored era on this show is late 70s-early 80s soft rock. It's been forgotten now, but that stuff dominated the charts just as much as disco did in the late 70s and stuck around longer afterward. 1983 is usually considered the endpoint for it, considering that was when Air Supply had their last top-10 hit and your Dan Fogelbergs & even James Taylors stopped charting by that point. Have to imagine there's at least a couple interesting enough OHW episodes buried in there somewhere!
@@joshthefunkdoc 1983 is the endpoint for most new wave?
Itd be interesting to cover 1983 one hit wonders given there had been a video game crash that year that took a toll on that market and having a lot of great music helped us deal with that.
"Love Grows..." was exactly what it needed to be! It was the perfect measure of everything in it. Loopy? Without a doubt, but that was the spirit of the time and those who grew up in it considered it to be ultimate. The lyrics, the melody, the cheesy string section, the scraggly looking band with the singer (not) with the cute (to someone) but dopey looks, singing about a loosely wrapped girl who was just as dopey but somehow transcendent and set your world on fire. Yep, knew someone just like that and I considered this my theme song for her. It's the perfect blend of optimistic, youthful romanticism.
Fun Fact: Edison Lighthouse and ''Loves Grows Where my Rosemary Goes'' where mentioned in Tarantinos first motion picture Reservoir Dogs but wasn't played in the movie.
K Billy's Super Sounds of the '70s weekend. It's exactly the sort of song for Tarantino to include. He often features songs from his childhood in the late '60s and early '70s, and this is a prime Super Hits/AM Gold cut. Just like "Midnight Confessions" in Jackie Brown.
*were, not "where."
I love when Todd does Commonwealth acts and references fly right over his head lmao. Not a single Bill and Ben shoutout despite the band being the Flowerpot men, weird
Ha, I was reading down the comments to see if anyone else was going to explain about Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men! Hi there, fellow watcher of Brit kiddy shows 😁
Probably explains why he used those Jimmy Saville clips without commenting on it.
@@someguy3752 Oh shit I didn't even catch that, yikes.
(Not British)
@@mixedstaples8030 Oh, in the Patreon version there were two clips of Saville introducing the bands for several excruciating seconds apiece, which he clearly cut out after multiple comments pointing it out.
@@TVAVStudios He also tweeted about Savile on Twitter back when it happened so he definitely knew about him even before.
As an American, I'd heard of him from the scandal (most Americans haven't I imagine) and have been somewhat moribly fascinated by it. But I didn't recognize his voice.
Me hearing the lyrics to that third song: this sounds really creepy and weird. Are they saying they are into a little girl?
Todd: "this is a pedophile's song"
Me: glad to know I'm not imagining things
"She's got a face like a child"
Ohhhhh...probably why I never heard of this group before this
That was a fascinating dive into some obscure history!
Could've done without hearing Jimmy Savile's voice a couple of times, but sadly almost unavoidable.
It seems like the original version had video clips of him too, which he wound up replacing.
It's better to acknowledge it than pretend it didn't happen.
@@connorbeith3232 Acknowledging it would surely require talking about it, and do we really need that every time a clip originally featured Savile?
@Ryan ScatesI had no idea who Jimmy Savile was until I watched that Netflix documentary about him. I am American though. And while I do love all things British.
Todd, I’ve been working at a Thrift Store for the past four years while getting my college degree, and our entire store’s music collection consists of old one hit wonders. I’ve been listening to this song several times a week for nearly half a decade, so this is one I actually do know. Love the videos dude.
I knew bits of of this song through osmosis but never the full recording
Man that sounds better than every time I go to a Thrift Shop all I find is educational CDs and the popular shit we all have a copy of
I'm pretty sure my work is the only reason I know My Baby Loves Lovin. At least, it's the only song in this video I know I know.
@Perverted Alchemist I'm pretty sure they're talking about the playlist their store plays through their speakers while they're at work.
Listening to a nearly unchanging playlist of any kind while at work for that long would drive me crazy, especially with 70s bubblegum music.
I remember that sketch of Monty Python where they played "Yummy Yummy Yummy" (either the original by Ohio Express or a cover) behind a bunch of wooden boxes. That's bubblegum pop in a nutshell.
The best part of that sketch was the camera zooming in-and-out, and the lights spinning around, trying to get some energy going, and it's just a bunch of stationary crates sitting on a stage.
I was thinking of the sketch where Cardinal Richelieu was singing “Don’t Sleep in the Subway” by Petula Clark
Please make more episodes about older songs, Todd! This and “Eve of Destruction” are some of my favorite episodes you’ve done. Love being able to learn a bit about music and cultural history. Great job!
I didn’t know he did eve of destruction
That's a great ep!
agreed.
Heck yeah!
Especially since it's beginning to feel like the real eve of destruction as I type this in March of 2022!
As a 70's Beatles + Hard Rock household names kid, i dismissed that stuff with the Archies until it played at the end of 'There's Something about Mary', and I started to tear up. I thought about it a while, searched for and found the Tony story, and then it occurred to me that his ability to convey the emotion of a teenager falling in love for the first time is unmatched. One man's opinion.
"I can only imagine this girl carrying a watering can." LOL- that made my day. Personally, I think it's a delightful tune that was ruined at the time by being overplayed. In the early days of the web, I remember coming across a website shrine posted by a Japanese guy who rated "Rosemary" the best song ever.
BTW, 'Beach Baby' was presented as a tribute to Brian Wilson and the man himself approved of it. As you say, "there's that."
I maintain you are doing God's work whenever you go back this far, Todd, and teach us about songs maybe none of us(including me) have ever heard before. This story was incredible.
I’m definitely a zoomer, but this has become one of my favorite songs recently as it was my grandparent’s “song” and when my grandpa passed last March, it connected it me to my grandma and has become one of my favorites. Thanks for the video it was great!
I would say that you'd actually qualify as a *professional* historian, since you're pulling in regular sponsorships.
Always love the oldies.
Me: "Why do I feel like I know this song?"
Todd: "It was written by the same guy who wrote Build Me Up, Buttercup."
Me: *War flashbacks to a 24hr coach trip where the driver only had one CD, and people eventually started belting out the lyrics to Build Me Up, Buttercup every time it came on*
I'm in my 50s, and learning how many different songs I liked back then were all due to this guy was shocking.
It's amazing that suddenly hearing the voice of the UK's most prolific sex criminal popping up on a video can really make the whole body clench. Then again, use any British music show from the late 60s, early 70s, there's a chance you'll hear Jimmy Savile. In fact with British TV from that era, you're never too far away from a sex criminal. Singing, presenting, being MPs, painting, jeez it's depressing.
Actually, if it wasn't for the sex crimes, Jonathan King could have been an interesting One Hit Wonderland subject.
I got a fright too, can be heard at 17:49
Agreed. Rather enjoying this little stroll through bubblegum music and then the voice of the UKs worst sex offender appears and I'm done.
I'm American and had no idea who you were talking about so I looked him up and holy FUCKING shit
He actually talked about Jonathan King in his episode about Blue Swede since they were covering his version of Hooked on a Feeling. Todd even remarked "Why does it seem like every big name in British music from the 1970s turns out to be a pedophile?"
That voice brought me up short. A whole era poisoned
I usually can't stand the boomer bubble gum pop songs, but this one has a charm to it that makes me like it. Like Todd said, it's just really well constructed with a good hook.
it's a really cute and fun song.
It’s not all bad
It’s always a good day when a Todd in the Shadows video is up. Also, this is a childhood favorite of mine that my mom and my third older sister play around me.
Couldn’t agree more my friend, Todd is my fav creator currently making content on YT and when he uploads its like Xmas all over again
I love you
The Flowerpot Men were smart enough to know that naming themselves after a programme on kids' telly is a fantastic bit of plausible deniability when smuggling drug references past the censors. Bonus points: one of the puppets on the show was called "Weed".
Weeeeeeed
I first heard about this song when I first watched Reservoir Dogs back in the mid 2000‘s. Even though it was mentioned it didn’t appear on either the movie or the soundtrack.
So I bought the soundtrack, edited in this song and blasted it in the car on my way to school with my friends.
Never heard of this track before, but the "Gimme Dat Ding" and "Beach Baby" reveals almost gave me whiplash. I can't count the numbers of times over the past couple years where I've had those songs loops for hours on end. I never realized that the same guy made them both!
I like all three songs (especially "Beach Baby") and yeah...I can see the similarity, but I had no idea the same actual people were behind them all. Ha! :D
But I'm an unapolegetic bubblegum music fan anyway. Heh.
I know, right? Never would've guessed.
"None of my viewers know these songs. Except the ones that tiktok picks up"
Excuse you, this is the second one hit wonderland from the 60s-70s that I, a 30 year old who does not use tiktok, has had a personal fondness for for years
14:51 The fact that he referenced the Bananies and Avocadies vine pairs well with this being about 70s easy listening to be one of my favourite OHW's yet
Our local oldies station plays this song all the time (along with other songs you've covered, like Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown) and honestly I was so excited when it went viral on TikTok because I LOVE this song. Even though I'm only in my late 20s, I love listening to oldies and I wouldn't be mad if you covered more of them~
'Rosemary's chorus has the same chord progression as Marmalade's 'Reflections of My Life', only much faster. I-iii-vi-Idom7-IV-ii-V. The tonicisation of the subdominant, mixed with the tonic-mediant progression, are elements I particularly like. And the mood of both songs couldn't be more different.
The existence of “novelties records” make me feel good that viral TikTok songs have predecessors in music history.
Also, I was trying to be a little hippie in high school in the 2000’s, and this song was my absolutely jam. I couldn’t believe it was popping up on TikTok. I couldn’t believe other people even knew it.
Todd, I just want to say thank you for reviewing music in a way almost no other music reviewer I've seen does. Every time you upload a video, it makes mine and my family's days as we sit down and watch the new video together. Thank you for doing what you do!
I watch Todd's videos with my dad. It's always a good time.
Your comment made me smile... ❤️
I'm a millenial and would love more "boomer" one-hit-wonders! I grew up with my dad's vinyl records with all that 60's and 70's music and found it weird that none of the other kids my age didn't know any of those songs.
Not going to happen grandpa. I am 56 and I am laughing my ass off at all the boomer comments. This kind of music is absolute trash. It requires zero musical chops and the lyrics are about as interesting as the obituaries in a newspaper.
What's a newspaper?
@Brett, okay boomer
I love the older band eps. my parents are in their early sixties and so much of this music ended up as soundtrack for the 90s and 00s so i'm totally into it!
I’ve watched this so many times and sent it to everyone I know who has a remote interest in 70s music. My dad was completely blown away. He said he has 3/4 of those songs on his Spotify and had no idea about the connection.
When there’s no new hits so far in the year, we take a look back
I actually really love this song. I love comfy music that slips on like a fleece robe.
And their album, real or not is incredible, dramatically short too, clocking in at 25 minutes
I love how Todd has done no pop songs this year so far because they’re are literally no NEW HITS.
He could do abcdefu but other than that... yeah.
@@Drogon7102 he touched upon it in his worst of 21 list, not a fan
I wonder what big hits will happen this year because there hasn’t been one dominating hit like previous years.
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if it's abcdefu, i hope it's negatively. i can't stand that song! it's as annoying as fancy like, if not worse!
I discovered this through TikTok as a matter of fact, and I remember thinking - what with the recent revival or re-interest in 60’s, 70’s and 80’s music - that this HAD to be a new band who had nailed that sound perfectly! And was surprised to see that it was from a long time ago, and now to know the chaos of it all.
All I know is that to me this is a pretty close to perfect song. It fulfills me in such a pretty way, I love it.
First time ever for this boomer watching/listening to your channel. The history you found on the song, singer, and bands was fascinating. Great job organizing the research on a song I enjoyed listening to on a 9 volt radio when I was a kid.
There was a power-pop band from the 1990s called "Material Issue" that used to do a cover of this song live. They were a trio and were actually pretty awesome. Just remembered they completely ripped off the main riff of this one for their song "When I Get This Way (Over You)"
Jim Carroll RIP. International Pop Overthrow was a genius album.
DIANE!!
@@alhollywood6486 Jim Ellison
@@GuitarPlayerNoah d'oh! Got my RIPs wrong!
@@GuitarPlayerNoah Bot. Mark them as spam and otherwise ignore.
My mom has a 45 of this that found its way into my collection over the years- can confirm that record that has "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" on it is literally the same album pictured on the Spotify cover art, and only has a B-side called "Every Lonely Day." Safe to say that's probably the closest to the original release format rather than a full album.
Not gonna lie, Todd - You're priority viewing for me. I will happily listen to your analysis of pretty much any one-hit wonder, flopped album, hit retrospective of any year, etc., regardless of how closely it hews to my personal musical tastes - Because your analysis is always well-researched and thoughtful, and just plain interesting. Admittedly, bubblegum is probably closer to my tastes than say, hip-hop, but I always find myself glued to the screen for any episode you release, and I find myself definitely appreciating a broader understanding of trends, specific bands/acts, music history, or just something I wasn't familiar with in-general after watching your stuff.
Same here. I’ll watch Todd talk about any song, but i grew up with the oldies station so i really enjoy these throwbacks
Todd I'm a 57 boomer and I remember this song as a kid. I still listen to it from time to time. I like it. That's the thing about bubblegum, it's the cotton candy of music. It's funny to indulge in from time to time. I like most of the music you cover. I find the stories interesting. Keep 'em coming!
I’m always fascinated by the kitsch of oldies, especially the stuff that doesn’t really hold up, so this was right up my alley. Amazing that one guy could be a one-hit wonder five separate times. I can’t wait to run this by my father, who’s a musician who grew up in exactly this era.
I actually love when you do older songs. My parents are baby boomers, and I was exposed to a lot of 50s, 60s and 70s music. So if you are able to do any other older songs, go for it. I enjoy all of your episodes. Thank you for the content.
I’m a younger millennial but 60s, 70s, and 80s music is my music of choice. Give me all the one hit wonders from that era and I’m a happy girl. 🥰
I am 30, and used to love listening to oldies with my dad. Hes no longer with us and whenever you cover a fun oldies novelty i think about how much he'd enjoy it. Thanks Todd!
I'm born two years after this hit but I feel I've heard it hundreds of times and it is insanely catchy. I was also delighted to see this because I was aware of Tony Burrows appearing in about 4 different bands on Top of the Pops in the same year.
Of course that whole comment is pretty redundant now that I've seen the video!
ohh ive totally heard this on a classics radio station that my parents play. this is one of those songs i loved without ever even knowing what it was called