"Party All the Time" by Eddie Murphy (f/Chris DeMakes)

[00:00:00] This episode of One Hit Thunder is brought to you by DistroKid. Ah, the 80s. A time when every celebrity had a secret, or not so secret, desire to dominate the music charts. But no actor turned singer had a more meteoric rise and equally swift

[00:00:27] backlash than Eddie Murphy. His Rick James penned chorus for Party All The Time might be an earworm you can't escape, but let's be real, the rest of the song is as forgettable

[00:00:37] as a VHS tape in a Netflix era. This week, we've got a special guest who knows a thing or two about catchy tunes. Podcaster and less than Jake frontman Krista Makes joins us to dive into Eddie Murphy's lone radio hit.

[00:01:25] Chris, you and I don't talk to each other enough. So we had to do it on One Hit Thunder as well. But for good reason, because today we are talking about Eddie Murphy's Party

[00:01:35] All The Time, a song that, you know, you got a few years on me. I'm sure you lived this song. I did live this song. Absolutely. Yeah. And the hook is undeniably one of the catchiest hooks I'd say of the 80s. Yeah. That's all it's got.

[00:01:53] That's all it's got. Thanks, Matt. That's all it's got. I went back. I have not listened to this song admittedly in 30 years or more. I mean, maybe the hook I've heard since then

[00:02:05] on a TikTok reel or something, but there's no there's no song around the hook. It is terrible. Chris, I will tell you, I don't usually do this. I'll like do selected songs for whatever

[00:02:21] the artist is. I like check out like their other singles, maybe dive in. I for us, I listen to every, every Eddie Murphy song from all of his albums. This was a painful experience. I got to tell you.

[00:02:38] Well, and this is like we've talked about because we did like a Deion Sanders episode. Like we've talked about like these celebrities trying to do music. And it's it's in the 80s and there was no lacking in that. But I think Eddie Murphy, more than any other musician

[00:02:59] we talked about, pulled every famous friend he could get his hands on to make this career work. And like obviously when we're talking about Party All the Time, you're talking about Rick James, you're talking about Stevie Wonder being involved in this.

[00:03:14] But I want to talk about later in his career for a quick second with his third album, Love's All Right. The opening track is a song called Hello. That is just or it's called Yeah, it's

[00:03:27] just a bunch of people saying the word Yeah. This is who's saying yeah on that album. This is some of the people saying yeah on that album. Amy Grant, En Vogue, Garth Brooks, Babyface, Barry White, Bon Jovi, Elton John, Emmanuel Lewis, Heavy D, Janet Jackson, Julio

[00:03:47] Inglasius, Luther Vandross, MC Hammer, Michael Jackson, Patti LaBelle, Paul McCartney, Richie Sambora, Stevie Wonder and Teddy Pengrass all just came into the studio to say yeah for Eddie Murphy's album. That's the equivalent of Less Than Jake getting Green Day and Blink and you know, all these

[00:04:07] different bands to come in and in our hopes of getting the hook of yeah on the radio. No, I would say it's even worse than that. It would be like Andy Samberg getting all

[00:04:17] of these ska bands to come in and say yeah on an album. Well, the thing is at least you're a singer in a band. Good point. I gotta go back to something Chris said. You know, I can't believe you went and

[00:04:30] listened to all those songs. I listened to the follow up single. I think it was called Put Your Mouth On Me. Was that one of the ones? Oh boy was it. Yeah and here's the thing and I think Eddie Murphy more so than Bruce Willis, even Don

[00:04:46] Johnson, David Hasselhoff, you know, and you mentioned a little bit ago Chris that I lived it. I did. Eddie Murphy was like the biggest thing in the world right there. Okay. He kind

[00:04:57] of had all bases covered before he got into the PG and G rated audiences with cartoon voiceovers and things in later years. But he had the bases covered. He had the raunch

[00:05:08] and the filth of his stand up. But he also was a celebrity from Beverly Hills Cop and all these different movies 48 hours that he was starring in. I mean major major star trading

[00:05:18] places. I think it could be argued he could have put out anything and it would have sold right. Yeah. And I mean he was lucky that he had a hook like this that like Rick James bestowed upon him this hook.

[00:05:32] We got to talk about the Rick James of it all because did you watch the music video? Of course I did. There's also a making up. Did you watch. Did you see that. Oh I did

[00:05:43] not. I bet it's as good as the making of Thriller. Yeah it's just like it's just more behind the scenes stuff of what you what you see in the video. But I think Rick James was a

[00:05:54] very odd inclusion here. It had been about four years or so since he had a hit with Super Freak. He had produced for Tina Marie and some other artists but he was in a really

[00:06:04] bad spiral. This is well documented in the in the early 80s drug drug spiral. So I'm wondering you know because to my knowledge I could be wrong. I think this was Rick James

[00:06:14] last hit probably. Yeah I would I would venture a guess. I think as Chris was talking about earlier before we hit record I think Rick James kind of slipped into obscurity until Eddie Murphy's brother started talking about him on Chappelle's show like two decades later

[00:06:30] and sharing stories of hanging with Rick James which is some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen in my life. The Rick James stories but this music video for anyone who hasn't seen

[00:06:40] it it's like in this I guess Buffalo. Buffalo is where Rick James Studio is. I thought that was funny. I was like why do you record this in Buffalo. Oh I guess that's where Rick James

[00:06:48] Studio is. And the video is like the recording session. It's one of those music video recording sessions where everything's being recorded at the same time like live in the room. And Rick James has wavy blonde hair in this video. But my question I look this up right before

[00:07:07] we got on here Chris I was like this has to be this had to have happened because of drugs. This this just all of this. But Eddie Murphy surprisingly never did drugs. And I never

[00:07:19] thought drugs. I thought hubris. I thought for sure that this was just ego hubris. And I just I think that there was this element you mentioned like Don Johnson like there was all of these

[00:07:33] actors going to music and I feel like Eddie Murphy has a very well documented ego. I think that if he saw any actor that was beneath him making it even a little bit as a musician he

[00:07:46] needed to prove that he was better than that person by also making it as a musician. That's an interesting take. I never I never really thought about like that again. I can

[00:07:55] just I can kind of hear it or see it behind the scenes. Okay you got to imagine the offers that were coming across Eddie Murphy's management company at this point. The off I mean this is everything probably from toothpaste commercials to anything you could think of. And finally

[00:08:10] someone came along or the manager went to labels and said hey we should do a record here. But most likely a label just saw dollar signs and said hey. And they got they got the biggest advance

[00:08:20] and they went and did it. And again I'll say that I think that it could have been anything and it would have sold just based on based on his name. Yeah. So did you know this kind of blew my

[00:08:32] mind that Eddie Murphy before this album had done backup vocals for a band called the Busboys. Are you familiar with the Busboys. I read that. I am. And which begs the question and I was just

[00:08:47] gonna say this before Matt. You know it is it's well known that actors from the 70s like Leif Garrett Sean Cassidy these guys all went and had had singing careers but they had they had ghost

[00:09:00] singers. Okay their voice might have been in there but the lead and the chorus is okay. And a lot of times you go back and listen to those singles of those artists the verses are terrible because

[00:09:09] it is them singing and a lot of times it's line by line. No here's the note. And they're they're pushing these guys to get just either Frankenstein in a song together one note at a time. They're

[00:09:21] Frankenstein in one vocal at a time just to get a take out of the verses. But then the chorus comes it's like wow this guy's voice got better. It's like yeah because there's two other voices there

[00:09:29] with him. And I wonder how much of we're really hearing of Eddie Murphy here. Rick James is all over this song. Yeah all over this song especially on the ad lib part. Yeah. So for you to know the

[00:09:42] but there's definitely a song that I guarantee you know by the Busboys. Okay Eddie Murphy did not sing backup vocals on this particular Busboys song. They do the song cleaning up the town in

[00:09:52] Ghostbusters. Oh my god. That that real bluesy one it's like Ghostbusters cleaning up the town. The songs the songs in Ghostbusters are all so bad. Like when they first get chased out of the

[00:10:06] library at the beginning and it's like it's like this like I think it's that I think it's all we have to cleaning up the town. Okay yeah yeah yeah. The Ghostbusters soundtrack so crazy.

[00:10:15] This is a should be it's a whole other episode but Ray Parker Jr. I never knew. I'm gonna tell you guys something about Ray Parker Jr. you might not know right now. Oh I think I know where you're going with this. Oh you already know this fact?

[00:10:30] I did not know this till last night but I oh is this where you're going? He wrote Mr. Telephone Man by New Edition. No I didn't know that. That's whoa. He's the sole writer on that song. Less than

[00:10:43] a year before New Edition did that song a Jamaican artist kind of reggae artist did the song it's about two beats slower but it's pretty much the same exact thing that New Edition recorded.

[00:10:56] So yeah I went down that rabbit hole last night when I was preparing for a party all the time. Yes what were you gonna say Chris? My Ray Parker thing is way worse than that. My Ray Parker thing

[00:11:07] is obviously we all know that he ripped off Huey Lewis. Chris this might be a little bit controversial but I also saw that I Want A New Drug there was a song before that that they say

[00:11:21] Huey Lewis ripped off. I don't which is pretty crazy. What's that song called do you know? I can't find what it was it was like in a TikTok or something I saw but they put the songs over top

[00:11:31] of each other and I was like whoa but my point about the Ray Parker Jr thing was in the song in the recording of the song so Ray Parker Jr I think he was married but the people that go

[00:11:45] Ghostbusters the crowd of people do you know anything about this? No I know that it's a crowd of people continue. Yeah that he was married but he had a 17 year old girlfriend and the people

[00:11:58] saying Ghostbusters were his 17 year old girlfriend and her friends who he invited over to go Ghostbusters uncredited on the album oh man yeah not great. Also I forgot that I had this note written down

[00:12:12] we were we were asking how this Eddie Murphy album happened and we were talking about maybe they saw dollar signs but there's also this factoid that I read that said the album was recorded as in part

[00:12:23] to fulfill a hundred thousand dollar bet Eddie Murphy had made with Richard Pryor because Richard Pryor said that Eddie Murphy couldn't sing Eddie Murphy then wrote in the liner notes of the album

[00:12:35] to my friend Richard Pryor my idol with whom I have a hundred thousand dollar bet no mother fucker I didn't forget I can sing. Wow. Like I said hubris the ego and hubris. Here's the other

[00:12:50] thing did you guys go and look because I did I couldn't find any live performances of this with Eddie Murphy. Oh I don't think Eddie Murphy toured with this song. Well even like a SNL appearance or

[00:13:01] anything and remember he could have easily gotten he was hosting that show back around that time. Oh regularly. Regularly so he certainly could have got which again I'll ask could he really sing did

[00:13:12] he feel comfortable I mean they probably would have got up and just lip-synced him on a nationally televised show but I found that a little a little strange that somebody wouldn't have wanted him to

[00:13:23] perform he could have opened or been at the Grammy Awards he would have been a huge a huge draw to any MTV awards anything of that nature. There's a YouTuber named Todd in the shadows who

[00:13:35] does something similar to what we do at One Hit Thunder where he'll do like these 20 minute videos diving into one hit wonders and he did an episode on Eddie Murphy and he pointed out something that

[00:13:43] I didn't even think about which is like if you watch old SNL you have these episodes where Eddie Murphy does a really good Stevie Wonder he does like he can do he can sing as these other musicians

[00:13:59] and then he chooses to not do that for this whole album and tries to sing authentically like Eddie Murphy and he's not nearly as good singing with his natural voice as when he's

[00:14:10] trying to replicate someone else's singing voice and it begs the question of like why not just try to do an album where you sound like Stevie Wonder just to do a Stevie Wonder impersonation the whole

[00:14:20] time. But let's also remember that there was so much money going around that you know it just could have been you know to Rick James hey you're not telling anybody who cut this lead vocal.

[00:14:32] I have my doubts that it's Eddie Murphy singing is what I'm getting at at all. Especially the Ooooooooh. Yeah there's no way. I think he showed up for the video and I think he you know had a car service waiting for him

[00:14:48] and he went he went back to the hotel after I think that's all that happened here. It could be one of two things you're you're suggesting a Milli Vanilli situation. It very well could be but.

[00:14:57] But I on the reverse wonder if Eddie Murphy came in and recorded this album took the headphones off and thought man I killed it and then after he left Rick James is like we need to bring in someone else to sing these songs.

[00:15:12] And that has happened a lot too and when I was going down this rabbit hole I went and I just like okay who sang on you know I mean I don't even know if you guys know who Leif Garrett is but he

[00:15:24] was yeah okay so I'm like who's who sang on his records I started digging you know and he was very very dismayed to find out when he'd hear the records after he'd be in the studio saying he's

[00:15:35] like it doesn't sound like me there and a man is like it's fine kid you know. And so those tricks were going on they still go on today with everything with studio drummers,

[00:15:45] guitarists like oh that guy's a great guitarist well he might not have played that solo you don't know what goes on behind closed studio doors. I mean that's something that was I remember when I found out that my friend

[00:15:56] was a session drummer at a recording studio and he'd just be like oh yeah those are my drums on insert very popular band's name here and I'm like wait so the drummer didn't drum on that album

[00:16:08] he's like he drummed on a couple songs but it was mostly me. Yeah that is very common. Chris we were talking about this when we were recording an episode earlier today do you think what we do is the thing that the most people be it athletes, actors,

[00:16:26] your everyday person who's not involved in the arts that playing music, making music, getting on a stage, performing music in front of people is the thing that people dream about and want to do the most? Yeah the most desired career.

[00:16:40] The most desired thing I mean I would think a lot of like if my band was huge and I got offered to act in something I would jump on the chance but not all musicians would do that. Correct.

[00:16:50] I think any anybody that seeks it I think this is the most sought after thing that people want is to perform music don't you? Is that why so many celebrities put out albums? Well absolutely well two reasons when you're the caliber of Eddie it's just another income stream

[00:17:10] but yes it's a wanting to be on the other side we know firsthand on Chris to make a podcast we had Tim Heidecker on a very seasoned well-known comedian has a fantastic career but he said it

[00:17:23] straight up he's like yeah music was my first love you look at any of these guys look at Corey Feldman you know and people laugh at him he's as genuine as it gets he like yeah that's what he's into

[00:17:35] he's the dancing Michael Jackson's his idol etc he wishes he was a singer. But he is not. Yeah he's definitely not. Correct and a lot of them aren't you know. Know what I will say about Corey Feldman right now I would rather listen and watch Corey Feldman

[00:17:52] than Eddie Murphy because I think I've seen enough Corey Feldman performances where I feel like I would remember that I have a feeling that if Eddie Murphy did play a show live it'd probably

[00:18:03] be kind of boring yeah I think he'd just be standing there and maybe doing like a little side shuffle dance but I don't think he would be running around and screaming and being crazy like Corey Feldman.

[00:18:15] That's a great point and that builds off what Chris just said it's like how do you take and most likely why he never went on a concert tour how does he get on stage and not tell fuck jokes? Yeah.

[00:18:28] What's he gonna talk about hi everybody I hope everybody's enjoying that the light chop breeze coming out of the east tonight it's a beautiful night here like that wouldn't work for Eddie Murphy.

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[00:22:06] because we've got it all on Weird Algorithm available wherever you get your podcasts. And now you know. Was that enough references? Another thing I don't understand and this is about all these actors who then put out a Vanity Project album or something.

[00:22:24] We all know Party All The Time it's actually a great hook that Rick James obviously wrote. It's been stuck in my head for my entire life. Yes that song regularly plays in my head can't help it but the rest of the album and the

[00:22:38] subsequent albums it's so bad but in like such a boring way you would think if you have all this money you have Rick James working on it. You said Stevie Wonder was involved? Stevie Wonder wrote two of the songs on the album.

[00:22:52] Oh that's surprising to me those must have been real throwaway. Michael Cimbello. Oh he said Michael Cimbello wrote. Oh I believe that too. Yeah he was he was part of some tracks on this yeah it was a full Frankenstein effort

[00:23:07] but you know that's what you did but you just said it Chris it the word that comes to mind for me is just it's bland. Yes. It's like walking into a golden corral and seeing just food for 10 blocks but none of it is palatable. It's all bread pudding.

[00:23:25] Yeah it's just you know like I'm full but I'm not satisfied. Knowing that Mike Cimbello worked on this and I'm thinking of the chorus I could believe that that is Mike Cimbello's voice pitched a little bit differently because that's not too far off from the Maniac Chorus.

[00:23:44] Possibly I don't know. Range wise. I don't know if I read he had something to do with this song or a track on the album I can't remember but he was credited in there you know you said it before with the

[00:23:56] yaz he had everybody come in you know that's kind of we're still seeing that today my band's done it you get your friends to do a feature it kind of gets a little bit of attention

[00:24:06] and some eyes on your project and no matter who Eddie Murphy would have had involved with this it could have been anybody it could have been a could have been the defensive

[00:24:15] coach for a for a you know 2A college ball team and because it was Eddie it would have sold. Now could it have hypothetically been I don't know Michael Jackson in the early 90s? I mean yeah we got to talk about that.

[00:24:28] Eddie Murphy who had this vanity project of singing has a song with freaking Michael Jackson what's up with you all one word what's up with you which that as well I've never forgot that what's up what's up what's up with you.

[00:24:44] It's the closest thing he had to a second hit I would say is what's up with you. I mean it was an MTV music video you're talking about the biggest artist in the world the most famous person in the world he had a song with.

[00:24:54] No I know and that really raised a lot of eyebrows at the time because you know Eddie's stand-up routine was pretty raunchy he was saying some stuff about Michael back then everybody was saying something about Michael back then he was the biggest star in the world

[00:25:09] but that surprised me and I think and I could be wrong around that time of working with Michael Jackson in the 90s that last hurrah for a hit we'll call it it wasn't too long

[00:25:21] after that that Eddie started getting into doing the more kids movies so I think maybe that kind of you know he crossed over there. I would say right around like 95 96 I remember as a kid seeing like Nutty Professor which

[00:25:35] was still like a PG-13 movie but I think that put Eddie Murphy more on my lens as a kid and then shortly after that you get Shrek and then it's just like off to the

[00:25:47] races for the the G and PG movies where I think Eddie Mer it clicked in Eddie Murphy's brain of like oh if I make an R-rated movie there's like 50% of the population that still

[00:25:59] can't see that movie yeah but if I make a PG movie I can get 100% of the population to be able to see that movie yeah of course well billionaire there's definitely that and it's I think you have diminishing returns with with vulgar comedy either you're gonna

[00:26:16] be out on the circuit like a George Carlin for your whole life and you're not really into making movies barring a cameo in Bill and Ted or something you know it's did you know the Rodney Dangerfield story with him and Eddie Murphy though it's one of my favorite

[00:26:28] Rodney Dangerfield stories maybe refresh my memory so Rodney saw Eddie Murphy when he was like 20 performing comedy and he walked up to him in his Rodney way he said hey kid you're cussing too much and then apparently like 10 years later they're at an award show

[00:26:47] and he goes into the bathroom and Eddie Murphy's in the bathroom and he goes I was wrong who knew yeah you know and let's go back real quick about the living it part so I was around 11 12 years

[00:27:03] old when all this was going on and that was still kind of at the age where your parents are like you're not staying up and watching the Eddie Murphy HBO special but you had a friend who was

[00:27:12] a latchkey kid his parents weren't around so I ended up seeing delirious at that age and like I said he was he was like a mythical creature Eddie Murphy at that point yeah he he just was

[00:27:23] like it was the most hilarious thing you could imagine to an 11 or 12 year old kid it was raunchy it was just did he just say that it was you know I didn't want my grandma knowing that I heard this

[00:27:34] it was it was that kind of thing it was like probably worse than the Slayer record but do you guys remember what the first filthy thing you ever heard was like the first raunchy song or

[00:27:45] thing you watched I distinctly remember oh what is it as a kid it was very important to me to be perceived as mature enough in front of my parents to buy a parental advisory sticker as a

[00:27:58] young kid and they were playing around with the idea and I was at my cousin's house and I was like I'm gonna listen to a bunch of his parental advisory CDs to figure out which one I want to

[00:28:07] listen to and the first one I grabbed was Adam Sandler They're All Gonna Laugh At You and hearing that second sketch with the buffoon oh yeah it's just every other word is like fucking shit but I

[00:28:20] also didn't realize I had the speaker really loud so everyone in the house could hear what I was listening to and that did not help my case yeah for getting a parental advisory sticker in the

[00:28:29] near future I love that that's what you brought up because okay that was I had heard some that was probably that and Sir Psycho Sexy Red Hot Chili Peppers were like some of the raunchiest

[00:28:40] things I had heard for the first time what's so funny about that is just like probably a month ago from recording this that my girlfriend Marquise son he's 11 and she walked past his room and you

[00:28:51] know what he was listening to 11 years old Adam Sandler at a medium pace I don't know if Chris I don't know if you know that song especially for she's like what are you listening to yeah of

[00:29:06] course I love how that lives on through generations that being the filthiest thing yeah Chris do you remember the raunchiest thing you heard as a kid the first or any of the first it was probably the

[00:29:17] rodeo song I was young I don't know what that is yeah it's the one that goes piss me off you fucking jerk you get on the nerves you ever heard that one no here comes Johnny with a pecker in

[00:29:29] his hand he's one ball man and he's off to the rodeo oh I have heard that yeah right come on you fucking dummy get your right sit right get on my nerves you goddamn jerk you know you piss me off

[00:29:40] you fucking jerk wow I love this song yeah it's called Gary Lee and Showdown is the name of the band g-a-r-r-y I think Gary Lee and Showdown now a close second would be finding my dad's playboys

[00:29:54] and hustlers in his underwear drawer yeah the kids today don't know the struggle man I had to actually put in effort to find these things and now with a push of with a push of the button as long as

[00:30:05] your parents don't have a filter on your device you're uh you're good I mean even in Chris and I's day you had the internet and it still was going to take 10 or 15 minutes before you saw something

[00:30:16] back in my day you saw you saw naked women the way all would people saw naked women from a gar an inexplicable garbage bag full of porno mags in the woods so I'm just young enough that I missed

[00:30:30] that but I did see a naked woman the way you're supposed to which is loading a couple pages at a time on a computer screen modem where you're like I think I'm almost at the boob scrambled pay-per-view

[00:30:44] that that too boy the scramble paper man you guys just reminded me of something my uh jeez I have not thought about this you don't get on these types of tangents on Chris to make

[00:30:54] no you know you certainly I might have to sit in more often here jeez boy you guys just wrangled a memory uh or this conversation did I should say 1984 85 right around this time we're talking about

[00:31:04] party all the time my buddy's uh parents he's my best friend he they opened up a photoshop called photo pronto in Port Charlotte Florida well remember you know besides a polaroid uh if you

[00:31:18] wanted you know quality pictures from a camera of someone naked you had to get them developed somewhere so they of course uh this is probably highly against the law uh they would keep copies

[00:31:31] of all the nudes that came in and they had a whole folder back there and Jim and my friend be like dude you gotta come check out the folder like his older brother had told him you know

[00:31:40] his older brother was like 16 working there and there we are it was like finding a treasure trove you know wow yeah well that's extra crazy because there's a world where you could look at those

[00:31:51] photos and be like I might bump into this person they live in my town yeah getting photos developed we had we had one among like me pj steve johnny all my friends that I still hang out with today

[00:32:04] uh we had one porno video that we all dubbed for each other it was called it was called dirty dozens we can still me and pj could still we all can can quote lines from it there are lines

[00:32:20] from it like like if you're gonna die you gotta die for a good reason that was spoken like a true man there's all these lines on it we all know it's it's incredible I can quote I can quote a porno

[00:32:31] too my first porno I ever saw yeah what's your quote it was the original deep throat I watched it with mark cruise oh yeah and there's a scene I'll never forget where the woman is sitting on

[00:32:41] a kitchen counter with her legs hiked up and there's a guy I hope eddie murphy hears this episode there's a guy crouched down and she looks down at him and she says do you mind if I smoke

[00:32:55] while you eat she lights up a cigarette do you know what the only porn is that I own I own this is I do not this is the most matt kelly answer so you know I buy like weird kitschy shit

[00:33:07] there's a there's a company called vinegar syndrome that you've definitely heard us talk about on horror movie night and they put out obscure horror movies and what they call classy exploitation porn and there was one title I had to buy and it was called

[00:33:20] let my puppets come it was an all puppet porn oh yeah that's that's right up your alley oh my god I have a question how do we uh get this back around if we even can to party all the time

[00:33:34] yes I think chris has got it in his back pocket I do I do we really went off on a tangent there but I want to just talk about before we decide if this is thunder or blunder I want to talk about

[00:33:43] what was going on at the time this song peaked so December 28th of 1985 is when it hit its peak of number two it was almost there it hit number two do you know what kept it off of the number one spot

[00:33:56] I don't I can't remember the song was it Lionel Richie it was Lionel Richie say you say me yeah say you say me but it's interesting to me too that party all the time peaked on December 28th of

[00:34:06] 1985 right before new year's that's like perfect timing uh number three at this moment was alive and kicking from simple minds which I actually don't remember I do live and yeah okay I'm not

[00:34:18] I don't remember does that mean Simple Minds is on a list of one hit wonders but I guess they're not I mean don't you forget about me I mean I would have thought they were a one-hit wonder yeah well

[00:34:29] and our three song is certainly not you know what I've I've went down this with you Chris when we've looked for guests and it's like sometimes you're really surprised about bands you thought were

[00:34:39] one hit wonder like whoa they did that song too I was going down uh the whole last night looking at what was the band quarter flash and I thought they only had one song hardened my heart but

[00:34:49] they had a couple couple couple other ones so you know it's a phrase that we haven't used at all on this podcast yet but I think it's a key phrase that we need to start using is that there is a

[00:35:00] huge difference between a one hit wonder and someone who just has a signature song that's like what we fell into with Warren G regulate is his signature song but he definitely did have other

[00:35:11] songs to chart it he did yeah yeah we're we're fast and loose with the term boy it's gonna be a funny episode we'll talk about it yeah well yeah yeah some of the other songs that were on the

[00:35:23] charts at that time number four was that's what friends are for from beyond and friends five was I miss you from climax I don't remember that one either climax with a k uh small town from

[00:35:33] john mellon camp was at number six broken wings from mr mister at seven separate lives from phil collins and maryland martin at eight tonight she comes from the cars at nine election day from

[00:35:43] arcadia at 10 i don't remember that one some other like noteworthy ones in the charts arcadia was a spin-off of duran duran oh so there was the power station which was robert palmer i think maybe

[00:35:57] simon was in arcadia okay so any any head that was a duran spin-off um some of the other popular songs at that time were dire straits walk of life burning heart from survivor was number 15

[00:36:09] at this time above bruce springsteen my hometown um i'm your man from wham was still in the charts conga from miami sound machine we built this city was up there when the going gets tough the tough

[00:36:22] get going from billy ocean who's zooming who from aretha franklin was popular hit this time how will i know from whitney houston living in america from james brown yeah we have these

[00:36:32] rocky songs at the time there must have been rocky rocky for rocky rocky four okay yeah and tar tarzan boy was popular at this time the only song that jumped out at me is like oh that song

[00:36:43] rules uh was starship sarah debuted at 65 that day right right starship this was definitely the starship time and also i will note that the biggest this is around christmas time this song was peaking and the most sought after christmas present of 1985 was teddy ruxpin oh people so

[00:37:05] theoretically at some point someone you know you put a cassette tape in there and teddy ruxpin like would move his mouth to it yeah at some point someone put party all the time into a teddy

[00:37:15] ruxpin which is the preferred way to listen to party all the time chris we'll start with you did eddie murphy bring the one hit thunder or was he a one hit blunder nobody can as far as i know

[00:37:26] could hum the hook to the track he did with michael jackson uh or or his subsequent follow-up uh i'm doing air quotes his other singles he only had one single he's a one hit one yeah or blunder excuse me

[00:37:39] yeah yeah yeah i mean i'm gonna agree this is i i would say that in the grand scheme of artists turned musician i would put eddie murphy very low on that list uh so definitely and that's like

[00:37:56] an impressive list to find yourself towards the bottom of because there's not a lot on the top of that list but i would say blunder for sure okay a single hook does not make a great song

[00:38:07] yeah well we got two blunders so far i will say that in the grand scheme of actors slash comedians turned musicians there aren't a lot of even look if eddie murphy has one hook that might be the one

[00:38:22] best hook of any of them that just that chorus is you that's how you started the episode chris it's undeniable it's been in my head that's a great argument it makes me i'm still gonna stick with

[00:38:34] my choice but that's it's a heck of an argument matt well because heartbeat don johnson that's probably the only hook i can't i can't hum the bruce lewis song so yeah but here's what i'm

[00:38:46] gonna say as a counteraction to that is that hook undeniable because eddie murphy's singing it or could literally anyone have sang that hook and it would have been an undeniable hook and also questionable if eddie murphy's singing the hook that's a good point it is eddie murphy's name

[00:39:03] that brought this song to the forefront i don't know if this was a rick james song would it have been a hit i mean rick james had a name but by 1985 was rick james already like way out he was

[00:39:15] way out of the limelight he was down a cocaine spiral yeah i don't think that uh you know i could be wrong i don't think this song was a hit i think it's because of eddie murphy i think that

[00:39:24] that that one hook is hit worthy but i i wanted to be pleasantly surprised yesterday when i reviewed this i wanted to put on and go this could have been a hit for anybody this song is such a great

[00:39:35] pop song i couldn't believe besides the hook party all the time how how just bad this was it was bland it's just wow i which we didn't dive into lyrics but even just what the song is about

[00:39:48] is so weird to me for an eddie murphy song which is like the song's basically just like hey girl i just want to hang out in the house why you got a party yeah i mean i like the party all the time

[00:39:59] like i said i painfully went through his entire catalog and listened to it while i was running on the treadmill it did not get me psyched for running and his entire catalog about it was all

[00:40:09] yeah like chris said bland so not good and the songs bounced between meaningless fluff and him trying to make a statement about the world or something but like doing it so poorly it's very

[00:40:23] very it's a very very bad back catalog i would agree i think this is a triple certified blunder for sure sorry eddie but before we sign off obviously chris do you have anything that you

[00:40:34] need to promote any tours any podcast stuff anything well yeah well first of all matt we'd love to invite you over to christa makes a podcast to come hang out with us uh which one of my hits

[00:40:44] one day exactly maybe maybe we could get our i was i was gonna say rick james he's no longer with us maybe we can get eddie murphy to sit in with you on that but uh yeah christina makes

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