"Shattered Dreams" by Johnny Hates Jazz

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[00:01:42] Despite their rapid rise to fame, the band disbanded before the year had even ended. This week, we dive into the short-lived career of the band, exploring their international success, the sudden end of their journey, and how it feels impossible that Matt had never heard this song before.

[00:01:58] Join us as we piece together the story of a band that left us all with shattered dreams. To make the money guaranteed And you can live off royalties forever And it makes me wonder, is it just a wonder? Or is it one hit thunder?

[00:02:43] Hey Matt, have you ever had any dreams shattered? I've had many a dream shattered Chris. Oh too bad. Well, I have a song for ya. Oh boy do you so yeah

[00:02:53] Chris I have something that I think is so funny, and I hope that you also find this as funny as I did. I thought I knew this song. Mm-hmm. I thought for sure I knew this song. Okay. I didn't know this song. Really? I was thinking

[00:03:13] I was thinking of Mr. Mister and I was like take these shattered dreams Wow No, that is not this song you don't know this song I genuine this like I've said before there's this

[00:03:27] I feel like the the biggest spot where my biggest blind spot in all of music is like 1985 to 1989 if like the songs that were hits in that year didn't get repurposed into like a movie or a TV show sequence that I know I

[00:03:45] Like it's just it's lost on me because that was that was when I was a newborn up until I was five Which meant that I mostly was listening to the classic rock radio in my parents car for like a large chunk of that and just was completely just

[00:04:01] Like eyes closed and ears covered to what was happening in modern music during that time period I can't believe this hasn't made its way to you though, because I thought it never went away Yeah, mr. Mr. Broken wings he thought this was but dude this song is still

[00:04:20] grocery store gas station Dentist office like it is around it is out there in the air I don't think this song ever went away I I mean look it might be in any of those places

[00:04:34] But those are also places that I don't often whip out my phone and Shazam what's being played in there So I can check it out later

[00:04:40] I mean I can understand if someone's listening to this and they didn't know that the band who sang shattered dreams was called Johnny H Jazz, I'll give you that let's start there. Do you think that's a good name? No Well

[00:04:58] Johnny H jazz it makes me think that there's somebody named Johnny in the band which there is not there is but I also feel like for what this music is

[00:05:08] That almost feels more like like I could see like minor threat playing on a bill with a band called Johnny H Jazz more than what this band actually sounds like like I don't think the song actually I

[00:05:21] Don't think that the band's name fits what their sound is either Yeah, well, you know after Johnny H jazz we'll get to this a little later But after they ceased to be pretty shortly after they had a huge hit I will say yeah

[00:05:35] That the you know, the the singer of the song Clark Datchler went on a you know What pursued a solo career and I thought that was pretty funny considering his name is Clark Datchler

[00:05:51] Johnny H jazz is definitely better than Clark Datchler. So so here's my vibe of this I'm gonna talk about a band that you kind of came up with and have played some shows with and I Think you're somewhat friendly with some of the people in it but

[00:06:06] There was always this rumor and I think it was an unfounded rumor But we're not here to discuss that one way or the other that the band Paramore was always a like fictional band essentially to propel Hayley Williams solo career, right?

[00:06:24] Like that was the rumor that I always heard was that the record label signed Hayley Williams But punk was big so they gave her like some hired-gun

[00:06:32] people her age and they did this Paramore thing and that was like how they were trying to make her pop so that eventually she could do a solo career a la a Gwen Stefani, I don't think that that's actually true

[00:06:43] But that was a big rumor that I would hear a lot in the 2000s It does sound like that's what Johnny H Jazz actually was For this Clark guy that he got signed because he was in a bunch of bands and then he by himself got signed

[00:06:57] And was paired up with this guy Mike to like produce a record and I think they just kind of Stumbled their way into being a band, but then as soon as this song blew up

[00:07:10] It was like alright now Clark is gonna go and do the solo thing that we signed him for originally Like that's the vibe that I get. I mean, okay I'll give you that but let's start from the beginning on

[00:07:22] Our guys Clark Datchler and Mike Nessito, so of course they are an English pop band Clark Datchler is the songwriter vocalist and keyboardist and Mike Nessito is the guitarist bassist producer and engineer

[00:07:39] Gonna go away. I've been Mike was originally in I think I know why well in his early career He was the guitarist for Katrina and the waves So, I don't know if he was the original guitarist or if he was a guitarist later on in their career

[00:07:52] But it did list him as guitarist of Katrina and the waves I think that was later because he produced that he produced them later. He produced he actually produced their song It was like way after the fact way after walking on sunshine like more than a decade later

[00:08:06] They won the Eurovision song contest with a song that I listened to that. I don't know How do you think it was very good, but he actually produced that song and a lot of other stuff So maybe he did play for them at some point, but yeah

[00:08:21] He's not on the Wikipedia page as a band member. So right away I can't I cannot believe Talk about bands that we should have covered by now on this show like the fact that Katrina and the waves has avoided

[00:08:33] Yeah, our podcast is actually pretty impressive because I mean for you It's the soundtrack of having to pay a lot of money to something Clark Datcheler His father Fred was a member of two chart-topping bands from the 50s

[00:08:51] The Stargazers were the first British band to reach number one on the UK singles chart And then he was also part of the polka dots Where he sang backing vocals for Frank Sinatra and patula Clark?

[00:09:03] I think what's really interesting about this is yeah, you can read that anywhere on Wikipedia. I watched an interview from BBC of Clark Datcheler from like a month ago from when we're recording this because I don't know if you know this Matt

[00:09:19] But Johnny H jazz is out there on tour. Yeah now It was one of the first things it was one of the first things I noticed was that they were current like it said like

[00:09:31] Currently active what I went on their Wikipedia page and that kind of floored me. But yes, are they touring with level 42? That's right. Yeah That level 42 tour might have already happened there they're doing Johnny H jazz is doing their first ever

[00:09:47] Headlining tour 36 years into their career their first ever headlining tour. That's pretty cool. But What I was getting at is watching Clark Datcheler on BBC

[00:09:55] He talked about how there's all this stuff you could read about his dad, but he didn't know any of this stuff about his dad He found this stuff out about his dad by googling and finding it out on his own

[00:10:06] He said his dad was very humble just from the generation. He came from didn't talk and brag about Themselves or whatever. He says look at me. I'm on TV talking about my band my dad says nothing about the fact that he did all this cool stuff, but

[00:10:21] Clark did come from a musical family now Mike Nessito the other guy from Johnny H jazz He's from an American family that was based in Europe with the US Armed Forces

[00:10:32] And his mother was in a closed harmony group called the cactus kids which performed for troops throughout northern Europe So both guys came from musical families at 17 years old

[00:10:43] Clark Datchler released his first single on the London indie label blue bird and he was backed by members of the reggae band Aswad and shortly after he signed to Warner Brothers as a songwriter

[00:10:55] So, you know as a teenager he signed as a songwriter that doesn't necessarily mean they signed him as a performer No and it's kind of I feel like the interesting thing about the formation of this band is that it really is this like

[00:11:11] So many bands that I think we've covered on this podcast Thus far have been one of two things It feels like it's like dudes who met in college or high school

[00:11:22] and formed a band or like a bunch of dudes who are in a bunch of different bands in a local music scene that kind of

[00:11:29] Like met each other through playing shows and then decided to form the band that blew up. This I think is one of the first Versions of the story that we've heard where you've got these two dudes who don't know each other

[00:11:43] But whose lives are following this very similar Track of like came from musical families got decent jobs in behind the scenes positions in the music industry and met each other right because like you said like Clark is You know being a songwriter

[00:12:00] He is like trying his hand at singing in all these different bands, but I think his main gig was songwriting and Mike is Becoming this pretty established like recording engineer when you look at the list of people he worked with

[00:12:13] Like the police and the cure and Duran Duran so like he was no slouch out there No, Mike Nesito was doing it I mean he grew up in school bands and he grew up alongside friend and producer Phil Thornalli who had produced the cure pornography album and

[00:12:31] Mike Nesito now this makes sense Matt He grew up with some of the members of Katrina and the waves. So that was all his scene there But yeah, he also worked with Pink Floyd the Thompson twins. Mike Nesito was a real deal

[00:12:45] Engineer and I think he did some production work too But yes Clark Datchler and Mike Nesito met each other in 1982 at rack studios in London That and then Datchler had become the lead singer of a band called hot club

[00:13:01] Yeah, and then it was not until four years later in April of 1986 That Clark Mike and This guy with the last name Hayes. I forget his last his first name is doesn't matter. They all played in a hot club together and they

[00:13:18] Released together the first Johnny hates jazz single called me and my foolish heart on rack records and it wasn't a commercial success, but it did get substantial airplay and I listened to it and my description was that it's a song that sounds like

[00:13:34] Something that someone in an 80s movie would listen to while reflecting back on their love for someone while driving in a car as the sun

[00:13:42] Sets, I think that is the sound of this music. Can you picture it? Yeah, I can picture that when I was listening to it Um, I don't know what sounds magazine is what sounds magazine liked it

[00:13:51] They called it the record of the week when it was released. So it it definitely sounds like one of those things that like It wasn't blowing up but people people in the industry were into it

[00:14:03] which is a is a nice way to get things set up for the next track right because Then they sit down and they start writing new songs and one of those new songs is shattered dreams Right, and they perform a showcase and I'm gonna take a pause here

[00:14:19] So they play a showcase at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and were quickly signed to Virgin Records I Assume that a lot of people that listen to our show are like kind of in the understanding of the music world

[00:14:31] But for those who don't I feel like you've had to have played a showcase once or twice in your life What is a showcase for people who don't necessarily know? Yes, I have maybe maybe once or twice but usually it's

[00:14:48] In a room where you know good. It's not like some huge crowd it's just a room of like industry people or I we our bands never done this but I've heard stories too about bands just going to a place to play

[00:15:04] Just for the people from that label. So going to a room and playing in front of five people or something Well, I know from there was a podcast for a while That was about the history of tooth and nail records

[00:15:17] And I think almost every band that was signed to tooth and nail had similar stories of that the actual Like brick-and-mortar tooth and nail store in Seattle had a very small Venue quote-unquote in the basement that was just for showcases

[00:15:36] That bands would just show up and they would just play for whatever people were there that day staff wise And that would be like how Brendan would gauge if he was gonna sign that band or not So I feel like that's way more difficult to do then

[00:15:50] You know playing at Ronnie Scott's jazz club where you're probably in front of a couple different Well options and you it's hard to feed off of a 10 person employee crowd. That's just they're not knowing anything about you Right when I mean

[00:16:04] I've said this before when our band got signed the people that came to see us from fuel by Robin They came to a show So we were feeding off the energy of that show or whatever and on top of that

[00:16:15] It was the last show of the tour. So we were you know, we were firing on all cylinders We were well rehearsed and had our set down pat it was like the best scenario and that in its in its own ways a showcase and another way that

[00:16:31] Bands get showcased a lot is it places like South by Southwest or CMJ festival or something? It's kind of like an industry showcase of up-and-coming bands. So the closest thing that I've ever done to witnessing a showcase is when I was

[00:16:48] When I was in college, I was the event coordinator the the student event coordinator at the school So we had like the actual person who was hired to be the event coordinator and I was essentially

[00:16:58] Assistant and him and I went to NACA. Have you ever heard of NACA? Are you familiar with NACA? Yeah, so I think it's like the North American College Association or like it's it's some it stands for something

[00:17:10] But it's basically where all of the event coordinators for a specific area of colleges Go and what it would be is like we would sit there. We'd get a free dinner and on stage would be like a

[00:17:21] magician for 10 minutes and then it would be a comedian for 10 minutes and then a band would play for 10 minutes and then A solo artist would pay for 10 minutes and we would every night sit through these two to three hour showcases

[00:17:32] and then go into a room with all of the other colleges near us and Talk about like who did we like who didn't we like and would like land on which person we were all Unanimously interested in booking because you could get a cheaper rate

[00:17:48] If you could book them at like three colleges in a row in the same area Well, I don't know that I didn't know that part of it I just knew the part of you go there as a band or something and try to make them big college bucks

[00:18:00] Yeah, well it would literally be like like let's say you know your let's say punchline is playing college dates and it's $500 a show or something right like the mind the idea being like all right

[00:18:15] But if you just have to stay in Delaware County for four days and play four colleges in there It's only four hundred dollars a college because we're all like pooling in money and you're not having to drive as much

[00:18:28] I don't know what kind of bargains you guys were getting back there that ain't college bucks You're talking about their college got the big bucks. Well, we're talking about we're talking about Penn State the local commuter Brandywine campus

[00:18:40] So we didn't have a ton of bucks to spend. All right, we had I think we had a budget of Ten grand for entertainment for the entire year to work with so it's like alright Who can we get on like discount with like other local commuter campuses?

[00:18:54] But yeah, anyway, that's a huge sidetrack to they play this showcase They get signed to Virginia records and shattered Virginia records. Sorry. Oh my god. It's for lovers Chris virgin records Shattered dreams is released in March of 1987 and it's a pretty big hit out the gate

[00:19:15] It's a top five in the UK and it hits number two on the US Billboard Charts and number one on the US Adult Contemporary chart and they got a music video made by a pretty famous director

[00:19:27] Did you see who directed the video for shattered? It was David Fincher He also he did another video for them to for the song heart of gold Anyone who doesn't know David Fincher he made fight club seven gone girl big

[00:19:40] Hollywood director David Fincher is one of my favorite music video to director people because you look at the list of music videos He made and it in no way implies that he would go on to make movies like fight club and seven like he made like

[00:19:55] Very choreographed dancey Madonna music videos and then just made a career out of dark and gritty like Angry movies in the night. Yeah. Yeah Hey I do want to say something about shattered dreams that I thought was interesting another thing that I saw Clark say on this interview

[00:20:12] on BBC was that When he was writing it his dad who of course we all know his dad had the first ever first band ever have a number one single in the UK in the 50s or something and

[00:20:28] His dad heard him playing that and he said what is that? And he's like, oh, it's just a song I'm working on it on and his dad told him I think you just wrote your first hit

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[00:22:37] Chatter dreams translated in Japan I mean it wasn't until 1988 that it reached number two on the hot 100 the United States Do you know what kept it out of that number one spot Matt?

[00:22:48] So I do and I'm gonna I'm gonna further this is further proof of what I'm saying about this blind spot So number one was anything for you by Gloria Estefan. No wasn't oh

[00:22:59] Well, we reached number two on May 28th of 1988. Oh, I had May 14th of 1988 and that it was Gloria Estefan that day All right Maybe maybe it stayed at number two for a few weeks I had seen it was number two on May 28th, 1989

[00:23:16] 1988 and the song that was keeping it out of number one was one more try from George Michael Well, so this is what I was gonna say when I looked at the billboard charts for May 14th And let's just imagine that by May 28th not too much had changed

[00:23:30] But I literally knew two songs out of the entire top ten And they were Aerosmith angel and always on my mind by the pet shop boys

[00:23:40] I knew a lot of band names, but I was like, I have no clue what these songs are like looking at the titles well on May 28th Where I guess maybe this song just couldn't hit that number one, but stayed at number two

[00:23:55] You know it could and it sucks that if it couldn't get past a couple different songs if the glorious Gloria Estefan was there and then someone else Leaped over Johnny H

[00:24:06] Bomber but some of the other songs I saw on the charts at this time if you want some historical musical reference Naughty girls need love too from Samantha Fox. You don't know that one Matt No, naughty girls need love too together forever from Rick Astley

[00:24:20] Okay, that was not in the top ten two weeks prior So yeah that song I've had this argument and I know that my girlfriend listens So I'm gonna say it cuz I know that it pisses her off better song than never gonna give you up in my opinion

[00:24:33] Okay, they're very similar song. They're very similar I just think that it's a better song and I'm gonna I'm gonna stake my claim on that a few other songs that were in The airwaves at that point dirty Diana from Michael Jackson

[00:24:48] Top ten yet, but I know that one. It wasn't in the top ten this I'm talking top 40 Oh gosh, gotcha wishing well from Terrence Trent DRB who I can't believe we haven't done yet

[00:24:58] Don't know that one, you don't know wishing well and then on a mission well kiss and tell you Debut the butt was Yeah, and beds are burning for midnight oil was also in the top 40 at this time well, I do love that one Yeah past one hit thunder

[00:25:19] Song that we covered on here. So yeah, I mean they definitely had some success in the UK They had more success because on this album They had three other worldwide hits even if they weren't hits in that it states

[00:25:34] There was a song called I don't want to be a hero and I gave as I don't see these songs I kind of want to describe how they made me feel. I don't want to be a hero

[00:25:44] Feels like a song that you try on different outfits in a menswear store in an 80s movie like a montage of trying on Different outfits, does that make sense? Yeah Okay Turn back the clock

[00:25:59] Was another single that was a hit everywhere, but the United States and it featured vocals from Kim Wilde. You know That's Betty Davis eyes, right? No, that's Kim Carnes. Oh my god. What's oh is that kids in America? That is kids in America. Okay, it's a really heartfelt

[00:26:17] mid-tempo 80s jam early nice song and there's one more song is called heart of gold and this one kind of feels when you listen to the first 15 20 seconds it kind of feels like a like a Sonic the Hedgehog song in the intro

[00:26:33] It's kind of funky and it kind of feels like it would be playing on a level and Sonic the Hedgehog I like that. No, I I here's the okay So I'm not gonna bury the lead too much more here. Yes

[00:26:45] Did I not know the song shattered dreams certainly didn't did I listen to it? Certainly didn't did I listen to a bunch of Johnny hates jazz today and mostly had a good time listening to it

[00:26:55] Absolutely had a very good time with the judge it and I and I hear that I I actually specifically When I hit play on shattered dreams, I said this has an interesting bass sound And I felt that same way with with heart of gold

[00:27:10] It's got that like like I think of like a fast level in Sonic the Hedgehog Like type bass bass playing It's it's good stuff. I like this stuff a lot. It is it is so interesting to think about

[00:27:25] That like here's this band that has this international hit in May of 1988 there, you know, they've got all these other singles in the UK that are doing so well and and before the year even becomes 1989 their lead singer and primary songwriter just bounces

[00:27:46] The Johnny hates see a Johnny hates jazz. I'm going solo as Clark Datchler. I Mean, I I don't know. I yeah, I don't get it I don't know why and you know, he didn't talk to these dudes for like 20 years didn't talk to him for 20 years

[00:28:02] I think it's really interesting right so he leaves they replace him with the former bassist of the cure Which I feel it's for its Phil Thornalli the guy who produced the pornography album He was like in Mike Nesito's, you know, I kind of came up with him

[00:28:18] Yeah, which I think you know, we can talk about this at length, but Historically, it's kind of hard. Like I think like Van Halen and AC DC are kind of the only bands

[00:28:29] I can think of of have it having a main like a lead vocalist change is a Wildly different situation than having like a drummer quit, you know, I mean like it It's the vocals tend to be the sound that defines a band to a lot of people

[00:28:45] well, also this felt more like a project then a band, you know, it was like a Songwriter and lead singer and then a producer who did a bunch of stuff on it. It didn't feel like oh these guys were out

[00:29:01] Hitting every rock club is like this this band for years and years. It was more like a Project so it's a place one guy and call it the same thing

[00:29:11] Yeah, I mean, but they were probably like yo Clark Datchler. We just had all these hits. What are you doing? The year isn't over yet It almost makes me think of I feel like that's a lot of what uh

[00:29:22] I never know how to pronounce the students name. Was it Nate Bruce the guy from fun? I feel like he's a big project guy more than like, you know I mean like the format was him and another guy fun was him and two other guys

[00:29:36] Like I just get the vibe that He's way more comfortable. Just writing a bunch of songs and recording them then like being in a band where There's a collaboration and touring and all of that other stuff And maybe that was just maybe that's just how Clark was feeling

[00:29:54] I mean like maybe he's just like I just want to write my tunes and play my shows and I don't want anyone else's Input and I just want to do it Do it for me who knows?

[00:30:04] It's not like it's not like we're talking about this story and Clark became this massively successful Solo artist like following this as far as I can tell I mean probably thought he was gonna do what Phil Collins did you know or Peter Gabriel same bet

[00:30:23] 50 other you know singers that went solo and had success. It's just That that's not what happened. He moved to Amsterdam in the late 80s. He worked on his solo albums He went back to the UK and he based himself at Peter Gabriel's

[00:30:38] Real-world studios near bath throughout the 90s in 2000 he moved to the United States and created a solar-powered house and studio where he recorded most of his most recent Album tomorrow and throughout this time he studied the philosophy of indigenous people and became environmentally active

[00:30:57] So maybe he just had other things on his mind. He succeeded at music with Johnny H jazz maybe had some money in his pocket and Had other pursuits, you know

[00:31:07] let me ask you a question because what I read here was that he continued working on his solo records and Then in 19 or sorry in 2009 He wrote a song called magnetized which he felt would be a perfect song for Johnny H

[00:31:21] Jazz and then he rings up his buddy Mike. Yeah, I want you to talk to in 20 years yeah, I want you to imagine a world where like punchline breaks up after Action because Steve decides that he's gonna go do a solo project and you don't hear from Steve

[00:31:37] For 20 years and then one day your phone rings and Steve's just like I wrote a song and I think it's a punchline song Do you want to get together and record it? Like what is your thought at that point when you're getting a phone call? I

[00:31:51] Think the thought is probably like we had these we had this huge hit with shattered dreams United States and three other hits We only made you know, we didn't make that much music and we had this many songs

[00:32:04] I mean, I'd be down. I think I'd be down for doing it Why wouldn't you price in dollar signs or something? Plus everyone in the world knows this song except for you because we've all been hearing it for years and years

[00:32:16] They've been collecting royalties on this for decades. It definitely gets still played on You know Bob FM or you know, it's it's it's out there man. Believe me. It's out there

[00:32:29] And I'm sure it is and it is cool that the band is still doing everything now Hayes left after about 2010 But you know, it's it's kind of a wild story I think of like You know

[00:32:42] We talked about the laws how the laws were like this one album wonder they put all this work into this one album and then They just broke up and it almost felt like

[00:32:52] Johnny hates jazz was gonna go down that same route that they were gonna put out this one album and then You know the main guy quits and that's the it that's the end of it And all we ever have is this one album

[00:33:02] They did release a second album with Phil as the vocalist Didn't really do particularly well But well He's he's got fucked up in a car accident, right? He's in the hospital for two years two years

[00:33:18] Yeah, they and then that was it the band. That's some Jason Street shit Street but yeah, that's uh The fact that it's like 20 something years later those three guys get back together and and make a new record is Is kind of cool. I think

[00:33:39] Did you listen to the song that said we got to get Johnny hates jazz back together? I didn't but did you listen to it and think yeah, they definitely couldn't have done this if not as Johnny hates jazz It's interesting because it's from 2013

[00:33:52] But it's still for the most part sounds like it's from 1988 I like that part of it People seem to like it. It got pretty good airplay. It got a listed for several weeks on BBC Radio 2

[00:34:05] but so they were starting to get get back in the swing of things get I think people were psyched and then right at that moment Clark Datchelor collapsed in London and was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and all promotion

[00:34:21] For the song and a new album came to a halt. He made a full recovery but by that time the album had lost all momentum, but then The band released a new single called spirit of love in May of 2020. I

[00:34:37] Like it. It got like a 70s vibe. It's pretty soulful. It's like a feel-good song I thought it was pretty good. It wasn't shattered dreams, but it was pretty good Right And then in October of 2021, yeah, we were off on this Matt

[00:34:52] That's when they toured supporting level 42 years ago. You know what? Maybe they've been touring for three years with level 42 never slowed down. Well Chris I Don't feel great if the answer is yes on this with my chances

[00:35:06] But do you have a trivia game for the year of 1988 a year that I apparently know nothing that happened I do have a game for you It's six questions I'm gonna really lowball myself and say maybe I'll get one of these. I

[00:35:22] Think you could get all of them. You say that before every game though. I do think you could get all of them Okay, how many of the quick of six? How many of the six questions are about someone being born that day? None of them Okay

[00:35:35] Maybe I have a chance because those are the ones that really fuck me up and you're gonna get five out of the six You're gonna get multiple choice. Okay, maybe I got this. Maybe I got this

[00:35:43] All right, let's say I'm still sticking with one though, because I don't have a lot of faith in my knowledge of the year 1988 All right Clark Datchler's father Fred Datchler sang backing vocals for Petula Clark between night between January 1965 and April 1968 Petula Clark

[00:36:02] charted with nine US top 20 hits Where she was sometimes called the first lady of the British invasion Two of these songs hit number one name one of them was that downtown you got it? Okay

[00:36:16] I don't know why I think of downtown as a 60 or a 70 song to me more than a 60 So I guess these I guess it is 60s That's good song the other song was called my love I think I somewhat know that because at one point I was like

[00:36:33] You know how like we've talked about it a million times certain songs just withstand time better than other ones And I was rocking out to downtown. I was like is he is she a one-hit wonder absolutely not by no stretch of the imagination

[00:36:46] Could we ever call her that? She is not she's the first lady of the British invasion. Yes, all right So you're one for one man. All right. I got my I got my prediction. I'll move my prediction up to two

[00:36:59] Okay, David Fincher directed to Johnny hates jazz music videos Which one of these music videos did David Fincher not direct? I'm gonna give you four which one did he not direct a Love is strong by the Rolling Stones B suit and tie by Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-z

[00:37:20] See all is full of love by Bjork or D express yourself by Madonna. I think it's the Bjork one You got it. Yeah, because I think suit and tie was the last music video he did

[00:37:34] Yeah, I know that he won a bunch of awards for that Rolling Stones one And I know that he did like almost every Madonna video in the 80s. So that's a Rolling Stones video

[00:37:43] We don't like the black and white one where they're giant. Yep, and it's also this that's also a song where he goes But some like you make me hard That's what I always think about when I think of that song

[00:37:56] All right. Hey, you got a perfect score going. All right By the way, the all is full of love by Bjork video is Chris Cunningham. That's the video with like the robots Yeah, I was gonna say Bjork is way more of a Spike Jonze Chris Cunningham person

[00:38:10] video visually Okay Which one of these movies did David Fincher not direct? Okay. This is not direct. All right, here we go. Let's hear it a the social network B wild at heart See the girl with the dragon tattoo or D zodiac

[00:38:31] Wild at heart was David Lynch. You got it. Wow three four three. I told you. All right, here we go. Okay Mike Nessito produced a song for Katrina and the waves in 1997 that won the Eurovision Song Contest

[00:38:47] Which of these artists did not win a Eurovision Song Contest? Okay did not a ABBA B Celine Dion C La Bouche or D Secret Garden Well, I know for a fact that ABBA did I don't know who Secret Garden is

[00:39:09] So I'm gonna say that Secret Garden probably won a Eurovision Award I'm torn because I feel like Celine Dion feels like she would definitely win if she was in Eurovision, but La Bouche doesn't feel like someone Would have won

[00:39:26] But I'm gonna go against my instinct and say Celine Dion is the one hit that has not won a Eurovision Sorry, it was a little bush. Yeah Maybe be my lover really killed it at Eurovision

[00:39:40] 97 all right there goes your perfect score, but you still got three so far. How about this one? Kim Wilde did backing vocals on the Johnny H jazz UK hit turn back the clock She had a hit with kids in America in 1981

[00:39:54] But a cover by the muffs was used to open what movie clueless. Oh wow you didn't even need the multiple choice Yeah, it's cool. You got it. I love my 90s teen flicks. You know that You better get this last one oh no a lot of pressure

[00:40:12] Shattered dreams hit its peak position of number two in May of 1988 Which weird owl song hit its peak chart position of number 99 in May of 1988 well This is easy because I'll only had one single in 1988 and that would be the Michael Jackson parody fat That's correct

[00:40:34] Wow okay, you did pretty good Six that's not too bad. I think you miss I was pretty close to yeah I I le douche did on that one, but otherwise Doing all right How we feeling about Johnny H jazz? I'm gonna give them Thunder I mean

[00:40:51] I know that I say this sometimes where it's like oh if I was at a record store You know I definitely would grab like I would grab a level 42 record if I was at a CD store And they had it on the shelf

[00:41:01] I don't know if I'm gonna be grabbing a Johnny hates jazz CD but I do think that like I did add shattered dreams to like my Year playlist of songs that I just shuffle through like I was like alright

[00:41:12] This and I you know I was into everything I was hearing enough this just isn't my like this this type of 80s song is not like my specific vibe of like the kind of 80s ballad II type Type thing a ballad and you know what I mean take

[00:41:35] Either that's so fucking funny that I had that Piece with How about you Chris I feel like this is obviously thunder for you Yeah, I think this is thunder and that's with Having a hit the singer instantly leaves the band not even a year

[00:41:53] We're talking like months after having a hit leaves the band doesn't talk to his bandmates for 20 years That's how much I like this song and Every other song that I listened to by Johnny hates jazz in preparation for this episode the fact that despite that I

[00:42:11] Just think they're so good Yeah, I gotta go thunder love it. Love it. Well I I got nothing else to say Chris. Yeah Clark Datchler look for your certificate in the mail. Yeah, we'll send it Yeah This has been One Hit Thunder.

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