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

Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast

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🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Bobby and Eddie take a trip through some of the biggest one-hit wonders of the ‘90s and 2000s and dig into what happened after the songs that made them famous. From Vanilla Ice and Chumbawamba to Lou Bega, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Blind Melon, Daniel Powter and more, they break down the stories behind the hits, the careers that followed, and why some artists never quite escaped that one song. Along the way, Bobby shares his own thoughts on playing music on the radio, whether being a one-hit wonder is actually better than grinding it out with a long career and puts Eddie to the test trying to guess the final band on the list. Plus, a random Hanson VHS makes an appearance.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:10.8	All right, welcome to our episode on One Hit Wonders and where are they now?
0:17.2	The whole reason that I wanted to do this episode is I watched a documentary on Netflix about
0:22.6	Devo and it's not just one hit wonders and it's not just where are they now, but like what the
0:27.9	crap did they do in between the time they were a one hit wonder. So I did a deep dive on these one
0:32.5	hit wonders who you're going to know. And now I brought in Eddie who didn't even know what we
0:36.5	were talking about today because mostly I want to know how many songs from these people you know as I talk about them. Because some of these are two hit wonders. Some of these are one hit wonders, but if you like became a fan, you knew other songs. And that title, one hit wonder, if you ever do a list of them, people will fight you and go, they have more have more than one hit right and it's mostly because they're in the fan club yeah so you had no idea what we're
0:59.4	talking about no idea up first is vanilla ice so how many vanilla ice songs can you name one yeah we'll
1:09.3	start with one ice ice baby i mean that's it's it. I did buy that tape. I had that cassette tape, but I can't tell you another song that's on there. So I probably was in the fan club and I could go deeper. I could go, like, play that funky music, White Boy. Oh, of course. I remember that one. It wasn't a massive hit was awesome a ninja rap from ninja turtles
1:29.5	the movie was awesome i i had the mc hammer on one side flip it over vanilla ice on the
1:36.9	backside tape so legit so i have vanilla ice at number one so he was massive because he was like a white rapper.
1:47.5	Yeah.
1:48.3	That was it.
1:48.9	At that time, he was the one.
1:50.9	So he was the first rapper to top the Billboard Hot 100 ever.
1:55.0	Wow.
1:55.9	That's crazy.
1:57.3	Ever.
1:58.0	And it made him famous probably in a way that was too big and too fast and it all was one song.
2:04.6	He got a Grammy nomination for Ice Ice Baby.
2:06.6	Wow.
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