Hit Parade: I Got Five on It Part 1

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🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Five years ago this month, Hit Parade launched on the Slate podcast network. What have we learned in that half-decade? And what episodes did you love the most? We asked you to vote—and the results may surprise you. Sure, you enjoyed our shows about Madonna, Nirvana, Whitney, Mariah, Bruce, Stevie and Janet. But even more than that, you loved our nerdy deep dives about the producers behind “Le Freak”…the rules for One-Hit Wonders…the college-rockers from Athens, Ga.…the man behind Meat Loaf…the smooth players behind Yacht Rock…and that explainer about why you had to pay top dollar for CDs in the ’90s with only one good song. Join host Chris Molanphy as he shares his founding principles for Hit Parade, and counts down your 20 favorite shows. Happy fifth birthday to us! We’re finally old enough for kindergarten. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is surprising, is it going on holiday in Britain and it not raining every day?
0:09.6	Is it booking an Uber and being picked up by your grand?
0:15.5	Is it realising your cat has more friends than you?
0:21.3	Or is it finding the best of the NFL to stream free on ITVX?
0:25.2	You be the judge ITVX, the UK's freshest streaming service.
0:55.2	You'll get to hear every hit parade episode in full the day it arrives,
1:02.4	plus hit parade the bridge, our bonus episodes, with guest interviews,
1:08.0	deeper dives on our episode topics, and pop chart trivia.
1:12.5	Once again, to join that's slate.com slash hit parade plus.
1:18.0	Thanks and now please enjoy part one of this hit parade episode.
1:25.7	Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine, about the hits
1:42.0	from Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malanfit, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why is
1:48.0	this song number one series? On today's show, in the 1995 top 10 hit by Bay Area rap duo
1:56.7	Loonies, recently revived by the Jordan Peele movie Us, hook singer Michael Marshall sings,
2:04.1	he's got five on it, and in our own way so do we. Hit parade launched on the Slate podcast
2:12.3	network five years ago this month. Happy half decade to us.
2:21.0	In case you're curious, Loonies are, according to our hit parade rules, officially a one hit wonder.
2:29.3	I got five on it was their only top 40 hit on either the hot 100 or the R&B chart.
2:37.2	And like so many golden era rap classics, the most memorable part of I got five on it is its song hook.
2:52.4	These subjects, rules for one hit wonders, how rappers blend with singers, are just a couple of
3:00.2	the topics this podcast has tackled over the last five years. We really have covered quite a
3:07.2	variety of stories and a range of illustrious hit makers from early rock and soul legends
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