Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - I Got Five on It Part 1
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🗓️ 16 April 2022
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey there, hit parade listeners. |
| 0:06.7 | What you're about to hear is part one of this episode. |
| 0:10.4 | Part two will arrive in your podcast feed at the end of the month. |
| 0:14.6 | Would you like to hear this episode all at once the day it drops? |
| 0:18.8 | Sign up for Slate Plus. |
| 0:20.4 | It supports not only this show, but all of Slate's acclaimed journalism and podcasts. |
| 0:26.9 | Just go to slate.com slash hit parade plus. |
| 0:30.6 | You'll get to hear every hit parade episode in full the day it arrives. |
| 0:36.1 | Plus, hit parade The Bridge, our bonus episodes, with guest |
| 0:40.6 | interviews, deeper dives on our episode topics, and pop chart trivia. Once again, to join, that's |
| 0:48.2 | slate.com slash hit parade plus. Thanks, and now please enjoy part one of this hit parade Plus. Thanks. And now, please enjoy part one of this Hit Parade episode. |
| 1:09.1 | Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from |
| 1:15.9 | coast to coast. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm Chris Melanthie, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number |
| 1:22.4 | One series? |
| 1:23.7 | On today's show, in the 1995 top 10 hit by Bay Area rap duo Loonies, recently revived by the |
| 1:32.9 | Jordan Peel movie Us, hook singer Michael Marshall sings, he's got five on it. |
| 1:40.1 | And, in our own way, so do we. |
| 1:42.9 | Hit Parade launched on the Slate Podcast Network five years ago this month. |
| 1:49.2 | Happy half decade to us. |
| 1:54.2 | In case you're curious, Loonies are, according to our hit parade rules, officially a one-hit wonder. |
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