One-Hit Wonders! (with Mike Palindrome)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We all know how difficult it is to scale the mountain of success, whether you're a musician or a novelist. But why do some artists reach the summit again and again, while others spend the rest of their careers stuck in the valley, gazing up and thinking about what might have been? In this episode, Jacke and Mike take a look at some classic "one-hit wonders" in the world of literature and popular music. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:09.0	Make Match Days Easy with Google Pay.
0:12.0	When the last train before kickoff leaves in five, tap in with your
0:16.7	Android phone to catch it. No stress. And if the cue for the merch store means extra time, tap to pay faster than you can say,
0:27.0	come on England.
0:30.0	Fast, safe, simple. Match days made easy with Google Pay. Add a card to Google Wallet. The Oh, Hello everyone welcome to American Bandstand and folks it's 12 years after the Beatles
1:11.7	broke up and we are loving the second British invasion.
1:15.0	That's Dexy's midnight runners.
1:17.0	And this song is the number one song in the UK, the US, Ireland, and Australia.
1:22.0	Folks, it's only 1982, but I think we can safely say that Texas midnight runners will
1:27.2	be topping the charts with hit after hit after hit after hit for a long time to come.
1:34.0	Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:39.0	That didn't happen.
1:41.0	Dexy's midnight runners did not top the charts for the rest of the decade.
1:44.6	I thought they would.
1:45.9	As a young child listening to the radio, what a great song.
1:49.5	Who was Dexi?
1:50.5	I didn't know.
1:51.8	Which of those guys is Dexi? It turns out Dexy wasn't a who but a what it was a nickname for Dexadrine an
2:00.2	amphetamine popular in their hometown of Birmingham, which gave clubgoers the energy to dance all night.
2:07.0	If only their chart performance had some kind of artificial stimulant,
2:12.0	they released 16 singles in the US and Come on
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