That Other Thing You Did

Hearing about the coronavirus death of Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger was weird for me.

The day began for me by listening to a podcast from earlier in the week. That episode happened to mention that he’d just been confirmed to be sick with the virus. Within a few hours of listening to that, I heard elsewhere that the disease had just claimed him. Not a lot of lead time for me.

Anyway, I learned that he was actually the dude who wrote the title song for “That Thing You Do!”, which was the one hit the fictional band in the movie was known for. That movie, starring fellow COVID sufferer Tom Hanks, was made in the 90s, the decade before Adam’s own band became, in the minds of many, a one-hit wonder with “Stacy’s Mom”. Personally, I preferred “1985”, but that’s basically where my knowledge of them ends.

Although they also did the music for and camoed in that MTV cartoon about an intern at MTV that was written by an MTV intern with the same name. I think his name was Greg? It was definitely a part of the title.

Bonus Question!

Best one-hit wonder?

I legitimately love Smash Mouth even beyond “All Star”. I think they qualify, though some might say “Walking on the Sun” was big enough to disqualify them. Anyway, that still seems like a fair answer.