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TuNesDay One Hit Wonders

The Waters Wake Up Call with Mike Waters · Tue Aug 19, 2025

Hey, it's waters from the waters wake up call had a blast of a tunes day talking about wanted wonders and You know other weirdness Hello, how

are you doing?

Would you like any cheese on that?

It's in the car

We are traveling to you now.

Ah,

good.

I will not start this day.

Okay, bye!

In all the time I've known you, I will never be the one to accuse you of never playing enough Barbra

Streisand.

That

was a little medley.

I just boom right off the top there.

I didn't know I knew that much dry sand, but

Yeah, I did.

Yes.

Mic!

He could take it all the way to the end where he eats the dots and the monsters want to change And he take it to the end when the screen was freeze up and say game over.

Well good

for him.

You can

congratulate him next time you see him.

Everytime I hear Pac-Man fever, I think about that back in the day.

Godly water!

Hey!

Good morning to ya!

Back at you, my brother.

Back at you.

Hey, hey,

what's happening today,

man?

Well, I got a couple of songs, maybe.

I think I'd like to have Spirit in the Sky.

Yes, that's a good one.

And the other one would be Na na na na na na na na.

Hey, hey, hey.

Goodbye.

Name the

band.

Come on, man.

It's too early in the morning.

Man, you got me on this one.

Steam.

It's okay.

You know, they're all one hit wonder.

It's not like the Beatles.

It's Steam.

Not everybody remembers.

Steam.

Right.

Exactly.

Uh-huh.

Midnight special debut.

You believe that?

Well, yeah.

I was going down a rabbit hole when I was reading all about all the dance and crap they had on that show for and how it came about and all that.

So I was pretty interesting.

Anyway, my two hit, my number two one hit numbers and my midnight special.

There you go.

Well, I don't know if you go to YouTube very often, but they've got a channel on there and they've got so many cool performances on YouTube.

Did not know that.

Thank you for sharing.

have a request, and it's my birthday, so you have to honor it.

Oh, well, happy birthday!

What's your big day entail?

Going to bed.

I just got off work.

Oh, that's a good birthday thing.

Yes, sleep through it, because once you grow up, who cares?

Yep.

Yeah.

I'm pretty sure they are one hit wonder.

Wall of voodoo, Mexican radio.

Yeah, love that

song.

Yeah,

the lead singer, his name is Webb Wilder, he had a minor hit with a song called Human Cannonball, which is kind of a cool little

tune.

Yeah, Mexican radio's bigger.

Well, I want to wish

you a very happy birthday, and Walla Voodoo is the least I can do-do for you-you.

Thank you.

Good morning,

Mr. H2O's.

Well, good morning.

H2O's, it's only one O. You know, if my brother was here, you could call us H2O's.

There you go.

Nah, I'm just giving you some crap.

What's happening today, man?

I know.

I'm on my way to do some work in theater

outfits.

What are you going to do?

What do you do for a

living?

I've called you before.

I work for the shredder out of Des

Moines.

Oh, yeah.

Cool.

Hey,

has anybody called in Black Betty from Bram Dam?

Bama Lam Dam.

Nobody has.

Yeah.

We need to do that.

And I can't think of another song by Ram Jam.

Can you?

That's the only one I know of.

Mike, how's it going today?

It's going pretty good, Dave.

I'm Dave.

How are you?

Pretty

good.

My one hit wonder is a lunatic friend.

That's a great one-hit wonder by, and actually, Tom Cochran has two one-hit wonders.

He was in Red Rider and had Lunatic Fringe, and then he went solo and had Life as a Highway, which was a solo one-hit wonder.

Try to play that for me, because I don't recognize it.

I'm playing it for a friend.

I told a girl that's listening.

Hopefully, we'll play it, and she'll be impressed, and you know how it works.

Yeah, I do.

will do

that for you,

Farmer Dave.

I'm gonna listen in and see, because I don't recognize it myself.

You'll know it.

Being the lunatic you are, Farmer Dave, you will recognize it in the first five seconds.

Hi, has anyone mentioned back when my hair was short?

No.

But I don't think anybody, as long as I've been doing radio, has mentioned back when my hair was short.

Back when my hair was short.

my God.

Has that been a while ago or

what?

That was a while ago.

That was what, 19 years?

70?

Something?

want to say it's 73 somewhere in there.

K-Tel records.

K-Tel records, yeah.

You know, I can't remember the name of the band.

think it's Gun Hill Road.

Yes.

Something like that.

Yes.

I can't remember when it was on TV, you know, those assorted music.

Yes.

Yeah, the compilations,

the... Yeah,

yeah,

yeah.

Yeah.

Who's Minnie Moore?

You know, I don't know who many... I know who Minnie Moore is.

Yeah,

well, I think many is I think that's Mary Tyler Moore's third cousin Yeah, but honestly she was on every compilations album

And

when you get the album it's almost like a ripoff because you think well

I'm seeing all the other bands here, but I don't see many more anywhere.

It's it's you know back then everything was Stupid, I mean more things are stupid now, but

Yeah,

yeah, that's exactly right back then they were all you know doing the grass and stuff and That's how it was stupid then now.

It's just brainless stupidity

Yes,

I think we've solved nothing there,

so I've done my job.

Yes

Don McLean have another hit besides American pie.

No, he's really a one-hit wonder Oh No, he he had a hit with Copacabana.

Oh, I'm sorry.

That was Barry Manilow.

Can you imagine?

Can

you imagine?

Yeah, they really are.

Don McLean and Barry Manilow.

Did he have a print of an American flag on his thumb too?

Yep.

Yeah.

You know, I'm trying to think about how Don McLean's Copacabana goes.

Copacabana.

Copacopacabana.

Copacabana.

I think it was something like that.

Bye-bye Copacabana.

I should play that today.

Yeah, it's a pretty good one here.

of it, it kind of equals three or four.

Remember, two shy?

Two shy shy, hush hush.

That one?

Kaja Goo Goo.

Well put.

You know, I think they should get together.

Here's what I think this band should do.

This band should get back together and then go on tour with the Go-Go's, Lady Gaga and the Goo Goo Dolls.

Then call the tour, Kaja Goo Goo Go Go Ga Ga Goo Goo Dolls.

It just rose

off the tongue.

It sure does.

I think...

That number?

My wife's number and my own number?

Those are the only three phone numbers I know anymore.

Do you ever wonder what that part of your brain is doing that used to memorize phone numbers?

We don't have to memorize them all.

No, you just go to your phone and you hit the name.

It's like Bob.

Boom.

I have no idea what Bob's number is.

My smartphone knows.

You lose your smartphone and Bob just becomes a former friend.

Or Jenny.

With the last

name.

You know what

her last name was?

Close!

Her last name was Jenny.

Jenny Jenny, who can I turn to?

I don't know what her middle name was though.

Maybe that was Jenny as well.

Jenny Jenny Jenny.

Tony DeFranco and the DeFranco family.

may have to get out the big ugly shovel and dig up Tony DeFranco and his family.

Yeah.

Yeah, you think you think I should?

Yeah.

I like

that song.

Do you remember when that was on the radio?

Oh,

yeah.

Yeah.

Kevin Age.

Did you ever have your tape recorder, and you'd have it there by the speakers in your radio, and you would try and record that song on a tape cassette?

Yep.

That was one of those.

Then I know it was a favorite of yours, because that's how we made mixtapes back then.

Uh-huh.

Also did Richard Pryor,

too.

Oh, Richard Pryor.

Sure, I've heard of him.

You know, his real last name was DeFranco.

Hey, good morning to you, sir.

Good morning to you.

How are you?

I'm my seventh cup of coffee, so I should be fine.

Holy son of a... is it... is it decaf?

No.

Good, because that'd just be a waste of fluid.

Yep.

I've got a one-hit wonder for you.

Okay.

If you want to go back to the early 70s.

I'm there.

Me, Michaels, do you know what I mean?

No, I don't know what you mean.

Is there a... is that a singer?

Yes, me, Michaels.

Yes, Lee Michaels, one hit wonder.

Apparently, nobody knew what he meant.

Maybe that's why he was only a one hit wonder.

He runs a restaurant in California.

Oh, really?

A seafood restaurant.

Well, you know, it is a better name for owning a restaurant than a rock star.

Lee Michaels doesn't sound like a rock star.

You know?

He was, uh, uh, multi-instrumentalist, too.

You know some about Lee Michael.

See, I don't know anything about Lee Michael's other than he has a song called Do You Know What I Mean?

Yeah.

So I've learned something.

Thank you for the Lee Michael's trivia.

Well,

you're

welcome.

All right, man.

Well, you, uh, good luck on the eighth cup of coffee and make sure the men's

room is near at all times.

You bet.

Weekday mornings, 5.30 to

10.