How the Hell Did This Go #1?
Season 3 Episode 12 -- Africa, Toto
Mar 30, 2023
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann look at the early 80s's number 1, Africa, by a band a lot better than you remember.
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at the last big hit by the duo, Simon and Garfunkel, and how it went for them after.
Season 3 Episode 10 -- Welcome Back, John Sebastian
Mar 25, 2023
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look back at Welcome Back, Kotter, and the power that the 70s sitcom had to propel this song to number one.
Season 3 Episode 9 -- One Bad Apple, The Osmonds
Mar 15, 2023
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at the Osmonds only #1, One Bad Apple, and ask how they did it and why nobody remembers.
Season 3 Episode 8 -- Uptown Funk, Bruno Mars
Feb 05, 2023
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at the monster smash, Uptown Funk, and why it worked and who it ripped off.
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at a fellow Canadian, who went to the top with a very catchy tune.
Season 3 Episode 6 -- Wild Thing, The Troggs
Dec 23, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson review the garage rock staple, "Wild Thing" and why it is so important to music evoltion, despide it sounding so primitive.
Dreams, Fleetwood Mac
Dec 04, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at how Fleetwood Mac had only one chart topper and ask how they only had one.
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at Venus, a song that went #1 twice with two very different groups, 15 years apart.
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at a song that actually won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song.
Season 3 Episode 2 -- Sundown, Gordon Lightfoot
Nov 12, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at the way darker than you realized, song by Canadian Singer/Songwriter, Gordon Lightfoot.
Season 3 Episode 1 -- With Arms Wide Open, Creed
Nov 03, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at the detested band, Creed, and their lone number one.
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at Bonnie Tyler 's awesome or over the top nuber one, Total Eclipse of the Heart, and what was actually Jim Steinman 's first number one.
Season 2 Episode 37 -- Theme From Shaft, Isaac Hayes
Oct 02, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessman and Brad Nelson welcome Kirk's good friend from Barbados, Lee, to look at the funkiest number one ever.
Season 2 Episode 36 -- Kiss Him Goodbye, Steam
Sep 18, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at the one-hit wonder of a band that didn't exist and a song that most people do not know is a real song.
Season 2 Episode 35 -- Physical, Olivia Newton-John
Sep 05, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson look at the most successful of Olivia Newton-John's five charttoppers, and the sexiest song she ever did.
Season 2 Episode 34 -- Fireflies, Owl City
Sep 01, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson examine the unique one-hit wonder by Owl City, and what they did after.
Season 2 Episode 33 -- Kokomo, The Beach Boys
Aug 27, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson examne the Beach Boys' last and most polarizing hit, Kokomo, and the late-80s power of Tom Cruise.
Season 2 Episode 32 -- MMMBop, Hanson
Aug 22, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson examine the Hanson brothers' biggest hit, and why so many hated it.
Season 2 Episode 31 -- Karma Chameleon, Culture Club
Aug 15, 2022
Kirk Buchner, Andrea Tessmann and Brad Nelson are joined by special guest, Christopher Auger to look at Culture Club's #1, Karma Chameleon, and ask why it still endures to this day.