ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Walking on Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves
Katrina and the Waves caught a wave of sunshine in the mid-’80s, but what happened when the clouds started rolling in?
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@dsb1670
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
5 hits then
@anthonyarrieta7606
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Todd, I love you man, but don't make me pick between you and Eurovision, because you will lose.
@minstrelofmoria
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
At the part post-Sunshine where Katrina's trying to catch up with the trends and sing what's popular, she ends up sounding like proto-Shania Twain. This is a band that could potentially have created "Man I Feel Like a Woman", and that is not a compliment.
@donstuie
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Thanks to Futurama this song is now…difficult….to listen to ☹
@Mellerman4
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Trumpet player here… Walking on Sunshine isn't too hard. But the repetitiveness can wear you down some if you're not careful. Gotta pace yourself some or fracking notes will come fast and furious
@joshbcfc7361
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Can you do an episode about Seymour Stein. Even if it isn't a One Hit Wonder. I think we need to talk about it more please please please
@valmore2477
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Not CCR, but if you wanted a comparable 60's act, I could see The Monkees doing a song like this.
@hirosoli
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
I can believe why they think of themselves as 60s; I could see/hear this band covering "My Boyfriends Back"
@TitoTorbellinoVevo
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
This is one of those songs you associate with a place. For me that place was on vacation in a tourist trap restaurant in Mackinaw City a couple of years ago with my kids & this song came on after we ordered. An unrivaled moment of Americana.
@jbrownies5583
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
100.7 in Pittsburgh is Star, not Crocodile. I demand an edit to this video
@justiceflynn6297
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
❤
@JadeDove7
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Do I like this song?
Not at all
Do I like hearing Todd talking about it?
Absolutely
@vindurverndari
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
That video of this song from Jenny Nicholson's church play cinematic universe is written on my heart. He turned it into an act of bravery. I'm walking on sunshine… WOARGH
@Pete_Gunn
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
I use this song whenever anyone around me is feeling sad. I crank it up ever since that scene in high fidelity. It has like a 7% success rate in making ppl happy. And a 100% success rate at making me happy cause i am driving my friends nuts
@dollartreetankgirl
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
This is the third goddamn video in 2 days that's referenced High Fidelity. FINE I'll watch it again DAMN
@ultraamanlustral7092
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
mmmm donuts. I swore for decades she was singing "Jonny B Goode". I still sing it that way. At the top of my lungs. Hopefully they get a good paycheck every time it gets used.
@H0TR0B
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Hey hey hey, we were bombing at Eurovision long before Brexit!
And you're completely right about our attitude towards Eurovision. I watch it to make fun of it because Europe's musical taste is usually 10-20 years behind ours. Although in recent years it's gotten less weird and outlandish and a lot cleaner and more bland. No more rapping grannies, just skinny guys writhing around the floor and wailing. Dire.
@josephsmith7114
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
24:24 who is that woman on the right?
@csm6701
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Shout-out Robyn Hitchcock
@TheCoolestRyker
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
I love FD Signifier but I cannot believe that logo in the ad segment wtf man
@n0vabluu222
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
the Eurovision twist almost made me throw up. i can't believe that actually happened 😭
@kenthehobo
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Little known fact: the tune for this song was originally used for a song called "Canción de Amores" in 1973. Which itself was stolen from "I'm Cryin' (With My Eyes)" that came out in 1967
@andrewoliver1330
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Lego City Undercover, favorite use of this song, that intro really help set the tone and vibe of that game.
@djblake-d3b
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Are you following a certain chart (US?) or is this your own opinion? I think it's unfair to call them a one hit wonder when they have been active from '81 to '99 with 11 albums to their credit. I don't think they would have lasted as long as they did if they weren't producing "hits" for the record label. It seems you regularly do this with "one hit wonders". Perhaps if you were truthful and really did an actual one hit wonder video there actually might not be much material to work with but would still be very entertaining where you can talk about the hit and how they exited the music industry entirely. In the 80's many artists would say "Once you have a #1 song, you can retire" and many of them did. Guess the royalties were really good.
@MrPeaTearGryfin
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
This song is so overused I don't even hear it as a song anymore. Its just a commercial jingle to me now.
@Hubajube
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
This made me realize that Andrew WK needs to cover this.
@msawesomenessthe3rd
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
8:37 Crazy Ex Girlfriend reference! The best show no one watched. 💖
@Morbos1000
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
My main takeaway is that I need to go listen to the Bangles again. Sort of forgot about them but after two mentions in the video am now remembering they were pretty damn good.
@KodatheYT
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
that glissando tho
@MrJacobrabbit
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Stephanie Miller plays this on her show
@speedygonzales378
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Please do 'i am the one and only' by chesney hawkes in the future.
@glitchunicorn
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
I thought it was an older song lol
@markl5998
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Crazy the music video is so cloudy and gray
@SEHipple
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
So Katrina was hilarious. I love her.
@akadventuring
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Funny that you mention the Chuck e Cheese band, they DID sing Walking on Sunshine. Jan. 2002 show.
@ridofchris
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Every time I hear this it reminds me of the Halo mashup they did on Glee, been like 15 years and it’s still on my mind. It’s that good
@akadventuring
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
It's not as happy as 'Loop De Loop (flip flop flying in an airplane)' which is by, you guessed it! The Beach Boys. They sure always 'get around' to these stinkers huh?
@Kennyselman
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
Am I Walking On Sunshine…NO
I'm hiding from the sunshine, I worked in it all day, and trying to cool the sunburn down.
@FrostingTheBirthdayClown
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
I will always remember it as the opening to Daddy Day Care. I had the movie on UMD disc for PSP of all things. Man Eddie Murphy really had it back then.
@Cream147player
August 1, 2026 at 2:10 am
The older I get the more I appreciate the straightforward joy of this song.
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