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There are people out there who’ve spent thirty or forty years of their life chasing a second hit, who will never be truly happy because they expected more from their brief success than it brought them. Sometimes they take it well and it just becomes a story to tell the grandkids, but other times it messes up everyone’s life. What initially looked like it might be a massive career turns into a fluke. And for those people, as the song goes, “a taste of honey’s worse than none at all”. There are musicians to this day who can go out and perform in front of a crowd of a few thousand people, every night, who’ve come there just to hear that one song they recorded nearly sixty years ago - and if the musician is good enough they can get that crowd enjoying their other songs as well.īut there are other musicians who can never capitalise on that one record, and who never get another shot. And depending on how big the hit is and how good it is, that one hit might be enough to keep them going through a whole career. After all, a one-hit wonder has had a hit, which is more than the vast majority of musicians ever do. One-hit wonders have an unusual place in the realm of music history, and one which it’s never easy to decide whether to envy or to pity. Let’s talk about one-hit wonders for a while. This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. The Chords’ music has never been anthologised on CD that I can find out, but almost any good doo-wop compilation should have “Sh-Boom”. My main resources are, as with last week Honkers & Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues by Arnold Shaw, one of the most important books on early 50s rhythm and blues, The Sound of the City by Charlie Gillett, and Marv Goldberg’s website. I am not going to share that song anywhere, given its lyrical content. In this case, I have missed out one track that’s used in the podcast – I use approximately seven seconds of the intro to “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, without any of the lyrics, in the podcast.

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Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.Īs always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of almost all the songs in the episode. Today we’re looking at “Sh-Boom” by the Chords. Welcome to episode eighteen of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Love it or hate it, ShBoom is cool and it demands respect, even from the German car owners gathered to see it in this video.Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on February 4, 2019 That doesn't surprise us, considering he's named the Ford and Caddy after old song by The Chords. He's the owner of FRYZ Kustoms and besides cars, his other big passion is Motown music. This fire-belching machine has a special pyrotechnics setup which allows the car to shoot flames high into the air.īoth cars belong to Bob 'ShBoom' Fryz from Dearborn, Michigan. The original ShBoom car was built over two decades ago and is famous for appearing at the Woodward Dream Cruise each summer.

Throughout the years, the Ford has been reworked at least 4 times and in the latest version it's picked up a large chrome grille with spikes and even larger exhaust pipes.

Their owner says he drives them thousands of miles each year. While they look like show cars, they are not trailer queens. One is a 1951 Ford Custom coupe and the other a 1948 Cadillac dragster that's fitted with a supercharger and makes 1,250 hp. There are at least two ShBoom cars built by the same person.