Every Wednesday along with playing some of your favorite songs you may not have heard in a while, Miles in the Morning likes to give you some of our favorite Oh Wow Wednesday Facts of the Day!
Here are some of our favorite facts from February 17, 2021!
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Songs of the Day!
"All I Want" – Toad The Wet Sprocket
The band was formed after all four members met at San Marcos High School, and take their name from a Monty Python sketch featuring a fictional band of the same name. Eric Idle once said in an interview, "I once wrote a sketch about rock musicians, and I was trying to think of a name that would be so silly nobody would ever use it, or dream it could ever be used. A few years later, I was driving along the freeway in LA, and a song came on the radio, and the DJ said, "that was by Toad the Wet Sprocket," and I nearly drove off the freeway."
"Good Thing" – Fine Young Cannibals
-This song made its first appearance in the 1987 movie Tin Men starring Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito.
-The band was hounded to accept a sponsorship deal to change the vehicles in the iconic music video from Vespas to Hondas. Guitarist David Steele told Q magazine in 1990. "I used to hang out with scooter kids and to them the biggest joke in the whole world was the Honda scooter."
"It's The End Of The World" – REM
Despite it apocalyptic lyrics, singer Michael Stipe said he wrote the song so people would smile. Literally. The words he chose tend to make your mouth smile when you say them.
"Oh Yeah" – Yello
-Song was of course featured in Jeff's favorite movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
-Band member Boris Blank described the lyrics as "a fat little monster sits there very relaxed and says, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah.'"
