ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Return of the Mack" by Mark Morrison 

(Heyyy)

ONCE AGAIN

O. My. Gawd!

Wow didn’t expect you to watch Todd

Big fan!!!

@Pete Harrison I didn't need that.

@@qwertyTRiG here’s a better (and actually relevant) link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qHR31kl_w48.html

@@chamele0nday Okay. That made me laugh.

😂

Okay, I'm dying laughing at imagining that 😂. Your coworker sounded like they'd make a work day more enjoyable.

Right even Billy Ray Cyrus.... Up Town Road was already a hit before he was involved in the remix. It wasn't his hit to begin with.

"Girl I've Been Hurt" was Snow's follow-up to "Informer", and peaked at #19. That's more than most one-hit wonders ever accomplish.

@@-_._._- were any of those songs hits though? Having great songs doesn't mean someone isn't a one hit wonder. If the average person only knows one of their songs they're one hit wonders. Terrence gave a better example with "Girl I've been hurt" with it charting well. There's lots of people who are often called "one hit wonders" and have lots of great songs. Chamilionare for example has plenty of amazing songs throughout his discography. Specially with his mixtapes. Doesn't mean he's not only known by the general public for ridin dirty.

@@-_._._- *good* songs?

@@jonnyOysters Plus at least, like Todd mentioned, Morrison had 5 hits off his debut in the UK, while Billy Ray hasn't had a single song chart under his name except Achy Breaky Heart.

If you can't come out stonger than when you left, come out threefold.

ikr todd.

Haha you look hella corny omg

Hahahahahahahahha you’re white

Lot of corny black people like it too....

ngl was doing the "corny white girl" dance by myself when the song was playing during the video. ... it's a good beat, ok?

Lmaoooo right

I've only ever heard swingbeat being used as an alternate name for NJS in somewhat obscure American new jack swing songs with rapping.

I never even knew till a few months ago that return of the mack was a British song. I was kinda gobsmacked by that. It sounds so American. But yeah just watch the video once and it's obvious he's driving round London or some UK town anyway. So I'll add that to the list of great British songs. But yeah. I don't think anybody knew at the time that the fella was British too. I was around back then. Nobody ever brought it up. We all thought he was American. So we certainly didn't try to make a new genre out of it. It fits neatly into the genre "R&B" so it doesn't need a new genre. Mind you, "R&B" these days does seem to end up meaning "pop when sung by black people" rather than an actual genre anymore, so I dunno. Like come on, the rolling stones were an R&B band, and they're so divorced from modern R&B that it's crazy to call it the same genre

Yep. We are not original enough to come up with new terms.

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Me, sipping my tea: damn right Beth

Me an American about to boil water for my tea using a rice cooker because I don't have a kettle: boy I'm jealous of those guys 😭

Sad, innit bruv?

@@dinomoviesnstuff Yeah blud it's bollocks fam

This is like how I can't get mad at jokes about Americans liking cheeseburgers because I really like cheeseburgers.

You mean you never wanted to hear what Queen would sound like if they were a shitty coffee house band?

The only Queen cover that matters is that BR cover with The Muppets

Guess I'll happily be the lone minority who actually wants to listen to this cover and more from The Braids.

Yeah, that cover piqued my interest a little.

Same, but I've also heard Shatner's Rhapsody cover. That was PAIN and a crime against music.

“Farther in law” lolz. Twice! Cool story

@@trashyraccoon2615 Oh no😱 its the grammar police! 😉

@Esther Sparrow Cameo had multiple hits, just not POP hits. Various R&B hits.

Word up to the return of the mack

Mark Morrison is like Cameo but cool.

“I know what I have to do... but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it”

You know what to do, Sean; start funding awful G-Eazy/Chris Brown singles to increase Todd's production

@@WaaveLvl0 hm

Ruin Todd's childhood, noted

@Pete Harrison Go fuck yourself.

Mack the knife

Return of the shank

@@csurname Perfect.

@@csurname You can shut down RU-vid now. This is the greatest comment ever.

@@csurname ha

There's about eleven thousand people in a town in Massachusetts that would be mildly amused by this.

🤣@@hiimemily

​@@hiimemilyisnt it pronounced "Lye-Chester" MA?

@@brunolondinese5857 Nope.

But unless you're pronouncing it "lestuh" or better yet "leggeh", you're not from the east Midlands! Gotta love accents, (and find them exceedingly strange at the same time!)

*failing

What's up with G-easy. I know of Chris Brown but Is he equally as bad?

@@mokaza40 I can't really say if it's equal or not but there in the same lane. Both have been convicted of assult and drug possession. Both have been described as abusive by there exs. Both have been known to be jerks and serial cheaters. The only reason I would say G easy isn't as bad is because I think he's done it less than Chris Brown so there isn't as much proof of him getting into stuff but that might just be because he hasn't been as big or around as long.

@@mikeyvesperlick6982 Lol you're a POS

@@mikeyvesperlick6982 ..... so anyway, chris brown is a toxic ass person xox

I'd say the closest thing to good British R&B from then is actually Massive Attack's early stuff

@@YamiFlyZX Right? I was surpised Massive Attack weren't mentioned in this video, even if they're not strictly considered "R&B"

Fat of the Land RULES

Be here now also became oasis's highest charting album in the us in 97 too

It was truly a golden age for brit acts

I can't believe Third Eye Blind was involved in it.

As a British teen in the 90s I was shocked by that, I'd never seen/heard of it before and I'm glad at least some of the blame can be laid outside of the UK. Don't get me wrong, we are responsible for some god awful music, but I'm pretty sure we all knew at the time that Peter Andre was more pop than proper r&b too!

And it was directed by the guy who played Ellis in "Die Hard!" 🤯

It's still a textbook example of an "I'm back bitch" single though.

They had other hits before such as "We've got it going on" or "Get down" or "I'll never break your heart" or "Quit playing games with my heart" or "Anywhere for you". I remember "Get down" being a huge hit in 1996. I received their single "Anywhere for you" on my birthday in 1996. "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" wasn't a hit before 1998.

I was about 8 when that song was big, and the 'We're Back!' angle always confused me too. Back from where? Were you ever gone? Isn't this like your first big song?

@@stephaniewozny3852: I believe their first big song was "We've got it going on".

Stephanie Wozny they were big in Europe and Asia, their first US album is actually a mixture of their second album (that's where backstreet's back come from) and their international hits from the first album thrown in

Me too.

The Alex Band rule.............

Snow, maybe. But Billy Ray is an equal partner in Old Town Road. He genuinely brings the song together and makes it feel complete.

@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Good point.

@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep I have to agree, he genuinely is one of the best parts of that song.

You didn't know? Todd's a football (soccer) fan.

Or the Anfield Rap!

Especially when he's not from Leicester.

@@djshire1984 Please don't swear on RU-vid (s....r). It's not nice.

@@aarons1811 I have to assume if I say "football", it might confuse Americans.

Oh man, I have a feeling he's gonna dunk on The Lumineers. That band was the epitome of formulaic millennial indie folk that the Mumford and Sons initially built on.

@@theobuniel9643 Wasn't Ophelia also a minor hit? I still hear that song pretty often.

I remember when I first heard Icona Pop's "I Love It", I knew it'd be a one-hit wonder

God, "Am I Wrong" had one-hit wonder written all over it. It even felt like the artists' name fell out of your head 2 seconds after reading it.

@@SRMkay Omg yes, can't believe I forgot that one. Only good thing that song did was launch Charli XCX's career.

Great description 👍

Akon’s a fucking chad tho

He sounds like larry blackmon from cameo

@Pete Harrison Thanks I needed a good laugh 🤣

I swear, I’m going to need to update my list of phrases to use more often to have a subsection just dedicated to out of context quotes from you.

Anything for more Swedish rep

I get my kicks above the wasteline sunshine

except not really, technically the singer (Murray head) had another top 20 hit in 1969 and it is difficult to call something written by members of ABBA a one hit wonder.

I know him so well was a hit too

This review's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness

I wish I never had.

Why-aye let’s get ready to rumble, pet

Honestly, I am too.

I actually thought he was going to use "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" as an example of the Brits not getting rap, but obviously that's patently false because "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" is a goddamn classic.

....PJ & Duncan

It's a pretty lazy term isn't it? That's like naming house music "four on the floor".

Swing beat AKA New Jack Swing

As a white British person, we don't know her. 'swing beat' is olympic level cringe.

@@iconocastlive What

There are no such thing as black brits

That opening vocal run from Mark just sends me every time

The ability to self publish now gives artists a bit more leeway than the demands of recording companies. I think it's a great thing for music.

But he would also be competing against 10 other artists with a similar style, and his music would just be 'rented' along with everything else in the Spotify age. Return of the Mack has legendary status because it stood out back then. It's much harder to stand out now without a giant marketing machine behind you.

More for me then!!

Yeah, that one was a doozy

Still better than the cover of Princes of the Universe used in Highlander the Source.

That was BLASPHEMY!

Eh, you both have the Queen on your money, so close enough.

we def adopted him as one of our own though, even for an aussie he has huge essex energy

He was born in Lewisham, and only moved to Australia when he was 9. So we're all complicit

MysTeriouSSS GiiiiirrrrRRLLLll

We acquired him when he hooked up with Jordan.

I see you Croc

Okay! I see you, Croc

Why you no verified?

OMG ITS CROC. Why aren't u verified? Your videos get me through for real

I woulda never expected to see you here bro

😂😂😂😂😂

*insert shocked Jontron here*

Go hawks

@@michaelcurtis7590 Spain without the s

How did I forget about that song? Such a fun listen.

Fuck You is a lot more vulnerable tho, it doesn't really fit as a "I Didn't Need You Anyway" song

Also, "U Don't Have To Call" by Usher.

Also reminds me of his take on Charlie Puth's Attention.

@@PHSDM104 i was just reminiscing about how good Usher was in the early to mid 2000s

I thought he was Jamaican.

I knew this song from before but I remember that too...so awesome. Can I feel nostalgic for something I only played a year ago? I wish i could play it the first time again. If you search around youtube, there's a video of Aha's take on me with ALL the voices singing along to it from saints row 2. It sounds like a demented road trip, and is amazing. How many times did you crash your bike on stationary objects?

Good times

@@Avrysatos | This?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y9BoIEY4xA4.html | Someone also did 'What I Got' from 'The Third': ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RSc7yehDx9I.html

Wearing nothing but a silver chain and watch...

@@professordetective807 thanks!!!!

Didn't they have that whole Byker Grove tv show thing where one of them got blinded with a paint ball? Recently found out about it on Twitter

@@infamoussphere7228 Trigger warning for anyone in their late 30s or early 40s...

TWO LEGGED RAT AHAHA I'm keeping that one thanks Mexico

Ah yes, Paquita la del barrio

Link please I'm too lazy

I've been to too many parties where I hear all of these. Viva México!

Puro pinche Ingrata homie

If he did it'd be Boys II Men only...he ain't touch anything hard.

Return of the Phair

And it’s so very shit

Return of the Phair ~ Why is it so very shit? ~ (Please reply in Verse)

Coz it's shit Coz it's shit shit shiiiiit

Woooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, come on, Liz Phair.

I think a lot of people learned how to pronounce it in 2016 lol

I learned it from Fire Emblem

He watches football, that probably helps

I only know it because I've heard Clarkson, May, and Hammond pronounce it.

Sadly I know how to pronounce it correctly from watching serial killer documentaries and RU-vid channels that discusses really fucked up murders lol

Just want to see clips from the Super Mario Bros movie in a OHW video

Was Not Was actually had another semi-big single that same year. "Spy in the House of Love" went up to number 16 on the Hot 100.

Todd would need a few hours to cover Don Was' career.

@@bat4280 It's the Chumbawumba episode 2.0!

He did the post-apocalyptic song once already with "I Melt With You" by Modern English.

"Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow" great song, really underrated musicians too.

Yes but that song only got big thanks to someone who wasn’t a one hit wonder, Fatboy Slim

@@matttheshadowman2790 'Missing' by EBTG only became a hit after being remixed by Todd Terry. And that's been covered on this channel as a one-hit wonder. So Brimful of Asha should also qualify.

I think the Kasabian were from there too.

That's a great music video.

Wrong on that too. Macklemore got a good amount of hits on him

@@antwanscott97 does downtown even count

@@spindabrian69 Yes

ceiling can't hold us was a solid hit tbh

Thrift Shop, Can’t Hold Us, Downtown, Good Old Days, Same Love

Fucking outrage

Watch us wreck the mic

And also no mention of John Barnes's quite magnificent MC'ing.

Cant forget Your Love by The Outfield! Another 1986 one hit wonder

Ooh black berry ramalamaala

Unfortunately he’s said that he attempted a “Black Betty” episode but ran afoul of the frequent OHW problem that there’s not enough available footage of the band performing

ohh black betty~ bramble jam, rambutans, pam ballam, panda lamp!

It isn't good. It's actually steaming hot garbage

@@einootspork If it's bad then why is it in rayman legends.

I remember that song, Oddly enough, that's Bobby Darin's only song to make it to #1 on the charts.

Any song mentioning “Mack” seems to be popular Mack The Knife Return of the Mack Can’t Hold Us with the line “Return of the Mack” WAP “I want you to park that Big Mac truck right in this little garage”

yesss

All the timeee lmao

Exactly; not to mention the Bristol scene of the early 1990s, which spawned Massive Attack. UK hiphop isn't "lesser" than US hiphop, it's just different and has different influences (just like how UK rock is different to US rock).

@@jaydee4697 I agree. Both Tricky and Massive Attack were recommended to me in the Spotify Taste-Breakers playlist from a couple of years ago, and I now play both on heavy rotation.

@@baronsledjoys1363 Nice.

@@jaydee4697 He does eventually say as much, at least about grime becoming its own unique phenomenon. He also says as much about trip-hop directly in the OHW for "Missing" by Everything But the Girl.

Trip hop is amazing. I'm sad that it eventually got played out by the early 2000's.

RIP Craig Mack

In a good way or a bad way

@@maxcomas Brutal typically isn't a positive descriptor outside of metal music

It was also in multiple target back to school ads and a few target Christmas ads

*Vietnam flashbacks*

Lol

i saw it in a google ad

And multiple McDonald's ads when the restaurants reopened after Covid lockdowns. Example from New Zealand (my home country): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SRAn_c1F6Io.html

That song randomly comes to my memory from time to time; I'd love to hear a video on it too!

I think tATu also falls under a similar umbrella, considering the rumours of what went down behind the scenes. Todd needs to cover that too.

Whenever I'm explaining 12 bar blues and I need a more recent example, the chorus of Mercy is my go-to.

Except, as a Brit, Duffy wasn't a one hit wonder, not in the UK anyway. She had at least 1 other hit song (Warwick Avenue) and a hit album and then some awful personal issues derailed her career for a long time.

Also it was sampled a couple years later for a JPop or KPop song and I think that's so weird haha

Ginuwine Differences: Excuse me why are you not mentioning me in a discussion of greatest R&B songs ever? Backstreet No Diggity: What about me? I'm also one of the greatest R&B songs ever!

I very recently became aware of Byker Grove because someone on twitter mentioned that Noddy kissing Gary was the first gay kiss they'd ever seen on TV. And apparently it's where Ant and Dec got their start. Grim.

@@infamoussphere7228 i know i said i never need to see 90s ant and dec again but im looking up this byker grove thing immediately.

😂

Here you go: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ga-N4wdOqC0.html

He did.

The todd way never truly caught up

He'll discover Little Simz in a few years, that'll be mad.

I've said this many times on many videos. British artists have done wonderful things with hip-hop beats, British artists have done wonderful things with the spoken word. However, until the last few years, British artists rapping over hip-hop style beats just hasn't worked. Even then, the new artists have something that is distinctly unAmerican. I can't hear an American rapping over a Young T & Bugsey beat. People forget that rapping existed in Britain for as long as it existed in the US, the difference is that in the UK it came from the Jamaican community and was pretty much only in the Jamaican community. It was called "toasting" and you'd toast over dub, dancehall and later ragga. If you slipped into a bit of a melody, it was called "singjaying". So Double Trouble and the Rebel MC's "Street Tuff" was toasting over a house song that sampled a reggae bassline. Later MCs were rapping over jungle, again influenced by reggae (nothing beats a jungle song with a reggae break), then some MCs moved onto a slowed-down breakbeat style that came to be known as speed garage and then UK garage then the youngers moved onto grime. Honestly, and I know some people will think I am nuts, but I find a lot of trap and mumble rap to be highly unimaginative. I haven't heard a new, young American MC who can hold a candle to Aitch for instance. The only American rap album that has blown me away recently was the new Busta Rhymes album.

@@michaelfarrow5817 This is not true. Look up TY, Blak Twang, Sway, Roots Manuva, Skinnyman, Mysdiggi, Jehst, Doc Brown, Lowkey, Tony D, Klashnekof, Rodney P, Lil Simz, Akala, Loyle Carner, Hawk House, Dave and so many more who have done quality hip hop through the 90s until now. Then you will realise all your typed here isn’t true. There’s a whole UK hip hop scene that you missed out with your comment and not all UK Hip Hop artists are Jamaican or made music for the Jamaican community. This is simply not true.

UK hip hop, or grime? Because grime really is its own thing, and the only UK rap artists that some Americans (around my age, twentysomethings and zoomers) easily are Slick Rick, MF Doom, and Scarlxrd.

I feel your pain. Apple Retail ruined a few perfectly good songs for me, which I felt was a bigger crime than annoying me with repeating the bad ones. Not like they had an excuse for rotating like 30 songs and changing them something like every 6 months. The iTunes Music Store did exist, Apple. Jeez

not related but i hear "how bizarre" by omc at my walmart all the time

How can you hear that song and not quit immediately after the first 30 secs? You might have to come back and beg for your job the next day, but it would be so hard to hear that song and want to continue working, lol

@@harysrodriguez9608 SAME

Walmart literally has the one hit wonderland of retail radio

Yeah I'm Australian, before connecting the title "Return of the Mack' to this song which I'd heard but had no idea was called "Return of the Mack", I imagined that Return of the Mack was some kind of Mack the Knife reference. And then I assumed it must be a nickname for Mark.

I'm American and have pretty much only ever heard the term in the context of "Miggity-miggity-miggity mack daddy, kriss kross", so I also appreciated the explanation.

I assumed his name was Mac and he was referring to himself in the third person.

Yep, me too.

I thought maybe he had a gun lol

I once was listening to a local radio station, and they almost verbatim stole a joke Todd made in a then-recent pop song review

To be fair, the one hit wonder tracks are some of the most popular songs of all time

You, my friend, experienced (a year ago) the Baader-Meinhof effect. You may well have experienced it before in your life without realizing it, and after you look it up (yes, it's a double A), you may well hear about it very frequently.

He says he is but he doesn’t know who Kevin Campbell is 😂😂

@@AJARyan-yn2uv In Todd's defence, I only really know who Kevin Campbell is because of his son Tyrese, who plays for Stoke.

@@davidparsons97 And I remember him because he was a good Arsenal player.

I liked Shelvin Mack. He was a good bench player that helped the team in a smaller role.

I know this comment is a year old, but holy shit, that blew my mind. Nice one, Beck.

And stutter by Joe, super underrated

Easily one of the best Neptunes r&b tracks from around that time.

Yeah but since when is Usher not doing the cheating? I mean don't you have to have a meaningful relationship on from you the cheaters POV to be burned? I don't even know how you'd cheat on Usher before he does you...invite another man in the middle of sex?

@@michellesmith9442 ooooh, great song! And you are so right, it's crazy underrated!

That is such a good break up song! I jammed with that, but I like the censored version just a little more because it’s more fun to listen to.

The difference being, that song is terrible.

@@chaddevlin8545 I got a million things I'd rather fucking do...then to be arguing about this song's quality with you

@@samuelstensgaard4828 yet you took the time to insert yourself into this conversation. Keep shooting for the stars bud!

@@chaddevlin8545 The joke Your head

and before anyone says anything, yes i know (and am madly in love with) the song keep on movin’, but i feel as though in the american landscape of pop culture, “back to life” is more widely remembered

There's a man who knows how to have fun with the opportunity to run for president.

*Good god, please tell me they changed the lyrics to "Return of the Yang "k."*

While it was a breakup song when it was made, I see that song WAY more now as a song about his successful fight with his drug addictions.

@@Ironman1o1 Heck, Rocketman reinterpreted the tune as such!

That song is fantastic.

that's a good one.

I thought it was "I'mma get off the coke just for you" song. Although, he was like addicted for another eight years after the fact.

And they both were on the same label, on top of that.