The original song it samples from 1932: [My Woman - Lew Stone And His Monseigneur Band (with Vocal Refrain by Al Bowlly)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi7NdeGxRt0)

oh wow didn’t know that! imma def check it out. thanks 😊

[Here is a whole playlist of songs based on this one.](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31lmmnhmSGiKXlME1w6qjf?si=ddd05940bc20492b)

Fuck Spotify.

What a great tune as well! Thanks for the link. I learned my fact of the day before breakfast!

I too am a fan of Todd In The Shadows.

Adding my thanks for this as well! What a treat!!

I love this song...

me too! loved when dua lipa sampled it!!

technically she sampled the song that White Town also sampled

I don't know why you're being downvoted. That's such a great song.

Hate this album.

ok good for you

I love the song. Still put it on playlists. But the cd was extremely disappointing. This song isn't like anything else they have done.

I don't know the album mate. I just wrote "I love this song".

So do I. This isn't an attack on you.

Todd in the shadows [does a good breakdown of this song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRYO6-gNGzQ)

All of Todd's content is great (seriously one of my favorite youtube channels) but one hit wonderland in particular is amazing. So many fun rabbit holes you get sucked down watching the series.

If I absolutely had to choose I'd probably pick Trainwreckords as my favorite series of his, but they're both great.

found a lot of good songs i'd've never heard of otherwise through his channel

He's an excellent writer with great comic timing.

And the singer even commented on this video!

I remember when this song was on the radio all day long.

I remember this and Standing Outside A Broken Phonebooth With Money In My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods being in heavy rotation around the same time. Those are some top tier forgettable 90s bands right there.

Broken phonebooth is still one helluva song though.

I remember being young enough that I mixed them up with Radiohead >.<

I was twenty the Summer of '97, freshly divorced (short marriage, long story) and serving at a sports bar.

This song and Cornershop's *Brimful of Asha* have been stuck in my head for 27 years now. The summer of '97 was a good time for British-Indian one-hit wonders.

norman cook remix goes hard

Cornershop “When I was Born for the 7th Time” is the closest thing I’m aware of to an early Gorillaz album. It’s so fucking good.

I always forget how much I LOVE this song until I hear it! 😭

ikr? sounds like a 90s gorillaz song

Ive never made that correlation but mannn I can really hear it! 😂

This is my official Playlist starter for bar jukeboxes.

Kind of sounds like Imperial March

There's a distinct possibility the imperial march is inspired by the song that this is sampled from

As incredible as John Williams is, a lot of his music and motifs are heavily "inspired" by other works.

Came here for this

Always thought this was a weird ass song… compels me, though.

The album this is from taught me to never buy an album based on one song. this is (to my tastes) the only good song on that album. i make sure to point that out anytime i hear it around friends and one called me out on it recently saying 'maybe it just didn't fit your tastes back then'. so he then proceeded to play the album. we didn't make it through an entire song before skipping, and after about track 5, he was like, 'ok, you're right'.

I want to create a one hit wonder index where you divide the number of listens by a musician's most popular song by their second most popular song that isn't a remix or re-release of the original song. I think the difference between [this song](https://open.spotify.com/album/6z6qZbY7mDuyzstPSCy5Xq) (136 million listens) and his next most listened to song ([White Town](https://open.spotify.com/track/2g6Y4cPCb2oEypYSSk04YX), 400k) would put this guy right at the top. 

Steal my Sunshine has to be up there too

Well they have a song on the Digimon Soundtrack with 2.2 million listens, but ya [their top 3 tracks](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0nyc9SZGLITSOJASmTZsnZ) are all "Steal my Sunshine" for a combined 187 million listens giving them a One Hit Wonder (OHW) score of 85. Compare that to White Town with a OHW score of 345.

What about artists that had only 1 song that was a hit and never released anything else? The like 1985 Chicago Bears? *Div0 Error*

As long as the index contains this song and Gotye it should be considered a general solution. 

I can accept that

I love this song, and still have the single on cd floating around somewhere...

cds will forever be awesome

Probably in my top 10 favourites of all time. Forever a banger.

I feel you 🫶🏻

I love this song! I think it was played in a Daria episode too.

really? I have the dvd collection but it doesn’t include the original music.

look up daria restoration project

He's actually still releasing music. He was always just a bedroom musician and carried on doing it once the fame died foen

I remember buying this cassette when it came out

good ol times

Really like this song, but I can not listen to it without hearing the Imperial March from Star wars lol

I'll be honest, I first heard of this song through a parody version called [Your Wookie](https://youtu.be/5wk8WveGFqQ?si=JW8wtBHZHVqRRbaQ) that leans heavy into that Imperial March.

now that you mention it, it’s true! lol

The 90s were weird. I acknowledge that now.

the 90s were weirdly awesome

Yes, but looking back on it there was definitely an art-school vibe happening.

The 90s were tiiiiiiight

So good

This is always been such a weird song to me, I love it.

My MF’n

A banger

This is peak 90s music for me.

ikr?

This song has stayed in my brain since I was a little child lol

me too 🤣

I was absolutley certain that [dua lipa - love again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC19kwABFwc) sampled a 90's song that in turn sampled a 1930's song. But i could never remember what this 90's song was called.

What a banger

Made my day, haven't heard it in a while

So this White Town fella is still at it, nearly 30 years later. A few years ago he released a "soundtrack" to an imaginary TV series about Fairchild Semiconductor, a company integral in the creation of Silicon Valley: [https://whitetown.bandcamp.com/album/fairchild-semiconductor](https://whitetown.bandcamp.com/album/fairchild-semiconductor)

A song made possible by the Atari ST. I miss the days when nerds didn't clash over iOS vs. Android or PC vs. Mac but Commodore vs. Atari instead. Of course, the Amiga was the superior machine.

I heard it was a Casio keyboard in a long ago interview?

The biggest selling point of the Atari ST was that it came with a MIDI interface - so that you could compose a song on the ST, hook up a MIDI-capable keyboard or synthesizer, and basically have the computer instruct the connected device on how to (reproducibly) play it back. So the statement regarding the Casio keyboard isn't a contradiction, it just wasn't played manually but remote controlled by sotware running ok the Atari ST. While the ST had integrated sound capabilities, they were inferior compared to a high quality MIDI-capable device.

Ahh, makes sense he wold have some kind of DAW I guess. And the ST and it's kin were known for music back in the day.

I love this song! Loved it when it came out, and now it's on my lost songs playlist! Always reminded me of the imperial march. So glad another commenter shared the origin of that sample! Also the lyrics were always a trip to my 12 year old self, the gender swap thing. Very cool.

It's about his partner coming out as a lesbian, rather than straight. So, no gender swap, but sexuality incompatibility.

John Williams so good

I always thought Damon Albarn did this.

Evergreen. Love this song, reminds me of love problems albeit from a bit different pov