Lullaby

Todd plays "Lullaby" on the piano

SHAWN MULLINS - "LULLABY" A one-hit wonder retrospective

As Todd stops, the song starts in the background

Todd: [a la Shawn Mullins] Welcome back to One Hit Wonderland''...where we look at...artists...bands...who only got known...for one song. Yeah...and their career...didn't last long...but I tell 'em...''


 * ''Video for "Lullaby"
 * Shawn Mullins: Everything's gonna be alright
 * Rockabye

Todd: Okay, we're gonna back to 1998 here, back to the glory days of adult-alternative.


 * ''Clip of Matchbox Twenty - "Back to Good"

Todd (VO): Yeah, that would have been when I started really getting into music, and yes, adult-alternative is exactly what I gravitated to. Did I buy more than one Goo Goo Dolls album? You bet I did.

Todd: I never claimed to be a role model.

Todd (VO): But Shawn Mullins was just a tiny bit before my time. Matter of fact, I don't remember hearing this song very much at all. By the time I started listening, it was all about Everlast and Sugar Ray. Shawn Mullins' "Lullaby" was one of those things I just missed, along with [Rolling Stone cover of...] Jewel, [...the self-titled album by...] Savage Garden, [...and single cover of Paula Cole's...] "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?"

Todd: Yes, truly, I was a deprived child. Don't weep for me, we all have our misfortunes in life.


 * Shawn: She still lives with her mom...

Todd (VO): But yeah, this one is...an odd one, or at least as odd as an acoustic hit can be.

Todd: I think I've made my opinion on white guys with acoustic guitars abundantly clear at this point. [picture of said genre stamped with no symbol, caption reading that none are allowed]

Todd (VO): And yeah, Shawn Mullins may be the most acoustically white guy yet. Still, I can't say this one isn't memorable, at least.


 * Shawn: I ain't so sure about this place

Todd (VO): And yet, Mullins never really saw the charts again, and that's true of most of the late '90s acoustic guys. Shawn Mullins' "Lullaby" lulled his fans to sleep, and I guess they just never woke up again.

Todd: [as Shawn Mullins] Well, let's find out what happened after he sang...his lullaby. Kinda hurts your voice after a while.


 * Shawn: Rockabye
 * Rockabye

Before the hit

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