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"That Thing You Do" is the titular song appearing in the 1996 film of the same name. Written by Adam Schlesinger, the song is performed by the fictional 1960s band the Wonders, who are the focus of the film. The song peaked at No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song ...
Apr 2, 2020 · The true story behind “That Thing You Do!” is that its brilliance and clap-along appeal was anything but accidental — thanks to Adam Schlesinger, who died on Wednesday (April 1) following...
- The Title Song Was Written by The Bass Player of Fountains of Wayne.
- Mike Viola Was Upset Over The Lack of Credit Given For Singing The Song.
- The Actors Actually Learned How to Play Their Instruments.
- There Were Plenty of Other Potential Band Names.
- Hanks Knew Charlize Theron Was Going to Be Famous After She Auditioned.
- No Actual Music from The 1960s Was Used.
- The Bass Player’S Name Is Never mentioned.
- They Filmed on The Price Is Right Stage.
- Hanks Worked Long Hours on His Directorial Debut.
- The Film Featured A Mini Bosom Buddies Reunion.
At the time, Adam Schlesinger was in the band Ivy and was just starting to form Fountains of Wayne when he entered Hanks and the producers’ contest to write a “faux-Beatles” tune called “That Thing You Do.” Schlesinger’s version was picked out of 300 entries. In the demo that won, singer Mike Viola was hungover.The track was later re-recorded in Ca...
The Candy Butchers singer didn’t appreciate being listed after the long cast and production credits—including one horse—as simply supplying “Additional Vocals.” A producer responded by saying that the film wanted to create a mythology about the band The Wonders, as if they were real, something which would be harder to do if Viola’s credit was liste...
Everett Scott, Steve Zahn (Lenny Haise), Ethan Embry (T.B. Player) and Johnathon Schaech (Jimmy Mattingly) spent a month learning all of the notes to all of The Wonders’s tunes, even though they weren’t actually the ones playing them. It was Schaech’s first time playing guitar, and Everett Scott’s first attempt at playing drums. Schaech burned his ...
Schaech revealed some of the names written in his character’s notebook in a series of YouTube videos:Mom’s Hot Dish (A Zahn creation), The Lords of Erie, Jimmy in This and Jimmy in That, The Hanks, and Faye’s Addiction were some of the more interesting ones.
The future Oscar winner played the role of Tina in That Thing You Do!, which was only her second credited on-screen role. After she finished her audition, Hanks said, "She's got it! That girl is going to be somebody." In her script, Hanks wrote, “No matter what, I will always claim to have discovered you.”
The rights to even obscure B-sides were expensive, so Hanks and some of his collaborators composed new music for the movie. Hanks also remarked that Forrest Gump used actual '60s music to full effect already, and recently.
Ethan Embry was credited as T.B. Player (The Bass Player). Embry once said he believed the "T" stood for Tobias.
The Hollywood Television Showcase scene was shot on Stage 33, Bob Barker Studio, at CBS Television City in Hollywood.
He started at 4 a.m. and usually got home around 11:45 p.m. He was so tired one morning that he didn't even notice his wife, Rita Wilson (who played a cocktail waitress in the film), was on the set. "I was so tired by then I didn't even know it was my wife," Hanks said. "I thought, 'She's a very attractive lady, and I hope she's going to be nice to...
Peter Scolari, who co-starred on the sitcom Bosom Buddies with a pre-fame Hanks from 1980 to 1982, played Troy Chesterfield, the host of The Hollywood Television Showcase.
- Roger Cormier
Apr 2, 2020 · The simple fact that we’re talking about this movie and song nearly a quarter century later proves it has unusually long shelf life. But Schlesinger’s song does so much more than encapsulate a time or make toes tap. The story actually requires “That Thing You Do” to work in several iterations.
'90s. So after the song featured in the film came up on my Spotify mix, I decided to watch That Thing You Do! again for the first time in ~10 years. In doing some research I discovered that there was a directors cut, adding 40 minutes onto the theatrical cut runtime.
Apr 3, 2020 · Paired with the song’s harmonizing vocals, that minor-chord shift is catnip to ears raised on Lennon-McCartney compositions; the faint hint of sadness endures even after “That Thing You Do...
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Apr 3, 2020 · Toying with the classic themes of ’60s pop rock – primarily a consuming, unrequited love for a coquettish young woman — Schlesinger’s song is delightfully self-aware and, crucially, impossible to resist.
