This week, the week of April 25-29, 2016, we will look at songs from real bands...for fake bands.

We call it:  "Don't look behind the curtain..."

April 26, 2016

Throughout musical history there have been those who never got their due credit.  Either they slaved away as session musicians making the stars sound good but never seeing the spotlight or the money from it, or they had their music used by other bands.

Sometimes their music was created to make a fake band.

These are some of those.

Today's entry is not so much a stolen song as a song written by an artist for the film rather than something they would write for themselves.

"That Thing You Do", from the movie of the same name, was released in 1996 and did not crack the Billboard Hot 100...peaking at #41 in November of 1996.

The song was written by Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger and was one of many submitted for entry in the film.  Schlesinger even sings backup on the track.

~ Glenn