Bring It Back Again: Idolator Petitions For The Return Of “Hit Me Baby One More Time”
So two years ago NBC ran a summer replacement program titled Hit Me Baby One More Time that almost no one wrote about apart from John Darnielle, renaissance man and Mountain Goat. And he was right: the show was really awesome, particularly the debut episode, in which the one and only Tommy Tutone blistered through his one-hit-wonder “867-5309 (Jenny)” and then rocketed through Blink-182’s “All the Small Things.” But don’t take Darnielle’s or my word for it: the clips are after the jump.
First, the song that put Tutone on the map:
And then the cover version:
Tutone is apparently a computer analyst in Portland these days. But two years ago, for a few minutes on television, he was something like a pissy little god.