{"id":541,"date":"2024-07-30T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T02:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:42:57","slug":"the-name-we-didnt-know-that-includes-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"The Name We Didn&#8217;t Know (that includes me)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t quite 7 years older than me. He was born on Halloween 1967 and died from a complication of COVID-19 in April 2020. His name is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Schlesinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adam Schlesinger<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>He wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BJn-Jl2ZeQU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the theme song for &#8220;That Thing You Do&#8221;<\/a>. The filmmakers actually held a contest for the theme song, and he won. He wrote the main song for the film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XIBvW9eunwk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Josie and the Pussycats&#8221;<\/a>, and he was the executive music producer for the TV show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l-N63xIyndU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Crazy Ex-Girlfriend&#8221;<\/a>. That was all writing\/producing for other artists, though. The biggest hit for Schlesinger&#8217;s actual band (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fountains_of_Wayne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fountains of Wayne<\/a>), was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4&amp;pp=ygULc3RhY3kncyBtb20%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Stacy&#8217;s Mom&#8221;<\/a>. The song (and its video) was just <em>perfect<\/em>. Ironically, it was probably a big part of what ended the band, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s only about his band and his music, but the YouTube video taught me things I didn&#8217;t know:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jrsUeuBPFhM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jrsUeuBPFhM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He wasn&#8217;t quite 7 years older than me. He was born on Halloween 1967 and died from a complication of COVID-19 in April 2020. His name is Adam Schlesinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,14],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-irony","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}