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It's Just Music

It's Just Music

By: Kris Jones
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Hello and welcome to It's Just Music with your host Kris Jones. This podcast will be me doing a deep dive on an almost never ending list of music topics: it may be one-hit wonders, shady music executives, beefs in the industry. The music industry is rife full of tales that are waiting to be told and I hope you enjoy listening.Kris Jones Music
Episodes
  • Just One Hit: Bobby Pickett and The Cryptkeepers - The Monster Mash (1962)

    Just One Hit: Bobby Pickett and The Cryptkeepers - The Monster Mash (1962)
    1 Oct 2026

    Welcome back to Just One Hit. Today's one hit wonder is one for spooky season and that's Bobby Pickett's single, The Monster Mash. Released in 1962, the song peaked at #1 during the Halloween season and has maintained its popularity during the holiday ever since. But how did Bobby go from doing a Boris Karloff impression in a band while trying to be an actor to getting millions in royalties from a novelty song based on the Mashed Potato?
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    13 min
  • Revisiting The Music of The Rocky Films

    Revisiting The Music of The Rocky Films
    10 Sep 2026

    Welcome back! In today's video, we are going to be going through the music of all the mainline Rocky movies. From the franchise's modest beginnings to #1 hits like Eye of the Tiger and Gotta Fly Now and platinum selling soundtracks, each version of the Rocky score has something for everyone. Instrumental tracks, hip hop, rock. Rocky has done it all and then some.
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    25 min
  • Disney's Forgotten High School Musical

    Disney's Forgotten High School Musical
    2 Dec 2025

    Despite not really being a Disney movie, Bandslam has the trappings of a musical film made by the mouse machine, with two of its stars as leads (Vanessa Hudgens and Aly Michalka). Marketed as the "Next High School " by Summit Entertainment, Bandslam underperformed at the box office but was praised by critics and audiences alike. In this video, I review the film and try to figure out why it missed the mark and how I feel about 16 years later...
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    43 min
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