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Todd in the Shadows finds a disco hit behind a werewolf

David Naughton's lone single survived a failed sitcom, giving One Hit Wonderland an unusually literal one-hit wonder.

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Todd in the Shadows Story of November 5, 2026Trari Newsroom

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ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Makin' It" by David Naughton

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2:26David Naughton's connection to An American Werewolf in London explains the episode's horror angle.
3:39Singing Dr Pepper commercials gave Naughton a breakout screen role before his disco hit.
7:51Makin' It failed as a sitcom, but its theme song reached the Billboard top five.
14:19Naughton released no follow-up single and had no real interest in pursuing a recording career.
16:17Todd examines Naughton's werewolf performance and Rick Baker's celebrated transformation makeup.

No new uploads, plenty playing. Todd in the Shadows added roughly half a million views across the week, with his David Naughton retrospective the busiest individual video right now.

"ONE HIT WONDERLAND: \"Makin' It\" by David Naughton" follows a peculiar route through pop culture: singing Dr Pepper commercials, a disco sitcom, then the lead role in An American Werewolf in London. Naughton might be more familiar as a man undergoing a spectacularly unpleasant transformation than as a pop singer, which is precisely the connection Todd enjoys untangling.

The sitcom Makin' It lasted just nine episodes. Its theme song had considerably better luck, reaching the Billboard top five in 1979. Then comes the detail that makes this such a neat fit for the series: Naughton released no follow-up single. Todd calls him "the most pure of the one-hit wonders." Additional writing on the episode comes from Kevin Anderson.

The retrospective has reached about 355,000 views. Behind it, Rick Springfield's "Tao" installment of Trainwreckords and "The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2025" remain among the catalogue's busiest uploads, offering two rather different kinds of musical hindsight.

Subscribers held steady over the week, while daily viewing is running above Todd's usual level. Among similarly sized music channels, 3 Beat had an almost identical weekly view total; alanjacksonVEVO had a much larger viewing week. For Todd, the active thread is a particularly tidy pop-history oddity: a television flop whose theme song found a life of its own.

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