The song had to be the sort of thing that would get stuck in your head and never leave in order to be believable as the band’s big hit.
This is probably in large part due to the incredibly catchy song that was written to be the film’s major plot device.
While That Thing You Do was never a colossal hit when it was released in 1996, the film, which marked the feature film directing debut of co-star Tom Hanks, clearly has built quite a following.
Needless to say, I’ll now be humming this for the rest of the day.