The latest edition of Wonder Why features an artist whose musical  career was short-lived due to a more successful television career.  That’s not really a spoiler given the prolific nature of Tracey Ullman’s  body of work over the past thirty years. Taking her comedic career out  of consideration, could Tracey Ullman’s musical career lasted beyond her  one hit in 1984?

That’s the focus @chadsmart and @MikeDeKalb examine. Breaking down  Tracey’s album “You Broke My Heart in 17 Places” track by track, with  discussion about Stiff Records staff and song writer Kirsty MacColl the  dots are connected to artists and people ranging from the Beach Boys to  Alice Cooper to Charles Manson. And of course, there’s talk about The  Simpsons.

Wrapping up the episode, Mike and Chad give their picks of the month.  What do they think you should be listening to at the start of 2019?  What are the options for next month? Will Mike say “interesting and  fascinating?” Will Chad work in a reference to the band Extreme? All  these questions and more you weren’t asking are answered in the episode.

This episode was originally recorded in 2019 for the Jittery Monkey Podcast Network.