Song of the Month: Edwin, Hang Ten

There’s a song I remember liking when I was a kid. Every few weeks, it’d pop into my head, but the thing is I could never remember the name of the song, or the artist, or much of the lyrics. All I could remember was the melody of the chorus, that it mentioned California (but wasn’t a Chili Peppers song), and that the music video involved a moving tattoo or something.

I tried finding using these scraps to track it down many times over the years, but I always came up short. At one point I thought it might have been an Econoline Crush song and listened through a good chunk of their discography trying to find it, but still no luck.

Then, finally — finally — I was listening to the radio a week or two ago, and the DJs were talking were about I Mother Earth, and they mentioned a solo project by their singer, Edwin, and his one notable hit, Hang Ten. They played a brief clip, and there it was. That was the song I had been trying to track down my entire adult life.

It’s not even that great of a song really. Absent the childhood nostalgia factor, it’s not really anything to write home about. But it’s such a relief to finally have that mystery solved.