# Win95 - Who was the singer on the new Media Player? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335 "2004-01-27T21:59:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/1 "2004-01-27T21:59:54Z")
When Windows 95 came out, there were a couple sample files that came with the new media player. One was a preview for the movie Rob Roy, I think there was a Weezer song and then there was a song by a female artist. I could swear it was Nora Jones, but this was way back in the day… who was she. What was the song? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/2 "2004-01-27T22:17:52Z")
T’was Edie Brickell, the song was “Good Times.” ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/3 "2004-01-27T22:20:10Z")
Definitely not Norah Jones. She would have been about 14 or 15 at the time. The song is _Good Times_ by Edie Brickell. Good tune. I understand that she gave up performing to raise her kids with Paul Simon. She apparently released her first album in years just recently. I might have to check it out sometime. ---
**Author:** ![NJenquirer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@NJenquirer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJenquirer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/4 "2020-03-05T23:00:18Z")
So grateful to you for the answer. I was convinced it was Norah Jones/Don’t Know Why? - but the video didn’t ring true. :smack: Both artists/tracks exceptional for me.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/5 "2020-03-06T13:13:39Z")
For the record, the Weezer music video was _[Buddy Holly](https://youtu.be/kemivUKb4f4)_, released a year earlier. It has Al Molinaro from _Happy Days_ in new footage. Al was born in Kenosha but Weezer isn’t, cf. the band intro he does. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/6 "2020-03-06T15:34:58Z")
I still remember that song sometimes, just a fun tune to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/7 "2020-03-06T16:54:25Z")
Good Times on YouTube from the Windows 95 disk. Hard to believe Win 95 came out 25 years ago. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iqL1BLzn3qc/maxresdefault.jpg "Edie Brickell - Good Times") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc) ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/8 "2020-03-06T16:58:16Z")
Edie Brickell released a great Bluegrass album with Steve Martin called Love Has Come For You in 2013. Edie wrote the lyrics, Steve wrote the music. He is an incredible banjo player! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/9 "2020-03-06T19:34:00Z")
I remember the Weezer “Buddy Holly” video, I already knew and liked the song because it had been a hit the year before. The video was very small, even on my 15" monitor with a resolution of 800x600, but it was fascinating for me to play a whole music video on my computer. My first Win95 computer was also my first with a sound card, and it was a good soundcard for the time, a Soundblaster. This computer was also the first one I went online with. I also remember the Edie Brickell song, but was that a video too, or only a wav file? And wasn’t the welcome jingle of Win95 composed by Brian Eno? ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/10 "2020-03-06T21:07:25Z")
Before Windows 95, my aunt had Windows 3.1, and it came with four sample videos we used to watch all the time. Jesus Jones _Right Here Right Now_ was one, Peter Gabriel _Sledgehammer_ was another, Metallica _Enter Sandman_ was a third, and I can’t for the life of me remember the fourth. Anybody remember? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/11 "2020-03-06T21:11:23Z")
The default installation of Windows 3.1 did not come with sample music videos. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/12 "2020-03-06T21:21:43Z")
[The 95 jingle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Ak5VgyEoc) is of course by Brian Eno. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win95-who-was-the-singer-on-the-new-media-player/226335/13 "2020-03-06T22:11:18Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > The default installation of Windows 3.1 did not come with sample music videos. Must have been installed with some sort of multimedia bloatware then. I’m certain my aunt never installed it. We really liked it. The idea of playing _video_ on a _computer_ just blew our tiny minds! Even if it was just four videos. It also came with a really crappy microphone and we’d spend hours making short, silly WAV files and playing them backwards and slowed down.