The Heardsmen

Snotty frontman James Mattingly's post-Wonders band, according to the soundtrack liner notes of the 1996 movie That Thing You Do!. The name is glimpsed in his notebook where he's been doodling potential band names.

“She Knows It” was James Mattingly’s first hit record with The Heardsmen, recording for the Play-Tone Galaxy of Stars after an aborted alliance with the DevaCart Label produced two non-selling solo efforts. The new band was actually a rotating collection of sidemen hired as needed by Mattingly who not only wrote all Heardsmen tunes, but who then moved smoothly into the producer’s booth for himself and many other Play-Tone Artists.

See also

• The Wonders