PAST APPEARANCES The Today Show
14 May 1997KATIE: A new rock group called Hanson is making teenage hearts beat a little faster these days. Three brothers from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Isaac, Zac, and Taylor are here...
TAYLOR: Hi.
ZAC: Hi... howdy!
KATIE: They're part of the group Hanson. Their album, Middle of Nowhere, features the hit single, “MMMBop,” which is sky-rocketing up the charts. Nice to see you all.
TAYLOR: Great to be here.
ISAAC: Nice to be here.
KATIE: Isaac, Zac, and Taylor?
ALL Yes.
KATIE: Yes! I got it! So tell me how you guys got started.
ISAAC: Well, we started five years ago singing a cappella, then three years after... after singing a cappella for three years we then picked up instruments, drums, guitar, piano...
KATIE: You were just kind of goofing around and you realized that you could harmonize together?
TAYLOR: It was very much a part of us, our parents are both musical, so we got it from them in a major way.
ISAAC: Yeah.
KATIE: And you all travelled together growing up...
ISAAC: Yeah.
KATIE: Isn't that right?
ISAAC: We lived in Ecuador, Venezuela, and Trinidad over the period of a year.
KATIE: And your parents would play this time-life anthology of music, right? 1957 to 1969?
ISAAC: Something like that, yeah, it was a tape from 1958. It had songs like "Johnny B. Goode," "Splish Splash," "Rockin' Robin" and...
TAYLOR: The original rock & roll.
KATIE: Yeah.
ISAAC: We listened to that a lot.
KATIE: Did that have a big influence on your music?
ISAAC: Yeah, I definitely think it did.
ZAC: Yeah... definitely!
TAYLOR: Yeah
KATIE: Alright, so you're gonna sing “MMMBop” for us this morning?
ALL: Yeah.
KATIE: Ladies and gentlemen, the Hanson’s!