Benson Boone has heard the jokes. He’s aware of the “moonbeam ice cream” ribbing; he knows the world thinks his flips are a gimmick; and as for the claims of being a “one-hit wonder?” He made a shirt.

John Lennon once called a song he wrote for Ringo Starr the "funniest thing" he had ever written. George Harrison just thought it was weird.

They were the two notes of terror heard around the world. But director Steven Spielberg initially laughed off composer John ...