Good Day (Song)
| Good Day | |
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| Written by | Andrew Horowitz |
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| Appears on | Party Boobytrap, The Pingry EP, Complete Demos, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Good Day (Single) |
| Sung by | Joe Hawley, Rob Cantor, Zubin Sedghi |
| Genre | Rock |
| Language | English |
| Links: | YouTube Spotify Bandcamp Demo (Bandcamp) Mitch Albom Excerpt (YouTube) Simlish (Bandcamp, hidden track) Simlish (YouTube) Without TV Effect (incomplete) |
Good Day is a song written by Andrew Horowitz, it won the 2004 BMI John Lennon Scholarship; and It's been played on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Good Day was also featured in the April 6th, 2006 episode of The O.C., a popular prime-time drama on the Fox network.
The music video for Good Day debuted along side it's single release[1] and was later shown in the first episode of Tally Hall's Internet Show.
History
Good Day was one of the first songs written for Tally Hall, and originally appeared on the Party Boobytrap EP, then moved to Complete Demos mostly unchanged. Apart from the orchestration, there were no major changes when updated for Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum.
When remixed and partially re-recorded for Atlantic Records in 2007, quite a couple changes were made, like more vocals on the intro. The "I thought you knew I knew" section was completely re-recorded and more backing vocals were recorded for the "Let us sing" section.
Live Performances
Good Day was performed on Fearless Music with the dialogue segments in the breakdown section changed to "Fearless, we are! Fearless, I say!". Rob's chicken sound, however, remained unchanged. [2]
Music Video
The music video for Good Day was filmed over a period of 4 months in 2006[3], and later burned to DVD for filming of the TV segments over that September. Tally Hall seemingly asked people around Michigan to film their TVs for the video, as a Reddit user on r/tallyhall would show a scene featuring a picture of a University of Michigan band "Groove" on a wall.[4] Tally Hall would later post outtakes from the filming on tallyhall.com.[5] Most of the members would also change their profile pictures to scenes from the video, Ross using the weight loss ad, Zubin using the Bob Ross parody, Andrew using the Blue's Clues parody, and Rob using their Party Boobytrap rap video segment.[6]
When asked about it by calenderlive.com, Rob states "We're doing it guerrilla-style, we shot part of it at Michigan Stadium.... I think the grounds crew thought we were important because of our ties."[7]
During the filming of one scene at their local rotary park, Joe Hawley and Zubin Sedghi were robbed of most of their equipment and were left injured. This event was referenced in Rotary Park, a song by both Joe and Zubin on Joe's album called Joe Hawley Joe Hawley.
The music video was uploaded to YouTube on February 25th 2008[8] and soon became featured on YouTube's featured videos category in March 2008[9]. It would also be featured on AOL Music, MSN, and AlbinoBlackSheep[10]
Trivia
- The breakdown has Rob making a chicken sound.
- Tally Hall recorded a special version of Good Day in the fictional "Simlish" language for the Sims 2: Apartment Life expansion pack.[11]
- For a tie-in promotion with Burger King, U-MYX and iMeem, people were allowed to remix Good Day with its stems. It was released on June 24th 2008 and exclusive to iMeem's website until the site shut down in 2009.[12] These stems were mostly lost for years (with the exception of some vocal stems thanks to Coz Baldwin) until August 2021 when the rest were found in The "Another Minute" gigaleak, a private Tally Hall collection.
- In the music video for Good Day, you can see home movie clips of presumably each member when they were younger.
- Originally, instead of the images of someone screaming that multiply, there would have been moving clouds. This can be seen in the last few frames of the 30 second video without the TV effect and in the original video, a single frame after the images of someone screaming.
- Good Day was originally spelt without a space between Good and Day, "Goodday". This can be seen on the sleeve for Party Boobytrap.
Lyrics
I'd like to say hello and welcome you good day that is my name Come here and sit down I'm so glad you even really truly came We can even go and take a walk or something like that or something like that But first I need to introduce my what and introduce my when Let us sing Its name I like to call it likes to say it's nothing (it's nothing) It lives and breathes and it insists that it insists that it is something (it's something) It never liked to speak or run or walk or sleep or eat It even thought that everybody tried to thought to take its seat Looking through glass eyes Give it a few tries Nothing goes right in its time Kill all its bad dreams Wonder 'bout no things Circles and spirals in mind But we know that this song is not about a no or yes or why What's really truly what I say is that about a little sigh So come along I think I'm done I think we're done yes this is done What's truly that I think about it and it thinks about a ton Let us sing Looking through glass eyes Give it a few tries Nothing goes right in its time Kill all its bad dreams Wonder 'bout no things Circles and spirals in mind I thought you knew I knew but Why and by and Why and by and by I wanted you to know I thought you knew but Why and by and why Let us sing, let us sing Let us sing, let us sing Let us sing, let us sing Let us sing, let us sing Birds and bees and television (let us sing, let us sing) Cardboard houses, x-ray vision (let us sing, let us sing) Many little silly rhymes (let us sing, let us sing) Things forgotten lost their time (let us sing, let us sing) Telephones and silly games (let us sing, let us sing) Periods and lots of question marks (let us sing)
Simlish Lyrics
Alocka see halonka welka voogoo donta beesa nabe Coomeena seetaw eesoh gligvoo evik weebeetoolie cabe Weeka neebagoza tokawokka sun neet lik doh aso neet lik doh Bafuza neeba ondredonk meewonka ondredonk meewem Lemmas ying! (Aaahhh) Eep nani leekacowa leeksuh saybee numping (Eep numping) Eep leebzabweeza neekit zeetah neepit zeeta neetzee sumping (Seh sumping) Eep nobaleeka spillka roogawokka slurpool eet Ip Eeba thonk tan ehbrebrubby tyna thonka teekasleet Looka too blopsnyes Geema na crooties Numping go frykin intyne Keelawa boo droms Wubner bow noo thonks Churkles ah sprynle see mine Baweenok tontee snubsy nooka pohwa nooga eesa whym Oksweenee toonee okses nayessata bona lebbasnyme Sacooma loka thayga doona thaykwa doon yes eety doon Okstoonee tansee thayga boogen anic thaygza boola doon (Na na na na-na-na) Lemmas ying! (Aaahhh) Looka too blopsnyes Geema na crooties Numping go frykin intyne Keelawa boo droms Wubner bow noo thonks Churkles ah sprynle see mine Ah thonk voo noog ah noog buh Whyma bryma Whyma bryma bry Ah wonk goo voog ah noog Ah thonk voo noog buh Whyma bryma why Lemmas ying, lemmas ying Lemmas ying, lemmas ying Lemmas ying, lemmas ying Lemmas ying, lemmas ying Birza kweepzar tunavonky (Lemmas ying, lemmas ying) Ardborg owzo extray bonky (Lemmas ying, lemmas ying) Emmy vitzel herweelogs (Lemmas ying, lemmas ying) Bringza goppa loopsatime (Lemmas ying, lemmas ying) Toolafonks on neemeqwaybs (Lemmas ying, lemmas ying) Periopso lotso quasheemarks (Lem-mas-ying)
Tabs/Chords
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Personnel
Music & Lyrics: Andrew Horowitz
Studio Version
Vocals: Joe Hawley, Rob Cantor, Zubin Sedghi
Choir Vocals: Jason Ceo, Greg Jaffe, Bora Karaca, Donald Milton III, Michael Steelman, Victor Szabo, Brett Trzcinski, Tim Wagner, Jon Zande
Additional Vocals: Ross Federman
Electric & Acoustic Guitar: Rob Cantor, Joe Hawley
Piano & Keyboards: Andrew Horowitz
Drum Kit & Percussion: Ross Federman
Bass: Zubin Sedghi
Complete Demos Version
Engineer: Joe Hawley
Producer: Joe Hawley
Vocals: Joe Hawley, Rob Cantor, Zubin Sedghi
Electric & Acoustic Guitar: Rob Cantor, Joe Hawley
Piano & Keyboards: Andrew Horowitz
Drum Kit & Percussion: Steve Gallagher
Bass: Zubin Sedghi
References
- ↑ Good Day Music Video
- ↑ Tally Hall on Fearless Music - Good Day. Published: October 19th, 2006.
- ↑ Radio Iowa
- ↑ r/tallyhall Reddit post
- ↑ Still working on the music video... 08.23.06
- ↑ Andrew FB pfp update, sadly friends only access so only a screenshot can be illustrate it.
- ↑ calenderlive.com article. "He gets high with a little help"
- ↑ [https://web.archive.org/web/20080306142633/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNgyFJOzbs4&feature=dir TALLY HALL - GOOD DAY. YouTube.
- ↑ YouTube March 2008 archive.
- ↑ StarPulse article about Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum's release.
- ↑ "The Sims 2 Apartment Life Soundtrack". IGN Music. GN UK Accessed: December 19, 2018
- ↑ [https://web.archive.org/web/20080808113603/http://www.u-myx.com/Music/ U-MYX Music page. August 2008.
Good Day (Demo) · Greener (Demo) · Stationary Love · Ruler Of Everything (Demo)
Good Day (Demo) · Greener (Demo) · Welcome To Tally Hall (Demo) · Just Apathy (Demo) · Two Wuv (Demo) · Stationary Love · Banana Man (Demo) · (I Know) It's Just The Same · Ruler Of Everything (Demo) · Hidden In The Sand (Demo) (hidden track)
The Bidding · Taken For A Ride (acoustic) · Be Born (acoustic) · The Whole World And You (acoustic) · All Of My Friends (acoustic) · Good Day (Mitch Albom excerpt) · Yearbook (demo) · Just a Friend (live) · Cell Phone Call (hidden track)
Good Day · Greener · Welcome To Tally Hall · Taken For A Ride · The Bidding · Be Born · Banana Man · Just Apathy · Spring And A Storm · Two Wuv · Haiku · The Whole World And You · 13 · Ruler Of Everything · Hidden In The Sand (hidden track) · Mucka Blucka* (bonus track) · Dream* (bonus track) · Just a Friend** (bonus track) · Good Day (Simlish)** (pre-gap bonus track)
* indicates tracks only available with a digital download code or with the 2021 CD and tape rerelease | ** indicates tracks only available on the 2021 CD rerelease