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 its single release[citation needed] 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, released in 2003. This version opens with a loud cough and clapping, and features original drummer Steve Gallagher on drums. The whole EP was recorded in Joe Hawley's attic bedroom using a digital camcorder, with tracks being edited together using Final Cut Pro. Even in this original recording, the final few seconds feature the opening guitar riff from Greener, implying the 2 songs were always meant to transition one into the other.[1]
In May 2004, the song was performed for the Mitch Albom Show, an excerpt of which would later resurface on 2005's Pingry EP. Later that year, the song also made it to the tracklist of their compilation demo album Complete Demos, mostly unchanged from the Party Boobytrap EP version.[citation needed]
In 2005, "Good Day" was re-recorded for Tally Hall's first studio album: Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, this time with replacement drummer Ross Federman on drums, and with new orchestration. When remixed and partially re-recorded for Atlantic Records in 2007, quite a couple changes were made, such as: 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.
Tally Hall recorded a special version of "Good Day" in the fictional "Simlish" language for the Sims 2: Apartment Life expansion pack.[2] This version was included on the Needlejuice Records re-issue of Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum.
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. [3] Tally Hall would also change the breakdown for Ann Arbor's 107.1, where they would change it to saying "Top of the Park", "Ann Arbor's 107.1", and random mouth noises.[4]
Music Video
The music video for "Good Day" was filmed over a period of 4 months in 2006[5], 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.[6] Tally Hall would later post outtakes from the filming on tallyhall.com.[7] 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.[8]
When asked about it by calenderlive.com, Rob stated: "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."[9]
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[10] and soon became featured on YouTube's featured videos category in March 2008[11]. It would also be featured on AOL Music, MSN, and AlbinoBlackSheep[12]
The music video would be re-uploaded to YouTube with new 2008 version audio on June 1st 2010.[13]
Trivia
- The breakdown has Rob making a chicken sound.
- 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.[14] 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 in Party Boobytrap's song metadata and on the 2004 BMI John Lennon Scholarships page.
- The lyrics booklet for Complete Demos has a typo in the song's lyrics: "It lives ane breathes and it insists that it insists that it is something".[15]
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
by ozmacity#206 on Ultimate Guitar
[Verse 1]
A E B
I'd like to say hello and welcome you Good day that is my name
A E B C# A E B
Come here and sit down I'm so glad you even really truly came
A E B
We can even go and take a walk or something like that
C# A E B
or something like that
A E B C# A E B
But first I need to introduce my what and introduce my when
F# B A
Let us sing
[Break]
G Eb F
Ahhhh Aaaa-aahh G Eb F
e|------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------6-5----------------------------|
D|------3-2------5--------------------------------|
A|----2--------6----------------------------------|
E|--3---------------------------------------------|
[Verse 2]
A E B C#
It's name I like to call It likes to say it's nothing,
A E B
It's nothing (It's something)
A E B C# A
It lives and breathes and it insists that it insists that it is something
E B
It's something
A E B C# A E B
It never liked to sleep or run or walk or sleep or eat
A E B C# A E B
It even thought that everybody tried to thought to take it's seat
F# B A
[Chorus]
C Fmaj7 Dm G
Looking through glass eyes, give it a few tries
C/E Fmaj7 Dm G
Nothing goes right in it's time
C Fmaj7 Dm G
Kill all its bad dreams, wonder bout no things
C/E Fmaj7 Dm G
Circles and spirals in mind
[Verse 3]
G# A E B C# E B
But we know that this song is not about a no or yes or why
A E B C# A E B
What's really truly what I say is that about a little sigh
A E B C# A E B
So come along I think I'm done I think we're done yes this is done
A E B C# A E B
What's truly that I think about it and it thinks about a ton
F# B A
Na na na na-na-na
F# B A G Eb F
e|------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------6-5----------------------------|
D|------3-2------5--------------------------------|
A|----2--------6----------------------------------|
E|--3---------------------------------------------|
Let us sing
[Break]
G Eb F
Ahhhh Aaaa-aahh
[Chorus]
C Fmaj7 Dm G
Looking through glass eyes, give it a few tries
C/E Fmaj7 Dm G
Nothing goes right in it's time
C Fmaj7 Dm G
Kill all its bad dreams, wonder bout no things
C/E Fmaj7 Dm Db C
Circles and spirals in mind
[Bridge]
Bb Bb/A Bb/Ab Gm7
I thought you knew, I knew but
Eb/Gb Bb/F Eb/Gb Db C Bb
why and by and why and by and by
Bb Bb/A Bb/Ab Gm7
I wanted you to know
Eb/Gb F Eb/Gb Ab Bb
I thought you knew but why and by and why
Bb F C D (x2)
[End Verse]
Bb Eb C F
Let us sing, let us sing, let us sing, let us sing
Bb Eb C F
Let us sing, let us sing, let us sing, let us sing
Bb Eb C F
Let us sing, let us sing, let us sing, let us sing
Birds and bees and television, Cardboard houses, x-ray vision
Db Gb Eb Ab
Let us sing, let us sing, let us sing, let us sing
Many little silly rhymes, Things forgotten lost their times
F Bb G C A
Let us sing, let us sing, let...us.........siiiiing
Telephones and silly games, Periods and lots of question maaaark
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
Production and engineering: 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
- ↑ Tally Hall. Tally Hall - Party Boobytrap | Good Day on YouTube 'Good Day'. YouTube. Uploaded by Ruby Red on May 9th 2024. Retrieved 18th May 2024.
- ↑ "The Sims 2 Apartment Life Soundtrack". IGN Music. IGN UK. Accessed: December 19, 2018
- ↑ Tally Hall on Fearless Music - Good Day. Published: October 19th, 2006.
- ↑ Tally Hall's performance of "Good Day" on Ann Arbor's 107.1, before their Top of the Park performance. YouTube.
- ↑ Radio Iowa 19th October 2006. Radio Iowa.
- ↑ r/tallyhall Reddit post Reddit.
- ↑ Still working on the music video... 08.23.06 YouTube.
- ↑ Andrew Facebook profile picture update in 2006. Screenshot Archived Via HITSdotcom on Tumblr December 15th 2006. [Web Screenshot.] Facebook / Tumblr Re-retrieved, and archived 18th May 2024.
- ↑ calenderlive.com article. "He gets high with a little help" Calenderlive.
- ↑ TALLY HALL - GOOD DAY. YouTube. YouTube. Archived via The Wayback Machine.
- ↑ YouTube March 2008 archive.
- ↑ StarPulse article about Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum's release. Starpulse. Archived via The Wayback Machine
- ↑ Good Day Music Video Tally Hall. June 1st 2010. YouTube.
- ↑ U-MYX Music page. August 2008. Archived via The Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Complete Demos booklet. Hidden In The Sand.
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Banana Man (Demo) · Ruler Of Everything (Demo) · Good Day · Welcome To Tally Hall · Light & Night · You & Me · & · Nathan Naimark · Club Can't Handle Me (featuring Casey Shea) · Just a Friend · Turn The Lights Off (b-side: Light & Night) |