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'''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.
'''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<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGQZItOMz6k Good Day Music Video]</ref> and was later shown in the first episode of [[Tally Hall's Internet Show]].
The music video for Good Day debuted along side its single release<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGQZItOMz6k Good Day Music Video] Tally Hall. ''YouTube.''</ref> and was later shown in the first episode of [[Tally Hall's Internet Show]].


== History ==
== 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 (Album)|Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum]].  
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 (Album)|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.
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.


===Live Performances===
===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. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNgyFJOzbs4 Tally Hall on Fearless Music - Good Day. Published: October 19th, 2006.]</ref> 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.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pmgHF1yQlA Tally Hall's performance of "Good Day" on Ann Arbor's 107.1, before their Top of the Park performance.]</ref>
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. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNgyFJOzbs4 Tally Hall on Fearless Music - Good Day. Published: October 19th, 2006.]</ref> 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.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pmgHF1yQlA Tally Hall's performance of "Good Day" on Ann Arbor's 107.1, before their Top of the Park performance.] ''YouTube.''</ref>


==Music Video==
==Music Video==
The music video for Good Day was filmed over a period of 4 months in 2006<ref>[https://www.radioiowa.com/2006/10/19/tally-hall-makes-first-appearance-in-iowa/ Radio Iowa]</ref>, 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.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/tallyhall/comments/sdsw2q/i_went_to_university_of_michigan_just_like_a_band/ r/tallyhall Reddit post]</ref> Tally Hall would later post outtakes from the filming on [[tallyhall.com]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1eDuoss5Kc Still working on the music video... 08.23.06]</ref> 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.<ref>[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/524990109641080854/955297911686709269/unknown.png Andrew FB pfp update, sadly friends only access so only a screenshot can be illustrate it.]</ref>  
The music video for Good Day was filmed over a period of 4 months in 2006<ref>[https://www.radioiowa.com/2006/10/19/tally-hall-makes-first-appearance-in-iowa/ Radio Iowa] 19th October 2006. ''Radio Iowa.''</ref>, 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.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/tallyhall/comments/sdsw2q/i_went_to_university_of_michigan_just_like_a_band/ r/tallyhall Reddit post] ''Reddit.''</ref> Tally Hall would later post outtakes from the filming on [[tallyhall.com]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1eDuoss5Kc Still working on the music video... 08.23.06] ''YouTube.''</ref> 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.<ref>[https://www.tumblr.com/hitsdotcom/750846183846658048/in-2006-as-part-of-advertising-their-latest 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.</ref>  


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."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060822062847/http://www.calendarlive.com/nightlife/cl-wk-bands3aug03,0,6418993.story?coll=cl-nightlife-features calenderlive.com article. "He gets high with a little help"]</ref>
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."''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060822062847/http://www.calendarlive.com/nightlife/cl-wk-bands3aug03,0,6418993.story?coll=cl-nightlife-features calenderlive.com article. "He gets high with a little help"] ''Calenderlive.''</ref>


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]].
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<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080306142633/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNgyFJOzbs4&feature=dir TALLY HALL - GOOD DAY. YouTube.</ref> and soon became featured on YouTube's featured videos category in March 2008<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080306093600/http://www.youtube.com/ YouTube March 2008 archive.]</ref>. It would also be featured on AOL Music, MSN, and AlbinoBlackSheep<ref name="SP">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080401235021/http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/03/31/tally_hall_s_debut_album_marvin_s_marvel_1 StarPulse article about Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum's release.]</ref>
The music video was uploaded to YouTube on February 25th 2008<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080306142633/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNgyFJOzbs4&feature=dir TALLY HALL - GOOD DAY. YouTube.] ''YouTube.'' Archived via The Wayback Machine.</ref> and soon became featured on YouTube's featured videos category in March 2008<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080306093600/http://www.youtube.com/ YouTube March 2008 archive.]</ref>. It would also be featured on AOL Music, MSN, and AlbinoBlackSheep<ref name="SP">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080401235021/http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/03/31/tally_hall_s_debut_album_marvin_s_marvel_1 StarPulse article about Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum's release.] ''Starpulse.'' Archived via The Wayback Machine</ref>


== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
* The breakdown has Rob making a chicken sound.
* 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.<ref>[https://uk.ign.com/articles/2008/08/07/sims-2-apartment-life-soundtrack "The Sims 2 Apartment Life Soundtrack". IGN Music. GN UK Accessed: December 19, 2018]</ref>
* Tally Hall recorded a special version of Good Day in the fictional "Simlish" language for the Sims 2: Apartment Life expansion pack.<ref>[https://uk.ign.com/articles/2008/08/07/sims-2-apartment-life-soundtrack "The Sims 2 Apartment Life Soundtrack".] IGN Music. ''IGN UK.'' Accessed: December 19, 2018</ref>
* 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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080808113603/http://www.u-myx.com/Music/ U-MYX Music page. August 2008.</ref> 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.
* 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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080808113603/http://www.u-myx.com/Music/ U-MYX Music page.] August 2008. Archived via The Wayback Machine.</ref> 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.
* 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. [[File:Good_day_clouds.png|thumb|The clouds.]]
* 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. [[File:Good_day_clouds.png|thumb|The clouds.]]
* 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.
* 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 '''<u>ane</u>''' breathes and it insists that it insists that it is something".<ref>[https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/wiki/images/0/00/CompleteDemos_BookInside_2500.jpg Complete Demos booklet.]</ref>
* The lyrics booklet for [[Complete Demos]] has a typo in the song's lyrics: "It lives '''<u>ane</u>''' breathes and it insists that it insists that it is something".<ref>[https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/wiki/images/0/00/CompleteDemos_BookInside_2500.jpg Complete Demos booklet.] ''Hidden In The Sand.''</ref>
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