Difference between revisions of "Tally Hall"

The band began touring outside their general hometown area in 2005, and would sign under the [[Quack! Media]] label to professionally record an album titled after Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum. Joe stated they needed to partner with a label to progress as a band together and [[Al McWilliams]] happened to accept their request of a record deal.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS96m7T4yos Joe Hawley from Tally Hall on WXJR, 01/22/2009. YouTube.]</ref> The band would take 4 months to record and mix the album, and pre-orders would open on their website before the album's release. Tracks from it would be released on a radio promotional EP to hype fans up for the release in November of 2005. Their live concerts often featured a couple [[Cover Songs|cover songs]]. They're probably best known for their cover of Biz Markie's "[[Just A Friend]]", a fan favorite of their audience.

A live version of Just a Friend can be found on [[The Pingry EP]] released in 2005. Later, in 2006, a studio version was recorded and shelved -- because the band was not happy with it -- but later was released as one of a few bonus songs provided by Atlantic Records for their 2008 re-release of MMMM. These bonus songs (Just A Friend, [[Mucka Blucka]], and [[Dream]]) were distributed via download codes handed out at live shows and through the [[Twitter]] account of [[Hidden In The Sand (Website)|hiddeninthesand.com]] (A.K.A. HITS).

Quack! Media re-released the album in September 2006 with more focused marketing behind it and a wider distribution plan. It helped get them into more stores and gained them more national attention, including impressing radio personality Mancow enough for him to recommend Craig Ferguson listen to the album. Soon after, on August 2, 2006, they were performing their song "Good Day" on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. In September 2006, Tally Hall appeared in MTV's segment "You Hear It First."

After signing to Atlantic Records, the band released Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum for the 3rd time on April 1, 2008 with their new record label, but this time they were given the opportunity to re-record and re-mix parts they've never been quite satisfied with and allow a more experienced engineer to gear the songs in a radio-friendlier manner, though the songs did not gain much more radio airplay.  In addition to the album, Atlantic Records produced [[Tally Hall's Internet Show]], which was intended to coincide with the release of the album but due to some musical licensing issues, there was a delay and the Internet Show didn't get started until September 2008.

Tally Hall was invited back by The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson on September 16, 2008 to help promote the launch of Tally Hall's Internet Show. They performed a "radio edit" version of "Welcome to Tally Hall" in newly donned black vests over top of their traditional colored ties, white shirts, and black pants. This was the first time the vests were worn.