#dial-a-song

[raventmbg]

New Song!!! From The World Is to Dig!

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Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)

It's a cover of a song by the Raspberries. I'm so glad they made it their own and cut it shorter. The original is painfully long.

lyrics under cut

Well I know it sounds funny But I'm not in it for the money, no I don't need a reputation And I'm not in it for the show

I just want a hit record, yeah Wanna hear it on the radio Want a big hit record, yeah One that everybody's got to know

Well if the program director don't pull it Then it's time to get back the bullet So, bring the group down to the station You're gonna be an overnight sensation

I've been tryin' to write the lyric Non-offensive but satiric too And if you put it in the a-slot It's just got to make a mint for you

And I want a hit record, yeah Wanna hear it on the radio Want a big hit record, yeah One that everybody's got to know, whoa

Overnight sensation

I fit those words to a good melody Amazing how success has been ignoring me So, long I use my bread making demos all day Writing in the night while in my head I hear The record play, hear it play

Hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah (number one) Wanna hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah Wanna hit record, yeah

[paleobotanicalbackwardslicorice]

Yesterday Dial-A-Song was stelluB and today it’s stelluB backwards

I approve of this

[teedeekay]

You have probably heard track number thirteen on They Might Be Giants' Miscellaneous T known as "Untitled", a Dial-A-Song recording that features a woman named Gloria talking about what she had heard on the early-days phone machine, but maybe you are unaware that several additional clips from the recording were revealed on the TMBG podcast.

As a refresher, here's the Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns) segment all about the infamous answering machine message.

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"No, this ain't nothing dirty.. but it's annoying, right?"

Going all the way back to 2006, this clip that They called "Untitled Remix" has Gloria further expounding on DAS, set to some instrumental music which sounds suspiciously similar to a song by The Last Car about Mr. T. that appeared on the podcast earlier that year.

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"Dear madam, could you please be more careful about the water."

A 2011 edition of the TMBG podcast opens with a short clip of our old friend Gloria discussing how to deal with noisy neighbors. 🎶🚿

[sothiseeker]

Eyeball on dial-a-song....

[mortifiedandawesome]

Become a Robot

[donuteater13]

Happy decennial to Omnicorn's dial-a-song release!

[why-its-kai]

tmbg fans will say “check out this song” and then play you the most compressed, low-quality, and distorted-sounding recording of an answering machine from over 30 years ago

[selfcallednowhere]

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By request of @squilsomsquilbert, it's the Dial-A-Song version of "Thunderbird"! Never gonna forgive him for the lyrical changes between this and the album version, but at least we also have it in the earlier form. (And should be fixed on the site as well, let me know if it isn't.)