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32 Footsteps

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song name32 Footsteps
artistThey Might Be Giants
album1985 Demo Tape, They Might Be Giants, Then: The Earlier Years
year1985
first playedJun. 26, 1987 (29 known performances)
run time1:36
sung byJohn Linnell, John Flansburgh joins in at the "-ing -ang -ingalong" part

[edit] Trivia/Info

  • The countup at the end was a spontaneous occurence by Flansburgh while recording. It starts at 1:28 with the number 28 and ends at 1:31 with the number 31.
  • The "bing-bang-bingalong" part is simply the syllables "-ing -ang -ingalong" attached to successive consonents in the alphabet, from B to P. Every third one of these sung also has "-ay" after the "-ing -ang -ingalong," and each one of these -ay words all turn out to be real words (day, hay, lay, and pay).

[edit] Song Themes

Clothes, Letters Of The Alphabet, Lies, Deception, Love Gone Sour, Mathematics, No, Nonsense Words, Questions, Transportation, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Talking, Not Singing

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