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Birdhouse In Your Soul

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song nameBirdhouse in Your Soul
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesFlood, Birdhouse In Your Soul (EP), Direct From Brooklyn, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants, A User's Guide To They Might Be Giants: Melody, Fidelity, Quantity
year1990
first playedNov. 25, 1989 (811 known performances)
run time3:20
sung byJohn Linnell

Trivia/Info

  • The song is a story of a child's nightlight, told from the nightlight's point of view.
  • The Longines Symphonette is a hand-held pocket radio, manufactured in the 1960s. It is also a record label which specialized in releasing classic radio programs and multiple-record box sets. Linnell admits, though, "I didn't find out what the Longines Symphonette was until after the song was released," in a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone.
  • The song's video was directed by Adam Bernstein and filmed inside the New York County's Surrogate's Court and Hall of Records building located at 31 Chambers Street in Manhattan. "I tell people it's my house." - Linnell
  • Blue Canary is the title of a 1953 song by Vincent Fiorino, which has lyrics on the sadder side about loneliness and comforting but has "happy" music. Also, the 1948 song "Bluebird of Happiness" as performed by Art Mooney (which reminds that, "Though you're deep in blue, you will see a ray of light creep through") may have influenced the line about a "bluebird of friendliness".
  • References to this song appear in the episode "Pigeon" of ABC's show Pushing Daises. You can view a clip here.
  • Featured on ABC's Private Practice in the opening scenes of the episode "Yours, Mine and Ours" on April 30th, 2009.
  • Blue canary night lights were sold as promotional items for Flood.

Song Themes

1964 World's Fair, Animals, Beach, Clothes, Colors, Death, Friendship, I Am, Kingdom Of Loathing Reference, Letters Of The Alphabet, Loneliness, Mythology, Numbers, Oblique Cliches, Occupations, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Religion, Rhymes, Sailing, Screaming, Size, Sleep, Stories, Tongue-Twisters, Transportation

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