Shoehorn With Teeth

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song name	Shoehorn with Teeth
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	Lincoln, Then: The Earlier Years
year	1988
first played	Mar. 4, 1987 (277 known performances)
run time	1:13
sung by	John Linnell, John Flansburgh

The glockenspiel was originally brought out for Brian Doherty to play during the slow version of Why Does The Sun Shine?. After a while, the band decided to goof on the audience by making a big show of bringing out the glockenspiel and make them think that They were going to play one song and then actually playing another, unexpected song which was not previously in the live set. What made it even more comical is the fact that the replacement song only used the glockenspiel for three notes. The tradition was handed off to Dan Hickey, and the band continued to make a big show of introducing the song whenever it was played right up until the glockenspiel was retired and given away to a young fan at a show in 2002.
In a few cases, a simple desk bell was used in place of the glockenspiel.
This song has been covered by Da Vinci's Notebook with Moxy Früvous.

Full version after Robot Parade on 2002 Conan O'Brien segment, hosted at They Might Be Giants Multimedia

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