Difference between revisions of "Non-John Vocals"

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Songs sung by anyone who is not John Linnell or John Flansburgh[edit]

• 8 AM - Technically an honorable mention; John Roderick of The Long Winters sings
• Alphabet Lost And Found - Marty Beller
• Apple Juice Blues - Matt Chapman (as Homestar Runner)
• Bad Jokes - Matt Chapman (as Homestar Runner)
• Bed Bed Bed Bed Bed - Kimya Dawson
• Boat Of Car - Margaret Seiler
• Chaos By Design - Robin Goldwasser
• Celebrities - Matt Chapman (as Homestar Runner)
• Decision Makers - Jedediah Parish
• Distant Antenna - Elina Löwensohn
• Dr. Evil - Robin Goldwasser
• Don't I Have The Right? - Nancy Lynn Howell
• Doris Cunningham - Jennifer Neff
• The Edison Museum - Nick Hill
• Electric Car - Robin Goldwasser
• Elephants - Danny Weinkauf
• Everybody Knows It - Matt Chapman (as Homestar Runner)
• Extra Krispy - Robin Goldwasser as Sister Puff
• Fingertips #2 (Fingertips (Banjo)) - Peter Stampfel
• Fingertips #3 (I Hear The Wind Blow) - Nick Hill
• Fingertips #4 (Hey Now Everybody) - Elma Mayer
• Fingertips #6 (I Found A New Friend Underneath My Pillow) - Brian Dewan
• Fingertips #9 (Please Pass The Milk) - Elma Mayer
• Fingertips #11 (Who's Knocking On The Wall?) - Brian Dewan
• Fingertips #14 (Something Grabbed Ahold Of My Hand) - Amy Allison
• Fingertips #20 (Fingertips (Whispered)) - Peter Stampfel
• Fun Assassin - Jonny Cragg; harmonies - Robin Goldwasser
• Hidden Track - Entire song is "sung" (spoken) by Apple SimpleText
• High Five! - Marty Beller
• I Am A Paleontologist - Danny Weinkauf
• I Hear A New World - Robin Goldwasser
• I Need Some Lovin' - Jennifer Neff
• In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle - Robin Goldwasser
• Infinity - Dan Miller
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Park Slope Mix)
• Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine - Laura Cantrell
• Letter / Not A Letter - Desi Tomaselli, Henry Linnell
• Live Like Pigs - Jennifer Neff
• Lullaby To Nightmares - Joshua Fried
• Mission Control - Matt Chapman (as Homestar Runner)
• Mr. Xcitement - Mike Doughty
• My Other Phone Is A Boom Car - Michael Cerveris
• Night Security - Barry Carl
• No Cops - Corn Mo
• Number Two - Danny Weinkauf
• O, Do Not Forsake Me - Hudson Shad
• Oblongs Theme - Robin Goldwasser
• One Dozen Monkeys - Most of the song is sung by Hannah Levine (John Flansburgh sings harmonies and background)
• The Poisonousness (Hand Witch) - Robin Goldwasser (John Flansburgh sings background)
• President's Daughter - Matt Chapman (as Homestar Runner)
• Pretty Fly - Robin Goldwasser as Sister Puff
• Schoolchildren Singing Particle Man - a class of second-graders
• So Long, Mockingbird (Demo) - Mark Donato, Robin Goldwasser, Nancy Lynn Howell, Jay Sherman-Godfrey
• Something You'd Like To See - Robin Goldwasser (credited as Little Lisa Whitman)
• Speed And Velocity - Marty Beller
• Theme From Flood - Marion Beckenstein, Joel Mitchell
• There - Robin Goldwasser
• Things I Like To Do - David Driver, backed by Flansburgh
• To Serve Mankind - Anonymous vocal samples
• Tropical Lazor Beams - Matt Chapman (as Homestar Runner)
• Vitamins - Matt Chapman (as Homestar Runner)
• WMOB ID - Robin Goldwasser
• Where Do They Make Balloons? - Danny Weinkauf
• White Sport Coat - Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets, backed by Linnell and Flansburgh
• Who Put The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order? - Robin Goldwasser
• Your Mom's Alright - Mike Doughty

Songs with a verse of non-John vocals[edit]

• The Bloodmobile - "The food that's been digested..." stanza and harmonies by Robin Goldwasser
• Cyclops Rock - "Pony, Twist, Monkey, and Froog..." screamed by Cerys Matthews
• For Science - "Volunteers, we need volunteers..." and harmonies by Lt. Anne Moore
• The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - "In the spaceship, the silver spaceship..." by Laura Cantrell
• I Can Add - "Two kids countin' plus one kid countin'..." by Hannah Levine
• Impossible - "Well I'd like to be an octofish..." by Robin Goldwasser
• Larger Than Life - Miss Linda and Sensi of Worl-A-Girl
• Ooh La! Ooh La! - Hannah Levine and Robin Goldwasser
• Three Might Be Duende - David Driver and Michael Cerveris each sing a verse.
• Whence That Wince - Robin Goldwasser
• Words Are Like - Robin Goldwasser

Songs with single lines or harmonies by non-John vocalists[edit]

• Always Coca-Cola - harmonies by Robin Goldwasser
• Ana Ng - "I don't want the world, I just want your half" spoken by Lisa Klapp
• The Bells Are Ringing - Amanda Homi provides the vocal effect of the bells
• Canada Haunts Me - harmonies by Robin Goldwasser
• Computer Assisted Design - "See how you get..." and "It takes an idea..." by Hannah Levine
• Dashiki Lover - backing vocal by Robin Goldwasser
• Electronic Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - "Even old New York, Was once New Amsterdam", "Yikes" and scatting by Dan Miller through vocoder
• Hall Of Heads - harmonies by Julie Cohen
• Here Come The 123s - "1, 2, 3!" by uncredited children
• Here Come The ABCs - "A, B, C!" also by uncredited children
• High Five! - "Up top!", "Don't stop!", "Woo!", and "Oh!" for verses and "High five!", "Low five!", and "Slap me five!" for the bridge by Hannah Levine
• Hot Dog! - backing vocals by Robin Goldwasser and Amy Miles
• How Many Planets? - "Venus" and "Saturn" by Robin Goldwasser
• I Like Fun - samples of Jack Bruce
• Ooh La! Ooh La! - "Ooh la! Ooh la!" by Hannah Levine
• Photosynthesis - "Chlorophyll cells take in carbon dioxide—now that's the air that we breathe out" is sung by Robin Goldwasser
• The Secret Life Of Six - backing vocal by Robin Goldwasser
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective (Single Mix) - Peter Pearmain Thomson provides backing vocals
• She's Actual Size (New Live Version) - "Two!", "Three!", "Four!", "Five!", "Six!", "Seven!", "Eight!", "Nine!", "Ten!", "Eleven!" and cheering from The Audience
• Spy - scream by Robin Goldwasser
• Stone Cold Coup D'État - backing vocal by Robin Goldwasser
• Too Tall Girl - backing vocal by Robin Goldwasser
• Triops Has Three Eyes - Robin Goldwasser sings "And monkeys have two legs"
• Tubthumping - chorus sung by members of The A.V. Club
• Unsupervised, I Hit My Head - Mike Viola on backing vocals during final chorus
• You're On Fire - Backing vocals from Robin Goldwasser
• Zeroes - "One million", "One millionth", "The number zero", "Ten, one hundred, one thousand", and "One tenth, one one hundredth, one one thousandth" by Hannah Levine

See also[edit]

• Category for songs with non-John vocals
• TMBG Remakes - songs written by a different artist but sung and performed by They Might Be Giants.