Happy

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song name Happy
artist They Might Be Giants
releases TMBG Unlimited - July, DialASong.com (2000-2006)
year 1983
first played July 7, 1983 (1 known performance)
run time 1:27
sung by John Flansburgh


Trivia/Info

  • Performed live as early as 1983, the only known recording of this song is a live performance from an unidentified mid-1980's show, released via TMBG Unlimited in 2001. The song was also present on the "TMB Songs" list from 1985.
  • The backing track for the song features a Mattel Synsonics drum machine, which was confirmed by John Flansburgh on Tumblr in 2025[1]: "Amidst the small parade of super-cheap, very odd drum machines and keyboards in my possession in the early-80's, I had a Mattel Synsonics. While it wasn’t good for too much, it seems inevitable that it generated that sound."
  • A drum track similar to this song can be heard briefly fading out at the end of "Outboard Part Of Man".

Song Themes

Happiness, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Strangers, Transportation

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