What Is A Shooting Star?
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| song name | What Is A Shooting Star? |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Dial-A-Song, TMBG Unlimited - April (as "A Shooting Star Is Not A Star"), DialASong.com (2000-2006) (as "A Shooting Star is Not a Star"), Greasy Kid Stuff 2: More Songs From Inside The Radio, Here Comes Science |
| year | 2000 |
| first played | September 13, 2009 (84 known performances) |
| run time | 1:38 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh, John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
- A cover of the song written by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer and originally recorded by Tom Glazer for the 1959 album Space Songs, the same disc on which the original "Why Does The Sun Shine?" appears. The album has been restored, in high fidelity, by Argosy Music. Information on Space Songs, as well as a free PDF songbook and links to digitally purchase the album and its five science-themed counterparts can be found here.
- This song was originally recorded for No! but would not be chosen for inclusion on the album. The band would elaborate on this decision in a 2000 Yahoo! chat event[1]:
It was just business. There were 17 songs on the record and we would have had to pay 10 percent to four publishers for this 45 second thing [sic], and not that [Zaret and Singer] didn't deserve the money, but we deserved it too! If you put any cover on a record, complicated publishing conversation follows!
- The song instead made its first appearance on Dial-A-Song around July 2000, with a follow-up release on the April edition of TMBG Unlimited in 2001. For Here Comes Science, the band would re-release the song with an animated music video by Pascal Campion.
- This song is an example of a round. They Might Be Giants have also demonstrated this technique with "I Can Help The Next In Line" and "I Haven't Seen You In Forever".
- In actuality, meteors are incandescent due to ram pressure, not friction. The particles' high speeds compress the air in front, creating heat and light.
Song Themes
Canon, Educational, Falling, Not In Major Or Minor, Puppets, Questions, Space, Temperature, Time, Title Not In Lyrics, TMBG Remakes
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