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Released: October 13, 1998. Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? is the debut studio album by American rock band Harvey Danger. It was initially released by the independent record label the Arena Rock Recording Company on July 29, 1997. The second song on the album, "Flagpole Sitta", received extensive airplay in the United States and resulted ...
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"Flagpole Sitta" is a song by American rock band Harvey Danger from their 1997 debut album, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? It was released as the band's debut single in April 1998 and was met with critical and commercial success, peaking at number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, number three on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, and number nine on the Canadian RPM ...
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Early years
Harvey Danger began in 1992 with University of Washington classmates Jeff Lin and Aaron Huffman deciding "it might be fun to start a band." Huffman and Lin, who were both student journalists on the staff of The Daily of the University of Washington student newspaper, took the name "Harvey Danger" from a phrase graffitied onto the wall of the newspaper's office. Lin and Huffman played house parties and bars as a duo under the Harvey Danger name until 1993, when they invited Evan Sult to be the...
Merrymakers and initial success
When three-quarters of the group became unemployed in 1996, they decided to devote yet more attention to the band, moving to another house and renting a rehearsal space. Their shows continued to improve, and the band became regular weekend performers at the Crocodile Cafe. The band recorded a three-track demo tape with producer John Goodmanson, which failed to draw attention from major labels, but found its way to Greg Glover, a London Records intern who ran his own small label, The Arena Roc...
Delays and King James Version
Harvey Danger began production of their second album in March 1999 at Albert Grossman's Bearsville Studios, near Woodstock, New York. Slash/London was unusually uninvolved in the recording process, a harbinger of what was to come. After three weeks of recording at Bearsville and several more weeks of recording and mixing in Seattle and Los Angeles, the band submitted the record, King James Version, to their label, and waited. What the band refers to as "elaborate corporate reshuffling" began...
Demo tapes
1. Harvey Danger (1994) (Cover: photo of saucepan in kitchen sink full of dry ice. One-sided J-card, printed on color laser printer.) Self-released.[citation needed] 2. Harvey Danger (1996) (Cover: twin red arrows pointing upward. Red and black printed on off-white paper.) Self-released.[citation needed]
Compilation albums
1. Dead Sea Scrolls(2009) Phonographic
Compilations and soundtracks
1. Fuel: A Compilation(1997) Arena Rock Recording Company – "Carjack Fever" 2. Now That's What I Call Music! (1998) PolyGram/Universal– "Flagpole Sitta" 3. 200 Cigarettes Music from the Motion Picture(1999) PolyGram – "Save It for Later" 4. Soul Survivors Original Motion Picture Soundtrack(2001) Gold Circle Records – "Authenticity" 5. Otis' Opuses(2006) Kill Rock Stars – "Cream and Bastards Rise"
Harvey Danger collection at the Internet Archive's live music archiveJul 29, 1997 · Radio Silence Lyrics. About “Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?”. Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone is Harvey Danger’s first studio record. Though it was an independent release, the ...
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Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone? (sometimes shorten to Merrymakers...) is the 1997 debut album by rock band Harvey Danger. It was originally released in 1997 on the New-York based indie label Arena Rock Recording Company and was the sixth album the label released. The first single from the album, "Flagpole Sitta", was released on spring of 1998 and was a worldwide success, which gathered ...
