You Look Nice Today

A listener wrote to ask about the YLNT theme tune.  (People do.)  Scott fielded the question and he did it well, so I decided to reprint his response here (and to share the instrumental version of the tune above).

“Hi Rich*rd

The song is called “Pony Gallup (Morning Surprise),” by the Five Senses. They were a mostly-ukulele jam band out of Montreal, famous for their 4 hour sitar/uke trance sessions and subsequent pancake breakfasts. Sadly, their CD’s were deemed “obscene” by US Customs (a clerical error, one can only assume), all copies were destroyed at the border, and the band forgot to hold on to the original recordings. 

The band went their separate ways when the entire tenor uke section disappeared while berrying in Greenland. Our possession of one tiny fragment of one song is pure luck: Merlin was working at the incinerator where the ill-fated CD’s were sent to be destroyed. He rescued one half-melted CD, and spent the next year piecing together the 1’s and 0’s—the digital scraps of the once-proud ukelele band’s magnum opus.”