No, its originally from a 1959 educational record. They Might Be Giants studio recording of the song is now available on a single entitled Why Does the Sun Shine?.
Chip Olson writes: “The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, A gigantic nuclear furnace, Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees.” This is verbatim from a record I had when I was a kid called Space Songs.. essentially a bunch of cutesy kiddie songs teaching basic stuff about space. Other titles on that record included “Beep-beep…beep-beep… here comes a satellite…” and “Zoom-away zoom in our rocket ship…” Samantha Lee Miller writes: I found a copy of the original Space Songs LP, famed for the song “Why does the sun shine” covered by TMBG. The album is amazingly TMBG-ish, and not only for WDTSS, which TMBG covered almost verbatim. No date on the album, but I assume it’s post-Sputnik 1950s. It is truly a fascinating piece of our musical heritage. Interesting facts: Singers: Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans. Lyrics: Hy Zaret; music: Lou Singer. Label: Motivation Records.
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