Who is speaking in the song with no name?
This song was originally released as one of the B-sides to “(She Was a) Hotel Detective”. Tess writes: Dial-a-Song was . . . Flans’ answering machine. In the old days, before they might have been giants, people would leave messages after listening to a song. That is where the woman from Misc T comes from. I guess she is just some random message that was left on John’s answering machine. Once, the 94th precinct of the police called in to say how great they thought the guys were. and left a message. [And that’s where the message in “I’ll Sink Manhattan” comes from as well.] John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants) says: This is a very frequently asked question. Back when very few people called Dial-A-Song the phone machine that played the songs took messages. I came home one day and found the message tape full, instead of the ten or twenty messages it usually had. I rewound the tape and found that most of it was taken up by a woman who had called on a conference call with her friend, liste
