Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance
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| Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance | |
| Release | Thing a Week Two |
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| Length | 3:51 |
| Release date | 01-27-2006 |
| Related Pages | Other media |
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"Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance" is a song inspired by Soterios Johnson, the morning anchor on the NPR station in New York, WNYC, who may or may not have a secret life of dance. It appears on Jonathan Coulton's fifth album, Thing a Week Two.
History
"Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance" is listed as one of Jonathan's oldest songs on archived versions of his website. It received a full update and was released as the eighteenth Thing a Week on January 27, 2006.
JoCo, in a comment on his blog entry (January 27, 2006) described the circumstances of his rewrite as follows:
" Sheesh. This is worse than when Dylan went electric. The lyrics are different in this version - when we did a Little Gray Books show in Philadelphia I localized the song a bit by adding the whole Terry Gross thing (her show Fresh Air started at WHYY in Philly). I for one like these lyrics better. And it’s my damned internet! "
In an interview in June 2008, JoCo said the new lyrics were written at the last moment while sitting on the sidewalk outside the lecture hall, because a musical group scheduled to perform at the lecture couldn't come. The lecture, along with the first (acoustic) performance of the song with the new lyrics, can be heard on the PRX website. [1]
Demo version
A demo version of "Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance" on the non CD collection, Other Experiments. The lyrics are slightly different, and it has little to none of the electronic accompaniment of the Thing a Week version. The demo version of this song is part of the non-album collection Other Experiments and is available on the Jonathan Coulton Store as Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance (Demo).
Live performance
"Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance" is occasionally played at Jonathan Coulton concerts. It is a popular choice for requests. When performed, it is stripped down to just Jonathan and a guitar, sounding more like the original demo version.
Availability
Downloads
"Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance" is currently only available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an individual track or as part of Thing a Week II. Of course this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.
Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store.
CD
"Thing a Week II" is available for purchase as a CD here.
Other versions
A karaoke version of both the Thing a Week and Demo versions of "Dance,+Soterios+Johnson,+Dance" are available on the Jonathan Coulton Karaoke Store.
Themes
| Thing-a-Week Two |
