Good Day was one of the first songs written for Tally Hall, With it Being written and finalized around March of 2003 and originally appeared on the Party Boobytrap EP, released in April of 2003. This version opens with a loud cough and clapping, and features original drummer Steve Gallagher on drums. The whole EP was recorded in Joe Hawley's attic bedroom using a digital camcorder, with tracks being edited together using Final Cut Pro. Even in this original recording, the final few seconds feature the opening guitar riff from the song Greener, implying the 2 songs were always meant to transition one into the other.
In 2005, "Good Day" was re-recorded for Tally Hall's first studio album: Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, this time with replacement drummer Ross Federman on drums, and with new orchestration. When remixed and partially re-recorded for Atlantic Records in 2007, quite a couple changes were made, such as: more vocals on the intro, the "I thought you knew I knew" section was completely re-recorded, and more backing vocals were recorded for the "Let us sing" section.
The music video for "Good Day" was filmed over a period of 4 months in 2006, and later burned to DVD for filming of the TV segments over that September. Tally Hall seemingly asked people around Michigan to film their TVs for the video, as a Reddit user on r/tallyhall would show a scene featuring a picture of a University of Michigan band "Groove" on a wall. Tally Hall would later post outtakes from the filming on tallyhall.com. Most of the members would also change their profile pictures to scenes from the video, Ross using the weight loss ad, Zubin using the Bob Ross parody, Andrew using the Blue's Clues parody, and Rob using their Party Boobytrap rap video segment.
When asked about it by calenderlive.com, Rob stated: "We're doing it guerrilla-style, we shot part of it at Michigan Stadium.... I think the grounds crew thought we were important because of our ties."
During the filming of one scene at their local rotary park, Joe Hawley and Zubin Sedghi were robbed of most of their equipment and were left injured. This event was referenced in "Rotary Park", a song by both Joe and Zubin on Joe's album called Joe Hawley Joe Hawley. From: https://wiki.hiddeninthesand.com/Good_Day_(song)
