Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?

Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?
Studio album by Harvey Danger
Released	July 29, 1997
Recorded	March June 1996 February 1997
Studio	John & Stu's Place (Seattle, Washington)
Genre	Indie rock power pop pop punk
Length	42:56
Label	Arena Rock Slash London
Producer	John Goodmanson · Harvey Danger
Harvey Danger chronology
Harvey Danger (1996) Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? (1997) King James Version (2000)
Singles from Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?
"Flagpole Sitta" Released: April 27, 1998 "Private Helicopter" Released: October 13, 1998

Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? is the debut studio album by American rock band Harvey Danger. It was initially released by the independent record label the Arena Rock Recording Company on July 29, 1997. The second song on the album, "Flagpole Sitta", received extensive airplay in the United States and resulted in the band's fame. As the song gained national attention, the album was picked up and reissued by Slash Records, a label associated with London Records. On July 29, 2014, 17 years to the day after the album's initial release, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? was re-released, for the first time as a vinyl LP, by No Sleep Records.^[1] The album has been described by Fuse as "a definitive indie power pop punk record at a time and place where grunge reigned supreme".^[2]

The album title comes from a line in the song "Radio Silence", which itself may have been inspired by a line from the Paul Newman film Harper. "Private Helicopter" was released to radio on October 13, 1998.^[3]