"Along Comes Mary" is a song composed by Tandyn Almer

Tandyn Almer

Tandyn Almer is a musician, composer, lyricist, and record producer, most famous for writing the song "Along Comes Mary", the 1966 hit by the Association...

, originally recorded in 1966 by The Association

The Association

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, and released on their debut album And Then... Along Comes the Association

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. It was their first hit and reached number seven on the U.S. charts. It has been covered by several artists, most notably The Manhattan Transfer

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. Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

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 admired the song, and included a short analysis of it in the "What is a Mode?" episode of his Young People's Concerts

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 series.

The Bloodhound Gang version

In 1997, The Bloodhound Gang

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 covered only the lyrics, but claimed that the song was about marijuana and wrote new music (in punk style) to accompany theme for the Half Baked

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soundtrack, although it later appeared on their album Hooray for Boobies

Hooray for Boobies

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. This song was released as a single

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 in Germany, reaching number six there in 1999.

The Baja Marimba Band's jazzy cover/remake hit the top 100 in 1967. Milburn

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 released an EP called Along Comes Mary which featured a punk rock version of the song.

Uses in popular culture

The Association's version appears in the 2011

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 movie That's What I Am

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