Stream: Diane Coffee, ‘The Foot Sign Song’

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Diane Coffee at the Fonda Theatre in June 2019 (Photo by Matt Cowan)

Maybe you know the tale of Silver Lake’s late, lamented Happy Foot/Sad Foot Sign — the cartoonish two-sided sign that marked the location of the Sunset Foot Clinic on Sunset Boulevard. A weird landmark in a city of weird landmarks, it gained legend as a totem for locals who believed the fate of their day rested on which side of the sign they encountered in passing.

Shaun Fleming — aka Diane Coffee — today unveiled “The Foot Sign Song,” a frolicsome homage to it (and maybe a rallying cry for the “Save the Foot Sign” people, and they exist).

Diane Coffee’s tune is actually an adaptation — the lyrics were written by novelist Jonathan Lethem (“Motherless Brooklyn”) and songwriter Walter Salas-Humara (The Silos). The tune is part of an in-the-works theatrical adaptation of Lethem’s lighthearted 2007 novel “You Don’t Love Me Yet,” which revolves around an indie band.

In a way not unlike the giddy tunes on Diane Coffee’s 2019 album “Internet Arms,” Fleming gives the song happy feet.

||| Stream: “The Foot Sign Song”