Good Witch Of The North

Album: Songs From An American Movie Vol. 2 (2000)
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Songfacts®:

  • The title is a reference to Glinda, the good witch in The Wizard Of Oz.
  • Lead singer Art Alexakis wrote this for Stephanie, his girlfriend at the time who became his wife. (Check out our interview with Art Alexakis.)
  • The album Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude was hampered by being released only four months after its prequel, causing confusion amongst deejays and promoters, not to mention the buying public. The previous album had gone platinum; whereas part two has barely sold 100,000 copies.
  • Since writing this song for his then-finance Stephanie, Art Alexakis has converted from atheism to Christianity. He cautions, however, that he is not a Bible-thumper; he just states that he uses it to improve his own life. He has also identified himself as a "left-wing Christian," and put a fine point on it with the later song "Jesus Was a Democrat." Come to think of it, how did the whole religion thing get so political in the US, anyway?

    Alexakis has also dabbled in acting, having made brief appearances in The Chris Isaak Show and Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
  • North, East, and West, the 1939 The Wizard of Oz film doesn't complete the bridge table of witches with the South. But there is a Good Witch of the South, and in fact in the fiction canon of L. Frank Baum, her name is Glinda! The Good Witch of the North is actually named Locasta or Tattypoo. The film script combined the two, since the South was a powerful sorceress, whereas the North barely had a bit part in a couple of books. And also just to confuse the bejabbers out of everybody.

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  • Patrick from Humboldt, IaStephanie divorced him and is now suing him for $7,000,000
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