“Funny Little Frog” by Belle & Sebastian

"Funny Little Frog" led the charge for The Life Pursuit, Belle & Sebastian's seventh album, arriving on Rough Trade in 2006, and it gave the Scottish indie-pop band their highest-charting UK single to that point, reaching 13. Tony Hoffer produced it, engineered it with Todd Burke and mixed it, James Swinburne adds saxophone, and the writing is credited to the band as a whole: Richard Colburn, Mick Cooke, Chris Geddes, Stevie Jackson, Bobby Kildea, Sarah Martin and Stuart Murdoch.

Julie Coyle and Marisa Privitera appear on the sleeve, and the CD backed it with "Meat and Potatoes" and "I Took a Long Hard Look", the seven-inch with the gloriously named "The Eighth Station of the Cross Kebab House". Murdoch wasn't finished with it: a different version turns up on his 2009 album God Help the Girl.

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