"Hey Sandy" is a song by the American indie rock band Polaris which serves as the theme song for the Nickelodeon television show The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
It's well-known by fans of the show and the band alike that the song's lyrics, nearly indecipherable, have generated considerable debate as to their meaning.
One line, the third and the most difficult one to understand, was purposefully left a mystery by head songwriter Mark Mulcahy.
[citation needed] The full album version of "Hey Sandy" begins with a sample of actor Sorrell Booke performing a section of the 1969 documentary album "To The Moon: A Time-Life Records Presentation".
[8] Besides a reference to the band's name, the sample discusses United States ballistic missiles designed during the Cold War: Brooke's performance is abruptly cut off and followed by another sample from "To The Moon" of a radio transmission from the pre-launch testing of Apollo 11: There is a cover version of "Hey Sandy" by the New Jersey band Mister Behavior, as well as by California math rock band Tera Melos on their covers EP Idioms, Vol.