George Costanza’s Answering Machine Music
March 13, 2008
If you have ever called my phone you know I love to change my messages up. In fact, one of my favorite things to do is hear reactions (annoyed and humored) to the strange things I leave as a message. One of the crowd favorites was when I took cue from Seinfeld’s George Costanza’s answering machine message. You may remember:
I used to love “The Greatest American Hero”, the show where the music from the message originally came, but I’ll talk about that another day. I have had in my possession for some time now the mp3 to make your own “Believe it or not” phone message. Be the envy of all your friends! (Thanks to Brewster’s Millions for reminding me about the song.) Here is the record your own version of George Costanza’s answering machine music.
In case you need a script, here is what George said originally:
Believe it or not, George isn’t at home.
Please leave a message at the beep.
I must be out, or I’d pick up the phone.
Where could I be?
Believe it or not, I’m not home!
You’ll have to be a bit more creative if it is your cell phone, but I trust you can come up with something. Now, simply download, hold your phone to your computer speaker and record. Have a great time with it and let me know about your messages, responses, etc.
Enjoy!
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July 7th, 2008 at 4:10 am
i made a greeting for my cell phone voice mail with this by playing the song and recording it into garage band. then i recorded my name over George’s. then i played it over and over on AT&T’s voice mail message recorder (which is really annoying and hard to use). finally i got a recording that was acceptable. the problem is all the applause. every time they applaud, it gets staticky and hard to hear george singing. i should make my own and change the lyrics a little to make since for a cell phone but i cant sing.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Tyler,
That rocks! And don’t worry about the singing… that’s part of what makes it so funny. I just use the blank track I link to at the bottom of the page and read a script… it ALWAYS gets great comments…though some messages are jsut people laughing…
Thanks for visiting and the comment!
July 21st, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Since I cannot carry a tune even if it had handles - what i need is an MP 3 of the Costanza voicemail message with all the words in it and a blank space where he says “George” so i can insert my name!
July 21st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Since I cannot carry a tune even if it had handles - what i need is an MP 3 of the Costanza voicemail message with all the words in it and a blank space where he says “George” so i can insert my name!
any ideas?
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:48 am
@Tone Deaf.
First off, I would encourage you to reconsider. The fact that George wasn’t a great singer made his message even funnier. I would say try your tonedeaf version with the blank mp3. George really talks more than sings it anyways. Otherwise I would try to use Audacity or Garageband to edit his name out.
If I get some free time I’ll see what I can work up.
Thanks for the visit!
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Thanks for the tips!
August 5th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Hey, thanks for providing the blank track. I just recorded myself on Garage Band and I have to say it turned out to be pretty funny, I’m definitely going to use it for my home phone however I can’t think of how to change it so that it can be used on my cell, any ideas?
Thanks
August 5th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
You Welcome Chris…
I did it on my cell saying something like:
Believe it or not, aaron isn’t at home.
Please leave a message at the beep.
I must be out, or I’d pick up the phone.
Where could I be?
Believe it or not, I’m just gone!
But I’m sure you could make other mods…Most people are too busy laughing to think about it too much. Enjoy.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:11 am
[…] used to the tune of “The Greatest American Hero”. You can hear and make your own here. Let me know if you do it–I’d love to hear […]
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Ahahaha i have been looking everywhere for this!
i put:
Believe it or not, I don’t have my phone
please leave a message at the beep
I must be gone or I’d pick up the phone
Where could I be?
believe it or not, don’t have my phone
I am using it on my cell so i had to get a little creative
August 24th, 2008 at 9:30 am
@molly
That is AWESOME! I love the wording to your cell phone message. Thanks for sharing it with us.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I was just thinking of a good answering machine message for my new phone and I thought of Georges. So I came online to look for the song to put my own voice on and boom I found this. Thank you very much.
I didn’t much change the lyrics just left it as
Believe it or not
Dustin isn’t home
Please leave a message at the beep
I must be out or else I’d pick up the phone
Where could I be?
Believe it or not, I’m not home
As for people with no singing talent (like myself :P) I’d say just do it. That’s what makes it funny!
September 13th, 2008 at 11:30 am
@Piemanthe3rd (Dustin)
About the singing that is EXACTLY my point! the more tone deaf the better! Thanks for your comment!
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
OMG, thank you so much for finding this. a couple of times I sung the song w/o the music as my message, but this is awsome!!
October 1st, 2008 at 2:55 am
Hey man, could u somehow just get the audio of georges version without the audience laughing and without geirges voice or just leave a blank where u say ur name? lol thatd be great if some1 knows how to do that
October 1st, 2008 at 8:16 am
@matt… your very welcome
@Garbear…I think the version you are looking for is the one at the bottom of the article. Here is the direct link just in case your “scroll up” button isn’t working. (j/k)
George Costanza Answering Machine Music (blank version)
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
george costanza is my hero ha. i looked everywhere for the black track. i made somethin like this
believe it or not
im screening my calls
if your hearing this now
then just hang up
i dont want to talk right now
just leave a message at the beep
believe it or not
im screening my calls
the reactions are priceless. and its as tone deaf and out of time as you can get haha
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 pm
@toolfool
that’s sweet. I truly love it… If i wasn’t having to use my phone for so much business now your version would be on my phone!