Stretchyman Theme Song is the most well-documented track by Cameron Crowe, with multiple essays written about its production and inspirations. To explain to you in an exceptionally clear (but long) manner, here's the direct description written by Cameron on the official newgrounds page:
So to get it started, Stretchyman is a series created by Megacharlie in around 2013-2014 where it started with a pilot in which the publicity has been revoked. He doesn't allow a single person to see it. Approximately a year later however, Stretchyman Episode 1 released, which follows the plot of Stretchyman doing a scroll of about 500 or so chores, and then going to the arcade with the first ever known and released side character, Twozez. Stretchyman Episode 2 released just a month later, being the longest released episode as of August 10th, the release date of the Stretchyman Theme Song on Newgrounds, not in accordance to Streaming, where it was August 7th. This follows Stretchyman, his Car and Bert to the Breadman, the first known and the second currently released side character. Stretchyman, his car and Bert are his only three customers, so they decide to advertise his small stand, and they made an ad they may have regretted. Stretchyman Episode 3 released a month later, with the first mention of the Stick King. He says that he's better than everyone else, and Stretchyman denies this allegation. This makes the Stick King angry, and decides to make Stretchyman do a task for him, and that's to find this magic cow, which wasn't hard. All Stretchyman had to do was walk a couple meters to the Stick King's house and pull this lever and then the cow was found. The Hiding is the 4th known episode and was simply never released. It's known to have a lot of progress and is almost in a finished state, but Charlie in a more recent state, started working freelance as he was becoming an adult in need of a job, and therefore has needed to hold it off for more important tasks, but Charlie has stated that it likely will get done someday, but he doesn't know when that will be. Hopefully it can be soon though!
However, that was just the story of Stretchyman, the Stretchyman Theme Song is a song created by Cameron Crowe and help and support from friends. It was made in about a week and is 10 minutes and 39 seconds long. Boomy however, was the first to listen and give advice, back when the song only had a simple intro done, which his support had basically paved the way to the rest of the song being completed. It received feedback and knowledge from Derpy, socketlizard, Quad Kanix, MrFriday, Jsword and even Charlie as well.
The album cover was art made by Charlie years ago and gave permission for me to use as the album cover, along with some other art he made for the show. Charlie personally helped with the post-production and the pre-production, providing ideas before and even after the song was considered complete. He has said that it's my project and I should have the rights to it, but honestly I think that in at least some sort of aspect, we all have something liable that helped make it what it is, because this would have been a completely different song without it; and likely chance, not even a song at all.
The song changes drastically dependent on the discussion of each episode, if you didn't know. Episode 1 and 2 are talked about in their own style, since they're the most popular and are grouped together. Episode 3 is it's own separate genre due to how unpopular but fairly decent it is. The Hiding is all over the place due to it being unknown, as stated in the lyrics. That's why it's genre changes a couple of times, and then is left off at a sad state with just the piano, the synth, and the flute. Then it picks all back up with the outro being about a (possible) season 2, and the excitement it may receive, due to Charlie having grown a bigger audience over the past 10 years, on Newgrounds and YouTube.
I would like to thank everyone who helped me work on the song. This means I would like to thank Derpy, Socket, Jsword, Quad Kanix, MrFriday, and last but certainly not least, Charlie for helping with absolutely everything that made the song what it is, without this crew, this song either wouldn't exist, or be different and likely worse beyond repair. Thank you again.
As of today, Cameron doesn't think all too highly of this track, apologising multiple times to MegaCharlie for "having to make you listen to that awful tribute track". As a single, the tracklist is put simply below
Stretchyman Theme Song
This is the third longest song by Cameron Crowe as of today, with the top 2 being:
2. The 'I've Got a Fever' suite
1. Killana
Also as of now, this is Cameron's most popular song. The official lyrics are down below.
The official album cover to the Stretchyman Theme Song single
There was Stretchyman
Peeking from the light
He will want to buy
Some bread from that guy
His name is Breadman
He works his own stand
He cannot stand out
We gotta advertise
There was Stretchyman
He was doing chores
Then some guy, Twozez
He just asked him this
"Do you want to go
To this big arcade
It has so many games
Unless it's way too late"
The king of the stick kingdom has arrived
Stretchyman doubts his professionalism
He is sent to earth to obtain a magic cow
Or else he's burnt to a crisp
Luckily for Stretchyman it wasn't so hard
It was just located inside of the king's house
Although, at first it seemed black and empty
Then, she was found by a switch
Oh, wait?
Alright
So there's this
It's forgettable
You never remember it
It's been in our heads
It was never out
And I doubt it'll be
Because It was never there
It was the unknown plot
It was hidden in plain sight
Everybody...
Give it up for...
The hiding!
(It's unknown, unknown)
Now I'm gone, Stretchyman has done everything he can
Now he's done, there's nothing left
There's nothing left from Megacharlie, he's got nothing left in the story
Now I'm gone, I'm considered a goner
With something left from somewhere that he told me
That the hiding might be done sometime in the future
But I don't know if I can believe him
I haven't even seen it yet
It's a secret to him and all his friends
It's something that we just got to keep
We don't know if it's done, maybe Stretchyman's in the grave
I'm done, I'm not just yet
He's not done
I can feel that he's not done
No, it's been 10 years
Know that he's not dead just yet
Something very meaningful improvement over the years
Last time it was documented, animated was three years ago
I know he's not dead, not just yet
Now that I know there is document proven evidence he's not dead
Don't you remember episode 1, 2 and 3? They were all very funny, except the three which was just serious
Don't you remember the good old Stretchyman, Twozez, Breadman and the Stick King?
Oh, Stretchyman!
(Season 2!)