Lots of things are easier to remember if you associate them with music.
“There has been numerous reports over the years of people receiving various organ transplants suddenly developing memories of events they never experienced, different tastes in food, sometimes minor foreign language skills. “
I first read about this in a Wall Street Journal article around 20 years ago. A young woman received a heart transplant from a young man who died in a motorcycle accident. The parents of the young man visited the transplant recipient and she could sing songs that their son had composed. The source of this anecdote was not the National Inquirer.