HELP!! I Can't Get This Song Out of My Head!

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[Skooz]

Someone please give me advice as to how I can get this horrid song out of my mind. I have always hated this song, and haven't heard it in years, but somewhere in the depths of my subconscious, it has hatched--like a delayed-action explosive device concocted in hell.

The song? "Long-Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Jimmie Osmond. This particular ditty was sprung on an unsuspecting world in the early 1970s. I hated it the first time I heard it ion the radio, and cannot stand it now. But, last week it just popped into my mind and it plays over and over. AAAAAaaaaaahhhhh!!!

Please what can I do to make it stop?

[LibKill]

You are receiving laser microwave transmissions from VALIS.

Better tighten up your tin foil hat.

[LexBaird]

No, VoiceofBruck nailed it - what you do is to start singing "It's a Small World" over and over and over and over, but this isn't really any fun unless you inflict it on your family or coworkers, so make sure you whistle it or hum it aloud. A single afternoon at Disneyland causes permanent brain damage this way. When my sins catch up with me and I'm banished to the nether regions "It's A Small World" will be coming from every speaker on every streetcorner...for eternity. Come to think of it, Disneyland is just like that...

In my youth, I worked doing advertisment for Disneyland. One day, we filmed footage of the "Small World" ride. I rode the ride about fifteen consecutive times.

Jimmy Osmond holds no terror for me; I have seen the worst and survived.

Someday, the doctors say, my peculiar blackout spells should end...

[VoiceOfBruck]

Hey, wuznt Frank kinda middle-eastern lookin?

I think he was Lebanese. Actually, I thought "I am the slime" was pretty good. "Flakes" was another brilliant social commentary that helped shape my young mind.

[BritBulldog]

How about singing "And they called it Puppy Love etc"

[Flashlight]

re:"Billy and Sue"; could this be the song you're trying to remember? (recorded by B.J. Thomas)

Billy and Sue

This is the story about Billy and Sue
They were in love as were any two
And yet Billy had to die
And when you hear the reason why
You'll hang your head and cry

Billy and Sue met the first day of school
And ever since lived by the golden rule
Because when you do unto others
What you wouldn't want done to you
You have to be a fool

[Skooz]

I am the slime

I remember the old Saturday Night Live show when Zappa performed this song. The best part was when he said "Take it away, Don Pardo!" and Don read the lyrics from a blackboard as Frank pointed to the words. I can still hear Don Pardo saying, "I'm the slime!"

Man, that was 1976. Seems like last week.

[clueless idiot]

Are ya ready kids?
AYE AYE CAP'N!
I can't HEAR you!
AYE AYE CAP'N!!!!
OOOOOOOOHHHH
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
If nautical nonsense be something you wish -
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish!
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
Ready?
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPAAAAAAAANTS

[Aquinasfan]

Now tell me why we are wasting synapses remembering this little bit of trivia?

'Cause it's funny?

[janus]

Good posting. Thank heaven for Chinese songs, ten minutes after you have heard them you've forgotten the words.

[Aquinasfan]

...we did it, we did it, we did it, yeah, yeah we sema, we did it, we did it, hooray!!!

We're going on a berry hunt,
We're going on a berry hunt,
We're gonna pick some juicy ones
We're gonna pick some juicy ones
We're not scared
We're not scared
What a beautiful day!

A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

[70times7]

Know what you mean. I try to teach my kids to take the time now while it is easier to laugh and learn and enjoy and build while the gap between Thanksgiving and Christmas is 2 years rather than 2 days...

[untenured]

The Electric Light Orchestra has a Pleistocene-era song called "Can't Get it Out of My Head" which, thanks to this post, I haven't been able to get out of my head all day.

[Aquinasfan]

Blue Swede it is! AudioGalaxy had it listed as "Oooga chaka, not "Hooked on a Feeling". Boy what DRECK! Oooga chukka,oooga chukka, oooga chukka....

Yessss!

What can be worse than this? Imagine yourself as our Webelo troop leader who had to hear a bunch of 11-year-old boys singing the "Ooga-chukka" song followed by "I can't believe I ate the whoooole thing." Fortunately, he wasn't armed.

[Skooz]

Oooga chukka,oooga chukka, oooga chukka....

No, it went "Ooga chukka, ooga ooga ooga chucka ooga chucka ooga ooga ooga chucka..."

[glock rocks]

I might be movin' to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of
Dental Floss

Raisin' it up
Waxen it down
In a little white box
I can sell uptown

By myself I wouldn't
Have no boss,
But I'd be raisin' my lonely
Dental Floss

Raisin' my lonely
Dental Floss

[murdoog]

I remember one Saturday I was listening to a home improvement show on the radio and someone had called to say a rabbit had somehow gotten into their house and asking what to do about it. The ever intrepid host quickly found the following little ditty: "Little bunny foo-foo Walking through the forest Picking up the field mice And boppin' 'em on the head" It quickly got stuck in my head. As if that weren't enough, that night I watched Southpark and there was a scene that had Butters singing Little Bunny Foo-Foo. It was stuck in my head for DAYS after that. Don't know how I survived.

[dubyagee]

I love my ball, my bouncy ball, I love my ball, ball, ball, ball, ball.....

[Ditter]

I have just the opposite problem & its driving me crazy. I am trying to think of an old song with the name 'Zamboanga' in it. I saw that word Zamboanga in another thread on FR & its been driving me crazy cause I can't remember. Sorry I can't help you with your problem.

[JenB]

Chinese? Try Japanese. As a fan of anime, I hear a number... and it seems to surprise other people when you sing Japanese in the shower.

The worst song has to be "MacArthur Park". A lot of other really bad songs have been parodied succesfully so that you can sing mildly amusing lyrics instead of horrible ones. I'd suggest trying to create alternate words to any tune you're stuck with. It could help.

On a lighter note, I've had an Irish hymn stuck in my head all day, "Morning has broken". A lot better than "One-ton tomato" or whatever that song was. OR anything William Shatner has sung. Or "Dawning of the Age of Aquarius" or "Feelings" or...

do you hate me yet?

[Fester Chugabrew]

"Call 867-5309 or simply increase your Air Supply."

My instinct was to search for Air Supply on this thread. You nailed it. The cure for sure.