Song Stuck in Your Head? You're Not Alone

Reuters ^ | Monday, Feb 24, 2003 | Alison McCook

[unspun]

Eight hundred and one bottles of beer on the wall....

[CounterCounterCulture]

The Red Dwarf Theme Song

Smeg!

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Is "Nadia's Theme" in there somewhere? Or "Music Box Dancer"?

How about the sad closing theme to The Incredible Hulk (Bill Bixby walking down the lonely road hitchhiking).

Da-DA-da-DUM...Da-DA-da-DUM--^DUM...da-DUM...da-DUM-da-DUM-DUM...

[CARDINALRULES]

I say that a lot...along with bloody hell.

lol

[gracex7]

oh yeah, the slightly etheral Donovan. They call him Mellow Yellow (quite rightly). How about the Peppermint Twist by Joey Dee and the Starlighters?

Well, we got a new dance and it goes like this

ba beba babababa beba

The name of the dance is the peppermint twist

ba beba babababa beba

and you'll like it like this,the peppermint twist

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HAPPY BOY- The Beat Farmers

I was walkin' down the street on a sunny day
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
A feeling in my bones that I'll have my way
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba

Well I'm a happy boy (happy boy)
Well I'm a happy boy (happy boy)
Oh ain't it good when things are going your way, hey hey?

My little dog spot got hit by a car
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
Put his guts in a box and put him in a drawer
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba

Well I'm a happy boy (happy boy)
Well I'm a happy boy (happy boy)
Oh ain't it good when things are going your way, hey hey?

I forgot all about it for a month and a half
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba
I looked in the drawer and started to laugh
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba 

Well I'm a happy boy (happy boy)
Well I'm a happy boy (happy boy)
Oh ain't it good when things are going your way, hey hey?

Ba-dup-dup-dup-dup-dup-dup-dup
Hubba hubba hubba hubba hubba 

[gracex7]

a si' a si', eres tu

[Marauder]

the spoken version of 'Desiderata'

Yeah, wasn't that one was done by Telly ("Who loves ya, baby?") Savalas?

[gracex7]

But did he ever return?

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BTW, has anybody mentioned yet?...

ROCK ME AMADEUS! AMADEUS! AMADEUS! AMADEUS! AMADEUS! AMADEUS! AMADEUS! AMADEUS!

'ey! 'ey!

S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-Superstar, superstar

[jejones]

Yeah, that was one of Laura Nyro's lesser songs--and having Barbra Streisand sing it didn't help.

[jejones]

"Second verse, same as the first."

Of course that !#%!@#% English music-hall song had more than one verse--but Peter Noone couldn't remember it at the time, and that was his workaround.

[gracex7]

Do you remember Patty Duke doing "Please Don't Just Stand There"?

How about Annette Funicello and the Beach Boys doing the theme from The Monkey's Uncle?

A whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa,

On the day he marries me

What a nutty family tree,

A bride, a groom, a chimpanzee...

[jejones]

Oh, but "Mellow Yellow" and (whatever the heck that other song was titled) were Donovan masterpieces compared with his later "Intergalactic Laxative" and "I Like My Shirt."

"Goo-goo, goo-goo Barabajagal--what's my name now?"

[gracex7]

John, did you say John?

Johnny get angry, Johnny get mad

Give me the biggest lecture I ever had

I want a brave man

I want a caveman

Johnny show me that care, really care for me

I think it was sung by a young Gloria Steinem....hahaha. Talk about a pro abuse song!!

[jejones]

Oh, yeah..."D.O.A." by Bloodrock. You have to admire the harmonic structure of the song, though--it's built totally around tritones, the diabolus in musica interval that is almost always avoided, precisely to induce that uneasy feeling that the song generates.

[jejones]

Ooh! Ooh! Icky-poo! OK...time to bring out something nasty...

"Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom, don'cha jes' love it..."

[gracex7]

I don't even know what bleu pintos are, but I will hum this song for days on end. Sukiyaki, too.

OOoo way a mulu e-hu atee como ooo ee neeki na como a, blah, blah,blah!

[jejones]

The song I liked as a kid was "Poke Salad Annie"--it had everything that a young boy needed--grandmother-eating alligators, sound effects ("Gator got your granny (chomp, chomp chomp)"), and lyrics that lent themselves to alteration. (I always sang "There lived a girl, I swear to the world, made the alligators look clean." After all, it rhymed with "mean" and to my pre-puberty self it struck me as infinitely better than the original "tame.") So Tony Joe White, wherever you are, thank you!

[gracex7]

Every morning 'fore I went to school I chopped the chickens and I fed wood too

You see, I was the oldest of the family and everyone else depended on me.....Patches, I'm depending on you son. To pull the family through. My son it's all left up to you

( different Patches, though)