Song Stuck in Your Head? You're Not Alone

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

[gcruse]

I saw El Paso performed live at a Johnny Cash concert in Norfolk back in the early sixties. The guitar work on it is stellar.

[doug from upland]

THE BALLAD OF MIKE MORAN

[Cinnamon Girl]

Song Stuck in Your Head? You're Not Alone

No, but I keep having this scary dream that Bill Clinton was the president for eight years, and that his wife became the junior senator from New York.

[InShanghai]

I actually like that Marty Robbins song... Here's one that sums up the evening:

One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock,
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock,
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, rock,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.

Put your glad rags on and join me, hon,
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When the clock strikes two, three and four,
If the band slows down we'll yell for more,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When the chimes ring five, six and seven,
We'll be right in seventh heaven.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven too,
I'll be goin' strong and so will you.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When the clock strikes twelve, we'll cool off then,
Start a rockin' round the clock again.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.
I 

[always paddle your own canoe]

the one line I dont mind having stuck in my head is

"We'll put a boot up your a$$, its the AMERICAN way"
from The Angry American by TOBY KEITH

pops in my head at all times of the day

[AmericanPhoenix911]

Almost anything Johnny Cash does is stellar...unlike anything Sammy Davis, Jr. does:

"Who can take a sunrise,
Sprinkle it with dew?
Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two…
The candyman, the candyman can,
The candyman can 'cause he mixes it with love
and makes the world taste good…"z`

[InShanghai]

You are not alone...

Wake up! Wake up! FR will save you!

[Captain Beyond]

I was riding to work in Atlanta one morning and flipping between 96Rock and WGST News/Radio and on 96Rock was the Red Hot Chile Peppers singing "Giveitaway, Giveitaway, Giveitaway, GiveitawayNow, Giveitaway, Giveitaway, Giveitaway, GiveitawayNow, etc.". I could not shake that song all day. After that I now can't stand to hear the tune anymore.

[PA Engineer]

How about:

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

[gcruse]

It was at a Cash concert, but Marty Robbins didn't sing it. The guitar work, though, was done by the guy who recorded it with Marty. Outstanding.

[bootless]

I must have missed that one! I love the Animaniacs and Pinky & the Brain!

[aeronca]

"Has to be the worst song ever written... Next to Afternoon Delight

Which, is right next to "Midnight At The Oasis" and Pina Colata (sp?)...By time these song hit the radio, I KNEW music was in for a long slide.

[AmericanPhoenix911]

Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
SHAFT!
Ya damn right!

Who is the man that would risk his neck
For his brother man?
SHAFT!
Can you dig it?

Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about?
SHAFT!
Right On!

They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft.
THEN WE CAN DIG IT!

He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
JOHN SHAFT!

[ShorelineMike]

And you ... light up my life ...

That was unnecessarily cruel.

Thank you. (bow)

[ShorelineMike]

I'll just use you, then I'll set you free . . .

Promises, promises. :-)

[supercat]

I could only identify the Hairbrush Song (VeggieTales).

Ah, well the other two in the top group were the (Illinois) Little Lotto jingle (C C A - A B C' - B A A G - - - - E E D - D E F - E D D C - - - -) and "Duck and Cover".

In the last group, the first lyric clip was from "Believe me if all those endearing young charms". This is the tune which Bugs Bunny plays wrong in "Ballot Box Bunny" [and which Yosemity Sam plays correctly, much to his detriment].

Believe me if all those Endearing young charms Which I gaze on so fondly today Were to change by tomorrow And fleet in my arms, Like fairy gifts fading away Though would'st still be adored As this moment thou art Let thy loveliness fade as it will   And around the dear ruin Each wish of my heart Would entwine itself Verdantly still.

It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves on to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.

The second clip is from "Sequel to Grandfather's Clock" [Henry Clay Work, 1878]. Each verse and the chorus ends with "There's a vain stuck up thing, tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick, there's a vain stuck-up thing on the wall" [the verses substitute different words for "there's a", but the line is otherwise the same]. Visit http://www.pdmusic.org/work.html for lyrics and midi files of Henry C. Work tunes.

The last clip is from "The Mystic Veil", also by Henry C. Work [1875]. Again, the above web site has lyrics and midi files.

[Victoria_R]

Medved was playing one the other day--he was joking it was from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. I can't think of the character's name now from LOTR.

That's probably "Bilbo Baggins". The chorus goes:

Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins,
He's only three feet tall.
Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins,
The greatest little hobbit of them all.

Nimoy also did one as "Spock" called "Highly Illogical".

[jeremiah]

Starland Vocal Band

[Lancey Howard]

That whistling Andy Griffith song.

[ShorelineMike]

Yes; I plead guilty. See here