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Song Stuck in Your Head? You're Not Alone
Reuters ^ | Monday, Feb 24, 2003 | Alison McCook

Posted on 02/24/2003 8:26:14 PM PST by InShanghai

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To: always paddle your own canoe
Damn you!!
661 posted on 02/25/2003 8:02:31 PM PST by CARDINALRULES (;-`)
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To: Latina_Abogada
Well, that was when I lived in LA -- they were always appearing at fairs and car shows. Even the Surfaris ("Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe") showed up. They would hold a drawing and the winner would get to drum Wipe Out with the real band, or what was left of it. If you wait long enough, they'll come to Joplin. I once saw Fog Hat in a tiny bar in Oxford, PA, near the MD border. I would think at least Kansas would make it to flyover country!! Or maybe Toni Basil? Don't think she's real busy these days. Most pathetic thing I saw was Maria Muldaur at a used car lot in Ontario, CA. She would perform in between announcements for special prices for an '89 Olds 98.
662 posted on 02/25/2003 8:03:01 PM PST by speedy
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To: Clemenza
What the hell is the "Tropic of Sir Galahad" anyway?

You’re not the first person to ponder the deep philosophical meaning of those lyrics.

See The Reason for the Tin Man

I can't help you with the "Pomputus of Love," though.

663 posted on 02/25/2003 8:03:13 PM PST by browardchad
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To: Interesting Times
Well I'm 18, and I like it, like it, like it.
664 posted on 02/25/2003 8:05:30 PM PST by speedy
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To: speedy
Ok all you "Granny" fans. Check out this web site http://www.gogrannygo.com/music/little-old-lady.html
665 posted on 02/25/2003 8:06:20 PM PST by reg45
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To: browardchad
OK, what the blue blazes does this mean?


"He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned"
666 posted on 02/25/2003 8:06:31 PM PST by T Minus Four
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To: T Minus Four
Well take this: ANYTHING EVER RECORDED BY THE COWSILLS OR THE PATRIDGE FAMILY!

Baaa ba ba ba ba ba ba ba baaa ba baaa ba ba ba....I was sleeping and right in the middle of a good dream...

667 posted on 02/25/2003 8:07:51 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Interesting Times; T Minus Four; speedy; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; bootless; jejones
Now 'splain this to me, Loosy:

How could one guy do some of the greatest songs and also some of the worst--and even do it with the same song?

I refer to Mr. Eric Clapton. In his "Derek & the Dominoes" phase, he gave us the wonderful "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Layla," the latter being one of the greatest songs of all time.

Yet this is the same Eric Clapton who sang, "I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy." And much later he took the magnificent "Layla" and destroyed it with an "unplugged" version of the same. There must be tears in heaven.

Of course, Paul McCartney went from the Beatles to Wings.

And then there's the group I like perhaps as well as or even better than the early Beatles, and that's CCR. John Fogerty wrote "Proud Mary," and CCR's version was OK, but not one of their best. But because John Fogerty wrote that song, we then had to suffer under Ike & Tina Turner's lousy and more ubiquitous version of same.

668 posted on 02/25/2003 8:09:13 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
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To: T Minus Four
Ah, the favorite song of Tippy Toe, Louisiana. And of course Tony Joe White told us about "Poke Salad Annie, the devil got your granny -- everybody said it was a shame -- that her mama was a workin' on the chain gang." They don't write 'em like that anymore.
669 posted on 02/25/2003 8:09:22 PM PST by speedy
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To: always paddle your own canoe
Oh! I'd love to be an Oscar Meyer weiner ...
670 posted on 02/25/2003 8:10:12 PM PST by reg45
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
The vast majority of people say they have been mentally tortured at one point in their lives by a song that keeps repeating itself over and over in their heads.
And new research shows that people most frequently plagued by this phenomenon are those with slightly neurotic tendencies

La de da de dee,
La de da de daa....

671 posted on 02/25/2003 8:10:37 PM PST by Willie Green (Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Hey now! Eric Clapton didn't write "I Shot the Sheriff", Bob Marly did. And I happen to think the unplugged version of Layla was awesome!

Mr. T Minus FOur, a guitar player, is hanging over my shoulder and shouting things at you :-)

He says, "Tell him there are only three word I want to say: Clapton is God"
672 posted on 02/25/2003 8:15:15 PM PST by T Minus Four
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To: T Minus Four
I don't think America ever really cared if their words made even the slightest sense, and they sold several million albums before people began to ask those questions. The answer is known only to The Sandman. Remember one of their last songs -- "Hold me close -- you turn night time into day. You're the most -- you are the star that lights my way..." etc. It is a step up from being through the desert on a horse with no name.
673 posted on 02/25/2003 8:15:49 PM PST by speedy
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To: A_perfect_lady
That's why he is your ex.
674 posted on 02/25/2003 8:15:57 PM PST by Chemnitz (I disagree with terrorism but I will defend to their deaths their right to try it one more time.)
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To: Charles Henrickson
The Beatles to Wings thing though was sadness, true enough.
675 posted on 02/25/2003 8:16:18 PM PST by T Minus Four
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To: Interesting Times
Hit me with something new. Like, say... Ben, you're always running here and there. You feel you're not wanted anywhere...

How about....

TRAPPED IN A MINE THAT HAD CAVED IN

AND EVERYONE KNOWS THE ONLY ONES LEFT WERE JOE AND ME AND TIM

WHEN THEY BROKE THROUGH TO PULL US FREE THE ONLY ONES LEFT TO TELL THE TALE WERE JOE AND ME

TIMOTHY! TIMOTHY!

WHERE ON EARTH DID YOU GO?.......

MY STOMACH WAS FULL AS IT COULD BE AND NOBODY EVERY GOT AROUND TO FINDING

TIMOTHY

by that great one hit wonder The Bouys

676 posted on 02/25/2003 8:17:45 PM PST by gracex7 (Volare' oh,oh...contare' oh oh oh oh no wonder my happy heart sings)
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To: Willie Green
people most frequently plagued by this phenomenon are those with slightly neurotic tendencies

Well, if we weren't neurotic when this thread started, we most certainly are now.

677 posted on 02/25/2003 8:18:37 PM PST by T Minus Four
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To: gracex7
Oh sick, I remember that ode to cannibalism. On a lighter note, how's this:

"Everybody have fun tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonght!"
678 posted on 02/25/2003 8:20:43 PM PST by T Minus Four
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To: Charles Henrickson
See, now you're introducing people with real talent into the thread. It's so much simpler at this time of night to be beating up on 1910 Fruit Gum Company than charting the ups and downs of Eric Clapton. Come on now, "Put your hands in the air (Simple Simon says) Do it double time (Simple Simon says).

Now, isn't that easier than wrestling with the twists and turns of Layla? Goody goody gumdrop, my heart is doing flip flops.
679 posted on 02/25/2003 8:21:14 PM PST by speedy
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To: speedy
Her daddy was lazy, and a no count

Claimed he hada bad back

And all her brothers were good for

Was stealin' watermelons outta my truck patch...

680 posted on 02/25/2003 8:22:39 PM PST by gracex7 (Volare' oh,oh...contare' oh oh oh oh no wonder my happy heart sings)
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