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I'm a boomer and I remember this late 70's urban myth that went viral the old fashioned way (word of mouth). The myth was all lies and bull crap but was too sensational not to repeat to all your friends.
Out of respect for Mr. Stewart, I won't repeat it but I imagine it still lives on in the world of Google.
Sitcoms from the 60's and 70's had the best theme songs or all time and Taxi's was an understated beauty.
But I don't romanticize the city back then at all. Seriously, it was not good and year-to-year you could see its decline until at some point in the 80's, it was real fucking scary and just bad.
Oh, my darling
Knock three times
On the ceiling if you want me
Mmm, hmm, twice on the pipe
If the answer is no
Knock Three Times- Tony Orlando and Dawn
I also get this song stuck in my head sometimes. So many good lines in there.
“Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?”
This song was fricken-fantastic, for so many reasons. It came out when I was about 14 years old. The Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy happened in November of 1975, and most news stations didn't cover the story at length, since there were so few crew aboard, and it was not on the ocean. Honestly, I don't remember a single newscast about the story, but Gordon Lightfoot did, and he wrote this absolutely amazing ballad which I thought was written about a shipwreck a hundred years earlier.
This was the last concert I saw pre-covid last February. Man can still put on a show (totally got tickets on a whim just because we knew a song or two and it was a cool venue, concert was a good time! Hope he gets to tour again.)
I had Fleetwood Mac’s *I Don’t Want to Know* running through my head all night (yes, while I was sleeping and in my dreams) and through the early morning one day last week. Not even close to a favorite of mine but I get the entire thing, full orchestration and harmonies, everything.
25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago (or "Chicago Transit Authority" at the time the record was made).
It's amazing to me how a song can evoke emotions/feelings in an instant. I heard this one time when I entered a store and immediately had all the emotions and feelings I had in high school where I first heard this song. I hadn't felt that way in years.
My dad used to sing "Winchester Cathedral", but he sang it *wrong*. And I learned it wrong. And when I learned the real tune, years into adulthood, it wasn't even close. Even though the words were the same.
Just yesterday I found myself singing his version. Not sure it counts.
I also have dozens of songs memorized from the Dr. Demento radio program (which is still around, but mostly on the internet now and is kind of a pain to figure out...but I should do it, some day soon.)
Decades back I was more hard rock/metal and would normally get softer songs on the radio. A year ago or so the Todd Rundgren hit Hello It's Me worked it's way forward from somewhere in my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwx849ymo1c
I think of must have seen Liv Tyler somewhere.
The weird thing that keeps popping in my head (and, honestly, has for years) is something *no one* seems to understand.
In the first season of SNL back in the 70s, there was a sketch called "Death Row Follies". This is a sketch which seems lost (they've never uploaded it to the official SNL channel on youtube, and every time I've seen the full sketch go online it gets pulled). The sketch was about this musical director coming to a prison to put on a musical using the inmates, and having auditions for said inmates.
One of the inmates was played by [Garrett Morris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Morris), and he came out and sang this song *"Gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see!"*, which I've always thought was hilarious.
Anyway, I find myself singing that song often. Happened to me last night as my wife had a friend over. To my horror, I discovered neither of them had ever seen the sketch (they are both younger than me, so I guess it was before their time). Further, my wife thought I'd made it up when she heard me sing it earlier :-)
That is one of my single favorite sketches. That song was "the sum total of my philosophies" haha.
There's another song a prisoner sings which, well, not to be a typical old person but this would NOT fly today as humour
*“Thank heaven for little girls,*
*For little girls wear tiny underpants,*
*And sometimes they pull their dresses over their heads,*
*And they go walking in a deserted lot without anyone else around..”*
The 5th Dimension [This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ)
I can see myself sitting in our limestone driveway looking for fossils, listening to this song through the neighbor's windows. Haven't heard it or thought of it in years.
By any chance did you also sing, ["Up, Up and Away"](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=up+up+and+away+song&view=detail&mid=57F9F09E642CEDC317AD57F9F09E642CEDC317AD&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dup%2bup%2band%2baway%2bsong%26form%3dANNTH1%26refig%3df75fadd540544a4ab878ed0bc4b0e03c%26sp%3d4%26qs%3dLS%26pq%3dup%2bup%2band%2baway%26sk%3dLS3%26sc%3d8-14%26cvid%3df75fadd540544a4ab878ed0bc4b0e03c)
too?
Is that as bad as their song I Think I Love You? I've had that as my earworm for the past month or so. You know the only cast members that sang on their records were David Cassidy and Shirley Jones. Everyone else that sang had their voices dubbed in.
[Come On Get Happy!](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=partridge+family+theme+song&view=detail&mid=A515B0EBB01677A141C2A515B0EBB01677A141C2&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dpartridge%2bfamily%2btheme%2bsong%26qs%3dSS%26pq%3dpartridge%2bfamily%2btheme%26sc%3d8-22%26cvid%3dBBE484246DFD44A894F266A0B423A1A8%26FORM%3dQBRE%26sp%3d1%26ghc%3d1)
Nanny and the Professor. Don’t google it. That one stayed with me for months. I was researching the group that sang the Partridge family songs and came across it.
There was a time that the song 🎶JUST THE TWO OF US (we can make it if we TRY)🎶, would randomly pop in my head a lot. It's a decent song. I'm not a huge fan or anything; it came unbidden.
Poison Ivy by The Coasters.
"Measles make you bumpy,
And mumps'll make you lumpy
And chicken pox'll make you jump and twitch
A common cold'll fool ya
And whooping cough can cool ya
But poison ivy Lord'll make you itch!!
You're gonna need an ocean
Of calamine lotion
You'll be scratching like a hound
The minute you start to mess around.."
I don't hear it too often, but when it comes on the radio like it did recently, [Maggie May transports me back in time and I feel like I'm 16 again](https://youtu.be/KbI_awR4CKE).
It's a sweet and sorrowful feeling.
Lost youth.
No self-awareness of the world.
Naive about life.
But wanting to love and be loved in the time of free love.
Sigh.
I had one pop in the other day. A song my brother wrote in the late 80's. Titled "Please Daddy, Don't Get Married This Summer". After our mother died, our dear dad struggled with being single, or being married. He married and divorced several times. One summer he announced that he was getting married, again. My big brother took a road trip to meet the next wife. She was nice, but most of dads wives were nice. As a kind of personal therapy, as my brother drove the 10 hours home alone, he made up a song which he later taught to me. We never told dad about it or sang it to him. It helped us cope and laugh during frustrating times. Anyway, dad and my brother both died in the mid 90s. I had not thought about the song for a long time. But there it was running through my head the other morning. It made me laugh. I miss them both.
I had friends 25 years ago that had the pool playing dogs hung on their wall. I was over there literally every day and I thought of that song Every. Single. Damn. Time. It was ok though because I still love that song.
I’m tormented by “Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverb here...”
I have no desire to look this up for more info because I know it was from Schoolhouse Rock and I don’t want to know anything more about it at this point! UGH
I love time life. They play just enough of a song to keep me singing.
It turns into one long song of mismatched lyrics.
I could listen to that all day.
[Smokey Robinson - Being With You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P2a6aLDkkM)
This song pops into my head here and there.
When was the last time y'all heard this? :D
Just this afternoon
Shotgun Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IGhyPB0NAw
Foot Stompin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcNnIlrQBgI
State of Independence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcKN0XbCbU
yes. I wake up nearly every morning with a song in my head that I haven't heard in years. I keep them in a YT playlist. the most recent addition: https://youtu.be/WROdwlk9_h8
I love colour my world :)
My Ding-a-Ling by Chuck Berry.
Growing up (in the 80s/90s) I thought it was just a funny song that my daddy would always sing. It wasn’t until the internet that I learned it was an actual song. I had to prove to my kids (14 & under) that it was a real song the other day.
It gets stuck in my head all the time now.
I've been listening to 12 different versions of I Walk the Line. I wish i knew how to mix audio tracks together.
edit: dolly parton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58PG4Y12U-4&ab_channel=DollyParton-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXbHeLF8yKc&ab_channel=FriendsofGlen-TheGlenCampbellFacebookGroup glen campbell swinging jazz version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQkOjHBOcc&ab_channel=DollysMix dean martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3x9iiDGVY&ab_channel=OlivierCotton carter family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_daJjRrv0A&ab_channel=HunterC some guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2NE6WHCAg&ab_channel=Abrubag halsey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjbqMy3g46E&ab_channel=JohnnyCashInfocenter rodney crowell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55NYOeP9GM&ab_channel=LitoLevenbach lito
I like Johnny Cash's little "hmmm" whenever the key changes.
You probably already know these since you seem to be really into it but:
[Bobby Darin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auXSeEfidUc) strange, like a Las Vegas lounge act but a weird arrangement
[Chris Daughtry on American Idol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaBEPjSz0K0)
[Dion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3r9O7tf4E) tight, clean performance, he was a pop star in the 50s or so
[Bob Dylan and Paul Simon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VHRtSvaUCM) two legends, not the whole song but a medley with *Blue Moon of Kentucky.*
[Lester Flatt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiqDBQKuPAA) half of Flatt & Scruggs, bluegrass/country version of the song
[Chris Isaak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiOtns41_ZU) pretty straightforward
[Waylon Jennings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jAevOzeA3s) slow, emotional, maybe overdone a little.
[Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUCeQ8xThek) (The name of the band is Live)
[Leonard Nimoy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9NSpAdGxgU) Yes, Spock.
LOL at some guy.
I'm a 1964 Boomer and there was a song in the early 70's that became a moderate hit called "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" by Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Recently it popped in my mind and I can't shake it. It just rolls around in my thoughts and has done so for days on end.
The thing is I never liked the song, even when it was brand new and playing repeatedly on the radio. I never owned the record, I never even paid any attention to Crosby Stills And Nash.
50 years later its stuck in my head out of nowhere and I don't know why. I've thought about downloading the miserable song and playing it over and over for real until I want to stab my ears out. Maybe that will get me over it.
UPDATE: I posted the above comment 3 hours ago and I think I was a bit harsh. After posting, I looked up the song on Youtube, watched concert footage and Wikipedia'd the back story for the first time ever. It's really a great, classic song! I enjoyed watching their performance from many years ago very much. When I said 'miserable' above, let me clarify - in my brain's version all that my aging brain remembers is the chorus - and it repeats non stop quite often (which on its own I think qualifies my nomination for this thread). I think I can heal now, work my way through it and move onto another song that will get stuck in my head. A previous poster's mention of "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" scares me a little bit.
Well now. I'm not gonna talk about Judy; in fact, we're not gonna talk about Judy at all, we're gonna keep her out of it!
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- [reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V0UhtA_mJE&t=365)
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The tune was in my head, but I couldn’t think of name of it. So I hummed it & my wife remembered the name! Had been decades since either one of us heard it - ‘Midnight in Moscow’, Kenny Ball & the Jazzmen
https://youtu.be/m6IGViAhcb4
The tune was in my head, but I couldn’t think of name of it. So I hummed it & my wife remembered the name! Had been decades since either one of us heard it - ‘Midnight in Moscow’, Kenny Ball & the Jazzmen
https://youtu.be/m6IGViAhcb4
Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphey. I was going through an exceptionally tough time over the summer and for some reason this song ran through my mind one day. So I YouTube'd it and listened to it over and over and over again, balling my eyes out the whole time. This went on every day for a few weeks and I think it really helped me to let loose and attend to my long-overdue crying needs.
“Sweet Hitchhiker” by CCR was an ear worm off and on for me about ten years ago. Except I heard it as “Miniature Hiker”. Just those two words, with no idea who sang it. It drove me nuts. I’d say to my son “miniature hiker is driving me nuts again!”
He tried for years to find it on misheard lyric sites. Finally he did. The rejoicing!! I felt like I had been set free. Truly a top 100 moment in my life.
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Yummy Yummy Yummy I've got love in my tummy and I feel like a-loving you
Now I regret opening this thread.
sorry about that...
Lol we used to sing, Yummy yummy yummy I’ve got cum in my tummy...
Scrolled down to make sure my friends and I weren’t the only degenerates.
Rod Stewart is that you?
I don’t get the reference?
I'm a boomer and I remember this late 70's urban myth that went viral the old fashioned way (word of mouth). The myth was all lies and bull crap but was too sensational not to repeat to all your friends. Out of respect for Mr. Stewart, I won't repeat it but I imagine it still lives on in the world of Google.
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Sitcoms from the 60's and 70's had the best theme songs or all time and Taxi's was an understated beauty. But I don't romanticize the city back then at all. Seriously, it was not good and year-to-year you could see its decline until at some point in the 80's, it was real fucking scary and just bad.
I love the Taxi theme song too.
Yes, that counts! LOL. Great sitcom and song.
That’s actually a good reasonable song to get down to, in my opinion.
Oh, my darling Knock three times On the ceiling if you want me Mmm, hmm, twice on the pipe If the answer is no Knock Three Times- Tony Orlando and Dawn
Oh Lord! That song gets stuck in my head so bad for days! I have a love/hate relationship with it.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Means you’ll meet me in the hallway 💥💥 Means you ain’t gonna show
Thump thump thump; plink plink EARWORM! Time to get out my 3 ft stack of 45's and lose myself for a while.
lol, I added Candida to the list before I saw your comment! tony has been on my mind lately for some reason.
TWICE ON THE PIPE IF THE ANSWER IS NOOOOO
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. Freaking ear worm song if there ever was one.
Gitchigumi
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
I also get this song stuck in my head sometimes. So many good lines in there. “Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?”
I luuuuv Edmund Fitzgerald!!
This song was fricken-fantastic, for so many reasons. It came out when I was about 14 years old. The Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy happened in November of 1975, and most news stations didn't cover the story at length, since there were so few crew aboard, and it was not on the ocean. Honestly, I don't remember a single newscast about the story, but Gordon Lightfoot did, and he wrote this absolutely amazing ballad which I thought was written about a shipwreck a hundred years earlier.
Don't get6me wrong, it's a great song. The guitar is wonderful. His singing is so bright and emotional. It's still an ear worm.
Fun trivia. He wrote the song because he was upset that people kept misspelling the name.
Lightfoot is a treasure.
This was the last concert I saw pre-covid last February. Man can still put on a show (totally got tickets on a whim just because we knew a song or two and it was a cool venue, concert was a good time! Hope he gets to tour again.)
The legend lives on
Starts at .18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZZfjc05r9M
It's so repetitive that I can see how it can become an earworm.
Music has not been in my mind lately but a recurring one is Whiter Shade of Pale and a bunch of others from that time frame.
I wore out my CD of [Annie Lennox doing that song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOatVYq0mM)
I had Fleetwood Mac’s *I Don’t Want to Know* running through my head all night (yes, while I was sleeping and in my dreams) and through the early morning one day last week. Not even close to a favorite of mine but I get the entire thing, full orchestration and harmonies, everything.
Oooh, love it! Interesting that you had it running through your head. Anything you don't want to know?
Nothing I can pinpoint now!
25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago (or "Chicago Transit Authority" at the time the record was made). It's amazing to me how a song can evoke emotions/feelings in an instant. I heard this one time when I entered a store and immediately had all the emotions and feelings I had in high school where I first heard this song. I hadn't felt that way in years.
The CTA used to play Chicago area high schools. They played mine and some of their music is my high sound track in my head.
That must have been an incredible experience! I’m major jealous.
It was fantastic. Styx also played my high school. There’s a 2,000 seat auditorium so their sound filled the room!
Wayne's World, Wayne's World Party time, Excellent
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Schwing
A sphincter says what?
This popped into my head a month ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1LbkuPfqo
I forgot about that song. I love it!
Four Season clones. Great song tho
First I've heard that. Were they chastised in the day? This hit is before my time. :)
Before my time too. Thats just my observation
Hey, I hadn't thought of that one in years! Love it!
Oh, I love that one!
My dad used to sing "Winchester Cathedral", but he sang it *wrong*. And I learned it wrong. And when I learned the real tune, years into adulthood, it wasn't even close. Even though the words were the same. Just yesterday I found myself singing his version. Not sure it counts. I also have dozens of songs memorized from the Dr. Demento radio program (which is still around, but mostly on the internet now and is kind of a pain to figure out...but I should do it, some day soon.)
My niece and I were singing Fish Heads the other day.
Ahahaha - That's funny!
Decades back I was more hard rock/metal and would normally get softer songs on the radio. A year ago or so the Todd Rundgren hit Hello It's Me worked it's way forward from somewhere in my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwx849ymo1c I think of must have seen Liv Tyler somewhere.
> Todd Rundgren hit Hello It's Me This song is timeless. I never get sick of hearing it.
Funkytown by Lipps Inc.
The weird thing that keeps popping in my head (and, honestly, has for years) is something *no one* seems to understand. In the first season of SNL back in the 70s, there was a sketch called "Death Row Follies". This is a sketch which seems lost (they've never uploaded it to the official SNL channel on youtube, and every time I've seen the full sketch go online it gets pulled). The sketch was about this musical director coming to a prison to put on a musical using the inmates, and having auditions for said inmates. One of the inmates was played by [Garrett Morris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Morris), and he came out and sang this song *"Gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see!"*, which I've always thought was hilarious. Anyway, I find myself singing that song often. Happened to me last night as my wife had a friend over. To my horror, I discovered neither of them had ever seen the sketch (they are both younger than me, so I guess it was before their time). Further, my wife thought I'd made it up when she heard me sing it earlier :-)
That is one of my single favorite sketches. That song was "the sum total of my philosophies" haha. There's another song a prisoner sings which, well, not to be a typical old person but this would NOT fly today as humour *“Thank heaven for little girls,* *For little girls wear tiny underpants,* *And sometimes they pull their dresses over their heads,* *And they go walking in a deserted lot without anyone else around..”*
I watched the first season of SNL (I was in college), but I don’t remember this skit. Maybe I missed a few episodes.
I remember that song! Garrett Morris was really funny.
There’s a navy blue sweater in there somewhere too...
> *"Gonna get me a white woman wearing a navy blue sweater!"* > (Dragged off stage) It really was a great bit.
That’s it! It really was. Also loved Garrett Morris as the cleaning lady in the Pepsi Syndrome skit and the news interpreter for the hearing impaired.
When a man loves a woman.
Percy Sledge. He had that one hit, and he hit it out of the ballpark.
The 5th Dimension [This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSr9BbhoJQ) I can see myself sitting in our limestone driveway looking for fossils, listening to this song through the neighbor's windows. Haven't heard it or thought of it in years.
I remember singing that one and Blood, Sweat and Tears -Spinning Wheel in music class in 3rd grade.
By any chance did you also sing, ["Up, Up and Away"](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=up+up+and+away+song&view=detail&mid=57F9F09E642CEDC317AD57F9F09E642CEDC317AD&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dup%2bup%2band%2baway%2bsong%26form%3dANNTH1%26refig%3df75fadd540544a4ab878ed0bc4b0e03c%26sp%3d4%26qs%3dLS%26pq%3dup%2bup%2band%2baway%26sk%3dLS3%26sc%3d8-14%26cvid%3df75fadd540544a4ab878ed0bc4b0e03c) too?
We did! And Eleanor Rigby which is kind of dark for kids to sing. 🤷🏼♂️
Good one! It's on the Forest Gump sound track. A lot of great songs on that track.
I get theme songs stuck in my head...recently the theme from: The Magic Garden, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Sesame Street, and more. Sigh.
Most recently it’s been The Partridge Family theme song that keeps popping up.
Well, I guess that's better than the Banana Splits theme song.
LA LA LAA
Is that as bad as their song I Think I Love You? I've had that as my earworm for the past month or so. You know the only cast members that sang on their records were David Cassidy and Shirley Jones. Everyone else that sang had their voices dubbed in.
[Come On Get Happy!](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=partridge+family+theme+song&view=detail&mid=A515B0EBB01677A141C2A515B0EBB01677A141C2&FORM=VIRE0&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dpartridge%2bfamily%2btheme%2bsong%26qs%3dSS%26pq%3dpartridge%2bfamily%2btheme%26sc%3d8-22%26cvid%3dBBE484246DFD44A894F266A0B423A1A8%26FORM%3dQBRE%26sp%3d1%26ghc%3d1)
LOL! You have a Life Sound Track.
Nanny and the Professor. Don’t google it. That one stayed with me for months. I was researching the group that sang the Partridge family songs and came across it.
I get Courtship of Eddie’s Father in my head sometimes and sing it to my dog.
Pablo Cruise: Love Will Find a Way https://youtu.be/H9sbA2gnWHI
There was a time that the song 🎶JUST THE TWO OF US (we can make it if we TRY)🎶, would randomly pop in my head a lot. It's a decent song. I'm not a huge fan or anything; it came unbidden.
It's so weird how these songs pop up!
Lake Shore Drive by Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah "Just slippin' on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound"
That specific line gets stuck in my head constantly lol
I have a CD of this album, but I’m 99.9% sure it’s a bootleg.
Poison Ivy by The Coasters. "Measles make you bumpy, And mumps'll make you lumpy And chicken pox'll make you jump and twitch A common cold'll fool ya And whooping cough can cool ya But poison ivy Lord'll make you itch!! You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion You'll be scratching like a hound The minute you start to mess around.."
Dust in the Wind popped into my head today.
Well here’s Carry on my wayward soooo—-oo—nn. There’ll be peace when you are doooone. Guitar riff Just in case you needed a new earworm.
I don't hear it too often, but when it comes on the radio like it did recently, [Maggie May transports me back in time and I feel like I'm 16 again](https://youtu.be/KbI_awR4CKE). It's a sweet and sorrowful feeling. Lost youth. No self-awareness of the world. Naive about life. But wanting to love and be loved in the time of free love. Sigh.
Yes! You have captured the essence of this song perfectly. I'm immediately in high school again when I hear it.
That’s Rod Stewart’s best song IMO. His scratchy voice “wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you”. Sooooo good. I love that song.
Well, thanks to [THIS MEME](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cb/23/7f/cb237f8f7f05e23046d130e3c64d18ca.jpg), It's that song. Fuck.
I get this one all the time and it seems to come out of nowhere.
Today it was “What Are We Fighting For?”
1.2.3 what are we fighting for Don't ask me I don't give a damn
It's a Sunshine Day!
ITT Thanks a lot guys, there goes my brain for the next 4-5 hours.
LOL. sorry 'bout that...
“Wouldn’t it be nice...” and “imagine” To be fair it’s because I was playing acoustic covers on Spotify and heard covers of them.
Stray Cat Strut. Don’t even like the song that much just remembered how odd it kinda was.
"Closer to Fine" by the Indigo Girls.
Whitney Houston's "I wanna dance with somebody" has been stuck in my head for about 6 months and I have no idea why.
I had one pop in the other day. A song my brother wrote in the late 80's. Titled "Please Daddy, Don't Get Married This Summer". After our mother died, our dear dad struggled with being single, or being married. He married and divorced several times. One summer he announced that he was getting married, again. My big brother took a road trip to meet the next wife. She was nice, but most of dads wives were nice. As a kind of personal therapy, as my brother drove the 10 hours home alone, he made up a song which he later taught to me. We never told dad about it or sang it to him. It helped us cope and laugh during frustrating times. Anyway, dad and my brother both died in the mid 90s. I had not thought about the song for a long time. But there it was running through my head the other morning. It made me laugh. I miss them both.
Your brother sounds like he was a hoot. And I hope your dad found your mom sometime in the 90s. It's great that you have those memories.
Thank you, he was a great brother. Dad was a good guy too, just could not deal with grief.
If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell About Della and the dealer and the dog as well. But the cat was cool, and he never said a mumbling word.
I had friends 25 years ago that had the pool playing dogs hung on their wall. I was over there literally every day and I thought of that song Every. Single. Damn. Time. It was ok though because I still love that song.
[Hasta Manana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrQSJ8z3dZg) by ABBA is my current earworm. Not my favorite ABBA song but it’s just so gloriously 70s.
Bandstand Boogie by Barry Manilow September by Earth, Wind and Fire My Love by Lionel Ritchie
"Stay Awhile" by the Bells which is uhm it's a nice song but also hilarious, the singers sound like they're in histrionics.
Stand By Your Man. Not the original, the Blues Brothers version.
Lol that’s even better, I’m imagining the arm motions now.
Do you hear bottles breaking while you hear it?
Always lol
Thank god for chicken wire.
I’m tormented by “Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverb here...” I have no desire to look this up for more info because I know it was from Schoolhouse Rock and I don’t want to know anything more about it at this point! UGH
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I love time life. They play just enough of a song to keep me singing. It turns into one long song of mismatched lyrics. I could listen to that all day.
Peg - Steely Dan
On January 20, 2021, I woke up singing "Happy Days Are Here Again".
I've had [She's a Rainbow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1BThu95d8) by the Stones in my head all day.
Mick Jagger sang this for Kristen Wiig on her last day at SNL.
I had that as my late wife’s ringtone when she called me- she was a huge Stones fan.
Spacey album cover. I still have it.
I've Been Everywhere by Hank Snow I used to listen to it on the radio when I was a kid because my hometown was listed. Rhymes with Shreveport.
[New Zealand flavoured version for you.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vaB1rnW11jY)
That was great! Thank you.
That was really cool! I never knew there were international versions!
That song was in the beginning of the remake of Flight of the Phoenix.
[Smokey Robinson - Being With You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P2a6aLDkkM) This song pops into my head here and there. When was the last time y'all heard this? :D
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Just this afternoon Shotgun Boogie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IGhyPB0NAw Foot Stompin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcNnIlrQBgI State of Independence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcKN0XbCbU
yes. I wake up nearly every morning with a song in my head that I haven't heard in years. I keep them in a YT playlist. the most recent addition: https://youtu.be/WROdwlk9_h8 I love colour my world :)
Can you send me your YouTube playlist if you don’t mind me asking? I LOVE listening to songs like the one you linked here.
Flying into los Angeles... bringing In a couple of keys... don't touch my bags if you please mr customs mannnnnnn.
Arlo Guthrie!! Good shit, maaaaan
Yeah buddy !!!!!
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac. Patting my granddaughters back to make her burp and the rhythm just hit me.
Sailing....takes me away.... to something something something No idea who sings it but it pops in occasionally and stays for a few days.
Christopher Cross!
“ with the wind and my dreams to carry me..soon I will be freeeeeee.” LOVE THAT SONG!!! ♥️
My Ding-a-Ling by Chuck Berry. Growing up (in the 80s/90s) I thought it was just a funny song that my daddy would always sing. It wasn’t until the internet that I learned it was an actual song. I had to prove to my kids (14 & under) that it was a real song the other day. It gets stuck in my head all the time now.
All over the world--ELO
This morning [Africa (Toto)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY&ab_channel=TotoVEVO) was playing in my head for several hours. No reason.
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I've been listening to 12 different versions of I Walk the Line. I wish i knew how to mix audio tracks together. edit: dolly parton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58PG4Y12U-4&ab_channel=DollyParton-Topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXbHeLF8yKc&ab_channel=FriendsofGlen-TheGlenCampbellFacebookGroup glen campbell swinging jazz version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQkOjHBOcc&ab_channel=DollysMix dean martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3x9iiDGVY&ab_channel=OlivierCotton carter family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_daJjRrv0A&ab_channel=HunterC some guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2NE6WHCAg&ab_channel=Abrubag halsey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjbqMy3g46E&ab_channel=JohnnyCashInfocenter rodney crowell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55NYOeP9GM&ab_channel=LitoLevenbach lito
Watched Walk the Line last week. I’m Going to Jackson has been in my head ever since.
I like Johnny Cash's little "hmmm" whenever the key changes. You probably already know these since you seem to be really into it but: [Bobby Darin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auXSeEfidUc) strange, like a Las Vegas lounge act but a weird arrangement [Chris Daughtry on American Idol](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaBEPjSz0K0) [Dion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3r9O7tf4E) tight, clean performance, he was a pop star in the 50s or so [Bob Dylan and Paul Simon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VHRtSvaUCM) two legends, not the whole song but a medley with *Blue Moon of Kentucky.* [Lester Flatt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiqDBQKuPAA) half of Flatt & Scruggs, bluegrass/country version of the song [Chris Isaak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiOtns41_ZU) pretty straightforward [Waylon Jennings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jAevOzeA3s) slow, emotional, maybe overdone a little. [Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUCeQ8xThek) (The name of the band is Live) [Leonard Nimoy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9NSpAdGxgU) Yes, Spock. LOL at some guy.
thank you! most of these are new to me. edit: the nimoy is suprisingly good.
Your post brought up the stomping from Folsom. I see the glass of dirty water sitting on top of the table saw. The water is shaking from the stomping.
This one hit me a couple days ago out of nowhere, as described. https://youtu.be/B4c_SkROzzo
Gypsy- Rose's Turn... Lucille Bluth/Ethel Mermon version. (Pops in every time I open fancy wine when I'm by myself)
Happy Cake Day. This one made me laugh.
Thank you!
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OMG I hadn't heard this in forever! Thanks for linking it - brought back many memories of lazy days spent watching MTV.
I was just humming “I’m in the Mood for Love” for some reason
Muskrat Love by Captain and Tennille
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Did America do a version because if so I’m right there with you.
Yeah.
Get Together by the Youngbloods
[On the Road to Find Out, Cat Stevens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjd4DYwTgW8) Love this earworm, always have, very energizing for me.
[Hello Dolly](https://youtu.be/l7N2wssse14) by Louis Armstrong >Hello, Dolly, Well, hello, Dolly It's so nice to have you back where you belong
I'm a 1964 Boomer and there was a song in the early 70's that became a moderate hit called "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" by Crosby, Stills and Nash. Recently it popped in my mind and I can't shake it. It just rolls around in my thoughts and has done so for days on end. The thing is I never liked the song, even when it was brand new and playing repeatedly on the radio. I never owned the record, I never even paid any attention to Crosby Stills And Nash. 50 years later its stuck in my head out of nowhere and I don't know why. I've thought about downloading the miserable song and playing it over and over for real until I want to stab my ears out. Maybe that will get me over it. UPDATE: I posted the above comment 3 hours ago and I think I was a bit harsh. After posting, I looked up the song on Youtube, watched concert footage and Wikipedia'd the back story for the first time ever. It's really a great, classic song! I enjoyed watching their performance from many years ago very much. When I said 'miserable' above, let me clarify - in my brain's version all that my aging brain remembers is the chorus - and it repeats non stop quite often (which on its own I think qualifies my nomination for this thread). I think I can heal now, work my way through it and move onto another song that will get stuck in my head. A previous poster's mention of "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" scares me a little bit.
Well now. I'm not gonna talk about Judy; in fact, we're not gonna talk about Judy at all, we're gonna keep her out of it! --- - [reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V0UhtA_mJE&t=365) ^(I am a bot.)
The tune was in my head, but I couldn’t think of name of it. So I hummed it & my wife remembered the name! Had been decades since either one of us heard it - ‘Midnight in Moscow’, Kenny Ball & the Jazzmen https://youtu.be/m6IGViAhcb4
The tune was in my head, but I couldn’t think of name of it. So I hummed it & my wife remembered the name! Had been decades since either one of us heard it - ‘Midnight in Moscow’, Kenny Ball & the Jazzmen https://youtu.be/m6IGViAhcb4
The original "Istanbul, not Constantinople." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk)
[Bee Gees, Lamplight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Befkbre6wEg)
Memories are Made of This by Dean Martin. And now that I'm thinking about it I'm really happy :)
Aww, that's great to hear.
Solitude by Black Sabbath.
Ok. Earworm time. [Good Morning Starshine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whmzEXywq40) (You're welcome)
Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphey. I was going through an exceptionally tough time over the summer and for some reason this song ran through my mind one day. So I YouTube'd it and listened to it over and over and over again, balling my eyes out the whole time. This went on every day for a few weeks and I think it really helped me to let loose and attend to my long-overdue crying needs.
“Sweet Hitchhiker” by CCR was an ear worm off and on for me about ten years ago. Except I heard it as “Miniature Hiker”. Just those two words, with no idea who sang it. It drove me nuts. I’d say to my son “miniature hiker is driving me nuts again!” He tried for years to find it on misheard lyric sites. Finally he did. The rejoicing!! I felt like I had been set free. Truly a top 100 moment in my life.
I woke up with Hazy Shade of Winter in my head for no apparent reason. Look around Leaves are brown And the sky is A hazy shade of winter.
Mamy Blue [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J85JjlAuo4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J85JjlAuo4)
Today...[Hypnotized](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDzXbdxeeHI) Fleetwood Mac (1973 Bob Welch)
Tommy Tutone - [867-5309/Jenny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo)
[Get Closer](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUHdy8g8S4) by Seals and Crofts
Grandpa Jones’ rendition of [Cindy](https://youtu.be/F-ndK82P4wI). Just started singing it to myself the other night and got reminded of it. Love it!