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Smudgie
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Over on Facebook, Joyful Noise started singing "Let's go fly a kite". Bother him! I shall be singing that ALL DAY. I don't know whether to be glad that it's blocking out the "Red and yellow and pink and green" of yesterday or not (thanks, Winchester meet!), but it's certainly got a firm hold on my synapses this morning.
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Miffy
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Originally posted by PD:
Six days without earworms, after a dodgy couple of days with 'Jesus Calls Us O'er the Tumult', and then I get a a 24-carat 'this is gonna drive me nuts' one. One of the few earworms that is worse than Ravel's fecking Bolero...
What was commonly referred to when I was a teenager as
The Birdie Song!
You know the one I mean... ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Or as they sing it in France -
PD
La Danse des Canards The Duck Dance.
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Pure Sunshine
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Thanks to Chorister, I now have 'We are climbing Jesus's ladder, ladder' stuck in my head ...
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Sir Kevin
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The Radio 4extra theme music...
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Welease Woderwick
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It is February and I live in the northern hemisphere so why have I got We plough the fields and scatter... on my brain this morning?
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Sir Kevin
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After watching the first half of the Spurs match I recorded Saturday (which was already 4-0 Spurs over Newcastle United!), my earworm is When the Spurs (saints) go marching in. It was frequently sung by the home side supporters at White Hart Lane.
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Egeria
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Strangely enough, I had "For all the Saints" running through my head today while I was cleaning the house. I haven't heard it since last November and haven't recently heard anything that sounds similar (as far as I can remember). The sound in my imagination cracked on the high notes just as my voice does when I attempt to sing it.
Because I frequently play the finale of Haydn's Symphony # 82 when I need a mental boost at work, I sometimes get bits of that running through my head. It usually helps, too--so maybe it's not technically an earworm. I also play it when I'm anticipating an upcoming basketball game...and when I get over my team's heartbreaking overtime loss tonight, I'll be ready to hear it again. Not only does it actually remind me of basketball, it has that wonderful nickname: The Bear! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Roseofsharon
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Theme song from High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling), since I heard a snatch of it on Something Understood (BBC Radio4) this morning.
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Lymasa
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Calvin Hampton's Repeating Alleluia. The title says it all. Better than some things it could be, I suppose. (Had Mr. Cow stuck in my head for days on end, once!)
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Gill H
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Originally posted by Zappa:
I had a nice one yesterday when my little country congregation of 3 + me sang George Herbert's "Seven Whole Days". Well the keyboardist and I did.
Is that 'King of Glory, King of Peace'? That one always makes me smile, because of "Thou dids't note my working breast".
I have visions of an animatronic George Herbert, complete with fully working breast.
Presumably to supply "the cream of all my heart" mentioned later...
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by Lymasa:
Had Mr. Cow stuck in my head for days on end...
Mr. Cow?
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Trisagion
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There is an advert currently running on ITV3 with Matt Monroe singing Born Free: had it running in my head for five days solid now.
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Gill H
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Today's earworm, thanks to the wonderful new Muppets film, is "Life's A Happy Song".
Hey, it could be worse. It could be Manuh Manuh...
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Not
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The Big Bang Theory theme tune - ALL NIGHT.
Kept waking up and it was still going round in my head. Not that I don't like it, it's a funny song, but not a lullaby!
[tired and grumpy]
![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Marvin the Martian
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Thanks to a conversation in the office, I now have the Grange Hill theme tune lodged in my brain. This sucks.
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Japes
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American Pie
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by Gill H:
Today's earworm, thanks to the wonderful new Muppets film, is "Life's A Happy Song".
Hey, it could be worse. It could be Manuh Manuh...
Or worse, it could be "Man or Muppet." Thanks to plays by Chris Evans on Radio 2 that has been my earworm, day and night for 2 days.
I'd rather have tinnitus back.
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Kelly Alves
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Woke up today with "Me gustas tanto (I like you so much)" bouncing around in my head. Paulina Rubio. Very toe-tappy. Check it out.
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Trisagion
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Have you purchased the advertised product, though?
No. It was for something called FoxyBingo.com
The earworm has, thanks be to God, been less insistent today and is alternating with Wymmaway.
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The5thMary
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Originally posted by Japes:
American Pie
The original version or the abomination of Madonna's
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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The original is rubbish: it rubbishes the great Rolling Stones. Could Madonna's version be even worse?
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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The Archers signature tune is a frequent earworm. I prefer the Archers Extra version, but as it is out of production now, I rarely think of it.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The5thMary
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Anything by Adele. Lord, I love that album!
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Japes
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I don't like either version of American Pie, I just don't want it as an earworm, but I hear it so rarely that it tends to stick when I've heard it!
Happily, it's been dispatched by a Mozart piano sonata which has now taken up residence since I decided to bring it up to playing in front of other people standard again.
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St. Gwladys
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There's an advert on ClassicFM at the moment for some sort of sugar substitute and it's based on "Truly Scrumptious from Chittychittybangbang and it won't get out of my head....
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Winnow
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"I'm 'enery the eighth I am, 'enery the eight I am I am. I got married to the widow next door; she's been married seven times before, and every one was an 'enery, wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam, I'm her eighth old man I'm 'enery, 'enery the eighth I am ... {and it continues forever}!
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Lymasa
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
quote:
Originally posted by Lymasa:
Had Mr. Cow stuck in my head for days on end...
Mr. Cow?
Sir Kevin:
Mr. Cow
But I wouldn't, if I were you.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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(Walking down evangelical memory lane )
Anybody remember the Butterfly Song?
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Lymasa
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
(Walking down evangelical memory lane )
Anybody remember the Butterfly Song?
Do you mean the one that starts, "If I were a butterfly, I'd thank You, Lord, for giving me wings"?
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Drifting Star
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♪ ♫ ...If I were a wiggly worm, I'd thank you Lord that I could squirm.
If I were a fuzzy wuzzy bear, I'd thank you Lord for my fuzzy, wuzzy hair... ♫ ♪
Since Kelly has so generously shared her ear worm with me, I wanted to make sure that nobody else who knows it escapes. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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That song also has the Cartman factor, in that if someone sings the first line aloud, one finds one's self compulsively singing the rest through to the chorus.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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The5thMary
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Okay... I am being driven slowly (or more quickly than I was previously) mad over a repeating song in my head since yesterday afternoon: "Candy Perfume Girl" by Madonna. Specifically the lyrics she draws out: "Diiiiid I liiiie to youuuu... my candy perfume girllllll..."
I went to bed singing that song and I woke up singing that song and I'm typing this singing that song and I... yeah, you know what I mean! ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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I had part of the Mass, one of the bits that is sung in modern English, stuck in my head yesterday. Failed to post at the time, but in six hours when I return home from the cathedral I'll let you lot know if it's back.
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The5thMary
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
I had part of the Mass, one of the bits that is sung in modern English, stuck in my head yesterday. Failed to post at the time, but in six hours when I return home from the cathedral I'll let you lot know if it's back.
I'll trade you yours for more of "diiiiiiiiiiid IIIIIIIIIIIII liiiiie to you, my candy perfume..." Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Kill me! Kill me now!!
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Zappa
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
♪ ♫ ...If I were a wiggly worm, I'd thank you Lord that I could squirm.
If I were a fuzzy wuzzy bear, I'd thank you Lord for my fuzzy, wuzzy hair... ♫ ♪
Since Kelly has so generously shared her ear worm with me, I wanted to make sure that nobody else who knows it escapes.
I was a convert to Christianity. I came to faith on a Saturday. The next day I went to church, as you do. The congregation of big mature grown-ups sung that as what I would later come to know as the offertory, with gusto. ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
I very nearly never darkened the door of a church again.
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Drifting Star
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I was lucky enough to be a child at the time. I do seem to remember the adults creasing up when they sang it though. I think we had extra ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) verses too, but time has kindly expunged them.*
♪ ♫ ... wiggle my tail and I’d giggle with glee ... ♫ ♪
*They'll be back. Probably in the middle of the night.
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Chorister
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I had the misfortune of having to sing that one recently (although it was Education Sunday, with a church full of several hundred children as well as a few brave adults, so I guess that makes it different). What was really unfair, though, was the alto who sits next to me telling me she knew the rude version, but then refusing to tell me what the words were. I mean, how unkind is that?
And if you must have such a song as an earworm, how much better to have the alternate version.... ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Zappa:
The next day I went to church, as you do. The congregation of big mature grown-ups sung that as what I would later come to know as the offertory, with gusto.
Oh God. Bless. Them.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
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Originally posted by Zappa:
The next day I went to church, as you do. The congregation of big mature grown-ups sung that as what I would later come to know as the offertory, with gusto.
Oh God. Bless. Them.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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That would be a sign of people truly fearless in the Lord.
When I was a youngster, I once lead a group of grown adults-- LUTHERAN adults-- in a couple choruses of "This little light of mine." I stopped after one bar and scolded them because they didn't have their little lights up. They complied.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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orfeo
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I've had an earworm buzzing around for a couple of weeks, and I'm very happy today because I've finally figured out what it IS. A little snatch of the 1st movement of Beethoven's cello sonata no.3.
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The5thMary
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I listened to a lovely Youtube video tonight... some college choral group singing a version of "O Vos Omnes". Now THERE'S an ear worm I don't mind having. Beautiful music! I sang this in a choral group in Seattle and have loved it ever since.
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Piglet
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Paddy, that's a very classy earworm! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Mine is Cwm Rhondda with the descant, which we sang at a funeral this morning.
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Marvin the Martian
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Nessun Dorma.
This is not a problem.
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Jen.
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Shine Jesus Shine.
This is a problem.
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