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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 1, 2021 14:18:36 GMT -5
"Tea for Two," as a waltz. Which then morphed into a cha-cha, the Tommy Dorsey arrangement. (No idea whose the waltz is.)
I need to have a word with whoever's doing the programming.
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 1, 2021 14:27:40 GMT -5
In my dreams, shortly before waking, I heard this song and it's been with me all day. (I thought the YouTube visual would pop up but it's "One Fine Day" by the Chiffons, from back in the Paleozoic Era.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvyOqKhKWQ4Could be a lot worse. Sometimes in my dreams I hear things that never were, such as Mick Jagger singing Be Thou My Vision. |
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 1, 2021 17:22:12 GMT -5
I wonder if neanderthals/denisovans/early homo had earworms?
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Post by howard lee on Mar 1, 2021 17:28:37 GMT -5
I wonder if neanderthals/denisovans/early homo had earworms?
Maybe this means they could have had earworms, too?
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 1, 2021 17:34:25 GMT -5
When you've only got a few basic words, probably any one of them will feel like an earworm. I read this once: The Singing Neanderthals.It never got to the point, but maybe earworms are intricately involved in the development/onset of language. An echo from paleo times. |
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Post by howard lee on Mar 1, 2021 17:36:56 GMT -5
When you've only got a few basic words, probably any one of them will feel like an earworm. I read this once: The Singing Neanderthals.It never got to the point, but maybe earworms are intricately involved in the development/onset of language. An echo from paleo times.
Where I grew up, I was bullied by some singing Neanderthals.
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Post by Dub on Mar 1, 2021 18:09:41 GMT -5
"Tea for Two," as a waltz. Which then morphed into a cha-cha, the Tommy Dorsey arrangement. (No idea whose the waltz is.) I need to have a word with whoever's doing the programming. One Saturday afternoon in 1950 my mother told my brother, Paul, and I she was taking us to a movie. I was 8, Paul was 6, and we had a newish baby brother who was 2. I’m guessing we were a handful. She dropped us off at a neighborhood theater with enough money for admission plus popcorn, drinks, etc. Probably a dollar and a half, all told. It wasn’t until we were seated and the movie had started that we learned the movie was Tea for Two starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. I mean eewww! There was singing, dancing and kissing. What kind of a movie is that? Of course Tea for Two is a film remake of the 1924 musical comedy, No, No Nanette, in which the song was featured. But none of that mattered to two young boys who were thinking real movies featured cowboys and Indians. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Mar 1, 2021 18:50:44 GMT -5
When we lived in Kenya my parents and the other Americans who came with us were told about Lavender Green, an area with a movie theater where, they were told, they could drop us kids off to watch a movie while the parents ran their errands. So every now and then about three or four families worth of kids would be dropped off to see a movie there every few weeks or so. One movie we saw there had a theme song that, to this day, pops into my head more often than I would like to think:
Today is Tuesday, this must be Belgium,
Today is Wednesday, it must be Rome,
Today is Thursday, I must be dreaming,
Today is Friday and I want to go home.
Us kids thought it was a stupid movie, I barely remember being there, but that song is in my head. And, being 13, I have no clue what the movie was.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 1, 2021 19:02:26 GMT -5
Us kids thought it was a stupid movie, I barely remember being there, but that song is in my head. And, being 13, I have no clue what the movie was. Wiki: "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" is a 1969 DeLuxe Color romantic comedy film made by Wolper Pictures and released by United Artists. It was directed by Mel Stuart, was filmed on location throughout Europe, and features many cameo appearances from various stars. The film stars Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron, Michael Constantine, Norman Fell, Peggy Cass, Marty Ingels, Pamela Britton, and Reva Rose. |
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Post by millring on Mar 1, 2021 19:19:43 GMT -5
One of the worst things about the earworms that invade my skull is the fact that only small segments of the song repeat like a broken record.
When I get an earworm, my cure has always been to start running Moon River in my head. Displacement. It's the only cure.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 1, 2021 19:32:00 GMT -5
When I get an earworm, my cure has always been to start running Moon River in my head. Displacement. It's the only cure. My go-to purge song is "Running on Empty." |
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Post by jdd2 on Mar 1, 2021 19:39:14 GMT -5
My purge song is autumn leaves
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Post by TKennedy on Mar 1, 2021 20:32:00 GMT -5
I had to learn “Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries” along with the Doris Day prequel for a show I was in. It took months to purge.
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