# John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmitt (aka what's your current earworm?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398 "2011-03-03T19:39:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/1 "2011-03-03T19:39:30Z")
It’s getting really old, too. I mean it started out already really old but it’s quickly driving me quite batty. What’s stuck in your head? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/2 "2011-03-03T20:06:07Z")
Well, I have a horrid feeling you have just given me a new one, but before I saw this thread it was “Look Out There’s a Monster Coming” by _The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band_. (God alone knows why. I once owned [the album it is from](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_%28Bonzo_Dog_Doo-Dah_Band_album%29), but I haven’t heard teh song played for many years.) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/3 "2011-03-03T20:09:53Z")
Thanks to [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=597835) thread, it was Chad Mitchell Trio’s The John Birch Society. Today I discovered its sequel [The George Bush Society](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oPngk3RSjc) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/4 "2011-03-03T20:11:35Z")
Not sure where it came from, but right now it is _Eternal Flame_ (The Bangles.) I don’t remember hearing it lately, but it is in my brain right now. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/5 "2011-03-03T20:20:31Z")
_I’m not one to look behind, I know that times must change but over there in [Barrytown](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FmLOP8G4pM) they do things very strange_ –Steely Dan ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/6 "2011-03-03T20:28:54Z")
I was visiting a local watering hole for my job on Tuesday and the song [My Humps](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs) was playing. Almost had it out of my head when Mrs. Hollister said something about a woman’s huge boobs. Then it started all over again. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/7 "2011-03-03T20:32:07Z")
Alan Jackson’s “Good Time.” Apparently, this version comes with a footworm, cause this involves line dancing. ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/8 "2011-03-03T20:34:38Z")
_Mother’s Little Helper_ ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/9 "2011-03-03T20:44:18Z")
Baby Beluga - I think Raffi? Goddammitsomuch. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/10 "2011-03-03T20:48:00Z")
[mod hat on] Moved MPSIMS --\> Cafe Society [mod hat off] “This Sky,” by Derek Trucks – I quite deliberately listened to it before going for my walk, whence I just returned. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/11 "2011-03-03T20:52:38Z")
Come on, people now. Smile on your brother. It was on the radio in a coffee shop I just walked by. I was thinking about this exact thread yesterday when I couldn’t get We Wish You a Merry Christmas out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/12 "2011-03-03T21:54:07Z")
_The Dutchman_ from the latest Celtic Thunder CD. “Dear Margaret remembers that for me.” Which is not good, because it makes me kind of sad. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/13 "2011-03-03T22:09:05Z")
[I’m getting clo-ser tooo my hooo-oo-ome](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8MYsii4DZY). Just that one line, too. Over and over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/14 "2011-03-03T22:13:32Z")
_Maybe_, by Alison Krauss & Union Station. A beautiful song that I heard in the car three days ago, and it’s still in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/15 "2011-03-03T22:34:53Z")
Well, NOW it’s “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmitt.” Thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/16 "2011-03-03T22:35:20Z")
This is the song that never ends Yes it goes on and on my friends! ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/17 "2011-03-03T23:08:10Z")
The jingle from the JG Wenthworth commercial. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGw3A9Dg-Q](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGw3A9Dg-Q) _wimper_ Please make it stop. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/18 "2011-03-03T23:20:52Z")
Lately it’s been the Shaun the Sheep [theme song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUO5BdApnHk). _He even mucks about with those who cannot bleat…_ ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/19 "2011-03-03T23:27:22Z")
Don Williams’\* Some Broken Hearts Never Mend\*. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398/20 "2011-03-03T23:41:00Z")
A couple of days ago [Coming of Age](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yD4b6BoQTA) by **Damn Yankees** was playing on the radio and that’s been stuck in my head. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-jacob-jingleheimer-schmitt-aka-whats-your-current-earworm/573398.md?page=2)