I managed to deliberately get Pat Wilson’s Bop Girl planted into my head a couple days ago. (The music video turned a teen soap actress into an Oscar winner. Or maybe not.)
Since learning of Maurice Williams recent death I’ve switched over to Stay.
Not really a “fun” song but well performed:
“Across the River” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range. I heard it while shopping a couple of hours ago and still have it playing on my mind’s jukebox. I’ve always liked that song.
Al Stewart’s “Lord Grenville”
Reaching back to 1968 for some old-school soul…
A week ago we were watching the last episodes of season 3 of The Bear. In the next to last episode Gillian Jacobs appeared again as Richie’s ex. (Does a good job there.)
That night I remembered I hadn’t watched an episode of Community in a very long time. So I pulled up S1E17 “Physical Education”. A superb episode. Near the end there’s a pool game between Jeff and a PE coach. Much of it is set to Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon.
It’s a really fun scene. Watch it on da YouseTube. (Warning: has Blake Clark in jockey shorts.)
And, for extra Community-ness, the next night we watched the season finale episode of The Bear and there was a big scene with Joel McHale.
So I’ve been worming on that tune for some time now.
I’m betting it is a parody of this scene:
“America” from West Side Story
It’s 10pm and for the last hour or so I’ve had 1983’s “Mornin’” by the marvelous Al Jarreau playing on my mental jukebox. I’ve always liked that happy little tune and I have no clue as to what reminded me of it.
A new video popped up in Recommended in youtube. It’s Play That Funky Music, White Boy, as performed live by Prince. I didn’t know he ever did this cover.
Now it’s going to be stuck in my head for the next week.
When I get a West Side Story earworm it’s usually Gee, Officer Krupke!
“Hey, I got a social disease!”
The King has Left the Building - Strung Out
Specifically the last lines, just over and over again in a loop.
“The king that would never
Could never, ever
Show them all, be salvation”
Vincent - Don McLean
This happens to me frequently. Songs played in stores, offices, etc. just smolder into my brain effortlessly and unannounced.
And I have this habit of turning on the car radio on my 7 minute drive to and from work. Mostly a local rural FM channel which does have some flavorful contributions to the ear-worm phenomenon. I’ve heard songs I did not know existed from the 1960s and 1970s.
But then, inexplicably, songs jump into the stream from nowhere.
Shake Some Action / Flaming Groovies
Oh jesus - I have bloody “Mammy Blue” stuck in my head.
oh mammy mammy
I’ve often discovered new music that I really like on the CBS Saturday Morning Show and this is no different. It’s been a while since the show with her on it was aired, but I bought the song and have been listening to it often. The first two lines of the song are on repeat in my head. I’m going to lose my mind. Fortune Teller by Rett Madison.
Dan Lebowitz - Twilight Train (background music from a youtube channel that I subscribe to)
Is it officially an earworm if the songs keep switching around?
Right at this moment it’s Nobody Does It Better sung by Carly Simon. Yeah, Do not Want.
But it’ll probably cycle out soon with one of the other ones that have plagued me lately. Hollywood Nights, Silver Tongued Devil, some lesser Paul Simon stuff, etc. The worst is Tea For Two as used in the Community Interpretive Dance episode