# Weird Song(s) That You Find Yourself Humming/Singing Regularly **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572 "2011-10-04T16:47:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/21 "2011-10-05T12:28:04Z")
Spike, my four year-old, was playing with his pig astronaut the other day, singing: _My fly, fly, fly Through the sky, sky, sky oink-oink-oink_ It’s a catchy tune that will not leave my head. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/22 "2011-10-05T15:12:21Z")
Nothing’s more embarrassing than getting caught singing to yourself, unless it’s an obscure TV show theme from the 60s. **Danger Man** (“Secret Ayyy-gent Mannn”) **Rawhide** … with whip sounds, of course (Doesn’t help that I have a fellow teacher Roland that I sing this to loudly in the halls). **77 Sunset Strip** and, my go-to tune: [_ **Coronet Bluuuue** … deep inside my brain, I keep hearing that wild refrain…_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvof8Hvm3B0) (worth listening to just for the bridge). ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/23 "2011-10-05T15:49:52Z")
The theme song to “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh”, despite the fact that I haven’t heard it in well over 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/24 "2011-10-05T17:36:40Z")
Lord knows why, but I have “Kiss the Girl” from Disney’s _The Little Mermaid_ stuck in my head and will catch myself humming it from time to time. True, I probably saw that movie about a thousand times when my daughters were little, but that’s been a while, so I can’t explain why it’s still in my head. I wish it would go away. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/25 "2011-10-05T18:38:06Z")
For years now it’s been [Russians](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4J4M6BXDLs) by Sting. I have nothing against the song - it’s nice (Prokofiev liked the melody well enough) but it’s certainly not a special favourite of mine. The only reason I can think of for it coming back all the time is that it matches my stride when I’m walking. I think I get that ear worm more often when I walk a lot. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/26 "2011-10-05T19:01:20Z")
I like to whistle Grieg’s “In The Hall of the Montain King” (from Per Gynt). I know-Peter Lorre whistled the same tune in “M”-he was a child murderer. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/27 "2011-10-05T19:10:40Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > I will, with great frequency, get the Armour hot dogs jingle stuck in my head for days. [BumbleBee Tuna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky53zmbIyec) jingle. We used to run from Prinyer’s Cove to a tiny little island off Amherst Island to fish with friends [who were actually commercial fishermen, and worked on weekends as fishing guides. They _really_ knew all the best spots =)] and at the speed the boat went, it slapped the water at the same beat as the jingle. One of the kids of the guides started singing the jingle, and it just _stuck_ in my head from probably 68 or 69 [?] and every now and then it sort of creeps out, especially if I am doing something rythmic. ☹ At least I like canned tuna as salad or in casserole. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/28 "2011-10-05T19:14:46Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Nothing’s more embarrassing than getting caught singing to yourself, unless it’s an obscure TV show theme from the 60s. > > **Danger Man** (“Secret Ayyy-gent Mannn”) [Secret Agent Man, by The Toledo Polkamotion.](http://music.aol.com/song/toledo-polkamotion/secret-agent-man/25271650) You’re welcome 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/29 "2011-10-05T21:44:44Z")
Every once in a while I’ll have a week where I have “Feliz Navidad” running through my head. No idea why. > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Spike, my four year-old, was playing with his pig astronaut the other day, singing: > > _My fly, fly, fly > Through the sky, sky, sky > oink-oink-oink_ > > It’s a catchy tune that will not leave my head. I’m going to be singing this to every tune I can now. 😃 On a side note, **why didn’t I ever have a pig astronaut?** ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/30 "2011-10-05T21:47:25Z")
“Shpadoinkal”, from _Cannibal: The Musical_. “The sky is blue and all the leaves are green! My heart’s as big as a baked potato! I think you know exactly what I mean When I say it’s a shpadoinkal day!” [Shpadoinkal!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvjbv7wq34) ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/31 "2011-10-05T22:33:53Z")
This thread makes me feel good for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/32 "2011-10-05T22:36:14Z")
[Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWi7CLoZ2Q) ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/33 "2011-10-05T22:55:45Z")
[Drunken Sailor.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gm7FuIdjPc&feature=related) Just try not to hum it, I dare ya. ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/34 "2011-10-05T23:35:50Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Last week I caught myself going through a whole series of “number songs” as earworms. It started with “1, 2, 3, 4” (I forget who sings it, but the song was used in a commercial 2-3 years ago) because the baby is learning to count and we sing versions of it around the house while counting fingers and toes and stuff. With apologies for the hijack… Feist’s “1 2 3 4” was used in an Apple commercial; you can hear it here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYMZKVZ9Ws](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYMZKVZ9Ws) She also performed a version on Sesame street, which you can see here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9WiuJPnNA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9WiuJPnNA) ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/35 "2011-10-06T00:22:38Z")
I’m a pretty good agnostic/pagan, who doesn’t give a whit about people’s religions . I keep finding myself humming “Prepare ye the way of the lord” from Godspell. Its almost as bad as “Copacabana” for earworm state. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/36 "2011-10-06T00:51:31Z")
I am absolutely notorious for always having one song or another in my head. Today’s songs were “Open the Door, Richard” (someone was holding a door for me),“I Wanna Buy Me a Condo” (no idea why) and “Besame Mucho” (I crossed Bessemer Street. This is pretty much a daily thing). ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/37 "2011-10-06T01:27:36Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I am absolutely notorious for always having one song or another in my head. I get “Notorious” in my head every time I hear/read it. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/38 "2011-10-06T03:07:57Z")
> [@I'm Not Dennis Bergkamp](#): > > Lord knows why, but I have “Kiss the Girl” from Disney’s _The Little Mermaid_ stuck in my head and will catch myself humming it from time to time. True, I probably saw that movie about a thousand times when my daughters were little, but that’s been a while, so I can’t explain why it’s still in my head. I wish it would go away. I hate to admit this, lest the gods of musical taste banish me to the wastelands, where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth and Justin Bieber, but that’s a really catchy tune that I rather like. I sometimes sing Monty Python’s “Drunken Philosopher Song” in the bathroom in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/39 "2011-10-06T03:18:09Z")
I wake up every single day with a song in my head. Nothing interesting lately, though, just the pop music that is played CONSTANTLY at work. (Why _do_ radio stations play the same 20 songs over and over? It’s boring as hell even if you DO like it) I, however, have no idea what this morning’s song was, as I now have the ‘1,2,3 4’ song stuck in there, thanks! I’ll update tomorrow if I wake up with it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572/40 "2011-10-06T03:26:11Z")
I had my [Lumberjack Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_W_W-VZBQU&feature=related) days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-song-s-that-you-find-yourself-humming-singing-regularly/598572.md?page=3)