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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:04 am Post subject: EarWorm of The Day |
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Must have dropped off to sleep last night watching Jamie Oliver on Channel 4 on the bedroom TV, woke up this morning to "We're Off To See The Tiddly-Peeps" (from children's show The Hoobs) and can't get the infernal thing out of my head, despite having since listened (on i-player) to Alex Lester, who finished up with Steely Dan's memorable "Peg".
This is popularly called an Earworm, something you hear, not necessarily at one particular time or special event, which just gets stuck in your head and repeats against your will.
I'm sure everyone has one, every day, although I can't remember what mine was yesterday. What's yours? _________________ Ron |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:06 am Post subject: |
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I get all sorts of earworms--pops, easy listening, classical pieces, hymns, you name it.
My current one is the opening of the cantata Olivet to Calvary by JH Maunder--a piece in which I've often sung but I've no idea why I've got it today.
A pop one that I had yesterday was an old Roy Orbison number, Workin' for the Man, which I think was on SOTS a fair while ago.
I remember once, when I couldn't sleep, having Bach's Bist Du Bei Mir for hours on end.
Work all that out!
Ian. |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Here come the Girls,... Girls,.. Girls-Girls. _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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Shaky Fan
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 628
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Dave Edmunds - Every Time I See Her (but that's mainly because I've had the CD on repeat play on my MP3 player as well) |
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John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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I get them all the time, and start whistling them, and spend half a day wondering what it is I'm whistling.
A few days ago a woman in a customer's office said to me 'You know I've never before heard anyone whistling the theme to Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em, really good you are!"
I'm sitting here trying to remeber how it goes and I started whistling the theme to Please Sir!
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:10 am Post subject: |
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It's California Dreaming today.
All the leaves are brown... (Well, they're not yet, but soon will be) _________________ Ron |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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It was mentioned that it was the 50th anniversary of The Smurfs, so what was buzzing round my head for a while this afternoon? Yes, Father Abraham's little ditty! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject: Earworm of the Day |
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I had 'No Limits' (2 Unlimited) in my head after it was on a Muller Light ad!
And when all the bother over Robert Peston was on BBC Breakfast, I was thinking 'Robert Peston put his vest on...' to the tune of Stump's 'Charlton Heston'!
Is it just me, or does he remind anyone else of Steve Carell as he was in 'the 40 Year Old Virgin'? _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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aviddiva
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 1135 Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 2:33 pm Post subject: Earworm of the Day |
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'King Of The Road' - it was after I heard someone singing this in Boots, and also when Brian Matthew played the answer song 'Queen Of the House'!
We're on a Proclaimers kick at the moment as a friend of mine was singing 'I'm On My Way' from the Shrek soundtrack on the way into Kirkstall Valley Nature Reserve.
My mum had the Disney Robin Hood theme music in her head after McDonald's used it in their ad. _________________ We are loonies and we are proud!
- Campbell Bain in 'Takin' Over The Asylum' |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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The Hymn Crown Him with Many Crowns, which I sang at a massed choirs event yesterday and in church this morning.
Ian. |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Were they both sung to the same tune Ian? I can think of 2 different ones for that hymn.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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iwarburton
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:24 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, Helen. Yes, they were. The only tune that I know is Diademata by Sir George Elvey, which is in Anglican and Methodist tune books. It seems to be one of the few old hymns that crops up in youth services.
Ian. |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:45 am Post subject: |
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I think the other one I know is found in Catholic hymn books. I went to La Sagesse (recently closed after 100 years) up where you are, although I'm C of E. It used to get a bit confusing at times!
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Actually there is an additional tune in Hymns Ancient and Modern Revised, Corona by C Hylton Stewart. But I've never heard it and neither tune nor composer appear to be mentioned on the Cyberhymnal site.
Ian. |
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Mark Mayhew
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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Human by the Killers-since I heard this again earlier today on the Richard Allinson Show I can't stop humming it etc.
Superb song. |
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Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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I keep humming (and occasionally breaking into song with) the first verse and chorus of Sara Bareilles' "Love Song" at the moment - probably has something to do with the Youtube video for it being on my Walkman.
Blondie's "Accidents Never Happen" popped into my head for some completely unknown reason the other morning at work, though* - and that was it.
*might have had something to do with a colleague dropping and breaking her saucer. _________________ Author: “To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992”
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:50 am Post subject: |
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I've had Traffic's Paper Sun in my head ever since it was on SOTS yesterday.
Ian. |
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