“It’s a beautiful day…” Argh!
Do you ever get songs stuck in your head?
I have a few songs that I seem to cycle through. When I try to stop one another begins.
My usual “… I need you baby and if it’s quite alright I need you baby until the morning light. I need you baby trust in me when I say …” over and over. And I don’t even know the rest of the words.
An oldie She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes, three verses. Are you kidding me? I know three verses of that song. Must be deeply embedded from my childhood. (verses two and three if anyone is curious – she’ll be driving six white horses and we’ll all go out to meet her…)
And drum roll please. This morning’s song – It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood from Sesame Street. No. No, it’s not beautiful day in the neighborhood because that song is stuck in my head!
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I like the expression “ear worm” to describe a song stuck in your head. Although like might be too strong a word ….
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Hey Claire, I love it. Ear worms may also be the reason for the zombie apocalypse. Dee
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happens to me all the time, although usually when I hear a song I like, then I sing a few lines (the same ones LOL) all day long
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Exactly I only know a few lines so I just repeat them over and over. Thanks for the comment, Lorie. Dee
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I have the same with a couple of songs I simply keep on singing or humming them
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I guess great minds work alike. Thanks for the comment. Dee.
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Why isn’t the stuck tune ever “Happy Birthday?”. (Hope your brain changes tunes for you soon. )
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I use the happy birthday song when washing my hands to make sure I soap them up long enough. Thanks, Dee.
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We do that too….maybe that’s why the song doesn’t stick: the washing motion scrubs the tune from brain and lets you go on without it repeating repeating, repeating all day long?
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I sing that one all the way through. Someone said when that happens to him, he plays the whole thing on youtube and it stops repeating.
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Maybe because it doesn’t meet the right musical requirements for a true earworm…? I’m not sure.
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Hasn’t happened to me in a while, but when it does…the loop goes on and on and on and on… 👿
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That’s the song that never ends I think. Love, Dee.
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G.r.r.r. 😦
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Exactly.
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{grin} 😀
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I get some Queen songs stuck but just parts. BTW It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood opening song. (all together now) It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. It’s a neighborly day in the beauty wood won’t you be, won’t you be, won’t you be my neighbor? Yak you have me going now.
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Oh yeah, you’re right it wasn’t Sesame Street. Thanks, John. Dee
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Still stuck. Damn.
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Mine is gone. LOL Dee
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I wake up every morning with a song in my mind, and have for many years. Music, in my opinion, is the adhesive that connects our hearts with the Almighty.
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That’s a lovely thought, Danny. Mine are always the ones I learned when I was really young. Dee
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I always get the Trololol songs stuck in my head. Anyone have a song on their playlist that they don’t listen to often, don’t choose to listen to, but can’t delete? But when it comes on, you don’t skip over it? For me, it’s Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac. It’s a mystery to me.
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Welcome to the club, Danielle. Thanks for commenting. Dee
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Thanks for putting those songs in my head. Ear worms, even though I can see why one might think so, will not be the cause of the zombie apocalypse. Jesus will be the cause of that (it’s in the Bible, but just not with so many words). Keep on blogging in a free world – The False Prophet
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If you ever have an earworm that you want to get rid of, listen to or hum the theme from the A-Team. I don’t know how or why, but it works every time.
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Occasionally I’ll be asleep but dreaming with the same song in the background all night.
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“I need you baby…trust in me when I say…oh pretty baby, don’t let me down I pray, oh pretty baby, now that I’ve found you stay and let me love you, baby, let me love you…You’re just too good to be true. Can’t keep my eyes off of you. You’d be like heaven to touch. I wanna hold you so much. At long last love has arrived. I thank god I’m alive. You’re just to good to be true. Can’t keep my eyes off of you.”
Damn, it seems like I really know that song! I didn’t even have to look up the lyrics. It looks like that song will be stuck in my head all day now. Thanks. LOL
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Earworms. You suffer like I do from earworms. Yes, that’s what those songs are. I had Don’t Worry, Be Happy stuck for 3 weeks straight followed by Shiny Happy People back in college. Some days, everything that some people say, I can find lyrics and I’ve been known to start singing. It’s a horrible thing at times, and sometimes, I find it quite fun! But Sesame Street and Coming Around the Mountain, you poor soul! Granted, my husband often hums Hail to the Chief! God help us all!!!
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I have had the song Closing Time from the 90’s stuck in my head for about two weeks…still living…barely. ☺
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Doh! (as Homer Simpson would say.) Now I’m going to have a beautiful day in the neighborhood stuck in my head after reading this post. Only I think that song is actually from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. Funny what puts a song in your head. There was a sign with an arrow pointing which direction to walk around the promenade deck of a ship I was on once and above the arrow it said Walk This Way. I could not walk past that sign without Aerosmith’s Walk This Way song running through my head.
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Bwhahaha!!! So funny! At least they are good songs more than likely tied to good memories!
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Today’s earworm for me: Cake by the Ocean. Makes me feel like dancing. 🙂
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Earworms, I hear ya. They say the way to get rid of them is by listening to the song, and most importantly, by hearing it end. Not sure if it works. I usually start hummig another tune to instore a new earworm, haha!
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The Flintstones theme is always in my head …and apparently I say yabba dabba doo a lot! My childhood nickname…Flintie!
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I wake up with songs stuck in my head. Sometimes it will be a song I haven’t heard in years.
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I clicked on a K-Pop song only because I’ve heard of it but never listened to it, plus there were pretty Asian ladies in the thumbnail. For over a week the song Bar Bar Bar by Crayon Pop has done an endless loop 24/7. I don’t even understand Korean.
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Sometimes even in my sleep I’ll have the same song looping over and over in my dreams.
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Interesting…
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Yeah, and how about hearing a song in your head. I’m talking about something like an audio hallucination in which you can listen to the whole band or orchestra or whatever. Have you ever?
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Hilarious. 😀
I’m in my early 40s and have Sesame Street songs stuck in my head too.
Whenever it rains this one pops up instantly: “it’s a rainy day, it’s a rainy day, it’s raining outside and I can’t go out and play, why do we need the rain anyway?”
Then whenever I have an idea this Sesame Street conversation is promptly resurrected:
Character 1: I have an idea!
Character 2: Where?
Character 1: In my head.
Great post. Look forward to exploring more of your blog.
Have a great weekend!
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If by “song” you mean “the entirety of the Hamilton Soundtrack,” then yes.
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usually for me I’ll wake up humming an interesting chord progression or a tricky rhythm line and I can’t get it worked out until I hear the song.
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Yes, that happens to me. And I almost always have a song stuck in my head right when I wake up. Someone explain that one please lol most annoying when you only know a couple lines.
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Indeed. On the Appalachian Trail we called them earworms. Just when you cleared your mind someone who heard you humming or singing to yourself menacingly hums it near you to start your brain drain again. LOL Pleasures are simple, if not evil, in the woods.
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I get that first one stuck in my head always, I blame 10 things I hate about you. Although I haven’t watched it for years I picture Heath Ledger every time!
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Lol. Seems like I get stupid song stuck in my head. – ear worm. Lol
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It’s kind of crazy, but sometimes I get clumps of movie dialogue stuck in my head. There was this one time my mind kept replaying Maria and Captain von Trapp’s argument from Sound of Music about him not really knowing his children(the part after the kids fall into the lake). I guess I’ve watched that movie one two many times. 😆
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“I love you baby, and if it’s quite alright I need you, baby, to warm the lonely night, I love ya baby, trust in me when I say: ‘Oh pretty baby…” from “You’re Just Too Good To Be True”–I love that song.
Whenever that happens to me, I know the worst thing I can do is try to get it out of my head.
As mentioned in a previous comment, I actually have OCD–but there’s a fantastic book I’d recommend for anyone, with or without OCD:
‘Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder’
by Ian Osborn, M.D.
This book has helped me tremendously–and it can help anyone, especially anyone with OCD.
The unwanted song tune is among the most common obsessions known to everyone in the world–and it gives everyone in the world a glimpse into the mind of someone with OCD.
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I hate political correctness, and one of the best examples of political correctness gone amok that I’ve ever had the displeasure of hearing was a censored version of “She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain” sung by “Barney” on that nauseating “Barney and Friends”. “Barney” changes the verse, “We will kill the old, red rooster when she comes,” to “And we’ll all have cake and ice cream when she comes.” For God’s sake, if you’re going to censor the lyrics for little pitchers with big ears, don’t teach them the song.
“We will kill the purple T-Rex if he shows up.”
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