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Title: Anyone got any earworms...?
Post by: Growster... on April 30, 2021, 07:25
Y'know, the bits of music which just won't go away!

My latest is 'Clocks' by Coldplay, and that simple starting piece on a piano just goes round and round...

...and round and round and round...

...and round...
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Post by: mumofstig on April 30, 2021, 09:03
For some reason, I woke up with the guitar hook for Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive.....
and could actually remember most of the words, including - "When you're alone all you do is think"

After a cuppa most of the words have gone, but that hook is still there  :nowink:

Yesterday was Singing Sweet Home Alabama (All Summer Long) by Kid Rock. I seem to be having my very own rock revival lately  :lol: :lol:
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Post by: 8doubles on April 30, 2021, 10:48
Got Swingtown by Steve Miller stuck a month ago ,
https://youtu.be/1jGYx0hMjM0 (https://youtu.be/1jGYx0hMjM0)


Before that it was the New Seekers Anthem,
https://youtu.be/0eJTiwGU-8k (https://youtu.be/0eJTiwGU-8k)

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Post by: Subversive_plot on April 30, 2021, 12:28
This one's weird: Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) by Pet Shop Boys. The song is being used in an insurance advert on TV, featuring a driver and his car's metallic female hood ornament, singing that song to one another as a duet.  The ad should come with a warning, "if this is happening to you, pull over immediately and call medical help, you're hallucinating". I couldn't make this up if I tried.

The ad is playing heavily, so the song usually ends up in my head several times a day. An ice pick might dislodge it, but I don't have one of those; probably for the best.
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Post by: mrs bouquet on April 30, 2021, 14:31
Jailhouse Rock and The Floral Dance  :wacko:  After the sound of the big base drum, make it up as I go along  :wacko:   Had these two for a few weeks now.    Mrs Bouquet
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Post by: Blackpool rocket on April 30, 2021, 15:00
You can get rid of any earworm by singing Nellie The Elephant.





You can thank me later. (https://emoticons.datahamster.com/biggrin.gif)
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Post by: Growster... on April 30, 2021, 15:45
Mum, this is the version I know..

https://youtu.be/RrmWFjnAP2E (https://youtu.be/RrmWFjnAP2E)

Fabulous, and I also love your version!
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Post by: wighty on April 30, 2021, 17:24
We listen to Wave Radio in the van whilst on the to and from work.  Every morning they play a 'guilty pleasure' and some of them have been real corkers.  They tend to stick in my head all day as they bring back memories.  Todays was Lily the Pink and the other day it was Dearest Father, Dearest Mother, you know, the one about going to summer camp.
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Post by: 8doubles on April 30, 2021, 21:35
We listen to Wave Radio in the van whilst on the to and from work.  Every morning they play a 'guilty pleasure' and some of them have been real corkers.  They tend to stick in my head all day as they bring back memories.  Todays was Lily the Pink and the other day it was Dearest Father, Dearest Mother, you know, the one about going to summer camp.
Did you know 'Lily the Pink' is based on a real life alcholic tonic sold in the USA during prohibition ?
Lydia Pinkham is worth googling. :)
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Post by: Growster... on May 01, 2021, 06:46
There's another fabulous track, which gets a hum and a tap most days - always has done actually!

We just love the joy of the music, and being a red-blooded Growster, there are several more reasons as can be seen in this clip...

https://youtu.be/Yx6s-YReOJY (https://youtu.be/Yx6s-YReOJY)
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Post by: mrs bouquet on May 02, 2021, 11:05
Yesterday, I had my own "Last night of the Proms",  didn't have a flag though.    Today I have got "JohnRubicon and the tempations of East".    What is that about, somebody please put me right.     ::)  Mrs B
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Post by: DanielCoffey on May 02, 2021, 11:07
For the computer gamers on the forum who play games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress, I offer "Diggy Diggy Hole (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWz0qVvBZ0)"...

Do NOT play this video near any pre-teen kids because they WILL sing it over and over and over...
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Post by: John on May 02, 2021, 18:11
Imagine.. you're stuck in a cell, being fed dogfood unless you come over to the enemy. But there's music, loud music. Just one song repeated endlessly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDnva_3fcTc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDnva_3fcTc)

And for suggesting Diggy Diggy Hole which my grandson has found on Alexa, Mr Coffey is ordered to play this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIjdhIErp8I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIjdhIErp8I)
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Post by: DanielCoffey on May 02, 2021, 22:41
Did you find the Metal version of Diggy Diggy Hole by Wind Rose? Not as good as the original but still a good song!
Title: Re: Anyone got any earworms...?
Post by: John on May 02, 2021, 22:58
Did you find the Metal version of Diggy Diggy Hole by Wind Rose? Not as good as the original but still a good song!
Bit Nordic that - slightly off the earworm topic but rather amazing. Heilung - Krigsgaldr (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRg_8NNPTD8)
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Post by: DanielCoffey on May 03, 2021, 00:16
Rasputin on 1905 Marenghi Organ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AeN-5PXaaQ) - this guy has too much time on his hands!

Now who remembers the Maynards Fruit Gums advert? "Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose!"
Title: Re: Anyone got any earworms...?
Post by: Growster... on May 03, 2021, 05:58
Here's another from a few years ago...

https://youtu.be/cE6wxDqdOV0 (https://youtu.be/cE6wxDqdOV0)
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Post by: John on May 03, 2021, 08:22
Rasputin on 1905 Marenghi Organ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AeN-5PXaaQ) - this guy has too much time on his hands!

Now who remembers the Maynards Fruit Gums advert? "Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose!"
What an beautiful machine that organ is.

I remember the loose moose well - and being tangoed!
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Post by: snowdrops on May 03, 2021, 09:12
Great stuff, where is the organ situated? There was a place in Cornwall we visited once that had loads of organs. Something magical music machines I think it was called
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Post by: Growster... on May 03, 2021, 09:19
Gorgeous organ piece!

Does anyone remember 'The Guinness Clock'?

The brewery also had a boat on The Thames called 'Gigfy'... (Work that one out)!

Nothing to do with earworms, but fair game really...
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Post by: Goosegirl on May 03, 2021, 14:23
Morecambe used to have a Guinness clock on the prom. As for earworms, blimey Mr G, I was going to start a thread about them. I woke up the other day with Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, the next day's was I will always love you (ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo) and today's is some unknown tune I seem to have made up.
Title: Re: Anyone got any earworms...?
Post by: Growster... on May 03, 2021, 17:58
I had a very sad one several months back, GG...

It was 'In Paradisum' by Durufle, and I just couldn't get it out of my head..:0(

I can still remember waking up to 'Vincent' by Don McClean around 1972, and feeling absolutely miserable for days afterwards - it is such a lovely song too...

On the other hand, Mrs Growster and I recently seem to like making up silly (very rude) words to 'Let's get together' by Hayley Mills! Mrs Growster is also on the case with 'The day we went to Bangor', by Fiddler's Dram!

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Post by: JayG on May 04, 2021, 09:55
I have a friend who I chat to on the phone every day, and I sometimes try to think of a new greeting just to avoid groundhog day syndrome.
Yesterday I sang 'Hey Baby, I'm your telephone man.' ;)

Trouble is, it stays with me all day (make that two days now I've mentioned it again!)  :wacko:  :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndwIxHkVIkE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndwIxHkVIkE)
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Post by: mrs bouquet on May 04, 2021, 11:39
I woke up with "Vienna"  Ultravox ?   But I only knew Ah Vienna, so back to the drawing board, something will soon pop into my head.  :D
Title: Re: Anyone got any earworms...?
Post by: John on May 04, 2021, 13:12
On the other hand, Mrs Growster and I recently seem to like making up silly (very rude) words to 'Let's get together' by Hayley Mills! Mrs Growster is also on the case with 'The day we went to Bangor', by Fiddler's Dram!
Which got my head running Sweet Harmony by Beloved from the early 90's - a period which didn't have much going for it musically. Still, this is soft on the ear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ckbrj76MIo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ckbrj76MIo)
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Post by: snowdrops on May 04, 2021, 13:15
I woke up with "Vienna"  Ultravox ?   But I only knew Ah Vienna, so back to the drawing board, something will soon pop into my head.  :D

I met Midge Ure in a bar once, he wasn’t impressed that I didn’t really know who he was although Vienna was/had been no 1 or in the charts for an age lol
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Post by: jezza on May 07, 2021, 20:43
I was listening to a CD last night Eric Sykes was in it singing Ying Tang Ying Tang Tiddle I Po cant get it out of my head now, another one that sticks around for a while is i know a song that gets on your nerves,its getting in my nerves now I cant remember who sang it   jezza
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Post by: John on May 08, 2021, 00:26
I thought the ying tong song was the goons - Harry Secombe leading
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Post by: Growster... on May 08, 2021, 05:59
Just because I'm YouTubing all these, the app sends me similar pieces, and this one cropped up - again! I'm sure a chum here told me what or where it came from, but it's another current earworm...

 https://youtu.be/fvpQMTY8H9Y (https://youtu.be/fvpQMTY8H9Y)
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Post by: mrs bouquet on May 09, 2021, 12:29
I was listening to a CD last night Eric Sykes was in it singing Ying Tang Ying Tang Tiddle I Po cant get it out of my head now, another one that sticks around for a while is i know a song that gets on your nerves,its getting in my nerves now I cant remember who sang it   jezza
The song that gets on your nerves, was that Joe Pascali   Mrs B
Title: Re: Anyone got any earworms...?
Post by: jezza on May 09, 2021, 20:03
Hello it was a compilation CD it wasnt Eric Sykes it was Spike Miligan and the goons Eric Sykes was on it    jjezza
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Post by: Kleftiwallah on May 09, 2021, 20:26
Nazareth (I'm that sort of bloke)!
Holiday lyrics.    "Mama, mama, please no more facelifts. I just don't know which one you is. Mama, mama, please no more husbands. Drinkin' my wine, wastin' my time. Hidin' out ..."

Cheers,   Tony. :D
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Post by: John on May 09, 2021, 23:12
A Welsh group that should have been bigger but there you go. I love this version of Raggle Taggle Gypsies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bzls8GQPUs) which has been in my head all day.
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Post by: Growster... on May 10, 2021, 07:37
Invariably, around lunchtime on most days, and certainly when I'm outside thinking about coming in, there's an involutary recall of the first words of this fabulous song by my favourite band...

https://youtu.be/y1tFQMjc-IE (https://youtu.be/y1tFQMjc-IE)

It was the first ever song I heard by them, way back in the early seventies, and I went to the record shop in Hastings to buy it, but as it was on an LP, we couldn't afford the £3.50, so I had to wait a few years...

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Post by: snowdrops on May 10, 2021, 08:37
I was listening to a CD last night Eric Sykes was in it singing Ying Tang Ying Tang Tiddle I Po cant get it out of my head now, another one that sticks around for a while is i know a song that gets on your nerves,its getting in my nerves now I cant remember who sang it   jezza

This is what hubby is having when the curtains close on him for the final time! :D
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Post by: John on May 10, 2021, 08:46
This is what hubby is having when the curtains close on him for the final time! :D
Does he know? :)
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Post by: Growster... on May 10, 2021, 09:56
I was listening to a CD last night Eric Sykes was in it singing Ying Tang Ying Tang Tiddle I Po cant get it out of my head now, another one that sticks around for a while is i know a song that gets on your nerves,its getting in my nerves now I cant remember who sang it   jezza

This is what hubby is having when the curtains close on him for the final time! :D

It's also one of Prince Charles' favourite songs!

That'll go down well in Wesminster Abbey one day...
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Post by: snowdrops on May 10, 2021, 14:59
This is what hubby is having when the curtains close on him for the final time! :D
Does he know? :)
Lol yes I’ve told him...he’s told me that’s what he wants  :closedeyes:
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Post by: mumofstig on November 16, 2023, 18:39
The chewing gum advert song has been stuck for a couple of days now

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/2dC8/orbit-do-what-makes-you-ding-song-by-carly-rae-jepsen (https://www.ispot.tv/ad/2dC8/orbit-do-what-makes-you-ding-song-by-carly-rae-jepsen)
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Post by: Yorkie on November 16, 2023, 20:01
The chewing gum advert song has been stuck for a couple of days now

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/2dC8/orbit-do-what-makes-you-ding-song-by-carly-rae-jepsen (https://www.ispot.tv/ad/2dC8/orbit-do-what-makes-you-ding-song-by-carly-rae-jepsen)

I'm not falling for your trick to make us click on the link and get the same earworm  :wub: !! Yes, I'm onto you  :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by: John on November 16, 2023, 22:37
My tinnitus is quite loud if anyone wants it!
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Post by: Growster... on November 17, 2023, 07:14
Did you find the Metal version of Diggy Diggy Hole by Wind Rose? Not as good as the original but still a good song!
Bit Nordic that - slightly off the earworm topic but rather amazing. Heilung - Krigsgaldr (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRg_8NNPTD8)

Blimes, that's different! Very special too!

I did a whole dog-walk with this one, only a few days ago...

https://youtu.be/39QtG_GI1gw?si=DwBheXQYQTtNztxY (https://youtu.be/39QtG_GI1gw?si=DwBheXQYQTtNztxY)

(It's just a small part of the whole film music).

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Post by: Goosegirl on November 17, 2023, 08:32
I have them every day. Today's is I am a woman in love by Barbra Streisand. It may change to Ying tang tiddle I po now or summat else. Who knows?
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Post by: Growster... on November 17, 2023, 12:36
This one keeps cropping up, usually on the morning dog walk!

https://youtu.be/c0A7jAVDPJU?si=cGQvGBa8at1_kt4i (https://youtu.be/c0A7jAVDPJU?si=cGQvGBa8at1_kt4i)

She's got such a fabulous voice!
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Post by: mumofstig on November 17, 2023, 16:59
Woke up with Paolo Nutini's - Last Request going round and round in my head.
"Sure I can accept that we're going nowhere, but one last time let's go there, lay down beside me...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkA4xcIAvuw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkA4xcIAvuw)
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Post by: Goosegirl on November 18, 2023, 08:49
A piano piece by Rachmaninov (I think) but can't remember its name. If any musical peeps on here can decipher this please let me know. It starts thus and goes downwards in the scale of C:

G E F E C, A B C G.

It might not be written in the scale of C but am not doing flats and sharps for other keys.  :wacko: :tongue2:
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Post by: Growster... on November 18, 2023, 17:19
Piano Concerto No 2, Goosey?

https://youtu.be/rEGOihjqO9w?si=8hIgjuVojs-0rd_X (https://youtu.be/rEGOihjqO9w?si=8hIgjuVojs-0rd_X)

It's one of the more memorable ones...
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Post by: snowdrops on November 19, 2023, 08:37
I’ve got Walking in Sunshine by Katrina & the waves, since I answered it on pointless a couple of evenings ago, then I managed to add it in to the song link ups on here (yesterday?) then heard it on the radio in the car, so now it’s firmly stuck. Could be worse  :lol:
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Post by: AndyRVTR on November 19, 2023, 09:15
Yeah..  my bl%%dy tinnitus!!  :(
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Post by: Goosegirl on November 19, 2023, 09:19
Piano Concerto No 2, Goosey?

https://youtu.be/rEGOihjqO9w?si=8hIgjuVojs-0rd_X (https://youtu.be/rEGOihjqO9w?si=8hIgjuVojs-0rd_X)

It's one of the more memorable ones...
No, that's from the film Brief Encounters which was made at Carnforth railway station not far from here. Mine's in a major not minor key so have another try for me or I'll not sleep tonight.  ::)
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Post by: Growster... on November 19, 2023, 12:20
Aaaaah...

I've got it in my head now, (I think) but just can't place it at the moment!

My dad had the recording, and often played it at home...

Don't wait up!
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Post by: Growster... on November 19, 2023, 12:27
As of a few hours ago, my latest earworm is the theme song from 'Auf wiedersehen Pet', as we've been watching the whole series from the start every evening!

https://youtu.be/Y3V0g_TyeHQ?si=m7_DR6EkwJNa1XVz (https://youtu.be/Y3V0g_TyeHQ?si=m7_DR6EkwJNa1XVz)

It's amazing that the programme is over forty years old, and still works as well as it did all that time ago!

Mrs Growster has threatened all sorts of punishment as it's going around her head as well now...
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Post by: mrs bouquet on November 19, 2023, 14:21
Yeah..  my bl%%dy tinnitus!!  :(
Poor you, I get it sometimes and mine sounds like the door bell ringing.  Not happy in the middle of the night  :mad:Mrs Bouquet