tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39989556305462572042024-03-18T21:31:57.558-07:00The Songs in My HeadI wake up every morning with a song stuck in my head. And now it's stuck in yours.soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.comBlogger641125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-37225992243101663702023-10-11T14:27:00.001-07:002023-10-11T14:31:21.157-07:00Mystery Ostinato (I think?) <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxV6K86BYQJKYlWhtBVcKVMTx9iinZolrvHPZpHDnedAltFXIIXckH8QNyZqfjaeNCC_PEtjdmpujcCjidQ2Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />Hello, friends! <br /><br />A longer and longer interval of time goes by between blog posts here, but, rest assured, I still get songs stuck in my head (and still love getting them stuck in yours!) <br /><br />This classical or operatic melody came to me this morning. I still know as little about music theory as ever, but a cursory search online tells me this repeating sequence of four notes that change only slightly might be called an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostinato" target="_blank">ostinato</a>. It's super famous; I'm sure you know it, too. No idea what piece of popculture I know it from, though odds are Looney Tunes, as usual. <br /><p></p><p>I used <a href="https://www.musicca.com/piano" target="_blank">this virtual piano tool</a> to tenuously suss out the notes, starting with a mid-range G, which was close to the tone I had in my head. <br /><br />Please help me identify this tune, and where you know it from! <br /><br /><br /></p>soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-26347589440026293442022-09-05T11:30:00.051-07:002022-09-05T12:09:07.223-07:00Perfect Circle - Mystery Solved (and sorry for the wait!) <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwMmD29VveS72aI-XiQMkl3Y9vEvriyxMTmiYRbY8wbbzTg-3e4GqTXrM5-c3elqPkM_ArssXj0XPVH-DZ9DA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p>Okay,
y'all - what even is time these days, amirite? I posted this Mystery Song ten months ago?! Anyway, I solved it pretty soon afterwards, but I never got around to posting the answer. Here we are, finally!<br /><br />The Mystery Song from <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2021/11/name-this-tune.html">November last year</a> turns out to be <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/REM">REM's</a> "Perfect Circle," from their 1983 album,
<i>Murmur</i>. It's the last seven syllables of the chorus phrase <br /><br />"<span>standing too <i>soon, shoulders high in the room</i></span>." <br /><br />Above, I've made a better rendition since the original from-the-top-of-my-head attempt.<br /><br />The video below is queued up to the best example in the actual song, at about 2:38 mins: <br /><br />
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<br /><br />It's not surprising to me that it was an REM song (they're historically one of the most frequent bands in my head) but, in an appeal for ideas from my friends on Facebook back when this happened, my friend Joe pointed out that the melody is similar to Barry Manilow's beautiful "Weekend
in New England."<br /><br />I absolutely think that my neural path
memory in this case cleaved close to the Manilow tune on this recollection! And I do wonder if
Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe were unconsciously influenced by it, despite how
cool they thought they were!<br /><br />My
online synth re-creation of the REM tune was misleading in a couple
ways. One, the tempo of the actual song is slower, and two, the rhythm
of the notes is steadier and less "waltzy" than I made it. These two
things are also true of the Manilow song. <br /><br /><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en">And
here's "Weekend in New England" for comparison. The similar melodic
interval is heard right away, and then gets repeated in the chorus:</span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en"></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RRWMixC5jpQ" title="YouTube video player" width="350"></iframe></div></div><p>Thanks everyone for playing along! <br /></p><div class="ecm0bbzt e5nlhep0 a8c37x1j"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/REM">REM</a></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Year: 1983</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Rating: Luke Hot<br /><br />Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Barry%20Manilow">Barry Manilow</a><br />Year: 1976 (Yet another song from the <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/U.S.%20Bicentennial">US Bicentennial year</a>!)</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto" lang="en">Rating: Warm</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwani4Zvv6gN3Dk4sIrT6_c7_uArnsyjCgrAxcMd9j2JvRnquxlmbGDEv02a9KVwSmlxiK5z4pK84iUx56oC3j67WynpQu6WvDFdO9BcyG1tz8FLd9Pn-xG-lC_i-ap5Ir2PGDVw3fk4f4zsErW0ZcAII8uuAkCYdABv8hrbJBFoO3obfr8uEb45uzlA/s100/bicentennial%20small.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="100" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwani4Zvv6gN3Dk4sIrT6_c7_uArnsyjCgrAxcMd9j2JvRnquxlmbGDEv02a9KVwSmlxiK5z4pK84iUx56oC3j67WynpQu6WvDFdO9BcyG1tz8FLd9Pn-xG-lC_i-ap5Ir2PGDVw3fk4f4zsErW0ZcAII8uuAkCYdABv8hrbJBFoO3obfr8uEb45uzlA/s1600/bicentennial%20small.png" width="100" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div></span></div>soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-45028040148890362802021-11-03T14:30:00.002-07:002022-09-05T12:07:43.405-07:00Name This Tune! (Solved!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='400' height='322' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxynbQm3JxMLK9OsOAZD3u-ik8q7s_ev_g6CVoEErjFbdhnColc2j5O2wOjM8VihTpbJcYnwxTh7DQpxQgBfw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My dear readers,<br /><br />It's been such a long time since I posted about the songs knocking around in my head - four years, in fact, since my last update! But I had this mystery tune on the brain yesterday, and thought I'd appeal to you to help me identify it! No idea what it is, how old it is, why it's in my head, anything. Let me know in the comments if you have a guess! <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is the super neat tool I used to make the video:<br /><a href="https://onlinesequencer.net/">Online Sequencer</a><br /><br />The Mystery Songs tag is one of my favorites, check 'em all out!<br /><a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/mystery%20songs">Mystery Songs</a><br /><br />May all your earworms be merry, my friends! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Status: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2022/09/perfect-circle-mystery-solved-and-sorry.html">solved!</a> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>
soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-85373705443841693452017-08-08T22:14:00.001-07:002017-08-08T22:16:12.873-07:00I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man), Redux x2<iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BdEvuQE6t5c?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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Last blogged: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/im-free-heaven-helps-man-redux.html">June 5, 2013.</a><br />
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Jeezus, this song is in my head A LOT. A lot, lot, for a song I'm pretty meh about. Nevertheless. <br />
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Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Kenny%20Loggins">Kenny Loggins</a><br />
Year: 1984<br />
Rating: lukewarm-cold<br />
soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-63567556389344246102015-10-29T22:07:00.002-07:002021-11-03T12:50:44.656-07:00Mystery Solved...and Stashed<iframe data-link="http://www.podbean.com/media/player/itewf-19a5c9?from=yiiadmin" data-name="pb-iframe-player" frameborder="0" height="100" id="audio_iframe" scrolling="no" src="http://www.podbean.com/media/player/itewf-19a5c9?from=yiiadmin" width="100%"></iframe>That tune. That tune! That tune has been knocking around in my head for so many years. I blogged about it <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-mystery-song.html">back in 2011</a>. I thought it was from a really old movie, or a novelty riff from Camper Van Beethoven, or something vaguely Eastern European. People close to me have heard me whistle it spontaneously now and again for the better part of two decades, and any time I've inquired with anyone about that sequence of notes, I've gotten nothing but shrugs and blank stares. <br />
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I once thought I was hot on the trail, when I came across <br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/o1k-7MGb_jQ">this 1932 composition</a> by Jerzy Petersburski. There are some segments in this Polish tango reminiscent of the tune, but I knew when I found it, I was still shooting in the dark. Bonus: a fragment of this tango also reminds me of the “When the dog bites, when the bee stings” portion of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IagRZBvLtw">My Favorite Things</a> from the Sound of Music. <br />
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So, after years of this nagging sensation as to the origins of this melody, last weekend, it happened. I ended up in a somewhat random conversation about the band <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Phish">Phish</a> with my niece, niece-in-law, and my two nephews. My nephew Jon,* was recommending a podcast called <a href="http://www.earwolf.com/show/analyze-phish/">Analyze Phish</a>. In it, comedian Harris Wittels, Phish Phan, tries to convince comedian Scott Aukerman, Phish naysayer, why he should love Phish. In a parallel, I went through a Phish phase (college in Santa Cruz in the '90s, natch), while Jon is the non-fan.<br />
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So I decided to jump on Spotify and put together some Phish songs that I thought might appeal to Jon, just for the hell of it. I played snippets of songs from albums I used to own, to refamiliarize myself with the music. While scrolling through the tracks on the 1992 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Picture_of_Nectar">A Picture of Nectar</a>, I made a totally unexpected discovery at two minutes and two seconds into the song "Stash:" <br />
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And the motif repeats itself at the end of the song, at minute 6:49, accompanying the lyrics "Maybe so, and maybe not." <br />
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Oh my fucking god!! The thrill of finding the source of this tune was visceral. It was like unwrapping my new Darth Vader Collector’s Case on Chanukah, 1982.** Or the satisfaction of writing one’s thousandth tweet. It was gleeful! I still can’t explain the very definite six-note intro to the song snippet that I always whistle, which is clearly not anywhere to be found in the Phish song. I don't know if I composed it unconsciously, or if it's an amalgam of some other melody. It’s no matter. I can rest on this one. <br />
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Artist: Phish<br />
Year: 1992<br />
Rating: Luke Hot<br />
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<small>* Jon guest blogged for us at The Songs in My Head a few years ago. You can read those posts <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/guest%20bloggers">right here</a>.<br />
** I just learned that Google only returns 1.5 million results for “Chanukah,” my preferred transliteration for the Jewish Festival of Lights, and returns 15.7 million for “Hanukkah.” Am I spelling it wrong? Maybe so, and maybe not.</small>soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-14042593237317876842015-05-28T19:01:00.002-07:002021-11-03T16:47:43.230-07:00Handy Man<iframe width="365" height="250" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dXI43zGeyu4" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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It's been a year and a half since I last posted an entry here. I've been sucked into other social networking, and also trying to focus on, y'know, life and stuff. Maybe I'll pick up the pace here at The Songs in My Head, and maybe not. I tweet at <a href="https://twitter.com/soozenextthing">twitter/soozenextthing</a> with a touch more frequency, so follow me there!<br />
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For now, the lilting mellowness of a tune from my youth, with <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Taylor">Mr. James Taylor's</a> "Handy Man." The "comma, comma, comma, comma, come, come," refrain was ubiquitous on 70s radio, a song not to be confused with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYihDAhVPko">Sammy Davis Jr's "The Candyman"</a> and the weirdness that is <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Neil%20Sedaka">Neil Sedaka</a> also <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do.html">spelling out that useful bit of punctuation</a>. But I actually didn't realize that the song is much older. It's easy to attribute to JT, since he was mainly known for singing songs he'd also written, but the song was originally penned by roots rock and R&B singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Jones_(singer)">Jimmy Jones</a> and songwriter <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/otis-blackwell-mn0000893964/biography">Otis Blackwell</a> (who also wrote "Don't Be Cruel," "Great Balls of Fire," and many other very influential rock tunes). It's a case of the long, vague memory thread of a song that's been part of the culture for a very long time, arriving in my head one random day in 2015, in the form I'm most familiar with. Likely you've heard a couple of these versions of the tune yourself: <br />
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The 1959 original, by Jimmy Jones: <br />
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The chart-topper, later that same year, by <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Dell%20Shannon">Dell Shannon</a> and his distinctive clavioline: <br />
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And who knew that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Francis">Frank Black</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Fanclub">Teenage Fanclub</a> even banged out an indie cover of the song for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel">John Peel</a> session record? <br />
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Artist: James Taylor<br />
Year: 1977<br />
Rating: Warm<br />
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Artist: Jimmy Jones<br />
Year: 1959<br />
Rating: Luke Hot<br />
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Artist: Del Shannon<br />
Year: 1959<br />
Rating: Luke Hot<br />
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Artist: Frank Black & Teenage Fanclub<br />
Year: 1997<br />
Rating: Warmsoozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-17165913202096492482014-10-12T17:59:00.000-07:002014-10-12T18:06:27.039-07:00Rockin' Robin<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="274" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PcmvwFcfWmY?rel=0" width="365"></iframe><br />
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I slept soundly last night and woke around 5:00 am to use the loo. This song emerged distinct in my mental landscape. No idea why. <br />
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Artist: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Day" target="_blank">Bobby Day</a><br />
Year: 1958<br />
Rating: Warm<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div>soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-37894709231149791392014-07-05T13:49:00.000-07:002014-07-05T13:49:20.981-07:00Wild Sage - Original Cover!I've got a little time on my hands lately, so I'm noodling around with more songs. Here is my faithful rendition of "Wild Sage" by the <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Mountain%20Goats">Mountain Goats</a>, from their album <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lonely">Get Lonely</a>.<br />
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Last blogged on <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/wild-sage.html">November 23, 2011</a>.<br />
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Artist: Sooze<br />
Written by: John Darnielle <br />
Year: 2014, (2006, original)<br />
Rating: Hot!<br />
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soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-76509597552120621702014-07-04T14:06:00.000-07:002014-07-04T14:06:26.564-07:00Downtown Train - Original Cover! Tom Waits's "Downtown Train" has been in my head for a few days, so I decided to figure it out on guitar. Then I sang it at karaoke last night, and it wasn't too shabby. I'm using something closer to the key Rod Stewart sang it in, 'cause Tom's range is a might too low, as you can imagine. Hope you enjoy it!<br />
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Artist: Sooze <br />
Written by: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Tom%20Waits">Tom Waits</a><br />
Notable covers: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Rod%20Stewart">Rod Stewart</a> (1989); <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Everything%20But%20The%20Girl">Everything But the Girl</a> (1992)<br />
Year: 2014; original 1985<br />
Rating: Hot!<br />
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soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-23608082849654645832014-07-02T08:30:00.000-07:002014-07-02T10:56:12.448-07:00Join Together<iframe width="365" height="274" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_HDMCCLlGl4?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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Inspired to post again, 'cause this odd one hit me out of nowhere today. It's not one of my most tapped Who songs, but it's got a good groove. It's also 42 years old, as of this summer. Much like me. <br />
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Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Who">The Who</a><br />
Year: 1972<br />
Rating: Warm<br />
soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-88309846019736382362014-07-01T17:02:00.002-07:002015-05-28T19:43:03.331-07:00Faves *New Edit, 5/28/15Curious about which blog posts I groove on the most? Check out these geeky-sweet gems!<br />
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2/11/09:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/sometimes-when-we-touch-by-dan-hill.html">Sometimes When We Touch</a><br />
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2/1/10:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/just-cant-get-enough.html">Just Can't Get Enough</a><br />
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2/28/10:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/six-degrees-of-fish-heads.html">Six Degrees of Fish Heads</a><br />
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3/30/10:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/spooky-instrumental.html">Spooky Instrumental</a> <br />
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9/27/10:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/jump.html">Jump</a><br />
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1/18/11:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/daring-young-man-on-flying-trapeze.html">The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze</a> <br />
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3/5/11:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-mystery-song.html">New Mystery Song!</a><br />
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3/9/11:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/wonderful-tonightstuck-on-you-mash-up.html">Wonderful Tonight/Stuck On You Mash Up</a><br />
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8/1/12:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/dreams-of-merlin.html">Dreams of Merlin</a><br />
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8/4/12:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/last-time-in-love.html">Last Time in Love</a><br />
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1/20/13:<br />
<a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/tom-sawyer.html">Tom Sawyer</a>soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-87295759523435445612014-05-06T17:15:00.000-07:002014-05-06T17:15:35.276-07:00Billy Boy<iframe width="365" height="274" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/lr2f-SJss4g?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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I haven't been focused on the song blog in quite some time, but this tune arrived so out of the blue, I had to post it. I'm sure I haven't heard any version of it in more than 30 years. The internets date its origins in the 18th Century, but it looks like the most popular versions weren't published in England til about WWI era and not in the States til 1930. <br />
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Thanks to YouTube user <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/LDsongscreen" target="_blank">LDsongscreen</a> for posting this sweet rendition of the song. <br />
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Artist: Unknown<br />
Year: c. 1790s; 1910s; 1930s<br />
Rating: Warmsoozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-37475975392110122472014-03-16T15:20:00.000-07:002014-03-16T15:22:04.941-07:00In The Mood<iframe width="365" height="274" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3sFR2sdodEQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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This is one of those songs so ubiquitous in the popular culture, it feels like it's been in my head my whole life. This afternoon, I found myself spontaneously "meowing" aloud to the melody. <br />
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Artist: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller_Orchestra" target="_blank">The Glenn Miller Orchestra</a> <br />
Year: 1939<br />
Rating: Warmsoozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-26451190070041947002014-01-23T09:25:00.000-08:002014-01-23T09:26:19.237-08:00The Waiting, Redux x2Perhaps in anticipation of my leave of absence from Facebook for a few weeks, this trusty tune popped into my head this morning, again. And, really, it's kind of a treat to listen to all the selections on my <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Tom%20Petty">Tom Petty tag</a>. Go ahead, enjoy yourself.<br />
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Last posted <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/this-song-floats-into-my-head.html">April 19, 2012</a>. <br />
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Artist: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers<br />
Year: 1981<br />
Rating: Luke Hotsoozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-21448586062259446802013-12-02T09:08:00.000-08:002013-12-02T09:08:52.939-08:00Summer Breeze, Redux<iframe width="365" height="274" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DTv0K2SUlCY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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Hard to believe this song was last in my head in 2009 but, then, I haven't been attending to the blog very well. Hoping to remedy that. <br />
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Artist: Seals & Crofts<br />
Year: 1972<br />
Rating: Hot!<br />
Last in my head: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/summer-breeze-by-seals-and-crofts.html">February 13, 2009</a>. soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-91339973981092580782013-09-19T09:24:00.000-07:002013-09-19T09:24:11.818-07:00Every Day Is Like Sunday<iframe width="365" height="205" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nIyyPYdnAtg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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<i>And a strange dust lands on your hands<br />
And on your face...</i><br />
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Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Morrissey">Morrissey</a><br />
Year: 1988<br />
Rating: Hot!soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-77851168208216904852013-09-17T10:03:00.001-07:002013-09-17T10:05:19.926-07:00Do That To Me One More Time<iframe width="365" height="274" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ry4ngf766N0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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This song is sadly underrepresented in nostalgic playback in my life. Its racy lyrics, masked as they are by the smooth pop melody, flowed into my late-70s/early 80s kid consciousness almost insidiously. "THAT'S what they're talking about??"<br />
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Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Captain%20and%20Tennille">Captain and Tennille</a><br />
Year: 1979<br />
Rating: Warm<br />
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Note: Get ready for the Captain's recorder breakdown at about 1:35!<br />
soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-82300981341917498472013-09-12T11:20:00.000-07:002013-09-12T11:20:18.353-07:00Breaking Us In Two<iframe width="365" height="274" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/n7IGRNWVQkc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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I alerted the tribes on <a href="https://twitter.com/soozzip/status/376916275949080576">twitter/soozzip</a> last Sunday that this song had already been in my head for some time. Still it persists, and, though I love me some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Jackson_(musician)" target="_blank">Joe Jackson</a>, and I love this song, the compulsive repetition is wearing on me. I even tried a <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/mozart-as-reset-button.html">Mozart Reset</a>, to only limited effect. Sometimes too much of a good thing is too much. <br />
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Artist: Joe Jackson<br />
Year: 1982<br />
Rating: Hot!soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-59901496890388762222013-07-04T22:46:00.000-07:002013-07-04T22:57:34.935-07:00The Fear<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="274" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sh6Vubiii-g?rel=0" width="365"></iframe><br />
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<i>This is the sound of someone losing the plot/<br />
making out that they're okay when they're not.</i><br />
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I had a particularly disturbing dream last night: I was dying, and tortured by the realization that my consciousness would not cease upon death. I would be damned for eternity with my own burdened thoughts. <br />
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There couldn't be a more apt song in my head upon waking. <br />
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Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Pulp">Pulp</a><br />
Year: 1998<br />
Rating: Hot!soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-15771984824266025992013-06-08T16:27:00.002-07:002013-06-08T16:30:46.170-07:00I Go To Extremes<iframe width="365" height="274" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5xgjtm4_M20?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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A song I'd pretty much forgotten existed. A compliment, compared with the the album's awful, earwormy <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g" target="_blank">first single</a> that I only wish I could strike from memory. Ah, Billy Joel. His songwriting really does go to extremes. Quel human.<br />
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Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Billy%20Joel">Billy Joel</a><br />
Year: 1989 - album/1990 - single<br />
Rating: Lukewarm<br />
soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-49460957349033681752013-06-05T08:55:00.000-07:002013-06-05T08:55:20.480-07:00I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man), ReduxBeen in my head for an hour, with no signs of abating. Last in my head on <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/im-free-heaven-helps-man.html">May 19, 2011</a>. <br />
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Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Kenny%20Loggins">Kenny Loggins</a><br />
Year: 1984<br />
Rating: Lukewarm soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-32900883324546951122013-06-01T13:20:00.000-07:002013-06-01T13:20:12.360-07:00You Never Can Tell<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="274" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RoDPPgWbfXY?rel=0" width="365"></iframe><br />
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Woke up with this tune in my head after a late night out at a club, surrounded by twenty-somethings dancing to <a href="https://soundcloud.com/trapandbass" target="_blank">trap and bass</a> music. It was a friend's bachelor party. I stood there in the club, sipping my Dickel rye, oldly.<br />
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<i>It was a teenage wedding/and the old folks wished them well...<br />
"C'est la vie", say the old folks/it goes to show you never can tell</i><br />
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The unconscious brain is really amazing. This is one of those songs that I didn't even realize I had stored in there. It's not like, say, <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/carry-on-wayward-son.html">Carry On Wayward Son</a>, a song I am all too palpably aware of knowing. But somehow, my background neurons were connecting weddings, youngsters, and my growing sense of feeling over the hill.<br />
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Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Chuck%20Berry">Chuck Berry</a><br />
Year: 1964<br />
Rating: Warmsoozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-35337950110955721942013-05-04T09:49:00.000-07:002014-03-16T15:38:10.349-07:00Can't Find My Way Home<iframe width="365" height="274" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nTJYkjrg594?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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This song often gets me to the point of tears.<br />
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Artist: <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Blind%20Faith">Blind Faith</a><br />
Year: 1969<br />
Rating: Luke Hotsoozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-40035527588549233442013-03-28T12:02:00.001-07:002013-03-28T12:02:21.849-07:00Hold Your Head Up<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="274" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FBnSWJHawQQ?rel=0" width="365"></iframe><br />
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I think <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Aimee%20Mann">Aimee Mann</a> and <a href="http://thesongsinmyheadblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Ted%20Leo">Ted Leo</a> might get a kick out of the fact that this proggy 70's gem was the first song in my head this morning after seeing them perform at Bottom of the Hill SF last night. #notThinLizzybut...<br />
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Artist: Argent<br />
Year: 1972<br />
Rating: Warmsoozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998955630546257204.post-61944910179620267042013-03-12T18:30:00.001-07:002013-03-12T18:30:10.326-07:00The Cattle Call<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="274" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Sz90Cur_1cU?rel=0" width="365"></iframe><br />
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My mom's second husband, Don, loved <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Arnold">Eddy Arnold</a>. When I was seven, eight years old, we listened to his albums over and over on the "hi-fi" (as Don called it) in the living room. The yodeling in this song lingers in my consciousness more than thirty years later. If you've never heard it before, you're more likely to wring your hands at me now than thank me. But I have a soft spot for it. No right idea why it came to mind this morning.<br />
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Artist: Eddy Arnold<br />
Year: 1944, re-recorded in 1955; written by <a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fowqx">Tex Owens</a> in 1934.<br />
Rating: Warm<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Note: Check out a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNrJK6dgJbo">recording</a> by Tex Owens himself!</span>soozehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10504964903195848517noreply@blogger.com1