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Subject: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: GUEST,J Ryan Date: 18 May 01 - 04:36 PM I was watching a movie recently and heard a song that is now caught in my head. I only have a few lyrics and have tried to find out on my own. The lyrics are as follows: Sippin Napolean Brandy and not get your lips wet. This is one line I hear over and over. If anyone knows the artist and has the lyrics this would be helpful. I can tell you it sounds like a male singing and has very little instrumental accompanyment. Its definately a 60's song and has the british folk sound also. Thanks for your help if you know the song. Thank you Jeff Ryan |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: wysiwyg Date: 18 May 01 - 04:41 PM Jeff, if you join Mudcat you can "Trace" this thread onto a personal page to keep an eye out for it. (See FAQ thread to understand what I'se tawkinnabout.) Sometimes it can take awhile to get an answer! What was the movie? People here are GREAT at searching these things out! The more detail you can give, the better. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Metchosin Date: 18 May 01 - 04:41 PM sounds like Where Do You Go to My Lovely by Michael Sarisen sp? |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Metchosin Date: 18 May 01 - 04:46 PM You can get the lyrics here Its by Peter Sarstedt, my memory is slipping |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Charley Noble Date: 18 May 01 - 04:50 PM What an amazing catch for so few clues! |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: catspaw49 Date: 18 May 01 - 04:53 PM Aw Charley, we do it all the time! Now get over to the "Will Mudcat Survive" thread....... Great job Mets my friend!!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Metchosin Date: 18 May 01 - 05:02 PM some things get caught in my head too, unfortunately it doesn't leave much room for the really useful stuff. |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: wysiwyg Date: 18 May 01 - 05:10 PM No, no, no... post it here! jOE SEZ POST HERE ALWAYS, plus LINK. oops, sorry ~s~ That applies only to folk songs, Susan. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Metchosin Date: 18 May 01 - 05:40 PM I wouldn't exactly call it a Folk Song WSIWYG. Good Grief! I dredged it out of my mind, isn't that good enough?*BG* |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Nemesis Date: 18 May 01 - 06:00 PM Be grateful! I once had "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool" stuck in my head for a nightmareish 48 hours and then the kids caught it just as I was recovering.... |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Liz the Squeak Date: 18 May 01 - 06:28 PM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAarrrrggggh you had to say it.... now I'll be humming that blasted tune all day tomorrow!!!! It was bad enough getting over blood Magic Moments at work today..... May you be damned to eternal flames and have your botty soundly spanked for that!!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Sorcha Date: 18 May 01 - 06:34 PM Don't doooooooo this to me!! I call them Sound Worms.....sort of like the one Khan put in people's ears, ya know? My latest is the chorus to Watermelon Seeds in Your Banjo case.........(pssst, I posted it, go search if you wanna know what it is!) |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Mark Cohen Date: 18 May 01 - 06:59 PM By the way, Joe actually sez to post lyrics and links for "folk" songs but just links for non-folk. Either way is fine with me, and who's to say what may be folk in the future? I actually think anything that was on AM radio from 1965-69 qualifies as folk music. Anybody ever read Mark Twain's story, "Punch, Brothers, Punch"? It's about getting something stuck in your head like that. "Punch, brothers, punch with care. Punch in the presence of the passenjare!" And I seem to recall a science fiction story about a society of telepaths, where people actually BOUGHT songs to stick in their heads so as to interfere with mindreaders. Ring any bells with anyone? Awesome work, Metchosin--five minutes!! Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: GUEST,J Ryan Date: 18 May 01 - 07:03 PM Thank you Metchosin for your help I found the lyrics and printed them off. It was Peter Sarstedt and the song was Where do you go to my lovely. I now can get this out of my head. I also thank everyone elses comments also. Getting this answer in this short amount of time helps out alot. Thank you again. Jeff Ryan |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Clinton Hammond Date: 18 May 01 - 08:03 PM I've asked this in other thread of this nature, but never got an answer, but undaunted, I'll try again... The Germans have a word for this that loosely translates to 'Ear Worm'(so says James Keelaghan...) Anybody know what it is??? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Banjer Date: 18 May 01 - 08:58 PM Thankfuly I don't have that problem much, songs running through my mind....Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum!! |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Ebbie Date: 18 May 01 - 09:14 PM A psychologist friend of mine says that putting Yankee Doodle into your head works- that no one obsessively sings YD so you have to keep putting it in. In the process, any other tunes are crowded out. In my experience, it works. Yesterday morning I woke with 'good night, good night, good night; Oh, I bid you good night, good night, good night' running repetitively through my head- near drove me bonkers. Put in Yankee Doodle and though for awhile the next line came up Good night, good night, etc, it wasn't long before my brain gave up. My brain can only handle so much. Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 18 May 01 - 09:21 PM If anybody had bothered to do a "Digitrad and Forum Search" (strongly recommended) for even something as obvious as napoleon brandy, they would have found the lyrics posted here, back in the last century... Where Do You Go To My Lovely Malcolm |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: catspaw49 Date: 18 May 01 - 09:34 PM Malcolm, that's an excellent point although I don't fault Metchosin for doing it from her knowledge....and she sure was fast! I average about one a day of the lyrics requests that I manage not to be beat by Sorcha on. The first place to look is the DT AND FORUM SEARCH. Probably in about 40% of the ones I look for, either the lyrics or some other info are posted here and the DT/Forum Search Engine does a fine job. I wish there was a way to alert our guests (not to mention our members) that they should use that engine first! In any case, still a great job Mets! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Sorcha Date: 18 May 01 - 09:47 PM (evil chuckle here, spaw!) I really don't spend ALL my time on the 'Cat..........and I'm still waiting for somebody to do that within the same minute answer--that one won't be beat! |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Matt_R Date: 18 May 01 - 09:50 PM I keep thinking of "Where Do You Go?" by No Mercy... |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: catspaw49 Date: 18 May 01 - 10:02 PM Hey Sorch......You know what's worse than having a song caught in your head? ..........Having eels up your bum! So take that minute and let it join the eels!!! Spaw......neat you worked for Mossman BTW |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: dr soul Date: 18 May 01 - 11:00 PM In my youth, hopped freight trains a few times. Once, halfway across Montana, the rhythym of the boxcar wheels suddenly slipped into . . . "The Baby Elephant Walk" by Lawrence Welk. EEEK! Impossibly sappy, impossibly catchy, and the boxcar reinforcing it. A nightmare for a hundred miles . . . Wish I'd known about the Yankee Doodle trick |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Metchosin Date: 19 May 01 - 02:23 AM Thank you Spaw.
Clinton, the word you're looking for is the German word for earwig, "Ohrwurm". There, twice in one thread. I'll probably never do that again. |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: pipsqueak Date: 19 May 01 - 11:36 AM My dreaded lifelong 'earworm' is "oh bloodeee oh bloodaaa life goes on ... mwaaaaaaa mwaa mwaa mwaa life goes on ....in a couple of years lalalala" I HATE IT - HATE HATE HATE IT!!!! - it's making my heart beat faster & I'm having a hot flush right this minute. Thanks for nuthin you lot - and the Yankee Doodle tip isn't working, it's just getting all mixed up with the 'Bloodee oh blaadaa' earworm - HELPPPPPPPPP
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Clinton Hammond Date: 19 May 01 - 01:09 PM Thanks Metch! ;-) |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Ebbie Date: 19 May 01 - 02:22 PM LOL Persevere, pipsqueak! |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Little Hawk Date: 19 May 01 - 02:34 PM "of Desmond and Molly Jones...la, la, la, la, la, la...happy ever after in the marketplace, Molly lets the children lend a hand, Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face, and in the evening...etc...Oh Bloody! Oh Blood-ah!" Boy, that McCartney sure could write 'em, eh? You can smell that one a mile away! How about "My babeee takes the morning train, he works from nine till five and then..." That one has driven me mad on many occasions. It's like a bug bite that won't stop itching! Mix those 2 together, pipsqueak! - LH |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: lady penelope Date: 19 May 01 - 03:19 PM You cruel unsympathetic swine you Little Hawk! Mr McCartney is responsible for other earworms "Ebony and Ivory" which he evilly penned with Stevie " I just called to say I love you " Wonder. Just stop piling up the songs that you know drive people nuts AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Gnash! Lady Penelope Creighton Ward (Sniff ! ) |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: catspaw49 Date: 19 May 01 - 03:36 PM HEY PIPSQUEAK-------Let me help you out. Hawk was just teasin' you.........Just Click Here Instead Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 May 01 - 07:08 PM You all deserve to have botties spanked.... Obla di is one of my first ever memories.... looking up at the radio, and listening in at the age of 2..... Alright you buggers, how about Waterloo by Abba - that kept me going for a fortnight once.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Bill D Date: 19 May 01 - 07:19 PM Mark Cohen...click and click "Punch With Care" discussions |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Little Hawk Date: 19 May 01 - 09:38 PM Bill - I dearly hope that other mudcatters will not have the lamentable lack of judgement to click on the 2nd link you provided above (re: "Punch With Care"). This could mean the end of the world as we know it... - LH |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: GUEST,Mark Cohen Date: 20 May 01 - 08:17 PM So who's to say the world as we don't know it wouldn't be even better? Thanks, Bill...I first read that in high school, in Charles Neider's collection of Twain's essays, and I couldn't get off the floor for at least an hour. It's wonderful to find out how it came to be in the form he immortalized. One of my other all-time favorites is "The Awful German Language": "I once heard a university student from Heidelberg say he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective." So, does anybody know the science fiction story I mentioned, where people buy tunes to put into their heads? Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: catspaw49 Date: 20 May 01 - 08:30 PM Great links Bill!!!! You have scored again! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: hesperis Date: 21 May 01 - 01:39 AM "It's the End Of The World as we know it, and I feel fine!" |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Bert Date: 21 May 01 - 01:48 AM Joe, just a small reminder. If it's on Mudcat it IS folk music |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Micca Date: 21 May 01 - 12:47 PM Mark Cohen, the book is called "the Demolished man" by Alfred Bester. and the "tune" is to conceal a murder and unfortunately the words contain the "tune" and once it starts "squirelling" ( which I understand is the correct term for tunes that get stuck in your head) is, as best asI can remember, as I cant find my copy) "1 sir 2 sir 3 sir 4 sir 5 sir 6 sir 7 sir 8 sir 9 sir 10 sir "Tenser" said the Tensor Tension , apprehension and dissension have begun, " |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Mark Cohen Date: 21 May 01 - 07:49 PM Mahalo a nui loa, Micca! Now I have to hunt down the book. Mark |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Matt_R Date: 21 May 01 - 07:52 PM I had Rossini's "Cossack Dance" in my head for upwards of 5 years. |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Mark Cohen Date: 21 May 01 - 08:09 PM That's OK, Matt, for at least 40 years, when I've been preoccupied with some task, I'll find myself humming "Hail to the Chief"! I have no idea why. I'm pretty sure that the first time I heard that song played, it was for Eisenhower. For the non-Yanks, "Hail to the Chief" is traditionally played for the arrival of the US President at some state occasion (when there happens to be a band present). Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: pipsqueak Date: 21 May 01 - 08:29 PM Little Hawk !!! you're a gem - trying to sing those two songs together does the trick - they just cancel each other out!!!! Wahey :o) Catspaw, I KNOW I shouldn't have clicked on that link but couldn't resist the evil temptation ... it made me have an instant hot flush & palpitations ! truly it did - I dunno why it has such a seriously bad effect on me. Anyway - I've made a mental note of your name Catspaw BE WARNED ! lol pipsqueak. |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: LR Mole Date: 22 May 01 - 01:18 PM Thurber once wrote that he had jammed into his head for weeks, to the melody of the "Which nobody can deny" part of "For he's a...", the words,"A message from Captain Bligh/And a greeting from Franchot Tone..." More trouble than it's worth, all that, I suppose. |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Grab Date: 23 May 01 - 07:51 AM For some reason, Chris Rea's "Auberge" is my marching song - whenever I'm off walking on my own, I always end up singing it to myself to keep my feet going. I don't mind it, but it'd be nice to get something else to add some variety instead of just keeping on humming the patented Chris-Rea-Riff over and over. Incidentally, the German word is "Ohrwurm" (meaning earwig) according to various links on Google. Graham. |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: mmb Date: 07 Oct 02 - 11:19 PM I have been trying to track down an audio file of this song, to no avail. There is a dead link (no pun intended) to a Greatful Dead setlist, which pleases me no end. I never knew they performed this, and one web page I came upon says they included it in no fewer than 50 concerts! I've heard it done very up-tempo, but also in a more gentle, quiet way, and am interested in comparing recorded versions. Can you please tell me where you know it from, and whom you've heard perform it? Thanks in advance. MMB (mmbryan@tampabay.rr.com). |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head OOPS! From: mmb Date: 07 Oct 02 - 11:21 PM Sorry, I neglected to say that the song I'm referring to is "I Bid You Good Night." Thanks. MB |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 08 Oct 02 - 04:46 AM I knew it by the Dead, but I've also heard it by Aaron Neville and more recently by Waterson Carthy -- they did it live in a BBC4 concert recently. BJ |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 08 Oct 02 - 04:54 AM And this link should take you to the Topic Records website, where you'll find a soundclip of The Goodnight Song on the Blue Murder page. BJ |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 08 Oct 02 - 05:01 AM Doh! -- just had a listen to The Goodnight Song (which I should have done first), and it doesn't seem to be the same song , unless it segues into it after the clip finishes. Ah well onwards and upwards! BJ |
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Subject: RE: Help!! I have song caught in my head From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 08 Oct 02 - 06:46 AM It wouldn't be A Very Cellular Song by the Incrediblke String Band would it? Lyrics on that link I gave, with the lines
Lay down my dear sister (Which is very likely a quote from a previously existing song.) |
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