The Song in Your Head Thread

[monarda]

This, from west side story

and the parody

[mamselle]

Very much like^

[traductio]

Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime"

Same as it ever was...

[mamselle]

Now....

    Tinker Polka, don't know why, we didn't dance to it last night but I woke up hearing it and had to look it up to get the right name!!!

     Then I found all these different versions:

Like the group and their setting!!

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raBu58tm7Zk

These guys, too...but they're so dour!!

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fypM6v5ayA

OK for orchestration, but too slow to really dance to with a good partner:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyTzhlnzXgk         

This was the most like the tempo I had in mind:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB7NyQIg_nA

Anyway, now I'm not hearing it in my inner ear anymore....but probably someone else is....

;--}

M.

[writingprof]

"Never My Love" by The Association, used to good effect in the season finale of Outlander and stuck in my head ever since.

[Parasaurolophus]

Alanis Morissette - Ablaze

I can't help, it's so personal that it makes me choke up a little every time.

[mamselle]

Chopin Nocturne Opus 55 no. 1, because my student is playing it and I've fallen in love with it.

It's like a <<marche funebre>> or <<pavanne pour une enfante defunte>> in my mind--that's how I'm teaching it, anyway.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qHO9aOQYM

Gloriously beautiful, sad and wistful...with a positive, picardy third-like ending.

M.

[ab_grp]

Chopin Nocturne Opus 55 no. 1, because my student is playing it and I've fallen in love with it.

It's like a <<marche funebre>> or <<pavanne pour une enfante defunte>> in my mind--that's how I'm teaching it, anyway.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qHO9aOQYM

Gloriously beautiful, sad and wistful...with a positive, picardy third-like ending.

M.

I love this one! I think I have most of his nocturnes (and others) played by various people, but it's always nice to listen to another performance.  You know much more about music theory than I do, but I just love Chopin and always have.  Some of my favorites to play when I was younger.  My dad was also a big fan (probably why I got into Chopin), so I tried to learn to play one of the polonaises, but I never got near to playing it well or fully before he passed away.   I always hope to rectify that someday when I get a piano back in the house, though I'm sure that would be quite a relearning curve and then some.  Thanks so much for posting this.  The screen's getting a little blurry.

[Economizer]

" Crying" by Roy Orbison. It is famous in part for the clarity of and the range of notes the artist is able to reach. An earnest plea by a man. Sometimes, using Karaoke technology, I try to duplicate Mr. Orbinson
in performance. But, alas, to no avail. Maybe there is something that will allow me to squeeze out those higher notes? "Crying,  Crying, O-0- ver YOU-U-U..!"

[traductio]

The theme song to the 1980s version of Inspector Gadget.

This -- this is what I get for trying to teach my kids some culture!

[Vkw10]

The very last paper to grade just had to include "Celebrate good times, come on!" by Michael Jackson as an example of cross-generation music appeal. It's by Kool and the Gang and it's stuck in my head.

[mamselle]

My best memory of that is the cruise boat the school rented for our M.A. class graduation party.

We were bouncing around on the top deck to that and a bunch of others, it was soooo cool and breezy out.

Many thanks for the pleasant image....

....whizzing around the bay, with the stars and the moon, and our friends....

M.

[Larimar]

Ben E. King's "Stand By Me".

[Economizer]

Operatic presentation in a TV commercial format for J.G. Wentworth, a consumer loan concern. The voices are very pleasing, as is the setting, a public city bus loaded with an assortment of passengers. The singers were a cross section of the general public, black/white/male/female/young/old. I did notice that there were no Arabs, Hispanos, Asians portrayed or featured, although one Norse "warrior" became prominent. Also, the theme of the presentation seemed to me of great relevance and wide appeal to current audiences.

[ab_grp]

Agghh... we were sitting outside, and some individuals working on a nearby house were apparently listening to an oldies station.  Now I have Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen (https://youtu.be/9Gc4QTqslN4) stuck in my head.  Yes I had heard about the bird back in the day, and I hadn't heard about it in a while, and now all I can do is hear about it again and again in my skull.  Help...