Earworms

[mellicious]

I now have "Deep in the Heart of Texas" stuck in my head - see the last entry for why. We used to sing that song in choir when I was a kid and I always hated it. But they play it at Astros games (after "Take Me Out to the Ballgame") and I don't know who the singer is, but it's full-out country with fiddles and such, and uptempo, and I find that version much more tolerable. I think it's because it's so repetitive - it just works better if you do it fast.

Music Advent is really conducive to earworms, anyway - especially if you watch the videos most people are posting. I've been switching from one to another all week.

Comments

[dinda.livejournal.com]

George Strait! More folks sing to that tune than the Take Me out to the Ballgame ditty. Why is it I can never remember the 2nd and 3rd verses of Deep in the Heart?

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Well phooey, I started writing a whole long answer to this and I lost it somehow. Anyway, yeah, George, and apparently it was originally a Gene Autry song, so MUCH older than 1965. (1941, says Wikipedia.)