<p>Maybe she means that Name Song from the 60s–the Hanna, Hanna, bo-banna, Hanna…It has that potential…</p>
<p>These are NOT bad songs…but I have a constant craving for Pink Floyd, right now I have “wish you were here” playing over and over (in my mind and on my computer CD) and I love and can’t get “brain damage” out of my mind. (Maybe that’s saying something!) Also have listened in spates to lots of Jacques Brel (haunting songs! When the record was no longer printed and the CD wasn’t available I was one of the ones to bug the company to bring it out again.) There’s also the Turtles “Happy together” and others. I find if I put the song on often enough I can get it “played out” in my mind and can move on to other things. Many times the words just have so much meaning and are clever, sometimes it’s just one little line that suddenly takes on meaning…or the music and word combination just seems to have such clarity. Okay, it really is an earworm.
Sorry have to stop writing and listen to “Wish you were here”…for the 5th time…</p>
<p>OK, all of you former hippies…you’ve got to admit that Strawberry Alarm Clock’s “Good Morning Starshine” is a stunner. Read 'em and weep. Ahhrghhhh!</p>
<p>Good Morning Star shine
The earth says “hello”
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below.</p>
<p>Good Morning Star shine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singin’ song</p>
<p>Gliddy glub gloopy; Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo…
Sabba sibby sabba; Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo…
Tooby ooby walla; Nooby abba nabba
Early morning singin’ song.</p>
<p>There are some more “verses” and then this stunning ending:</p>
<p>Singin’ a song, humming a song
Singing a song…
Loving a song, laughing a song
Singing a song…
Sing the song; Song the sing
Song song song sing
Sing sing sing sing song
Song song song sing
Sing sing sing sing song</p>
<p>Oy, yes, quite painful especially in its written form. But that was from “Hair” (the Broadway musical, which I saw on its second anniversary), so it gets a little dispensation for being a cultural icon.</p>
<p>And I know Oliver and The 5th Dimension sang this on records… but Strawberry Alarm Clock? I recall “Incense and Peppermints”, but not this one (however I do not claim to be familiar with the complete Strawberry Alarm Clock discography. 
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<p>Are we having fun yet?</p>
<p>It could be the Harry Belafonte song about picking bananas (the banana boat song):</p>
<p>“Come mister tally man tally me bananas
(daylight come and me wanna go home)”</p>
<p>Forgot about Timothy. . .cannabilism. . .why write a song about it?</p>
<p>Forgot about Honey. . .that song is so blatantly “4 hanky” material that it made you lose any sympathy for the living and the dead.</p>
<p>Mootmom, if definitive covers of classic earworms don’t count :), then may I nominate a cut from another album that my college roommate played so many times that it actually wore out? I refer, of course, to Sweet Baby James:</p>
<p>All together now:</p>
<p>So, goodnight you moon light ladies, rock-a-bye sweet baby James.
Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose, won’t you let me go down in my dreams?
And rock-a-bye sweet baby James.</p>
<p>I shall reserve editorial comment, tho my daughter finds the image of hundreds of thousands of “coeds” fervently mumbling this tune to be both “scary” and hilarious.</p>
<p>Agree with mootmom–Oliver sang Good Morning Starshine. Strawberry Alarm Clock had a hit with Incense and Peppermints. Aaah–but what was the hit song of that other fruity group, the Electric Prunes?</p>
<p>“I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night” by the Electric Prunes, from “Easy Rider” I think.</p>
<p>Ellemenope, I fear that your late '60s cultural experiences were seriously high brow. Should you wish to remedy that situation, PM me and I will send you a web address where it appears that you can (shudder) download an MP3 of the Strawberry Alarm Clock cover of Good Morning Starshine. The Original Cast Recording pales in comparison…</p>
<p>As far as I know, there are no ringtones available.</p>
<p>All this groaning over pop lyrics reminds me of Ed Sullivan poring over the Beatles " She loves you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. " At least, I believe this was the song he dissected in his deadpan voice with his deadpan face.</p>
<p>About 20 years ago, the Harvard radio station ran an "“orgy” (a musical one, that lasts throughout the exam period, and whose theme changes every year). That year’s orgy featured all known songs that included “yeah” in one form or another. It was a riot.</p>
<p>One song I wished I could get out of my head was Karen Carpenter’s “Top of the World.”</p>
<p>How did I miss this thread till now?!</p>
<p>Nomination for worst lyrics in an earworm song…</p>
<p>Movin’ In Stereo: The Cars </p>
<p>NOTE: for proper effect, imagine these lyrics spoken in the worst and most ear-splitting R.I. accent (“eeeaaahhhccent”) like my roommates & I used when we recited them:</p>
<p>Lifes the same Im moving in stereo
Lifes the same except for my shoes
Lifes the same youre shakin like tremolo
Lifes the same its all inside you</p>
<p>Its so easy to blow up your problems
Its so easy to play up your breakdown
Its so easy to fly through a window
Its so easy to fool with the sound</p>
<p>Its so tough to get up
Its so tough
Its so tough to live up
Its so tough on you</p>
<p>Lifes the same Im moving in stereo
Lifes the same except for my shoes
Lifes the same youre shakin like tremolo
Lifes the same its all inside you
Lifes the same Im moving in stereo
Lifes the same except for my shoes
Lifes the same youre shakin like tremolo
Lifes the same its all inside you</p>
<p>So is there a cohort effect here? Are all our earworms related to being (gasp) once upon a time the age our children are now–and their earworms will be by unidentifiable groups with names like Poison Squirrel? My 13 y.o. admits to some toddler song earworms but her others are by (from my perspective) unknowns. Should we do some random research? Perhaps there is a developmental window here for earworm susceptibility and we were all there when Strawberry Alarm Clock had its brief moment of fame…?</p>
<p>Sukiyaki- 1963 HIT! see bio below:
Life of Kyu Sakamoto</p>
<p>Kyu Sakamoto (Sakamoto Kyu in Japanese) was born Hisashi Oshima (Oshima Hisashi in Japanese) on 10 November 1941 in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He made his show business debut in 1960.</p>
<p>His biggest hit, Ue o Muite Aruko (I Look Up When I Walk; Sukiyaki in the West), was released in Japan in 1961. After its release in the U.S. in 1963, the song’s earnestness and melodic beauty proved irresistible despite its incomprehensible lyrics. Against all odds, on 15 June 1963, the song ousted Leslie Gore’s It’s My Party to become the No. 1 popular song in the U.S. (After three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, Sukiyaki was deposed by Easier Said Than Done by The Essex.) To this date, Sukiyaki remains the biggest international hit by a Japanese popular singer.</p>
<p>Credit for the song’s popularity also is due to the music by Hachidai Nakamura and the lyrics by Rokusuke Ei, who is said to have written this touching evocation of loneliness after his heart was broken by the actress Meiko Nakamura.</p>
<p>Why the title Sukiyaki? The explanation is simple: intercultural ignorance. Western DJs needed a song title that was at once easily pronounceable and associated with Japan. So, “Sukiyaki” was it, even though the word is not mentioned in the song.</p>
<p>Nicknamed Kyu-chan (an affectionate diminutive) for his sincerity and charming smile, he also recorded such popular songs as “Shiawase Nara Te o Tatako” and “Miagete Goran Sora no Hoshi o.”</p>
<p>Sadly and prematurely, 43-year-old Kyu Sakamoto was killed on 12 August 1985, when JAL Flight 123, a 747 bound from Haneda Airport in Tokyo to Osaka, lost pieces of its tail sections and spiraled downward nightmarishly for 30 minutes (long enough for some passengers to scribble shaky farewells to their families). The plane crashed and burned on a thickly wooded mountain about 60 miles northwest of Tokyo, killing 520 and injuring four, in the worst single airplane disaster in aviation history.</p>
<p>Although Kyu Sakamoto’s golden voice was stilled, his songs remain popular in Japan and overseas.</p>
<p>Kyuchan’s life and work are commemorated at the Sakamoto Kyu Memorial Hall.</p>
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<p>Well, I’ll be horn-swoggled. . .I will take you at your word, because to actually listen to a SAC cover Good Morning Starshine would be cruel and unusual punishment!</p>
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<p>Yes as to the song. The Electric Prunes did have a song in Easy Rider, but not “I Had Too Much to Dream,” according to a description of the album on Amazon.</p>
<p>(I am a bit sheepish to admit that I grew up in the 60’s/70’s and have never sat all the way through Easy Rider or Five Easy Pieces.)</p>
<p>Songman:</p>
<p>I was going to nominate Sukiyaki; glad you did it!</p>
<p>I find myself humming the University of Texas Fight Song all the time and I didn’t even go there!! It drives me crazy, but I can’t seem to get it out of my head. Reading the cars lyrics above may do it though. Now I can hum that one to death.</p>
<p>Gotta stay in tune with your inner Ipod…</p>
<p>How about Minnie Riperton & “lalalalala” in very high octaves?</p>
<p>Or Melanie and her Brand New Roller Skates?</p>
<p>I thought “Lovin’ You” was very romantic when I was 17. Don’t forget the “doot’n doot’n doo doo” part. HAHA 
God, I haven’t thought of Minnie Ripperton in decades.</p>