It happens to all of us. A tune gets stuck in your head, and your internal player is set to “repeat”. You hear the same annoying tune over and over and over…
So, which tunes get stuck in your head most often?
For me, it’s usually the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, or If I Only Had A Brain from The Wizard of Oz.
It’s usually the last tune I played.
Slan,
D.
Thanks to Dub, right now it’s that dumb song about a dog named Boo 
Right now – well for much of today and a lot of last night – this tune is rolling around in my head…its VERY insistent once it gets going. I’m doing contradancing in my head to it…I’m filing to it…I’m lilting it to the point that my coworkers know it. And I’m not doing it on purpose. It just rooted in my brain and took control.
Tyg
Monaghan Twig, lately.
BARNEY!! YAAAAAY!!!
I love you,
You love me,
We’re a happy family,
With a great big hug and a kiss for me and you,
Won’t you say you love me, too.
Well, the latest one was “Rapunzel Got a Mohawk”…
http://teachingseed.net/scruggs/Rapunzel.mp3
Y’all can thank me later…
Robin
I have to agree with you on the Wizard of Oz tune. That one just seems
to pop into my head constantly.
Turtle
Tunes help you breathe more easily.
Suzanne Vega’s Tom’s Diner…
I am sitting in the morning
At the diner on the corner
I am waiting at the counter
For the man to pour the coffee
And he pours it only half way
And before I even notice
He is looking out the window
At somebody coming in…
How bout that “chicken dance” abomination?
I had a psychologist friend tell me that the technical term for a song that gets stuck in one’s head is an “ear worm” but he may have been just pulling my leg…
I can put up with it if a whole tune gets stuck in my head but I really hate it when it’s just a few bars in loop mode.
Ok…so that’s Suzanne Vega, huh?
My girls and I heard that a few times last year and started riffing on the lyrics after a while:
I am sitting eating cornflakes
And my kitty’s fur is wafting
Past my soymilk covered spoon
Which is now all gray and hairy…
you can go on and on…
A while ago Eldarion and I translated it into French. And I toyed around with doing it in German, too, but I forgot where I put my final version (I changed a lot)…and her song, “Luka” too–it’s the most upbeat song about child abuse that I’ve ever heard, but it gets stuck in your head just as bad as Tom’s Diner…
Interestingly, on her album Solitude Standing, Suzanne Vega includes as the first track the familiar a capella version of Tom’s Diner (no music) and the last track is an instrumental version (no words).
He wasn’t pulling your leg, Cran- well, I wasn’t there, so he could have been pulling your leg, but he wasn’t kidding about the “ear worm” thing. It’s a phrase that started getting used in “urban culture”, though I’m not certain what urban culture is.
All the Best, Tom
Lowrider! 
Somehow seem to get the theme from the A-team in my head at the most innappropriate times- Ie intimate moments, funerals, job interviews etc..
Rubber ducky, you’re the one
You make bath time lots of fun
Rubber ducky, I’m awfully fond of you
Woo woo be doo
Rubber ducky, joy of joys
When I squeeze you, you make noise
Rubber ducky, you’re my very best friend, it’s true
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo
Every day when I
Make my way to the tubby
I find a little fella who’s
Cute and yellow and chubby
Rub-a-dub-a-dubby!
Rubber ducky, you’re so fine
And I’m lucky that you’re mine
Rubber ducky, I’m awfully fond of you
Rubber ducky, you’re so fine
And I’m lucky that you’re mine
Rubber ducky, I’m awfully fond of -
Rubber ducky, I’d like a whole pond of -
Rubber ducky, I’m awfully fond of you
Or
I wish I was an Oscar Mayer weiner,
that is what I’d truly like to be
for if I was an Oscar Mayer weiner,
Everyone would be in love with me.