Happy As Kings

All Through the Night

No, I don't know where they come from, and the song isn't one I sang as a lullaby to the kids (they got nursery rhymes).  I remember All Through the Night from when it was a popular song playing on the radio.  It creeped me out, just like Stranger in Paradise did.  All the new (and old) Stranger in Paradise renditions still creep me out.

[fingers crossed that clicking "save" will be enough to acknowledge the song and purge it from my head for the moment]

Sunday, 11 Jun

I get songs stuck in my head, but not just songs that I've recently heard.  Connections are made between songs, and anything that comes to my attention.  I'm perpetually being entertained, especially when I'm trying to go to sleep.

This category was just 'established' to have a place to let off steam.  Maybe acknowledging the songs will 'satisfy' whatever causes them to play over, and over, and over, and over ...?

This morning it's Popeye the Sailor Man.  "I'm strong to the finnich, 'cause I eats me spinach.  I'm Popeye the Sailor Man."  toot toot

I never said they were popular songs.

Yesterday, after seeing the new movie Prarie Home Companion (very good!), it was "Happy Trails to You."  (you'd have to have seen the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans show to know this one)

Yesterday morning it was the theme to Rumpole of the Bailey.  I'd dug out some old videotapes and had watched a few porgrams week before last.  The songs don't always pop up immediately.  I liked that tune because it has no words.  Words are harder to shake.

Last week, courtesy of some story on NPR, of all things, it was "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini."

So now, with luck, Popeye will stop repeating himself.