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* Sometimes, when I’m tossing and turning late at night, this song pops into my brain and starts playing an endless loop. It’s a song I grew up with from my dad’s 45 collection. Good tune, great groove, but it occasionally torments me…

I heard the milkman at the door

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 7:21 am

Comments

Thanks for the earworm

Comment by Publius Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 8:18 am
I’ve loved that song since I heard a snippet on a tv commercial for a Time-Life oldies compilation (or some such thing) and hunted it down.

Comment by lake county democrat Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 8:35 am
I was in kindergarten in 1962.

Comment by facts are stubborn things Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 8:36 am
Dude, sharing earworms? You mad at us or something?

Comment by Honeybear Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 8:37 am
Being (slightly) younger I first picked it up from the legendary Animal House soundtrack.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 8:43 am
I can picture the scene in Animal House with this song in the background. Bluto, in an effort to cheer up Flounder after his brother’s car was trashed, smashes a beer bottle over his own head.

Comment by Cubs in '16 Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 8:53 am
When I was 16, I went through a “50’s Music Phase” back in 1986 and was grabbing everything I could from soundtracks and “cassette collections”. My wife finds it annoying and amazing that I know so many songs from that era. The simple purity of those songs will never be repeated…

Comment by Grimm Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 9:04 am
===Thanks for the earworm===

The best way to get rid of an earworm is to share it. Sorry.

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 9:05 am
Remember listening to this song playing on “the big 89″ on my transistor radio during the early part of my misspent youth. Great tune! (also old enough to actually remember the milkman being at the door)

Comment by iroquois county dem Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 9:22 am
The secret to ditching earworms is to identify a wormy song that you like, and then use the enjoyable earworm to push out the unpleasant one infesting you.

These are my go-to earworms (The second one is industrial strength, so don’t click unless you want 100% hard rock cheese stuck in your head all day long!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNpLSaCirj8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyXz6eMCj2k

– MrJM

Comment by @MisterJayEm Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 9:32 am
For you, MrJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq8efq7XAt8

Comment by lake county democrat Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 9:40 am
Love this song! I also have an old 45 version that was put out by the Guess Who before they became famous. Now I have to fire up the old turntable tonight!

Comment by Louis G. Atsaves Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 9:55 am
best current ear worm, “you might think” by the Cars as used on the show BrainDead. absolutely hilarious episode to episode, both the ear worm and the political comedy commentary.

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 11:08 am
Uhh, what’s a milkman? Was it a kind of delivery drone?

Comment by X-prof Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 11:26 am
Steve Goodman covered this song frequently. Here’s a live version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKb0MTU_IhI

Comment by formerpro Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 1:04 pm
LCD,

Needs more cowbell.

– MrJM

Comment by @misterjayem Tuesday, Aug 23, 16 @ 3:56 pm