I have an ear-worm… it arrived maybe ten minutes ago, just the chorus of a popular song on repeat in my head. The word ear-worm isn’t that old, probably first used in print by Desmond Bagley in his 1978 novel Flyaway, but the phenomenon of a song stuck in your head has probably been a human condition ever since people first made music.
It has been researched by scientists, theories and ideas of the causes and reasons have been propounded by psychologists, ‘cures’ have been suggested by just about everyone and their dog! Apparently ear-worms can be triggered by having heard a certain song, or having certain things associated with a song – a word, a memory, a sound, a couple of notes – and I’ve said song because it usually is songs; apparently just over 73% of stuck song syndrome is in fact songs, and the rest music without lyrics.
For the most part, for most of us, ear-worms are just a harmless annoyance, but if we should say they drive us mad that isn’t actually so – although it may have been for one woman. Jean Harris killed her lover Herman Tarnower; she was obsessed by the song “Put the Blame on Mame”, apparently – did this have anything to do with the murder?
Honestly, I’m not going to murder anyone, just share my ear-worm… which I think originated from a blog I wrote about the them music from ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ by Malcolm Arnold… ‘No Matter What’ was based on that melody, recorded by Boyzone and here it is:
http://https://youtu.be/Bsdf_iK8f2M
Lois Elsden 
Consider yourself lucky that the song that has become your earworm is fairly decent in quality. 🙂
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I get ear worms every so often. The last one was Dylan’s ‘Tangled up in Blue’.
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I don’t know that one… I’m not sure I dare listen to it in case it infects me! 😀 !!
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You may have started something like the dance mania that spread across Europe in the middle ages where people danced until they died of exhaustion.My ear worm is I’ve been thinking about you…………….Shi pow pow
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Was that the same as St Vitus dance… or is that something different?
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That was one name given to it but that is also the name of a medical condition. Dancing mania is more appropriate. It could have been caused by ingesting ergot or rye fungus which is like LSD. I tried it once and could moonwalk better than Micheal Jackson …………………………shi pow pow
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Now you mention that I do remember reading about it!! I’m not sure if I dance better when I’ve had a few glasses, but I just don’t care so it doesn’t matter!! 😀
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Save the last dance for me.
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Drifters? That’s who I always think of!!
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