has stuck with you the longest in your life? Like a song that you heard when you were 6 years old and you still hum it to this day.....or a song/piece that you heard years ago and acts as an emotional milestone in your life?

I sing on all car trips for hours. As a teenager, I went down school halls singing, I am only a fair baritone singer but I always had nerve to express myself anywhere.

From my youth, a song I often break out singing was the "Theme from High Noon", a Gary Cooper 1952 western. During a bath, Broadway tunes- "Old Man River", "If ever I would leave you", "On the Street where you Live." and etc.

Old church hymns seem to always play for me in my mind - "amazing Grace", "I come to the Garden Alone." and etc. But I might jump into a 50s R&B number with ease.

The real question might be what don't I sing - nearly anything written after 1970.

Now since you asked, what do you sing?

Copacabana and also the hymns I was brainwashed with as a child in Catholic school.

The Diarrhea song?

When you're standin' in the shower
And you smell somethin sour,
Diarrhea, bum, bum,
Diarrhea, bum, bum!
When you're slidin' into home
And your pants are full of foam,
Diarrhea, bum, bum,
Diarrhea, bum, bum!
When you smell somethin' funky
And your pants are feelin chunky,
Diarrhea, bum, bum,
Diarrhea, bum, bum!
When you're sittin' in a class,
And that fart let out more than gas,
Diarrhea, bum, bum,
Diarrhea, bum, bum!...

The one I've known the longest that I still remember knowing, and still hum to this day, would be the great, almighty overworld theme for the orginal NES Legend of Zelda. Best. Game tune. Ever. It's magnificent when played by a string quartet or orchestra.

rtestes...." High Noon"....what a classic. "The Theme From High Noon" (the one they used in the movie, not the single they released later with someone else singing it) was a really haunting piece I thought. Loved it.

Never thought I'd run into another person who sings "On The Street Where You Live" to themselves. That song was one of my bathtub favorites.:)

A piece I remember from early childhood is "Swedish Rhapsody". Every time I hear it I'm back there,mentally, in the living room playing with my toys. I can also picture my mom waltzing around the room by herself to "Que Sera Sera".

Guy Mitchell's "You've Got me Singing the Blues" was a staple around 12 years old.

A couple years later it was "Muleskinner Blues".

The first time I heard the Rolling Stones " Satisfaction", I knew we were in the dawn of a new era.

However the one album that is indelibly imprinted in my mind from the moment it was released is " Pet Sounds" by the BeachBoys. I've probably listened to it a thousand times. And I play versions of it on my keyboard(s).

But back prior to the sixties...you had your top 40 on the radio and that was it basically. " Cathy's Clown" by the Everly Brothers owned most of my brain cells around 1958. At that time all the women were in love with Elvis.

In our little group of neighborhood 12-year-olds, there was one guy who sang "The Wayward Wind" 24/7. Never anything else...just that song.

After my brother and I saw "Davy Crockett", that was the only song we sang for about a year.

question one: I'm with chic, Roman Catholic hymns.


question two: vicarious-Tool

Hoobastank's THE REASON

Being Catholic all my life, I never strayed but was certainly not devout. But two years ago that all changed (can't talk about it here) and now my Faith is paramount in my life. The Hoobastank song coincides with this when you think of it being sung to God. It then makes perfect sense.

The one I've known the longest that I still remember knowing, and still hum to this day, would be the great, almighty overworld theme for the orginal NES Legend of Zelda. Best. Game tune. Ever. It's magnificent when played by a string quartet or orchestra.

Heck yeah. Song rules. Along with the Gerudo fortress song.

This is a toughie. Music used to move me a lot more than it does now. I think that music is to easy to come by now and songs what made a song extra special was that you only heard it every once in a while. Now, you can find a song anywhere and play it anytime. Kind of loses its mystique. At least for me.

But if laying down and listening to The Beatles still gives me that nostalgic feeling.

One less known song, to those who don't play video games, is To Zanarkand. That song is very powerful for me.

For those of you who don't play video games ignore the video sequence.
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One of my babysitters played I Don't Like Mondays when she was babysitting once, and told me and my sister the news behind the lyrics (http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/mondays.asp). I must have been six or seven at the time.

It gave me nightmares for weeks. :cry:

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Even though it's kind of a nice song, I feel a little sick to my stomach every time I hear it now.

On the flip side, I really, really like Bohemian Rhapsody. Go figure.
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What I like about the song is how it evolves into different moods by mixing so many different styles of music instead of following a typical formula. It was such a successful song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody), that I'm surprised there haven't been more groups copying this formula by mixing typical music genres within songs.

On another note, Kenny Loggins released a children's album (http://www.amazon.com/Return-Pooh-Corner-Kenny-Loggins/dp/B0000029FW)just before my older daughter was born. I liked this song so well I ended up singing it to her several times a day, and then repeated the same ritual five years later for her sister. :)
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rtestes...." High Noon"....what a classic. "The Theme From High Noon" (the one they used in the movie, not the single they released later with someone else singing it) was a really haunting piece I thought. Loved it.

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All great songs. The movie version of "Do Not Forsake Me" was sung by tex Ritter - John's daddy. A cowboy star from earlier days with a law degree.:cool:

The Diarrhea song?

Wasn't there a line "when your sliding into third and your pants are full of turd..Diarrhea, Diarrhea.."?

Not sure of the name of this, but my great grandmother sang this to me all the time when I was small:

Wooka wooka hosat mahay onove da awa hay bipinow sitinow hay !

Repeat Ad infinitum (With feeling & stomp foot towards the end)

Makes me feel good everytime it goes through my head *

She was Finnish, but the song is Native American babies favorite.
(Not sure which tribe....if anyone recognizes it... I would love to know where it comes from.)


* Edit (I narrowed it down to Cree or Cheyenne Tribes.)
I think it is about chasing a bunny into a hole with your foot. lol

Not sure of the name of this, but my great grandmother sang this to me all the time when I was small:

Wooka wooka hosat mahay onove da awa hay bipinow sitinow hay !

Repeat Ad infinitum (With feeling & stomp foot towards the end)

Makes me feel good everytime it goes through my head *

She was Finnish, but the song is Native American babies favorite.
(Not sure which tribe....if anyone recognizes it... I would love to know where it comes from.)


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I do believe it is Ojibwa or Cree...

Wasn't there a line "when your sliding into third and your pants are full of turd..Diarrhea, Diarrhea.."?

:lol:

I'm sure you're right. I vaguely remember going through all 4 bases as a kid as well as singing several other versus. There seems to be dozens of variations. On the site where I found these lyrics, updating seemed to be an ongoing process...

I do believe it is Ojibwa or Cree...

* Edit (I narrowed it down to Cree or Cheyenne Tribes.)
I think it is about chasing a bunny into a hole with your foot. lol

For me, it would have to be "Put Down the Duckie" from Sesame Street.

"You got to put down the duckie if you want to play the saxophone". :D