Tunes That Get Stuck In Your Noodle

[collins]

For some strange reason I got a comercial song stuck in my head.

You know the Alomond Joy and Mounds candy bar commercial.
Some times you feel like a nut
Some times you don't

[Tom]

I wish I was an Oscar mayer wiener.... !!!

[Red Metis]

Tootsie Roll!

Whatever it is I think I see,
Becomes a tootsie roll to me!

And the School House Rock multipliplication tables, history, and grammar:

3 is a Magic Number
No more, no more, no less...

That one's stuck for sure with 3 kids!

Anybody remember,
Conjunction, junction--what's your function?

[collins]

What memories those songs bring back.
School House Rock was my favorite Saturday morning cartoon.
What more could a kid ask for than to have a big bowl of Lucky Charms, sit in front of the television and watch Land of the Lost followed by School House Rocks.

[Red Metis]

Ah, yes!! Those were the days...minus the Lucky Charms! Did you ever ask for a cereal and it was nasty but your mom said you had to eat it all b/c you asked for it??
Lucky Charms, Cookie Crisp, and Golden Grahams all fell in that catagory.

Speaking of more stuck tunes--How about the Honeycomb song?? :D

[collins]

Oh yeah, many a time. I think if you grew up in the 1970's you probably had to eat a lot of nasty cereal because that was what the Saturday cartoons were all about, cereal.

When I was a child I hated Raisin Brand and Cheerios. If it didn't have a pound of sugar it wasn't worth an ounze of cure to me, lol.
My all time most hated cereal,(sorry for my spelling), was Grape Nuts. Good Lord you could pave the highway with that stuff.

[Bill Childs]

I think that only Post Toastie Corn Flakes had been invented when I was a kid. At least, I didn't have to watch the commercials because there was no electricity! LOL
It was a "big deal" when I was allowed to light the kerosene lamps.

[quest for facts]

well all of you except Bill make me feel old LOL Schoolhouse Rock and all those did not come out until I was getting out of high school and I never ate cereal. I was a spoiled rotten kid Mom cooked eggs and bacon or pancakes......ya know....I rarely watched cartoons either. I was the odd kid always running off to be alone or listen to music. Often I'd go outside and just wonder around exploring...found mice in the creek out back and brought them home to Mama should have seen that woman running LOL and yelling get that thing out of my house. Daddy laughs and says girl you should have been a boy LOL My mama is something else a very demanding and outspoken woman ( my husband gets annoyed and says damn Iroquois women) He asked me once if their was a woman in my family who was not opinionated I said nope...you guys should go to one of my family reunions it gets laughable after a while you'll see people storming out of the house yelling i can't believe she just said that....those of us outside just look at each other and say here we go again (that is usually my brother and I outside) my father was a natural peacemaker but once he passed on man alive the wars go on. usally they will try and get my brother and I to chose sides and we just say hey we aren't in this that's why we are outside. We just start laughing I mean what can you say it is funny..ya'll probably don't think it's funny but if you knew my family you would.......this last week here on Saponitown reminded me of a family reunion......
Linda

[Red Metis]

Oh, no!! Not kerosene lamps!!! We had those ____ things to heat the house! I HATED THEM!! Barely any heat with a roaring headache to match. I remember being sick during the winter and my grouchy Daddy telling me that he left some kerosene where I could get it to refill it when it was low...
I always let it go out and would sneak out to the living room (if it could be called that) and would turn on the big gas stove. My g-g-grandfather was from South America...it's funny how stuff gets passed down, i.e. climate preferences.

Collins! We were some suckers for cereal commercials!! I think the dentists and grain product manufactures hooked up at that time and came up with something that changed a whole generation. I begged my mom for some Grape Nuts too. You couldn't tell me that wasn't squirrel food and not even a gallon of milk could soften it enough for human consumption--sheeesh!!
Land of the Lost? That was my sister's fav. My husband and I stay up too late at night gigglin' over Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Shazaam!, Super Friends, etc. Can't tell how many times I've had a good laugh over Bugs Bunny/Warner Bro/Looney Tunes lines fitting in with something.

Linda! You spoiled creature!! Well, maybe not because we were spoiled with other stuff besides cereal.
Two stuck-in-the-head songs for this past week:
"We Are Family" and "R-E-S-P-E-C-T"

[Mousini78]

Guess I must have been spoiled as well..my mom cooked breakfast every day before she went to work...Saturday being no different. But, then again she needed to make sure her workers had fuel in their system to do all the chores required on Saturday....the whole house was cleaned, yard mowed, and laundry done before sitting down to watch t.v. And even though we lived in the city, we had a garden..so there were vegetables to be picked and processed..

Not to say I didn't catch some 'toons during a break.....and Schoolhouse Rock....... "I'm just a Bill, an ordinary Bill and I'm waiting here on Capitol Hill"....

Can't say I would change any of that because my youth taught me to work hard and appreciate what I had....

[Tom]

It was rain drops keep falling on my head!
I wish cartoons,,,!, I was out milking cows every day before school and after!! My days started early and ended late, 4 cows 3 horses, chickens, chores and milk to tend too, before school and after, even christmas day... and to think that I am still lactose intolerant!!

[collins]

Her is another one that got stuck today.

The old grey mare
She ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be
The old grey mare
She ain't what she used to be
She ain't what -- she -- used -- to -- be

[Red Metis]

How about 'The Cat Came Back'? That one is REALLY hard to jettison from the head!

[Mousini78]

The old grey mare
She ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be
The old grey mare
She ain't what she used to be
She ain't what -- she -- used -- to -- be

Hey Collins....she may be grey..but, she's as good once as she ever was.....LOL. (Only her hair dresser knows for sure)

[Linda]

What I do when I get a dumb song stuck in my head is I sing a Tutelo song really loud. That does the trick.

Yo ha gin ay yo ha gin ay.

[Aubrey G. Cole]

To all;
Boy It sure muist have been nice having all that cereal etc, watching tv. Tom only 3 cows to milk, you ought to try feeding and cleaning the barn out after about 40 cows as this was one of my chore when I was about 4 o 6 years old , my father and uncle milked that many by hand twice a day, no electricity. Tv didn't know there was such a thing until about 1949, got to see my 1st one about 1955. We did have a battery powered radio that was turned on late pm sometimes, music ,well crank up the old box and put on a disc or I should say a record, one that I remember is an old fiddle tune ( The old hen cackeled and the Rooster crowed).
Aubrey G Cole

[Ed Yancey]

Aubrey, if you aren't careful you're going to tell your age ! Speaking of a hen and rooster, and I have heard that song, if a girl or woman started to whistle the old folks would say: " a whistling woman and a crowing hen would come to no good end." You know what, I have never been able to whistle but my wife and three daughters make up for it. I don't know why I can't whistle but when I was a little boy playing in the yard I had one of those bow and arrow sets with rubber suction cups on the arrows. I fired one into a maple tree and since I was very close on the object the arrow bounced back with the feathered end hitting me right in the mouth knocking my two front teeth loose and splitting my gum and upper lip including that little strip of flesh from the gum to the lip right under the nose. I can't whistle and as a child was ashamed to admit that, especially to other guy's. Whistling was supposed to be a guy thing you know ! Ed

[Aubrey G. Cole]

Hello Ed;
You know I guess I did tell my age but for some unknown reason i'm not ashamed of it , Heck I am 66 yrs young and I would guess that you are close to that, as far as whistleing neither can I , my cousins ond bro could but me I can get out very little. you know I wish I had saved all those old records and record players might teach these young one where music came from. Tv's etc I believe just interupt our kids learning process as most them do not know how to play games, go fishing etc as we did and the chores we had as children think we could get kids nowadays to do them?? I can remember when family and friends would get together on week ends and play music etc and boy that was a treat to watch and hear them playing all those old song Wheels, The crawfish song, Under he double nickel,Rolling stone blues, one I forget the name but had a line , Blues stay away from me,blues why don't you just let me be, I don't know why these blues keep on haunting me. Let my little light shine, Etc makes me wish that I could play as my fa and uncles did but I am tone deaf. Ed we are not getting older just getting younger everday
as always your friend
Aubrey G Cole

[Aubrey G. Cole]

Ed;
I forgot to comment on the Bow and Arrow, when I was a kid I remember how we kids made them all the time and would , or as we thought have a great hunting trip doun in the wood etc. In my family there was a bow and a Quiver of arrows that had been passed down, and my alcholic cousin got ahold of it and sold it for something to drink, it was made of cedar and the arrows were feather with turkey feathers.
Aubrey G Cole

[Ed Yancey]

Aubrey, you have me just a little as I will be 63 the last of this coming July. I happened to have been the last one of my generation born at home and in the home house. Those old two story farm houses always had a front porch and when you went into the front hall the parlor was on the left. We had a wind up victrola in there . I have a 1912 Edison Diamon Disc Player and at present some over 100 Disc's or records. Mr. Edison made his own records for his own players but you could get an adapter to play standard 77's.
Did you ever hear "Who tied the can to the old dog's tail," or "Anne in Her Little Sedan?" My prize is one right after WW1 where Edison actually breaks his rule and cuts a record honoring the allies in their efforts to defeat those who would enslave the world in terror. Quite a statement from him and on opposite side the national anthems of each allie is played.
I rode tobacco sticks for horses, shot them for guns and threw them for spears. That took some imagination, but then we even got on barrels and "walked" them down a hill. It was a lot less dangerous when you got inside and just let someone push you down. Now days my grandchildren just get "bored" and that is when I try to introduce them to real excitement. Ed

[Aubrey G. Cole]

Ed;
Been there and done that and I can say this I sure do miss those old days, miss getting up for breakfast and having homade gravy, fresh eggs , chicken thar my g-mo had gotten up early, killed , dressed and fried, and those catheads, and those dinners on the ground after church on sunday. My cousins and I used to sneak off to the barn , jump on a young heifer or steer and see who could ride the longest, one year in march we sneaked off to the creek , broke the ice and went swimming.Those were the days. What about all those old Hank Williams, Jimmy Rogerssongs and rub a dub dub.
Oh well I am tryong to teach my g-kids some of this stuff like how to make a willow branch whistle, dream catchers how to knap flint, how to tan hides etc as a lot of it is now begining to be a lost art.
Aubrey G Cole