A RADICAL CURE FOR EARWORMS

Posted about 1 year ago

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Al Hirt
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Greatest Hits
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Java

As I was going to work today I stopped at the local convenience store to get a cuppa. Just as I was leaving this song started playing.>And an earworm was born. But this was no ordinary annoying earworm, this was earwormus maximus, the single most annoying from I've ever encountered.You see, ??The first stanza?? morphed, circled back on itself, and became an endless loop.Now, I know jazz buffs (you know the kind, those who would never call themselves "jazz buffs") look down their noses at this lightweight piece of pop pap.I know, But you know, its a damn fun little piece.So as soon as I came home today I cranked up the stereo and......I played **Java**.As soon as I heard it all the way through the misshapen aural memory loop shriveled and died.But I'm a trained professional, don't try this at home.

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inrumford says i won't

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I am says I refuse to play this song. Such painful memories. In other news, I saw Al Hirt at the Valley Forge Music Fair one year. He did a concert with Pete Fountain. Well if you didn't know Hirt is a big guy, I mean he's big as in portly. He and his crew broke into 'Java' after a bunch of other NOLA faves. These guys are playing and Hirt is belting it out, the band is belting it out and then the big finish .... the long sustained note, you know the one where everybody starts clapping and the note is still going, well thats when it happened. Hirt was trying to keep this note going and I guess he deflated himself to the point where his drawers dropped to the ground. No shit Hirt is standing there blowing the note with his pants around his ankles. The bass player came over to try and hoist them but by then it was to late. I caught an eyeful of 'fat man boxers'.

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deadmandeadman says Great story Chris.

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Spike says I am, that story is a counterpart to James Brown's old ritual of finishing a concert with someone wrapping a cape around him and escorting him out, and then Brown suddenly breaking free and throwing the cape off to resume singing the song. "Java" has its virtues. I be its devil's advocate.

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scotfree says woolyworms. fuzzy. all part of the show Chris? brings to mind Sat. nights after dinner around the age of ten. if you didn't want to endure Dad's "Hee-Haw", you might wander around the corner to Grandma's and pass thru for a snack, where Lawrence Welk was sure to be the item. Don't know, but I would bet Al was on there.

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Bartleby says Crikey, I tried this at home and now the earworm is boring its way through my hypothalamus. Thanks, DMDM. I hope these will help eliminate your "Java" worm

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Charley Rogulewski says gross!

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I am says Scotty, Hee Haw rules.

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ivylander says You do realize, don't you, Deadman, that "Java" was composed by none other than the magnificent Allen Toussaint? There is no shame in being seduced by a Toussaint song....

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deadmandeadman says Bill, I never realized that. But it sure fits. I have to say I played it three times last eve and ??everybody?? in the house (Self, wife, daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter (8 goin' on 30)) loved it. We figgin' danced!

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ivylander says When I saw Toussaint play a solo piano concert at the Library of Congress last year (in a 900-seat auditorium! and it was free!), he started out with "Java," told the story of how Al Hirt found it, then told another story about how he went into the service right after the song went big. He was put to work arranging for an Army jazz band, and all the musicians gave him a ton of crap because he'd written this pop song. "So I got even with them," he went on to say, "by writing 40 songs that all sounded like 'Java' and forcing those guys to play them. And by the way," he added, "one of those songs went on to become pretty popular." He then began to play, in a slow, pensive, Scott Joplinesque style...the theme from "The Dating Game."

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contrabandwidth says Chris, The Valley Forge Music Fair (R.I.P)! Now forever memorialized in a Howie Mandell concert video, "Hooray for Howie-Wood". It was down the street from my house. They knocked it down and put up a gigantic supermarket that promptly went out of business once another gigantic supermarket went up less then a mile away from it. Sad times.

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