Do any of you sing while you ride?
07-02-07, 10:29 AM
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Do any of you sing while you ride?
I ask because I've got a song on the brain and I've been singing it constantly while I ride. People are starting to look at me funny.
The song came to me like this: I was riding to work last Thursday and saw a man wearing a bright shirt with stripes the color of orange sherbet, with a tie to match. I thought "he looks like a dandy!" and then I thought of that 60's song "Today" by the New Christy Minstrels with the line "I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover, you'll know who I am by the song that I sing..."
Now I can't stop singing it. Make it stop!
(I told this story to a friend who's 40 this weekend, and she'd never heard of the song. I felt old.)
The song came to me like this: I was riding to work last Thursday and saw a man wearing a bright shirt with stripes the color of orange sherbet, with a tie to match. I thought "he looks like a dandy!" and then I thought of that 60's song "Today" by the New Christy Minstrels with the line "I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover, you'll know who I am by the song that I sing..."
Now I can't stop singing it. Make it stop!
(I told this story to a friend who's 40 this weekend, and she'd never heard of the song. I felt old.)
07-02-07, 10:33 AM
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I make up words to Kraftwerk's "Tour de France". And their "Robot" song.
07-02-07, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by divingbiker
I ask because I've got a song on the brain and I've been singing it constantly while I ride. People are starting to look at me funny.
The song came to me like this: I was riding to work last Thursday and saw a man wearing a bright shirt with stripes the color of orange sherbet, with a tie to match. I thought "he looks like a dandy!" and then I thought of that 60's song "Today" by the New Christy Minstrels with the line "I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover, you'll know who I am by the song that I sing..."
Now I can't stop singing it. Make it stop!
(I told this story to a friend who's 40 this weekend, and she'd never heard of the song. I felt old.)
The song came to me like this: I was riding to work last Thursday and saw a man wearing a bright shirt with stripes the color of orange sherbet, with a tie to match. I thought "he looks like a dandy!" and then I thought of that 60's song "Today" by the New Christy Minstrels with the line "I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover, you'll know who I am by the song that I sing..."
Now I can't stop singing it. Make it stop!
(I told this story to a friend who's 40 this weekend, and she'd never heard of the song. I felt old.)
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07-02-07, 10:46 AM
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Yes! The song comes unbidden and seems to change every week or so. My students and I just finished presenting a Broadway review of old showtunes.....and the tune "Dancing Feet" from "42nd Street" won't leave my head-- at least its highly rhythmic. Before that, I think it was "Sympathy with the Devil". Who needs an iPod!
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07-02-07, 11:14 AM
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I always have a song in my head when I'm riding. On particularly long rides I tend to fall into Supertramps "Take the long way home"
07-02-07, 11:18 AM
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George Jones, The Corvette Song! or Dr Hook, Freakers Ball.
07-02-07, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by divingbiker
I ask because I've got a song on the brain and I've been singing it constantly while I ride. People are starting to look at me funny. Now I can't stop singing it. Make it stop!
If you have air left to sing with, you aren't riding fast enough
07-02-07, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Digital Gee
If you want to rid your brain of that song (or any song) simply start singing It's a Small World. There isn't room in the brain for the original song once you've injested this one. It's guaranteed. Try it.
07-02-07, 11:40 AM
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When I drive to a ride, I'm very careful what song I last listen to on the radio as I pull in. Sometimes, I will wait a few minutes and change channels to make sure I don't end up with "Smoke On The Water" or "Tiny Dancer" going in my head for the next 6 hours...
07-02-07, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Digital Gee
If you want to rid your brain of that song (or any song) simply start singing It's a Small World. There isn't room in the brain for the original song once you've injested this one. It's guaranteed. Try it.
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07-02-07, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by The Weak Link
I make up words to Kraftwerk's "Tour de France". And their "Robot" song.
Originally Posted by Artkansas
If you have air left to sing with, you aren't riding fast enough
07-02-07, 12:24 PM
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"One Whiskey, One Scotch, and One Beer" or the Allman Bros "One Way Out". I even sing the guitar parts.
07-02-07, 12:48 PM
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Avoid at all costs thinking of Herman's Hermits and "I'm Henry the Eighth I am, Henry the Eighth I am I am..."
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Originally Posted by HopedaleHills
"One Whiskey, One Scotch, and One Beer" or the Allman Bros "One Way Out". I even sing the guitar parts.
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Originally Posted by Terrierman
Avoid at all costs thinking of Herman's Hermits and "I'm Henry the Eighth I am, Henry the Eighth I am I am..."
Oi'm 'Enery the Eighth oi am,
'Enery the Eighth oi am oi am,
Oi got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before.
An' every one was a 'Enery ('Enery!)
Wouldn't 'ave a Willie or a Sam (no Sam!)
Oi'm 'er eighth ol' man oi'm 'Enery, ('Enery!)
'Enery the Eighth oi am!
(Rhythmic handclaps)
(Second verse, same as the first...!)
AAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!
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I think this needs to be stopped. First we start talking about what songs we sing to ourselves, and then everyone names the most awfulest ear-worms in history. Someone's really going to get hurt this way.
But if you don't heed my advice, I sing "Roxanne" to myself:
Turn out the red light. Turn out the red light. Turn out the red light. Turn out the red light. Turn out the red light .....
But if you don't heed my advice, I sing "Roxanne" to myself:
Turn out the red light. Turn out the red light. Turn out the red light. Turn out the red light. Turn out the red light .....
07-02-07, 01:51 PM
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Do I sing while I ride?................................Please refer to posts about being chased by dogs.
People offer to pay me not to sing....
People offer to pay me not to sing....
07-02-07, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by HopedaleHills
"... or the Allman Bros "One Way Out". I even sing the guitar parts.
No, seriously, I'm so bad that anything -and I mean ANYthing- can trigger a song in my head for hours.
A car horn, a passing radio, a snippet of conversation, a bird's song... if it reminds of something -and neural pathways are tricky little devils- I'm stuck with it until something else comes along. It's my blessing, it's my curese.
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I dont sing, but will get a song stuck in my head. I like "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley if I really want to hammer.
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Originally Posted by SaiKaiTai
Are you kidding, this is how I live my life everyday.
I love to sing but I don't think that I sing when I ride. My mind pretty much goes blank. I do listen for cars coming up behind me or the sound of my tires on the road but I try not to think . . . . or sing. If something triggers a song it usually sticks for a long time and the ones that stick are usually the crappy ones from the 60's.
07-02-07, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by gfspencer
What's that guitar that you are playing in your Avatar??
I love to sing but I don't think that I sing when I ride. My mind pretty much goes blank. I do listen for cars coming up behind me or the sound of my tires on the road but I try not to think . . . . or sing. If something triggers a song it usually sticks for a long time and the ones that stick are usually the crappy ones from the 60's.
I love to sing but I don't think that I sing when I ride. My mind pretty much goes blank. I do listen for cars coming up behind me or the sound of my tires on the road but I try not to think . . . . or sing. If something triggers a song it usually sticks for a long time and the ones that stick are usually the crappy ones from the 60's.
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