The volume level, not the song, was all the incentive I needed to shut off the alarm. In 1987, I stayed in a college dorm while attending a music camp for bass players. To make sure neither of us overslept, my roommate set the alarm on the clock radio to a soft rock station. I didn't realize the alarm had been set to go off at top volume, though. The next morning, I was blasted out of bed with, "AND MAYBE WITH A CHANCE, YOU WILL FIIIIIINNNNDDDD...!"
...Stevie Wonder's "Overjoyed," louder than I'd ever heard it before...
I still like the song as much as any other on Wonder's "In Square Circle" album; I just can't hear that lyric without remembering what it sounded like at a volume level of approximately 500 on what I thought was a 1-10 scale.
It's puzzling what stays in your mind, 28 years later.
