Thursday, January 26, 2017

Persistent earworm alert XLVI

Sometimes, the most everyday sight triggers a tune that won't leave your mind.  Seeing a bus yesterday put Frankie Smith's tune, "Double Dutch Bus," in my mind.  KMJM played it a lot when it was released in 1981.  I don't hear it on the radio these days, but its beat and nonsensical rhymes aren't forgotten easily.  "Bip, bomp, bam, alakazam" is just one phrase from the tune that now seems permanently lodged in my mind.  I'll just have to accept that when I'm trying to recall a name or phone number, that phrase or another comparably goofy one from "Double Dutch Bus" might come up instead.