Sometimes, the most unlikely confluence of events triggers an earworm. While listening to Marc Maron's podcast interview with "Saturday Night Live"'s Laraine Newman this afternoon, I was sifting through paper products. I set two green envelopes from the electric company aside to recycle just as Newman told Maron that her sister, Tracy Ann Newman, had been a member of The New Christy Minstrels.
As I put the green envelopes into the recycling bag, the 1963 New Christy Minstrels hit, "Green, Green," started playing on a mental loop and hasn't left my mind since then.
If you're going to have a melody stuck in your mind, that's a fun one. I remember playing it on WEW occasionally and understanding why the public connected with the hook. I also thought it would probably work well as an accordion instrumental. That's something you can't say about just any pop hit.
