{"id":586,"date":"2009-05-13T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2009\/05\/be-gone-ear-worm-the-angel-cried.html"},"modified":"2009-05-13T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T07:03:00","slug":"be-gone-ear-worm-the-angel-cried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2009\/05\/be-gone-ear-worm-the-angel-cried.html","title":{"rendered":"“Be Gone, Ear Worm!” the angel cried."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>I<\/span> said, \u201cWhere should I begin?\u201d<\/p>\n

The psychiatrist said, \u201cAt the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cLook, this is costing me a lot of money for this session \u2014 do me a favor \u2014 don\u2019t state the obvious. Say something a little more sophisticated, please.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFr Joseph,\u201d he replied, \u201cI am not here to take your money and run \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGo on! Take the money and run \u2026 whoo oo \u2026<\/em> (#11 hit for Steve Miller Band, 1975).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh,\u201d he said, \u201cI see \u2013 you want to play. Okay fine \u2026 let\u2019s play a little word association. I say a word or phrase and you tell me the first thing that pops into your head. Use your imagination \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just my \u2018magination, once again \u2026 runnin\u2019 \u2013<\/em> (The Temptations, #1, 1971).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAh yes \u2026 that\u2019s fine. Now \u2026 according to your file you were born in the 60s \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLate December, back in \u201963 \u2013 what a very special time for me \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBut you weren\u2019t born in 1963 \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, but you told me to say the first thing that popped into my head \u2026 December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)<\/em> was a hit single by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons \u2014 on the group\u2019s 1975 album Who Loves You<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho loves you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love you, you love me, we\u2019re a happy family \u2026<\/em> (Barney the Dinosaur, popular earworm of the 90s). Doc, listen, let me give you a bit of background \u2026<\/p>\n

My friend Steve and I used to be fanatical about keeping track of Casey Kasem\u2019s American Top-40, back in the 70s. Steve\u2019s family was not real churchy; I mean, well, they never went to church, which worked out good for our weekly project. Because, by the time I got home from church much of the show had already passed.<\/p>\n

Steve would write down the position, song title, and artist beginning with number 40 and working his way up to \u2026 oh, whenever I called him to tell him I was home, at which time I would take the task and log the songs from about #18 up to number one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI see,\u201d he said \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI can see clearly now, the rain has gone \u2026<\/em> (Johnny Nash, #1, 1972).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cIt just popped into my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t follow you \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFollow me and I\u2019ll follow you \u2026<\/em> (Phil Collins & Genesis, 1978, only got to #23). Anyway! My great bane and blessing is that I can usually tell you the title, chart position, players and writers of any song that made the charts from, oh<\/em>, 1973 thru 1989,\u201d I blurted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened in the 90s?\u201d<\/p>\n

The 90s? Musically? Other than the Barney Theme Song? Nothing \u2026<\/p>\n

The Orthodixie Podcast<\/strong> on Ancient Faith Radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This is a rebroadcast from last year. BUT<\/strong>, it has been fabulously enhanced \u2014 as in, I sing a lot less \u2014 by my producer, Ron Smith. Give it a listen!<\/em><\/p>\n

Also \u2014 <\/span><\/em>here\u2019s the link to a note from Doctor Earworm himself<\/span><\/em><\/a> with a correction.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I said, \u201cWhere should I begin?\u201d The psychiatrist said, \u201cAt the beginning.\u201d I said, \u201cLook, this is costing me a lot of money for this session \u2014 do me a favor \u2014 don\u2019t state the obvious. Say something a little more sophisticated, please.\u201d \u201cFr Joseph,\u201d he replied, \u201cI am not here to take your money […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n"Be Gone, Ear Worm!" the angel cried.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I said, \u201cWhere should I begin?\u201dThe psychiatrist said, \u201cAt the beginning.\u201dI said, \u201cLook, this is costing me a lot of money for this session -- do me a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2009\/05\/be-gone-ear-worm-the-angel-cried.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Be Gone, Ear Worm!" the angel cried.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I said, \u201cWhere should I begin?\u201dThe psychiatrist said, \u201cAt the beginning.\u201dI said, \u201cLook, this is costing me a lot of money for this session -- do me a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2009\/05\/be-gone-ear-worm-the-angel-cried.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orthodixie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-13T07:03:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/files\/blogger\/_iTncioBQZNk\/SgrBCOfUQeI\/AAAAAAAACuo\/bSzQmGhIgDo\/s400\/earworm.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fr. 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