A song which apparently got stuck in my head almost 50 years ago suddenly decided it needs my attention –
My head is spending most of the day bouncing around between several instrumental sections of this 12+ minute song, but it mostly wants to keep playing back John Petrucci’s amazing guitar solo around 6 minutes in.
Wow that brings back some memories.
I overheard this while I was waiting for my morning smoothie. Sorry, but if I have to suffer, then so do you.
That’s high on my list of Songs I Never Need To Hear Again, along with Piano Man, Drift Away, and Old Time Rock ’ 'n Roll.
Some 8 years prior, Steve Martin did a similar musical scene in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, oddly a BeeGees movie. (It was strange enough that I quite enjoyed it the first and so far only time I saw it.)
(… Now I’ve got the whole Sgt Pepper’s movie medley stuck in my head, along with that dentist song.)
The part of my brain that is always going to be 14 years old is insisting that I sing “Walking Down Canal Street” but gdsob I can’t sing this in front of my kids to get it out!
But I put it in there on purpose. No harm, no foul.
Why I like songs which romanticize childhood when I myself don’t do that…? I dunno’. Does everything have to make sense?
This song was a staple on our “Top 8 at 8 countdown” during junior high. That signature “squeak” noise at the end of the chorus is so unique, and sampled by hip hop artists for many tracks. Love this song!