Last night after I came home from a run, I sat down at the computer and was trying to get back to normal, when my wife asked if I had watched the new parody video from Weird Al “Word Crimes”yet. I said that I hadn’t, she made me come out and watch the video.
The Innocent Brginning……..
The video is very funny and probably funnier if you know the Robin Thicke song, which I don’t and never will, because I can not stand Robin Thicke.
Shortly after that, my wife said, she now had the song stuck in her head. That set my mind to wondering about songs that get stuck in my head. The one that popped up was Gale Garnett’s “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine”. So I went to Youtube to find a video of the song, which I did, from the 1964 Grammy Awards, but I didn’t like the video so I didn’t post it. But if you want you can watch it here.
The Rabbit Hole Opens – No Stay Away From The Sidebar………
After I watched enough of the Gale Garnett video, I began watching some of the videos on the sidebar, which somehow lead me to Suzy Boggess and Jerry Jeff Walker performing “Night Rider’s Lament” a song that they both had recorded and since I love JJW’s version of the song I watched the video….Suzy said that the tough part of the song is the yodeling, which she had to learn to do.
Down The Yodeling Rabbit Hole
I thought she did great, you can watch that video here. My mind was still restless though and was soon thinking about other songs that feature yodeling that I like, the first and maybe only song that came to mind was Slaid Cleaves’ tribute song to Don Walser “God’s Own Yodeller”. Here’s Slaid performing the song
Down and Down I Go…..
Not one to leave well enough alone, I had to wander on and find an original Don Walser tune, so that I could hear God’s own Yodeller! Here’s Don with “A Rolling Stone from Texas
Landing in the 1950s
Now this morning as my mind continued to think about yodeling, as I prepared finhish this post since i often often dressed like this back in the 1950s……
Listening to Roy Rogrers………
My thoughts turned to singing cowboys, and probably the best, Roy Rogers. I found this video using The Cowboy Herd Song….
Happy Trials to Me!
So which one do you like best, or asking another way which do you hate least? No,I shouldn’t have stayed with Gale Garnett because then all day I’d hear…..”We’ll sing in the sunshine, we’ll laugh everyday, we’ll sing in the sunshine then I’ll be on my way” Damn now it’s there…….
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2026 Update:
AActually, the song that used to get stuck in my head more than any other was Dionne Warwick’s “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”
No! No! Get out of my head!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m suddenly hearing…
“We’ll sing in the sunshine, we’ll laugh every day…”