Yet Another Stuck Song Medley (a repeater!)

[kaasirpent]

I've had this one many, many times before, so there must be some compelling reason that the two songs connect in my head:

• Lou Rawls' "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine"
• The Bee Gees "How Deep Is Your Love?"

Here's how it goes in my head:

[35 second musical intro]
You'll never find [piano imitates], as long as you live [piano imitates]
Someone who loves you [piano: doo de dooo] tender like I do [piano: dee doo]
You'll never find [piano imitates], no matter where you search [piano imitates]
Someone who cares about you [piano: doo] the way I do

Whoa, I'm not braggin' on myself, baby [piano crescendo + background singers going aaaah-aaaah simultaneously]
But I'm the one who loves you
And there's no one else [piano and Lou emphatically stacatto on "no one else" then a brief rest]

How deep is your love? (how deep is your love?)
I really need to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me...

And at this point, it kinda just fades into a weird combination of the music from both songs. This one has been with me for months, at least, if not years. Every time either of the songs gets stuck in my head (both are on my iPod), I always end up with them both, and always joined in the way you see above. The line that comes before the Bee Gee's part above is "And it's me you need to show"...and it kind of has a similar "feel" as "And there's no one else"...because they both climb in tone¹...and the way "need to show" and "no one else" are kind of an emphatic musical triplets...and both sort of end on a similar tone...with a rest right after them....

*sigh* Am I the only person who gets these? I wonder, sometimes.

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1  There's a term for this, I know. But Music Appreciation was many, many years ago, and all I remember...is that there is a term for this. :) For instance, the opening line of "Joy To the World" is the reverse of this: a musical phrase that decreases in tone (there is a general lowering of tone over the course of the phrase; the first note is higher than the last). Whereas the second line ("...Let Earth receive her King") and "Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?" both increase in tone. Damn my spotty memory. Any musicalologists out there who might know the damned term I'm trying to come up with?

Comments

[kiteflier98.livejournal.com]

OMG I've been singing the same Lou Rawls tune today, too! You must have some strong mo-jo, dude!

[kaasirpent]

It's one of my favorite songs, and from my rather limited point of view, the only song he ever sang. :)

[kiteflier98.livejournal.com]

You're gonna miss my lovin'... You're gonna miss my lovin'...

Sheez, Mom used to sing his stuff when I was a girl even. Cute memories there.

[buckeyebrain.livejournal.com]

My head always melds the end of the 'ABC's Wide World of Sports' theme with the Olympic Fanfare.

[kaasirpent]

....aaaaaaand so does mine. Now. :)

[oxlahun.livejournal.com]

This has been making the rounds the past couple days. I think it's more bizarre than any of the song combinations you've come up with. And yet, somehow, it still sorta works.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I have had a spate of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 1-2-8 with The Aquabat's Pizza Day in my head. I suspect its happening to more of us these days, hence the mashup craze.

If you've never heard Dr. Who on Holiday from American Edit (in this case, The Timelords' Doctorin' the Tardis and Holiday by Green Day), it does the same thing that my brain does, but much better.