A Stuck Song Story

[kaasirpent]

This is how overactive my pattern-matcher is when "searching" for songs to get stuck in my mind.

I was driving in to work this morning and listening to a podcast (The Astronomy Cast — it's very good and you should be listening!) on which they were talking about the different kinds of solar eclipses. When Pamela said "total" my brain coughed up

(Da-doo)
I was walkin' in the wholesale flower district that day
(Shoop da-doo)
and I passed by this place where this old Chinese man
(Chang da-doo)
he sometimes sells me weird and exotic cuttings,
(Snip da-doo)
'cause he knows, you see, that strange plants are my hobby.
(Da da da da da da-doo)

He didn't have anything unusual there that day.
(Nope, da-doo)
so I was just about to, ya know, walk on by,
(Good for you)
when suddenly,
(Da doo)
and without warning, there was this total eclipse of the sun.
(To-Total Eclipse of the Sun!)

It got very dark and there was this strange
sound like something from another world.
(Da-doo)
And when the light came back this weird plant was just sitting there,
(whoop-see-doo)
just, you know, stuck in, among the zinnias.
(Audrey Two)
I coulda sworn it hadn't been there before,
but the old Chinese man sold it to me anyways,
for a dollar ninety-five.
(Sha la la, la la la, la la la loo)

("Da-Doo" from the musical Little Shop of Horrors). Complete with Rick Moranis doing the spoken part, but mostly the part I have in bold.

Pamela then continued her sentence and mentioned annular eclipses. Immediately, I heard

Who wants to bu-u-uy this diamond ri-i-i-ing?
She took it off her finger, now it doesn't mean a thi-i-i-ng
This diamond ring doesn't shine for me anymore
And this diamond ring doesn't mean what it meant before
So if you've got someone whose love is tru-u-ue
Let it shine for yo-ou-ou

(Gary Lewis and the Playboy's "This Diamond Ring")

Why "This Diamond Ring"? Well, it has nothing to do with an annular eclipse (tell my brain that). During a total eclipse, however, there is an effect called "The Diamond Ring Effect" that happens either just before or just after (or both) totality:



So there you have further proof that I need help. :)