Stuck In My Head

Did you ever have a song stuck in your head? It happens to me frequently, though rarely for very long. Today, for example, I had two songs fighting for headspace: The Who's "Baba O'Reilly", and "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart" as sung by Peggy Lee with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. I can't imagine two more different pieces of music, but the brain is a complex engine. I kept bouncing back and forth between the two, consciously thinking of the other as I got to the end of the first. Steely Dan became one of my favorites while in high school -- the time when that band was as it's peak.

I was never a big fan of The Who, but a couple of their songs stick with me. My brothers listened to The Who a lot when I was little; the Tommy album(s) got a LOT of play around our house: so did Neil Young, the Beatles, pre-Cetera Chicago, and the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack. I owe a lot of my appreciation for music to my family: my dad was a fan of the Big Band sound, and he was particularly fond of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. I developed a taste for...

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