My high school friends could tell you (if I still spoke to them) that I had Feliz Navidad in my head for years -- Years!
I think the original was "Fat Guy in a Little Coat" But fat man with a little jacket works too.
Also, are you talking about Suzanne Vega's song Tom's Diner? Uncle Tom's Diner reminds me of that Jeopardy category Before and After.
Derogatory term meets popular earworm song:
"What is Uncle Tom's Diner?!"
Oh man, I can't believe I was calling it Uncle Tom's Diner!! I am going to go in and edit it right now. But I will give points to the person who reads the comments and can answer your Jeapardy question. Speaking of music that gets trapped in your head, I imagine I will now be humming the Jeapardy theme all day. Thanks pal.
Heh. Funny, I thought it was "fat man in a little suit," but Amy would be the expert, I think. Oh god, I remember laughing at that so hard, and now I'm doing the dance in my head.
P.S. I think this is from "Tommy Boy," not "Black Sheep" -- just to get that important fact straight.
Now I have a suspicion that it was YOU who planted that song in my brain, J! If Amy's right and you and I have the wrong version, and I've never seen the movie, well...
Mark and I think that the "fat man little jacket" version is much more melodius. DOn't you agree?
The fact that you combined Uncle Tom's Cabin with Tom's Diner is sending me into uncontrollable fits of laughter here at the office.
This happens to me all the time with music (most recently with Brian Eno's Needle in the Camel's Eye). I will wake up in the morning and it will be the ONLY thing in my head and there's no way to get it out except to listen to the song until its dead (I mean play it about sixty three times in two days). It's slightly tragic in some cases ('cause it sucks to kill a song), but it's either them or me. I know a woman who suffered a stroke and now can only say the word 'water'. I'm fairly certain the same thing will happen to me but the only thing I'll be able to do is halfway hum the theme to the 'A-Team'.
(By the way it is 'fat man in a little coat' and it's from Tommy Boy)
Aha. Mystery solved.
Mystery solved, indeed.
If I should only be so lucky to have Needle in the Camel's Eye stuck in my head. (but, as I'm sure Mike would attest, it's preferable to Rick James' Superfreak)
I've never told anyone before, but when I'm sitting at my computer stricken with writer's block, I end up with "Gone Again" by Patti Smith stuck in my frontal lobe. I wouldn't expect anyone to know the song - it's definitely NOT one of her classics (it's more recent). Also, it's not a very good song.
I guess that doesn't bode well for my writing career.
Yes, it's from Tommy Boy but I am fairly positive it's Fat GUY in a Little Coat. Sorry, Mike.
Oh yeah, you're right. I'm amazed that there are so many subtle variations on the same beautiful idea. A man of large girth puts on the small sports jacket of his weasel-y snark of a roadtrip companion (is David Spade not the perfect voice over actor for an animated tapeworm?) and sings a little song about it.
And thanks for the reminder on 'SuperFreak', Peter--I can only hope my clock radio will rouse me for work with that little ditty in the near-future and the whole terrible experience (I refer to in my diary as 12 days of Freakin' Misery) will repeat itself.
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