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Music For Music For

Our Souls Our Souls

The Earworm Society (newly created by yours truly) is a forum to talk about all the music we love and the songs that we carry in our heads. Why do we do this? Because Earworm Songs evoke powerful thoughts, messages, inspiration and memories.

An earworm, sometimes referred to as a brainworm, sticky music, stuck song syndrome, or, most commonly after earworms, Involuntary Musical Imagery, is a catchy or memorable piece of music that continuously occupies a person’s mind even after it is no longer being played.

Have you ever had a meaningful song that gets stuck in your brain? I posed this question to the owners of the local Vinyl Record stores and this is the response I got.

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CHRISTOPHER BENVIE - OWNER OF BAD OBSESSION RECORDS, SAVANNAH

“I’ve had to think a little bit about what song is considered “currently” in my head, given how much music I listen to in a week. Therefore, I defaulted on my favorite song of all time,

which feels the most appropriate to answer your question.

With that being said, the song perpetually stuck in my head is “Dancing in the Moonlight” by Thin Lizzy, specifically the version featured on their Live & Dangerous album, as opposed to the studio recording. Both the song and the album are loaded with memories for me. The very first time I’d ever heard it was when I was about 10 years old, and it was NOT by Thin Lizzy. At the time my uncle was in a band that

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Christopher Benvie Owner, Bad Obsession Records

played a bunch of cover songs at various bars and restaurants.

Live and Dangerous is a live double album by the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, released in June 1978. It was recorded in London in 1976, and Philadelphia and Toronto in 1977, with further production in Paris. It was also the last Thin Lizzy album to feature guitarist Brian Robertson, who left the band shortly after its release.

See, my uncle is my Godfather, he was the best man at my wedding, is whom I consider my best

friend, and for most of my life was my father figure. He was also one of the coolest people in the world to me. In the 1980’s growing up in Boston, he was a member of the band Steel Assassin. In their time, they WERE the Boston metal scene. Bands like Metallica, Anthrax, and Raven, for example, would share the bill with Steel Assassin. They also laid the groundwork for other metal bands from Boston to follow suit. Bands like Wargasm, Meliah Rage, Triphammer, and so on.

As the 90’s came upon us, Steel Assassin had called it quits and my uncle took to playing for fun with some friends and one song they performed happened to be “Dancing in the Moonlight” and my young, feverish musical mind wanted more. There obviously was no such thing as the internet or streaming music at that time, so upon learning who actually sang the song I got a copy of the CD. I played the album in its entirety, but kept repeating that one song, over and over.

My love affair was born.

Since that time, “Dancing in the Moonlight” has been a mainstay in every family event that I

can remember. The years would pass by and not surprisingly, if it wasn’t my uncle hosting a family get together at his house, it would be happening at mine. Both of us share a love of music and that song in particular would always be queued up for the night at some point. It was played at his wedding reception. It was played at my wedding reception.

It was the very first song I played when I opened the doors to Bad Obsession Records.

For me, a song of that magnitude is a living entity. It’s far more than a song.It truly has a life of its own and its meaning consistently shifts and changes with every passing season of my life. What it meant to me as a 10 year old boy hearing it for the first time from a man I look

up to and admire is very different from where I find my interpretation of it today.

The song itself is about courage. Literally in the lyrics it is about having the courage to ask a girl for the last dance, to take her out, to sacrifice being late for curfew and suffering the repercussions of one’s actions, “but it’s a habit worth forming if it means to justify the end.”

As I sit here today, the conversations I’ve had with this song over the years have helped me be brave to ask the girl out. It’s been there when my wife and I were nervous about buying our first house, and more so starting a family. It’s been there to celebrate weddings, homes, and new adventures.

Today, it is still very much a rallying cry of courage for me. Not even a year ago my family decided to pick up our lives in Massachusetts and move down to Savannah. I wanted to follow a dream, despite being terrified of doing so. This song is comforting. We took a leap of faith moving down here with tremendous courage, and I opened up Bad Obsession Records with a childhood dream holding the reins while I worked my way through the process.

I always try to keep a copy of “Live & Dangerous” in stock. I want somebody else to hopefully find the same magic from that album that I’ve found. Even if it’s not that album, maybe they can find that same comfort from “We Are the Champions” by Queen, “Get Up, Stand Up” by Bob Marley or even “Lose Yourself” by Eminem. At their core, the message is the same. Be brave. Have faith in yourself and take chances in life.”

News of the World is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 28 October 1977 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.

“Get Up, Stand Up” is a song written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. It originally appeared on The Wailers’ 1973 album Burnin’.

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights

Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight

Preacher man, don’t tell me

Heaven is under the earth

I know you don’t know

What life is really worth It’s not all that glitters is gold

‘Alf the story has never been told So now you see the light, eh

Stand up for your rights, come on

867-5309/JENNY – TOMMY TUTONE

In the fall of 1981, the Bay Area Band, Tommy Tutone, released a hit single, 867-5309/Jenny from their second album. The song is a catchy power pop nugget that tells the tale of a man seeking to reach “Jenny” a girl whose phone number he found written on the bathroom wall. The singer imagines Jenny as the perfect girl that he can’t wait to meet.

Co-song writer Alex Call explained in a 2004 interview:

“Despite all the mythology to the contrary, I actually just came up with the ‘Jenny,’ and the telephone number and the music and all that just sitting in my backyard. There was no Jenny. I don’t know where the number came from, I was just trying to write a 4-chord Rock song and it just kind of came out. This was back in 1981 when I wrote it, and I had at the time a little squirrel-powered 4-track in this industrial yard in California, and I went up there and made a tape of it. I had the guitar lick, I had the name and number, but I didn’t know what the song was about. This buddy of mine, Jim Keller, who’s the co-writer, was the lead guitar player in Tommy Tutone. He stopped by that afternoon and he said, ‘Al,it’s a girl’s number on a bathroom wall,’ and we had a good laugh. I said, ‘That’s exactly right, that’s exactly what it is.”

“Jenny Jenny you’re the girl for me

Oh, you don’t know me but you make me so happy I tried to call you before but I lost my nerve I tried my imagination but I was disturbed....”

JOSH DUVALL – OWNER, MOJO ISLAND RECORDS

‘I was 10 years old in the Winter/Spring of 1982. During the “spring semester”school year, my mother, who was an elementary school P.E. Instructor at the time, coached the 5th and 6th grade girls basketball team for one of the county elementary schools. Dad and I (I am/was an only child) would always attend the Friday night games at the local middle school and the family would typically end the evening at one of the (few) local eating establishments. One of my favorites was the 41 Drive In, a local diner so named for it being located on HWY 41 going through the middle of town.

One of my most favorite things about the 41 Drive

In wasn’t necessarily the food (which was actually fantastic), but the well stocked jukebox located at the end of the dining room between the last window booth and the end of the diner’s bar. I discovered many songs that burned their melodies and lyrics into my brain from that particular jukebox.

The one song that I ALWAYS remember coming from that magical machine was Tommy Tutone’s “867-5309/ Jenny”. For whatever reason, this tune has always remained as one of, if not, my most favorite song of all time. It always brings a smile to my face whenever I hear that distinctive guitar intro by co-songwriter and Tutone’s lead guitarist Jim Keller. It is for those reasons that “867-5309/Jenny has always been the ultimate earworm for me.”

Buddy Miles - A Message To The People

“Fantastic album from The Electric Flag, Jimi Hendrix Band Of Gypsy’s drummer, vocalist & composer, Buddy Mileshoused in a stunning gatefold sleeve. Great funk-rock sound.”

“When I was a teenager and a young mother, sadly, my best friend, who had given birth to a beautiful baby boy, lost this child after only 5 weeks of him being on this Earth.

Someone we knew came to the house and brought this album. I played the song, “The Way I Feel Tonight” over and over and over again. We all stayed up till dawn with tears in our eyes and sorrow in our hearts. This song expressed all our feelings with the simple line, “my house is filled with pain”.

I have carried this album with me my entire life, and I have lived in several countries, different States in America, and it is the one possession I would reach for if I lost everything else. This song is my ultimate Earworm.”

Elise J. Colson, Publisher

March 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, U.S.— died January 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts), American poet who was much admired for his depictions of the rural life of New England, his command of American colloquial speech, and his realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.

Robert Frost, in full

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