I woke up this morning with an earworm. Not your normal earworm. Mine was a 1920s earworm. It was a song my mother sang often and for once, she actually got the words right. Ask any member of my family and they will assure you: my mother never ever remembered the words to any song — except this one. She would sing words from other songs to whatever melody was bouncing around in her head.
So I get up this morning and this is what I’m hearing, but without the scratches:
And by golly, the words I had in my head were dead on. Next, the obvious question arises:
How did Google get its name? – Mobilis In Mobile
Barney Google – The History
But will you ever feel the same way about Google again? I bet you won’t! And it all began with an early morning earworm!
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Categories: Cartoons, Humor, lyrics, Marilyn Armstrong, Music
holy god in heaven, I remember hearing that song!
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Is that the one where he keeps “googling along”?
Leslie
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Honestly, I don’t’ know. This really WAS before my time.
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I seem to remember … Barney Google, just keeps googling along …
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There were a fair number of Barney Google songs. That was just one. I think there were more and I’m pretty sure there were also more verses. You could look them up. I was just so happy to get that earworm out of my head.
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Bigfoot style… I never knew there was any kind of a name for strips like that. You found an earworm, and I learned something about comic strip history…
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It’s a terrible earworm … but i didn’t know that was a comic drawing style either. So we both learned something new.
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I know that song, one of my dad’s repertoire. I also sort of grew up with it. Oh Marilyn, there are not many of us left today, but such memories are wonderful. I can hear my dad singing it now.
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And my mother. I think my mother sang or hummed ALL the time. I know a ton of songs from WW2 and even WW1 because she sang them. There aren’t many of us who remember. Even Garry had forgotten this one!
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And now it’s running through my head 🙂
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Listen to something else. It’s a terrible earworm.
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Marilyn, what an interesting story, you are a real sleuth, hope your enjoying good health, amen
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I just woke up with that song running through my head. I just had to look it up. I vaguely remembered it as a cartoon, but that was all.
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Interesting. Shame Google didn’t keep the font.
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I think they should have kept Barney, too 🙂
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Agreed 🙂
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