Monday morning’s earworm №45
Morning Dance by Spyro Gyra
What is an earworm?
It’s a snatch or a snippet, a captured fragment, a line or two, or maybe a bit more, that stays in your head and keeps bubbling up accompanying your day.
It’s part of the language of your landscape that stays in your mind, whether it’s one single line, a couplet or maybe a whole verse, from a poem or song, or a part of a speech from a play, or a quote from a book, or something you heard somebody say, that won’t let you go.
Sometimes it won’t involve what we call language in the everyday. It could be purely a musical phrase that plays on your time, on a loop that follows you through day and night.
That’s what an earworm is. And so is this…
Morning Dance by Spyro Gyra
Released 21 July 1979. UK chart peak 17
Sound of the Soulboys
From memory, I was never knowably familiar with the music of Spyro Gyra at the time. But in September of 1979, I‘d start a college course where one of my future pals, Bob, would be what was called at the time a Soulboy.
Wikipedia describes the Soulboys as a working-class English youth sub-culture of the late 70s and early 80s. The…
