I'm sure that you have seen the mop commercials on TV where a woman ditches her old sponge mop for a newfangled, cleaner-squirting one. The old sponge mop invariably shows up sneaking behind a delivery man or peeking stalkerishly in a window and they play that Hall & Oats song. You know the one. Jack loooooves this commercial. He loves to sing "Baby come back!" and does it at every appropriate moment. If the dog hops down off of the couch, Jack will yell it. If his shoe falls off while he's running, he will yell it. Sometimes he just sings it over and over while he runs around in circles.
This brings back fond memories of my first favorite song, "Gloria" by Laura Branigan. My Mom would blast the radio for me everytime it came on. I never knew all (or even many) of the lyrics, but yelling "Gloria!" over and over was so much fun...and that awesome synthesizer! One line is "I think they've got the alias that you've been livin' under" and I thought that it was (this was during the height of E.T.'s popularity) "I think they got to Elliot! Can you hear the thunder?!"
Perhaps the reason that kids latch on to particular songs is because they recognize something famliar sounding in the lyrics. They're learning so much and trying so hard to be good listeners, they really do make terrific music critics. I mean, who hasn't continued to sing, "BABY COME BACK!" even after that commercial is over?
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I was looing at this again and realized that Baby Come Back was not by Hall & Oats but by Player.
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