Great opening lines.

[Mibbes Aye]

I listened to a wonderful programme by the inestimable Tom Service on BBC Radio 3 pre-lockdown.

It was all about how we react to music aurally. He didn’t introduce it as such, he just played four intros and one was the intro to ‘California Dreamin’’ by the Mamas and the Papas.

When he did start talking he said it was human nature for most of us to sing along to the chorals that back up the soloes or leads.

So Mama or John Cass starts and sings ‘All the leaves are brown’, but instinctively you follow the backing singers and sing ‘All the leaves are brown’ etc just some notes behind Mama’s or John’s lead, along with the backing singers, rather than the main vocal part. It is compulsive.

I can’t remember the other pieces but it was true of them as well. Some were classical, maybe Bach, I can’t remember. It was absolutely fascinating and well worth digging up on BBC iPlayer if you can.

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I listened to a wonderful programme by the inestimable Tom Service on BBC Radio 3 pre-lockdown.

It was all about how we react to music aurally. He didn’t introduce it as such, he just played four intros and one was the intro to ‘California Dreamin’’ by the Mamas and the Papas.

When he did start talking he said it was human nature for most of us to sing along to the chorals that back up the soloes or leads.

So Mama or John Cass starts and sings ‘All the leaves are brown’, but instinctively you follow the backing singers and sing ‘All the leaves are brown’ etc just some notes behind Mama’s or John’s lead, along with the backing singers, rather than the main vocal part. It is compulsive.

I can’t remember the other pieces but it was true of them as well. Some were classical, maybe Bach, I can’t remember. It was absolutely fascinating and well worth digging up on BBC iPlayer if you can.

Just to save folk the bother, this is what I was referring to.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk

[Mibbes Aye]

Well I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand

[Mibbes Aye]

I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and the heir of nothing in particular.

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I got a man that tries to run me
That’s the way to make me run away

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I know that I've imagined love before. And how it could be with you
Really hurt me, baby, really cut me, baby
How can you have a day without a night?
You're the book that I have opened
And now I've got to know much more

[Mibbes Aye]

There is a house in New Orleans........

The curse of sleeplessness, I could be here for a while