You're funny!

I do start humming, "I found my thrill.." when I look at my Blueberry Hill bush, but I'm keeping it anyway. (Hope the neighbors aren't annoyed!)

"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" every time I see Marmalade Skies! IF I find room I want to plant it next to "Yellow Submarine".

Okay...so now you got me doing it. And I am a little scared. LOL

We all live in a yellow submarine, what a yellow submarine... (in elemantary school we put in 'what' before the next yellow submarine) :)

ugh shouldn't have done that now I have that stuck in my head.. thanks colorific...:)

Lol, I do this all the time! And not just with roses either. Give me a word and more than likely I'll come up with a song.

My favorite rose song is Ricky Nelson's "I went to a Garden Party"!

Well, rust, mildew, anthracnose, canker, gall, and black spot make me think of "Man of Constant Sorrow". ;^)

Here is a link that might be useful: The Soggy Bottom Boys

How fun!

I bought a few new roses today and one is called "Fandango" so all day Bohemian Rhapsody has been running through my head, " Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?"

:)
Andrea

Climbing Peace. "All We Are Saying Is Give(Climbing)Peace a Chance".

I gave Cl. Peace plenty of chances, 6 years worth to be exact, and it never gave me a single bloom! Now it's "bye bye, farewell, so long"!

OMG. Oklahoma does it every time! I only know the first line but it still haunts me.

Hoovb: Good post. I have seen that movie about 5 times. And I laugh every time. Thanks for the humor!

Not until I read this thread. I collected pollen from the rose and all afternoon I've had "Open Arms" running in an endless loop all because of this thread! LOL! Kim

Here is a link that might be useful: Open Arms

Another one for 'Oklahoma'! The whole song. Gets me moving.

When all the roses are blooming and the fragrance fills the yard and the roses have drops of dew on them----

An old hymn fills my heart and head----"In the garden "

"I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses"

My other favorite is----"A garden in the rain"--the words to this song are beautiful.
A Garden In The Rain
'Twas just a garden in the rain,
close to a little leafy lane
a touch of colour 'neath skies of gray!
The raindrops kissed the flower beds
the blossoms raised their thirsty heads
a perfumed thank you they seem to say!
Surely here was charm beyond compare to view
maybe it was just that I was there
with you!
'Twas just a garden in the rain,
but then the sun came out again
and sent us happily on our way!
Surely here was charm beyond compare to view
but, maybe it was just that you were there dear,
you were so lovely!
'Twas just a garden in the rain,
but then the sun came out again
and sent us happily on our way!
Just a garden in the rain!

Florence

OOOOOPs------I just noticed the word stupid in the title---

these two songs I posted are favorites of mine----

sorry ---Iwill try to think of the stupid ones----LOL

Florence

Uh-oh, we are all a bad influence on each other! I realized I have Yellow Submarine, Garden Party, and Oklahoma, and now they're on the "danger" list too! At least I like those songs, and hopefully you like Open Arms too, Kim (sorry 'bout triggering that tape loop in your head!).

I'm with Kathy that I only know the first line of Oklahoma, and that makes the song all the more wicked since the tape loop is very short: "Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain...dah dah da da dum, de whatsit dum dummy dum, maybe something about rain" My twisted mind is likely to make up new words since I do know the tune: "...where the rose smells sweet, and on my feet are some weeds and irritating BUGGGGGs!" A very dangerous thing, in my opinion...

And Florence, by no means would you need to apologize by reminding us of lovely songs to accompany ourselves in the garden! We're all about creating beauty in our little corner of the world, so musical beauty is part of the package, even if it's all in our heads. I'll join you in suggesting some additional NICE songs that my roses also trigger for me, that I go and prune on purpose so they'll counteract the dreadful ones:
America or Yankee Doodle, Full (i.e. Bad) Moon Rising, Blue Bayou (complete with hip shimmy when no one's looking), Sixteen Candles, Blue Skies, Heart 'n' Soul, Careless Love and Wild Rover (being a folk music fan), Stars 'n Stripes Forever or In the Mood (all the better because there are no words to get in the way), Mocking Bird, Georgie Girl, Route 66, Little Darling, and I admit to liking Mamma Mia (but not a big fan of Imagine, as a song).

And the winner? I'd have to say my all-time favorite rose song and movie to get stuck in my head is Singin in the Rain! Oh, the puddle splashing potential of that one - I'll even do that in the front yard where people can see (not that my neighbors would consider much I do in the garden strange any more).

On the whole, I'd have to say rose hybridizers come out on top in picking good songs for their roses. One more sign of our collective good taste, obviously (smile).

Keep 'em coming - it's now deadheading season so I need something to keep me revved up while making the rounds of 700+ roses!

Cynthia

Nippstress, I'd totally buy "Night Fever" too lol.

Jessica, wish my nursery school taught us The Beatles!

Some hits from the 60's, 70's & 80's. I don't have these but they all belong in a bed with Dick Clark to keep them in line, Wish they'd make a Casey Kasem to keep them company too...

Fame!- Remember my name
Footloose
(Goodbye) Yellow Brick Road
Walking On Sunshine
Abracadabra
Heartbreaker
Brandy
Eternal Flame
Hotel California
Ever"Lasting Love"

Cynthia---
Singing in the rain---is one of my all time favorite movies and the song just makes me want to dance and I'm not a dancer----.
This is a great post
Florence

It's not a song, but every time I see Julia Child I hear her trilling instructions about how to truss a chicken. Not in the garden, Julia, not in the garden.

Luv, luv, luv this thread ~ many of the songs took me back to my kids' era!!!
Keep humming ladies & gentlemen!!!

Why did I have to read this thread. Now I have "singing in the rain" going in an infinite loop in my head.I used to (well, still do) wonder if I'm a little more "touched" than whatever is "normal" - as it can be days and days before I can get rid of looping head songs. And now, I'm singing in the rain..., I'm singing in the RAIN!!! At least it's a happy tune with a pleasant video image, not backed by a video of some guy grabbing places that shouldn't be grabbed in public! (Of course I had to find a youtube video of Gene Kelly ... ahhhhhhhh....)

Peace could bring on the entire John and Yoko box set.

Then Secret brings a few too. Was it Herman's Hermits who sang "Listen, Do You Want To Know A Secret"? Try getting that out of your head.

When I am pulling out the invasive bamboo that crawls into my rose beds from the slobby neighbors, I get an old Girl Scout camp song stuck in my head, the one about the "Princess Pat." In my version, "a rig a'bamboo" gets replaced by "that friggin' bamboo."

I was just out in my garden admiring my big striped periwinkle clematis, with the fuzzy centers, known as "Mr President"
.... I can't look at it without hearing a breathless Marilyn Monroe sigh it's name in her birthday tribute to President Kennedy ... (Happy Birthday... Mr. Prezzz - iiii- dent....) It's a voluptuous bloom for sure.

Among the more inane things I do upon seeing certain roses, is to utter particular words or phrases -- some of which happen to be song lyrics. There are three of the roses linked below planted next to my compost bin. Every single time I visit that distant part of the garden and see her ever-present and always cheerful blooms, I spontaneously greet her by saying, "Well, coo coo ca-choo to you!" A somewhat wacky lyric fragment from a really terrific song . . . The gardener's compulsive utterances, however, probably qualify as being stupid.

Here is a link that might be useful: Apologies to Simon & Garfunkel

Wedding Cake rose...Goin' to the chapel and we're
Gonna get married, Goin' to the chapel and we're
Gonna get married. That's the only line I know and it stays in my head while I'm out there dead heading.

Kasie