how do you solve this problem?

Byline: | Category: Uncategorized | Posted at: Tuesday, 28 February 2006

For the last two days, my daughter has been singing "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" from the musical The Sound of Music.  Apparently she has to sing this song at a school event. 

So how do I solve the problem of having this annoying song stuck in my head as I’m about to go off to work?

Share this post:
Email

8 Responses to “how do you solve this problem?”

  1. brittney Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 9:47 am

    Try listening to the original all the way through. Sometimes works for me.

  2. SayUncle Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 10:03 am

    The only thing that works for me is replacing it with one I like. Hum a few bars of the Captain & Tenille’s Love will keep us together.

    You’re welcome ;)

  3. AlphaPatriot Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 10:11 am

    It is utterly impossible to get the theme from Gilligan’s Island stuck in your head. Singing it to yourself a couple of times will knock out the other song and quietly go away. Your head will be song free. Works for me every time.

  4. Blake Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 10:19 am

    Or just start singing “the song that never ends.”

    Then…well…at least it won’t be the Sound of Music song.

  5. jag Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 10:27 am

    If I can’t fix it, I can commiserate. I was stage manager for the Sound of Music last summer and my goddaughter is still obsessed with it. We listen to the soundtrack constantly. I find myself doing the choreography as the voices in my head harmonize on Do Re Mi.

    Three Dog Night’s “One Is The Loneliest Number” usually is pretty effective in erasing other songs from your noggin, but then it gets stuck there for days. Good luck to you.

  6. mks Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 1:40 pm

    “The itsy, bitsy spider climbed up the water spout…”

  7. Donna Locke Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 9:07 pm

    I don’t know, but I have had two songs stuck in my head since the late Sixties, and they surface at odd moments.

  8. mike hollihan Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    My Catholic school did a stage version of Sound of Music and my third grade class had “Do Re Mi.” That was more than thirty years ago. I still find myself singing that song at odd moments. :-)

    It could be worse. She could love Gilbert & Sullivan! Or you could torture her by introducing her to Stephen Sondheim.