I was talking to Jimmy, the tanker yanker — the guy who hauls cement for us — and somehow described something he said as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Well, that was a bad move on my part. My sisters had the Mary Poppins sound track album when I was a kid, and a cheap record player, and that was about the only album we had . . . so it got played constantly.
And now that song keeps running through my head, so I’ll inflict it on share it with you!
Oh, I’m there. I was a Mary Poppins junkie when I was…how old was I…(?)…I don’t know. I was little and entranced by Mary Poppins and also My Fair Lady. I sang tthe songs, of those musicals, all the time….er…often! She’ll live in my heart forever. I sang The Hills are Alive by myself with all my heart, by my lonesome, many a time.
Ha, also The Sound of Music too…sigh!
Mary Poppins came out in 1964; I was 11 and my sisters were 7 and 6. I’m not sure if they saw the movie and got the album the year it came out, but I do remember it being played over and over in the house in which we lived before mom bought her house in 1967.
I never say Mary Poppins myself, until Isaw bits of it on TV in the past few years. I’ve seen The Sound of Music as an adult, several years ago.
That often happens to me. It’s quite nerve-racking. There’s a name for it: ear worm.
I’ll be damned if I’m gonna click on that video! The last thing I need is to have that stupid song playing over & over in my head. It’s bad enough at Christmas when you’d hear the loathsome The Little Drummer Boy and it would get stuck in your head until you wanted to shoot the little bastard with an elephant gun!
But, Eric, there’s going to be a quiz, and you have to know how to spell and pronounce it perfectly.
Yeah, it was forever playing in my head, but I loved her and the movies she was in. I was eleven too at the time, if it was 64 that it came out. Thanks, Dana, for bringing us back to our childhood, if only for a few moments.