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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">during the thousands of gigs he has played at he usually doesn't look out in the audience seeing people humming melody lines.
THey are mouthing and singing every word.</font>


Funny, I hear people humming and whistling all the time in all sorts of places, but I seldom run into anyone who knows more than a few catch phrases or chorus from songs they've heard literally hundreds of times.

Quick, sing through two full verses of "My Favorite Things" or "Moon River".

Bet you can hum your way through them, though.

And I've yet to walk into a supermarket or elevator and hear Lyrak.

As the inimitable team of McCartney/Lennon once said (for more than five minutes) in their most successful pop hit:

Nahhhhhh, nahhh-nahhh, nah-nah-nah-nah... nah-nah-nah-nah...

(It's kinda funny that people are debating the importance of lyrics in a thread where everyone agrees that a hit song on the charts for more than half a year has lyrics that wouldn't pass muster on any internet song board. Like Brian said, in so many words: what does that tell you, folks?)

[This message has been edited by RobertK (edited 10-06-2004).]