Holy shit I’ve been looking for this for absolutely ages!
I would keep randomly coming across this tune, mainly by being near TVs, having it be my earworm for the day, and then miserably failing every time to get hold of a single clip long enough to effectively run through Shazam. I even wrote onERT on TWitter asking them to divulge their secrets, only to be completely ignored. Until I finally managed to scratch that itch today!
Once upon a time, people would have unresolved earworms and no way of identifying them, reproducing them and finding ways to relieve themselves, save humming and/or singing the words, describing the song, praying and hoping.
I suppose living in a world with public access to a great deal of the collected factual knowledge of our species, where it’s easy to find and listen to a song stuck in your head, as opposed to not, may be one of those relatively few things which is unequivocally good.
How impossible would this concept be to grasp, from start to finish, for a person living just 150 years ago, where no sound had ever been recorded yet and no music had ever been played, save from live musicians playing on real instruments.
For good measure: