I find that songs have an odd way of working themselves into my consciousness. Sure, everyone has the experience of hearing a song and getting it stuck in your head for hours, days, weeks…

But what about those times when you didn’t even hear the song?

The other morning, while getting ready for work, I found myself singing “Fresh.” Kool and the Gang.

I know I have not heard this song at any time in the recent past.

And then I remember…it started when I was making my sandwich for lunch. I opened a brand new loaf of very fresh bread. I thought “I love fresh bread.”

And there you go.

A while back, I had bought some hair gel from the Loreal studio line for straight hair. It was called (go on, guess…)

Straight Up.

It took me weeks to figure out why I was walking around singing “Do do ya love me” in the morning.

More recently, I bought some of those Brilliant Brunette hair products. Somehow, this morphed into Bruce Springsteen’s “Brilliant Disguise.”

And don’t even get me started on Venus…