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Well, I'm a bit late on the WELCOME  wagon, but better late than never! Have you been and gone, or been observing for a year? Anyway, no mind, but it's good to have you here.
This is a *great question... I know the exact thing you are talking about -- I hear a really catchy song on the radio and it plays in my head (and sometimes escapes out my mouth) for ages. It seems the more you get annoyed by it, the more it sticks. And it's contagious... once you've let it escape your own mind, then other people seem to catch it too. That can be kinda fun sometimes! [cheeky-e] I like BelM's idee fixe with some variation. Not being multi-lingual, I can't think of anything appropriate at the moment. Any other ideas?
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Welcome, Larry! Hope you find a catchy enough tune here to stick around for awhile! And, yeah, I know just what you mean...something triggers an old song off for no apparant reason and it just doesn't want to go away. I've always said stuck in my head, but that's not quite right either. 'Course a good Bill Monroe bluegrass tune'll do that for you...just mention Blue Moon of Kentucky and it'll still be playing in your head for hours! The Only WO'N!
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I have tried to coin a word for this tunefull condition
melody malady
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>melody malady
Somebody get the blue ribbons out!
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I frequently have this happen with whatever tune is playing on our radio alarm in the mornings when I wake up. I have a English term for it, too: Bloody Annoying! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I don't believe my condition is that bad "yet".
It's a common enough phenomenon. Usually it manifests itself when one hears a snippet of a tune from someone else, often some trivial little pop tune or a TV show theme song. I had it once when Hanna of Hanna and Barbera died and the theme song from The Flintstones attempted to swallow my brain. Fortunately my main man, AnnaStrophic, gave me a gift of Quia Fecit from the J.S. Bach Magnificat in D; it has the power to exorcise any other piece of music.
We also suffer from this phenomenon for about a week after any one of our twice yearly concerts, but at least it's quality music running through our brains.
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Welcome, Larry!
I have this tune-problem (melody malady, as Bridget said) quite often. But I tend to express it out loud, often with the wrong words (or new words, as the mood takes me), which drives my husband bananas. Sometimes, to exorcise the demon, it is sufficient to find the CD and play the song, and allow the natural progression to the next song. Or play the song on an instrument, depending, of course, on the song itself.
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I am agog with the responses. (I have even looked up "agog" to assure myself that I have spelled it correctly given this audience)
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yes, this topic has come up before -- I will even go so far as to call it a yart, but only because no one has come up with the word I offered just recently:
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:48:34 -0600 (CST)
Subject: today's wwftd is... endomusia
To: wwftd minions
From: wwftd master
the worthless word for the day is: endomusia
silent recall of a melody; endomusia often appears as a type
of obsessive thought (Psychiatric Dictionary, 4th ed., Hinsie
and Campbell) -- for those of you with a tune stuck in your head
(wm)
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So clearly, when the song in your head leaves and becomes external by means of your voice, it would be exomusia!
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