Question

[LeMay, William]

A minute's googling listed "earworm" as a common term for it.

http://www.rense.com/general35/alone.htm
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>Is there a word, dialectical or otherwise, that describes the
>phenomenon of having something stuck in your head? Like a
>never-ending record of, say, Waltzing Matilda?
>
>Kathleen E. Miller
>Research Assistant to William Safire
>The New York Times
>