You know, maybe it isn’t ‘Born With a Smile on my Face’ that’s been playing on my mental jukebox on heavy rotation, but something else…
Here’s a YouTube video using the Sykes song as background music:
Now, after you’ve listened to the first verse, listen to this:
So…maybe it’s the Turtles I heard and not Ms de Sykes.
Suddenly I feel a little better about the whole thing.
By the way, who is this guy Clay Aiken in the first video?
He looks a bit like a cross between Thom Yorke and a famous lesbian whose name escapes me.
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Hundreds and Thousands (on the trifle of life) 
This “famous lesbian” of whom you speak .. k.d. Lang?? (Otherwise known as Elvis with tits)?
That wasn’t who I was thinking of, but I agree he does have a touch of ms lowercase lang about him.
Didn’t the real Elvis have tits?
Aha – maybe a certain Ms DeGeneres, aka “Ellen”?
Yes, Ross!
That’s it!
What I want to know is how Thom Yorke managed to impregnate her.
Well, she is a comedian…
Yes, but not a magician…