Give Up A Little Bit

"Give A Little Bit" by Supertramp was one of the songs from seventh grade that I liked. At the time, I liked it a lot. It came out in the first thirty seconds of Supertramp's fifteen minutes of fame, long (why, a year or two, at least!) before the irritating "Take the Long Way Home" and the gloriously snide "Logical Song". It was a fun pop trifle, a fun, hummable tune.

The Goo Goo Dolls, trying to tack a longer tail onto the career bell curve, have done a cover, and not a bad one.

But the dogs of overexposure have been loosed. I'm trying to keep track of all the different versions of the song I'm hearing on commercials lately. I can not, of course, remember what commercials they were on:

• The Eddie Vedder wannabee version, heard on Cartoon Network.
• The guy who sounds vaguely like an accent-less Enrique Yglesias on a radio spot.
• The woman who sounds like someone who sang on a tampon ad, on another radio spot
• The woman from the spot on NBC who sounds a little like Bjork