Now the version of Trouble (right here in River City!) that I would have heard on the radio was probably from the album release of the original Broadway cast singing the songs (q.v. https://youtu.be/RIo8OnKHZ_Q), the sort of album you'd probably find at least one copy of in every U.S. city thrift shop in the 1980s—just the ticket for filling up radio air time with clippings of pre-recorded audio. Good bathroom-break stuff!
So that's one hint about the #meme anyway: it's an artifact of media oversaturation. *The Music Man* came out in 1958, during the now-vanished time when Broadway theatre and the movies were both vying to keep a grasp on audiences tempted away from more expensive and belabored forms of entertainment by the smaller but more convenient pleasures of television.
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