If you ever missed the chance to hear a pint-sized Michael Jackson sing "Tweedily-deedily-dee, tweedily-deedily-dee" in a song about a dancing bird, "Stranger Things" has got you covered. Building on Season 4's use of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" and Metallica's "Master of Puppets," Season 5 has a whole gamut of notable tunes scooped from our bottomless, self-referential, nostalgia-glutted rabbit hole. This time we're talking about a 1958 song covered in 1972 and featured in a show set in the '80s that folks are watching in 2025. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

The song in question, of course, is "Rockin' Robin," a 1958 Bobby Day song released way back when Elvis was at his peak. It spent a whopping 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 2 under Tommy Edward's much less-remembered "I

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