Does anyone have a clue what the song they play at the circus is called??

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you know the one they play on the organ that goes chromatically up and down the keyboard with a few little trills here and there... and over it the ring master is going, "Now step right up to the greatest show in the world!"

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

mamma please

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"dum-dunt dutta dutta dunt dunt da da"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

it's 'the entry of the gladiators' by Julis Fucik.

if that's the one you mean.

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost goddamit - March of the Gladiators?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

it's faithfully re-created by three dog night in "the show must go on."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

the march of the elephants?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

March of the Scary Unfunny Men In Big Boots and Silly Make-up

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

the Dickies' used this for the guitar solo in "Killer Clowns From Outer Space".

why do I know this?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Leo Sayer wrote & performed The Show Must Go On, too, but it seems like the Three Dog Night version was the hit.

Hurry, Hurry, Hurry!

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Leo Sayer's version was the hit in the UK. I don't think Three Dog Night ever had any hits in the UK.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't this what they play at ballet? (god I love that Simpsons episode)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

What's the name of that song that gets quoted in the middle of Dead Kennedys's "Chemical Warfare"?

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost

Isn't there also a "clown" song and a "trapeze" song. The "trapeze" song is mimicked in the Dead Kennedys "Chemical Warfare".

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Leo Sayer's version was the hit in the UK. I don't think Three Dog Night ever had any hits in the UK.

leo sayer didn't break in the u.s. till a couple years later.

(why do i know this? i don't. i just looked it up.)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

that song is one of the songs i hum most. people in offices love it, cause theyre all "yeah - this place IS a circus!! what a CRAZY place!!"

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I seem to remember an Anton LaVey interview where they were asking him about "satanic" heavy metal music, and he said something like -- "real satanic music to me is the music from cartoons, or that song from the circus."
I thought that was kinda dead-on.

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't that "trapeze" one more commonly associated with a shooting gallery, ducks-in-a-row & that sort of thing? The more obvious trapeze theme would be "Man On The Flying..." which most folks can even identify by title, since it had actual words once upon a time.
(Hilarious Spike Jones/Doodles Weaver version recorded back in the '40s)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

That trapeeze song is played when Harry grabs the balloon in "Pitfall II", right?

What?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

The song is called "Entry of the Gladiators (Thunder and Blazes)," composed by Fucik.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha, I also can't think of cicruses without picturing Homer gleefully exclaiming "I love the ballet" while he visualizes the circus and hears that goofy circus music.

― Davlo (Davlo), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link

gygax! was thinking of baby elephant walk by henry mancini.

midi version here: http://www.discoverynet.com/~ajsnead/5060jb/5002.html

― officer pupp, Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

That trapeeze song is played when Harry grabs the balloon in "Pitfall II", right?

It also turns up in one of the sections in Micky Dolenz's minimum opus "Shorty Blackwell," for those of you up on your Monkees obscurities.

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

haha Peter Smith's post is funny.

Along the same lines, does anyone know what the classic "stripper" song as, with the sleazy brass and the "bom bom" drum sound that comes in like a punchline? I may have asked this before but I don't remember the answer.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

isn't the song JaXon was referring to "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"?

Ringling Bros is folding

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 January 2017 13:08 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLT73VifzI

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 January 2017 13:30 (seven years ago) link

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