That this piece of music has a title; that that title is "Entrance of the Gladiators"; and that the composer intended it to be played for soldiers as they marched off to glory in war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, September 16, 2020 6:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I am reminded of William Gibson's quote "The street finds its own uses for things."
serious lols at that
― visiting, Wednesday, September 16, 2020 6:29 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I can't be the only person to read the composer's name as 'Julius Fuck', right?
― emil.y, Wednesday, September 16, 2020 6:45 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Holy shit and Julius Fuck, I never thought of that music as anything other than circus/Looney Tunes music.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, September 17, 2020 6:49 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, this is the craziest shit ever
― kinder, Thursday, September 17, 2020 6:57 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I've been meaning to start a thread forever to showcase the instrumental pieces that everyone knows but that hardly anyone knows the name/composer of. Like 'Sabre Dance':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:05 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
great thread idea! i was at a relative's organ recital(!) and the best bit was watching the audience reaction when they recognised what was written down in the program as "J.S.Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor". top marks went to the kid in front who said excitedly "it's the Dracula song!!!"
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:13 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
anyone know much about the Orientalist vamp that kicks off King Fu Fighting?
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
Low hanging fruit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC0vNLdLvY
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
or the Arabish vamp where people sing "In the South Of France / Where the naked ladies dance"?
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
great thread idea and count me also gobsmacked by the origin of the circus clown song
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
And I mean, yes, of course, this is ILM so a lot of you nerds absolutely know the names of these things but I'm thinking about the layman here, Joe Lunchpail, hearing one of these pieces popping up in the middle of a Looney Tune but never being able to put a name to it.
Like I'm sure y'all were already hip but it wasn't until a decade or so ago that I finally learned the name of this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CI-0E_jses
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:26 (three years ago) link
I want to know the origin of the 9 or so note "Oriental" connotation melody, like at the beginning of Rush's "A Passage to Bangkok."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
There are a few great instrumental rock examples of this, too. Like this sultry film noir-y one one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAv8yAaHps
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
Dog Latin, you are speaking of "The Streets of Cairo." Its authorship is murky because it's probably a folk melody that various composers have leapt on and arranged.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_riff?wprov=sfla1
For Josh, a similar story attends the "oriental riff" as used in "Kung Fu Fighting."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_riff?wprov=sfla1
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
for me, though, the great grandaddy of all these has to be the French folk song "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman," which shows up as the alphabet song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, etc.
Mozart wrote variations on it but did not compose it.
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
Now I'm realizing I've forgotten the name of that other big band tune everyone knows, the one that starts out
BUM baaadaBUM baaadaBUM baaadaBUM baaadaBUM baaadaBADABAWAAOW BADABAWAAOW
(^professional music notation, iirc)
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link
You sure that's not Sousa?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link
What's the one that's played on a xylophone or something like that and sounds like either hold music or elevator muzak from the 70s?
It goes:
Dum da dum da dum da dum
Da da dum
Da da dum da dum
Then it goes a bit higher, and then back to the start
― paolo, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
I'm sure the answer to some of these questions is "Lawrence Welk" or "Henry Mancini" or the like.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
Ahhhhhhh, okay, the big band tune I was thinking of is Benny Goodman - 'Sing Sing Sing'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_E0UVNtJ9Y
Also, see this: https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2018/03/heres-a-playlist-of-songs-you-know-but-you-cant-name/
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW0W7j04iRQ
Funiculi Funicula (Luigi Denza)
Things like this fascinate me. Like for example, who composed "Chopsticks", etc.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
I hope that song made that man very rich.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
Also, generally any classical music widely used in cartoons will fit in this category. "Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet" by Tchaikovsky is a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHvnMi9_9mM
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:08 (three years ago) link
Ahhh the Funiculi Funicula, I never knew what it was but I feel like it's in my head, lurking, somewhere for a significant proportion of time.As is another that goesda- duh-duh DUH x2da- duh-duh DUH x2 (lower DUH)da- duh-duh DUH x2 (higher DUHs)da- duh-duh DUHHH (highest DUH)
― kinder, Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:10 (three years ago) link
was going to suggest 'theme from a summer place' but it's on Old Lunch's lifehacker article.
― kinder, Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
Bent Fabric - 'The Alley Cat'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eTHNaBbRYw
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:24 (three years ago) link
David Rose - 'The Stripper'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2CWfSLyjx8
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
The Chantays - 'Pipeline'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7c2ZKamzS4
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
The Mar-Keys - 'Last Night'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX5T9GvSnbY
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
The T-Bones - 'No Matter What Shape'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SH2V8BLfUs
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
The Viscounts (after Duke Ellington) - 'Harlem Nocturne'
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
I vaguely remember a Saturday Night Live fake ad for a compilation album called Classical Music You Know From Cartoons, or something similar.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
Anyone who hasn't heard Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream and Other Delights or Booker T.'s Green Onions will be surprised to learn that they already know about half of each album.
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
for me, though, the great grandaddy of all these has to be the French folk song "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman," which shows up as the alphabet song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, etc.Mozart wrote variations on it but did not compose it.
What's funny is the French version I first knew of this was a back-translation of the English "Brille brille petite étoile". I only knew about the original bc of the Mozart and only found out what the words are just now. (They are better.)
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
That was the first version of it in French that I knew of, not the first version of the song I knew, which was probably "Twinkle", ofc.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
I didn't know about Fucik either, embarrassingly.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 September 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
It's okay, everyone has their first Fucik encounter when the time is right.
― Don't be such an idot. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
(Yes, everyone of a certain age probably already knows this but still) Marvin Hamlisch - 'The Entertainer'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T4Uk7mDR-w
― Too Drunik to Fucik (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
um "The Entertainer" is very very very famously Scott Joplin
most of these way too well known
this is a classic tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
never understood "The Stripper". It is so unsexy
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
I was going to suggest 'The Stripper' for this, pretty sure everyone knows it's called 'The Stripper' but I certainly had no idea who it was by.
I always thought 'The Entertainer' was a Joplin tune, though. *googles quickly* It is a Joplin tune! Hamlisch's version is probably what gets played most, though? (oh, and it's an xpost, yes, NV OTM)
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
If you boarded a plane or stood in an elevator between 1966 and 1983, you'll have heard this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO6q9eOQq5g&ab_channel=boytronic66
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
This is a repository, a place to learn, I am but a lowly Joe Lunchpail who only knows about songs with words
― Too Drunik to Fucik (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/x3Bz6AQNIO4
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
http://youtu.be/x3Bz6AQNIO4
'The Stripper' is the funniest thing to me because, yes, it's so thoroughly unsexy. It's like someone mashing a nudie mag in your face.
― Too Drunik to Fucik (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
god dammit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Bz6AQNIO4
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
I love "The Stripper", it's def not lapdancer sexy and all the better for it
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
"gran vals" by francesco tarrega has a little part that is instantly familiar that everyone has heard a million times, but i doubt even 2% of people have heard the entire piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQzUx3QW2Y
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
Richard Wagner - “Bridal Chorus” from the opera Lohengrin (i.e. here comes the bride)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5FOW2ekHo
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
xpost Kinda like 'Tubular Bells', which takes on a whole 'nother flavor once you hear more than the minute and a half featured in The Exorcist.
― Too Drunik to Fucik (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
'Yakety Sax' is another one where probably most people know the name of the song but not the composer. I feel like it's too well-known to really count here, though. Also kept too close to its original intentions, maybe?
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
I didn't know "here comes the bride" was Wagner!
Isn't that well-known to be Wagner? 3xp ha maybe not
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
also v. popular at weddings, Toccata from Charles Marie Widor’s 5th Organ Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSfJTiWTf4k
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 17 September 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
moon patrol appears to just be an 8 bit version of the original (track 2 here)
https://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/moon-patrol-irem-m52
which has a creator listed (Ichiro Takagi) so was probably done for the game
and this https://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/MoonPatrol/MoonPatrolSound.html suggests that he wrote an entire language for translating these sounds into code for playback.
― koogs, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
'Happy-Go-Lively' maybe?
xp to Old Lunch, yes! I don't know if that is always the exact piece in question, but it is for sure the vibe I have in mind and am describing. In any case, a worthy addition to this thread.
Now I want to know what Sam Weller is thinking of too
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
Glad I was able to summon one up!
Now the true boffins itt can get to work and figure out the origin of this one, which the internet in general doesn't seem to have worked out as of yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7Op86ox9g
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
Ah god damn, I just spent ages trying to track down "the Egyptian sounding piece of music" and now I see it was addressed upthread. There's some interesting info in the description to this youtube of 'Streets of Cairo', though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A5yJ5Z2Ezw&ab_channel=SamuelStokes
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
xp that is the original music that played when the asp turned up to give Eve the fruit of knowledge
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
scratch that, it was composed by the first fish that crawled out the sea
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
CPE Bach's "Solfeggietto" is the same, I feel like I heard this piece a million times before it popped up in my piano book
I've only ever heard this used in Treasure Mountain. Same w/ Beethoven's Contredanses.
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
On that note:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poSw7tFLB4
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
also this song that gets played (or used to get played) in sports stadiums:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5LW07FTJbI
which was taken from this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsorGbKwNlA
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
holy shit. I had no idea.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
one thing i do know is that kernkraft 400 mixes absolutely incredibly with “shoot your shot” by divine
Enjoyable thread!
How about ubiquitous in trendy bars old instrumental funk tunes such as Cissy Strut or Green Onions? Bet the majority of the trendy bar visiting population could hum but not name them.
― chap, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
in response to greg fanoe's mention upthread, a mini-essay on chopsticks and its composer:
First of all (at least in the UK) there are TWO different pieces known as CHOPSTICKS — one of unknown authorship, the other the only published work (1877) by the 16-yr-old Euphemia Allen, pseudonym Arthur de Lulli (or below = de Lulu courtesy a scanning typo). Euphemia Allen’s brother Mozart Allen was a music publisher, which presumably helped establish the piece: as did its opening being very easy to play even if you can’t play anything else. The section after the opening — where it becomes more obviously waltz-like — is far less well known than the opening, except in one curious context (see below). Chopsticks youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3m7BZ5tzeg
Chopsticks sheet music: https://i.imgur.com/gZktCaK.jpg
The ”Chopsticks“ of unknown authorship is also (more properly?) known as Flohwalzer or FLEA WALTZ (and sometimes as CUTLETS), and is largely played on the black notes (see youtube below and sheet music below that). Also it’s not actually a waltz, bcz not in three time.
Flohwalzer youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6RJ5yalISo
Flohwalzer sheet music: https://i.imgur.com/RyeG3n9.jpg
There is in addition a CUTLETS POLKA aka TATI TATI that was turned into variations by Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and others, with sections said to resemble Euphemia A’s Chopsticks: Paraphrases: 24 Variations et 15 petits pièces sur le thème favori et obligé:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x--S0JXg_k
Curious context: the theme music for Viv Stanshall’s SIR HENRY AT RAWLINSON END is a piece called Aunt Florrie’s Waltz — aka Flowalzer? — and credited to Stanshall. But its second measure is p clearly identical to the secondary theme in Euphemia A’s Chopsticks (which strikes me as a very Viv Stanshall type of joke): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RciT8ec1S1Y
― mark s, Thursday, 24 September 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
'Flohwalzer' is what I always knew as 'Chopsticks' growing up. The existence of two 'Chopsticks' songs was very confusing for some time.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
The dude in the OG Chopsticks video is playing with literal chopsticks in his right hand = massive kudos from me bro, fuck yeah my man.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
oh shit!!!! he starts snapping his fingers and sticks during the 2nd verse too, SICK!
i mean if ever a pianowork needed props to rescue it
― mark s, Thursday, 24 September 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
no disrespect to 16-yr-old euphemia
― mark s, Thursday, 24 September 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
This keeps showing up on my spotify discover weekly so I'm pretty familiar with it by now, but it seems like for years I heard this all over the place (or a sampled version of it) without knowing what it was:
Moondog - Lament I, "Bird's Lament"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSimbyS_YlA
― silverfish, Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
hey thanks OL for posting “happy-go-lively”, been wondering about it for years.. and thanks Lavator for bringing it up! :)
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
xp we had a short digression about this in the under 2 minutes songs poll–the song we've been hearing all our lives was "get a move on" by mr. scruff, which samples "bird's lament"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HamLxGxeDqI
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 September 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/zvesdlGe-EI
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Monday, 28 September 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
A question appropriate to this thread came up in the Macabre 'Gloom' thread. The melody from the chorus of Holidays of Horror...
https://youtu.be/mP2YV8OfAWs
It is the melody for the Chili's "happy happy birthday from all of us to you" song. Is it also the melody for '99 bottles of beer on the wall'?
― ringworm, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
Cliff Nobles - 'The Horse'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btHrhq4caiA
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 October 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
Been trying to track down this for a few days.
Keith Masfield - Funky Fanfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P51cMstawuc
― chap, Thursday, 1 October 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
doubling back a bit but WOAH, "Music Box Dancer" is one of the major ice-cream truck themes here in NYC! i figured it was just an attempt by some in-house Softee composer to create something ice-creamy, while respecting the limitations of whatever inexplicably old-fashioned, duophonic mechanical synth tech they're using in those things.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 October 2020 04:07 (three years ago) link
best NYC ice-cream truck theme is Lambada mostly because I thought it was a Sun City Girls Song at first.
― dan selzer, Friday, 2 October 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
This one has lyrics, but I'm sure there are a lot of people who simply know Heart and Soul as "That song you learn when you're learning piano".
https://youtu.be/advQkt_8Pzs
― MarkoP, Friday, 2 October 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
And here's Tea For Two Cha Cha which I hear pop up in places from time to time, and only knew it at The Offspring's Intermission musichttps://youtu.be/UaMZPjyG3ys
― MarkoP, Friday, 2 October 2020 05:27 (three years ago) link
In the UK, there are a load of old radio theme tunes that are always used to evoke the 40s or 50s
Puffin' Billy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtGUaScpSbg
In Party Moood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqsp413SXuQ
Devil's Gallop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eqX93umXo
― fetter, Friday, 2 October 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
The Dick Barton one was used in Monty Python a bit I think.
― chap, Friday, 2 October 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
CBS bumper etc. reminds me that I never knew the ABC movie of the week theme was a Burt Bacharach composition named after his daughter called “Nikki” until we did this thread: Wishin' and Votin' - the BURT BACHARACH SONGBOOK Poll Resultshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-Vkd7On2Q
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 October 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
🚨 🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 🚨 That video features the added bonus of a brief appearance by William Windom
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 October 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
But the ABC 4:30 Movie theme I don't know who wrote it or what its title ishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2es-lfRSDOI
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 October 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
Oh wait, I have met the ad agency guy who was in charge of ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfksiAUfQ6M
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 October 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
Luciano Michelini - frolic (from the post-golden television era; has become a meme tune)
― meisenfek, Friday, 2 October 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
Does anyone else find it mildly amusing that the artist behind “Music Box Dancer” is named Frank Mills?
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 October 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
Following on from "Heart and Soul" I think "Happy Trails" (as an instrumental) often signifies cowboyness even without vocals.
― Apres moi, le debat. (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 October 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
Indeed it does.
CBS bumper etc. reminds me that I never knew the ABC movie of the week theme was a Burt Bacharach composition named after his daughter called “Nikki” until we did this thread: Wishin' and Votin' - the BURT BACHARACH SONGBOOK Poll Results🕸📹
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 October 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
Posting the once ubiquitous commercial for 120 Music Masterpieces, starring the actor, not the composer or guitarist, named John Williams.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9u_7eSlTQ
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 October 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
Ooh, here's one I don't know if we've covered: the kind of Russian Cossack death-march dirge that you hear pop up all time. I mostly recently was reminded of it at around the 3-minute mark of (forgive me) this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQQlCaEo1l0
Where does this come from?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 October 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
"Song of the Volga Boatmen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tw3g88JtWA
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
Wow, thanks!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 October 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
lol beat me to it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 October 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
Holy shit, is that where the band got its name!?!?
I was watching "Dawn of the Dead" tonight, and when the bikers first break into the mall there's this music in the background that sounded very familiar. And then it hit me: unless I'm totally wrong, it's the same music from the opening credits of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"! I did some minimal digging and found this quote:
Terry Jones: We realized we needed mock-heroic music but at that stage we couldn’t afford to record more music (for the titles) so the only thing I could do was go to a music library, DeWolfe in London, and I spent weeks sorting out bits of music.
With some more minimal digging I found the title on some comp called "De Wolfe Music Presents: Music from Monty Python on the Holy Grail."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJa4xs71nco
No doubt George Romero grabbed the same cheap stuff from that same music library.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 October 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
Indeed! Included in an upcoming Dawn of the Dead box:
The Complete De Wolfe library Cues Part 1The Complete De Wolfe Library Cues Part 2
The Complete De Wolfe Library Cues Part 2
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link
this song, which i've always known as "that public domain incidental music that they use in always sunny in philadelphia" is trending on tiktok right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QQ_QHlTalk
― glengarry gary beers (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
Found out today that this, which is basically how I count to 12 mentally, is by the Pointer Sisters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUL4T8WcFdA
― silverfish, Monday, 12 December 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
Edvard Grieg, "Morning Mood" from Peer Gynt Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMs0rNtBZJk
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link