# A for real Name That Tune thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562 "2003-10-31T01:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/1 "2003-10-31T01:05:56Z")
What I wanted to do was put up links to instrumental midis and have ya’ll Name That Tune. The problem is that these midis are named, of course. So, if you play you’ve got to close your eyes after you hit the link and promise not to look. Ready? [Tune number one](http://nascarulz.tripod.com/elebabywalk.mid) [Tune number two](http://members.tripod.com/mrlewisclassroom/audio/gonions.mid) [Tune number three](http://www-scf.usc.edu/~akotaobi/files/popcorn5.mid) [Tune number four](http://www-scf.usc.edu/~akotaobi/files/axel-f32.mid) [Tune number five](http://www.polleng.freeserve.co.uk/gp_sync.mid) Maybe the game should be who could find the worst midi version of a song. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/2 "2003-10-31T01:12:56Z")
1 Baby Elephant Walk 1. Link won’t open 2. Popcorn by Hot Butter [I have it on iTune] 3. Axel F Theme from Beverly Hills Cop [I have it on iTune] 5, Recognize the melody but don’t know the title, Maybe the “Clock Song”? ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/3 "2003-10-31T01:19:12Z")
I’ve always like the Baby Elephant Walk. It’s just so cute! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/4 "2003-10-31T01:19:12Z")
You didn’t add any of your own. Did you close your eyes? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/5 "2003-10-31T01:38:57Z")
[Here’s number two again.](http://www.midipapa.de/MIDIs/DocDoc/Green_Onions_-Booker_T_And_MGs.mid) There are some pretty awful versions of this song out there. This one has the name and the group in the file name, so close your eyes really, really tight. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/6 "2003-10-31T01:52:12Z")
Midis are cool. 😃 (sorry I don’t have anything else to add) ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/7 "2003-10-31T02:03:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*You didn’t add any of your own. > > Did you close your eyes? \*\* No midis handy. I didn’t have to look, OK I couldn’t help it on the first one, but they were just too easy. 1. Green Onion Booker T & the MGs ---
**Author:** ![Deathstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Deathstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deathstatic)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/8 "2003-10-31T04:01:59Z")
I love popcorn! The song that is… I actually hate real popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/9 "2003-10-31T12:53:02Z")
You get the titles (or close to it) in the status bar when you mouse over the links. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/10 "2003-10-31T14:00:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeldar \* > \*\*You get the titles (or close to it) in the status bar when you mouse over the links. \*\* Yeah. That’s why you gotta close your eyes. The game really should have been Worse Midi Version Ever! Sorry to those who love midis, but those things make for some really baaaaaaad music. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/11 "2003-10-31T14:24:27Z")
#5 is [“The Syncopated Clock”](http://www.pbs.org/sleighride/Video&Music/Compositions_SClock.htm) (1945) by Leroy Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/12 "2003-10-31T15:53:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*Yeah. That’s why you gotta close your eyes. The game really should have been Worse Midi Version Ever! Sorry to those who love midis, but those things make for some really baaaaaaad music. \*\* My apologies, **Biggirl**. Obviously I hadn’t finished reading the OP before I looked at the links. DUH! BTW, I have a sizeable collection of MIDI files, mostly jazz ones, that I’ve collected over the years. Some are quite impressive, some are so-so and some are lame. I trashed the really shitty ones. As I find a better rendition of a favorite tune I scrap the older one, unless it’s also a decent version. There are several MIDI players that will list the data about the file’s creation, including full name of tune, composer’s name, sequencer’s name and such. That way, I have been able to identify all but a handful of tunes. But there are stil a dozen or more that I’ve kept that I can’t identify. So a “name that tune” would be beneficial for me if I had some way to put the files up to the web for y’all to help with. Anybody know a neat way to do that? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/13 "2003-10-31T18:53:26Z")
[Here’s one especially for today.](http://reality.exsgi.org/btd/midi/archive/mod/modern/frkstein.mid) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-for-real-name-that-tune-thread/210562/14 "2003-10-31T19:00:34Z")
**Zeldar** , get a geocities website and upload the files. I say geocities because that’s what I use, but I’m sure there are plenty others that’ll give you some free bandwidth.