# Actual Names of Some Well-Known 'Cliché' Songs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178 "2014-04-02T16:31:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/141 "2014-04-04T20:03:01Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > As a huge Grieg fan, I have to say, for as well known as all these clips are, it’s a shame that … you don’t hear the _Holberg Suite_ more often. Amen. It’s beautiful. I knew a Piano Teacher who had it played at her wedding. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/142 "2014-04-04T20:13:53Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > On the subject of the '70s, no question that I associated John Philip Sousa “[Liberty Bell March](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov1kjVvYpWk)” first and foremost (actually, only) with Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Hard not to imagine the cartoon foot going splat around the 0:56 mark) _Liberty Bell_ was my favorite Sousa March before I’d ever heard of Monty Python, whose good taste impressed me when I discovered them. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/143 "2014-04-04T20:16:45Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > [shrugs in confusion]I guess it kind of depend on how one uses, and interprets the use of, italics when naming creative works. [/shrugs in confusion] > > I was saying that the series of animated short films titled _Popeye_–note the italicized title–used an (uptempo) arrangement of “The Sailor’s Hornpipe” during its opening and closing credits. This is also not strictly true. I can’t give you a percentage breakdown, but in many entries in the series, “Sailor’s Hornpipe” was not heard at all, in any context. It was gone after the first few episodes of the Fleischer run (1933-1942), and returned for an indeterminate number of episodes during the Famous Studios era (1942-1957). P.S. To each is own tastes, but I’m sorry that you’re immune to the charms of the Fleischer-era Popeyes, many of which are wonderful. If your judgment is based on those from roughly 1944 forward, that’s a different story. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/144 "2014-04-04T20:58:36Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > To each is own tastes, but I’m sorry that you’re immune to the charms of the Fleischer-era Popeyes, many of which are wonderful. If your judgment is based on those from roughly 1944 forward, that’s a different story. Agreed. I love the background scenery—it’s almost always a seedy Depression town, on the wrong side of the tracks—and the snippets of dialogue, which you usually have to strain to hear, are hilarious! All that, plus the fawning over Olive Oyl as though she were a great beauty, never fails to crack me up! ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/145 "2014-04-05T03:34:44Z")
> [@Toucanna](#): > > At a “[Cinco de Mayo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo)” party in the USA, you’re like to hear “[The Mexican](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE6qVVffM1Q) [Hat Dance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarabe_Tapat%C3%ADo)”. Another cliche Mexican song is “[Cielito Lindo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cielito_Lindo)”, which people of my generation may think of as “the Frito Bandito jingle”. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/146 "2014-04-05T05:28:46Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Agreed. I love the background scenery—it’s almost always a seedy Depression town, on the wrong side of the tracks—and the snippets of dialogue, which you usually have to strain to hear, are hilarious! The (terrific) DVD sets have excellent subtitles that include nearly all of those little verbal asides. My favorite has always been (since about 1960) Popeye reacting with “Izzat so?” > [@terentii](#): > > All that, plus the fawning over Olive Oyl as though she were a great beauty, never fails to crack me up! Trying on roller skates, she comments “I wear a size 3 but a 12 is _so_ comfortable.” ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/147 "2014-04-05T21:59:56Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > The (terrific) DVD sets have excellent subtitles that include nearly all of those little verbal asides. I promise I’ll end the thread hijack after this, but I have to point out my all-time favorite Jack Mercer aside. In “I Never Changes Me Altitude,” Popeye is flying an open-cockpit small plane when he’s knocked out of his seat by a swipe from Bluto’s plane. To save himself from plummeting into space, he grabs onto the skin of the now vertical wing of the aircraft — which gradually rips down the side, exposing the framework. As he’s desperately trying to slow his fall, Popeye exclaims “This is terrible, this is terrible (i.e., tearable)!” He manages to stop, quickly patches up the damage as he climbs back toward the cabin, while muttering, “Hmmm, need a little mucilage on the fuselage!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/148 "2014-04-05T23:26:33Z")
My favorite was when Swee’Pea crawled off and got into a variety of life-treatening situations: **OLIVE:** Oh, help, Popeye! Stop him! He’ll be killed to death! **POPEYE:** Oh! I’ll save ya for him, Olive! ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/149 "2014-04-06T05:12:03Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Your first instinct is correct. The tune itself was published back in 1914 as part of a piece called Mysterioso Pizzicato which itself may have been borrowed from an earlier work called Mysterioso Burglar Music 1. Mysterious Mose was not made until 1930. > [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > [Mysterioso Pizzicato (1914)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterioso_Pizzicato) Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/150 "2014-04-27T16:39:52Z")
150 posts and no one (including me) mentioned the [Ultimate Cliche Tune](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k). We should all hang our heads in shame. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/151 "2014-04-29T22:22:58Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > I’m sure one of you will be able to decipher this. > > What’s the climatic score where it goes: > > YEEET- YEE YEET-YEET; YEEET- YEE YEET-YEET. > > Yee-YEET-Yee yee… Maybe this one? :dubious: https://www.youtube.com/embed/8VP5jEAP3K4?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/152 "2014-11-27T14:34:12Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > And does the song [Heavy Action](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p41_M_mehG0) have any other connotations in America than the obvious? Only when I watch British TV series from the '70s and '80s. I was introduced to _ **Bulman** _ on-line just the other day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178/153 "2014-11-27T14:43:42Z")
In rereading this now-zombie thread, I think we missed one of my favorites: Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-DUH-duh, Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-DUH-duh, DA DA! Da DAH, Da DAH! Da-da-DA-DA-DA-DA, DA DA-DA-DA, DA DA DA-DA-DA-DA, DA DA-DA- **DA** -DA! Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh! Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh! DA DA-DA- **DA** -DA! DUM! Duh-duh-DUH-duh-duh … duh-duh-duh … duh-duh-duh-duh-duh … duh-duh-DUH-duh-duh… ☹ Clearly, I have too much free time on my hands right now… :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual-names-of-some-well-known-cliche-songs/685178.md?page=7)