FWIW, reference note #3 for that Wikipedia page is this Straight Dope column.
My go-to tune for all things Greek:
Uhm, you’re confusing Clarke with Mouret:
It’s just not an awkwardly-trying-to-carry-a-big-bulky-object scene without Henry Mancini’s Baby Elephant Walk.
If I were getting married, I’d insist on this piece (actually, just about anything by Haendel): :o
My go-to music for all things Russian:
Based on Alphons Czibulka’s Wintermärchen.
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Uhm, you’re confusing Clarke with Mouret:
[/QUOTE]You got me dead to rights on MT, but MAN, those are similar. 
There’s one fanfare I remember from kids’ TV, and then from a sound effects record in the school AV library:
Dada Da Dada Da Dada Da Dada Da, Dada Da Da Da DAAAAAA! Da Da Da DA Da Da Da, Da Dada Da Da DAAAAA! Da Da Da DA Da Da Da, Da Dada Dada DAAAAA! Da Dada DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Is this a legitimate piece of music, or what? :dubious:
Also, is there a name for the piece starting at 1:05 in** this clip**? I know it was used in at least one action-adventure flick back in the '50s (Prince Valiant):
For some reason I always confuse this one with Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov); probably because it’s been done to death in everything from piano arias to heavy metal solos.
Me too. I’ll bet all three of us are about 60.
:: raising my hand ::
Lordy, I’m enjoying this thread.
Another 50ish song you might have heard in a movie is Sleepwalk.
If it was a surf movie, Pipeline was popular.
Of course, some of us like our opera from more traditional sources. Habanera
When I think of “Sleepwalk” and “Pipeline,” I automatically think of these two pieces:*
*I turned 59 in January.My go-to song for all things Jewish:
The villain has tied the heroine to the train tracks and the train is approaching: Schubert’s Der Erlkönig Schubert - Der Erlkönig [魔王] (complete version.) - YouTube
The music that recalls images of The Spirit of 76 is The Girl I Left Behind Me.
The cliche music used in old cartoons when someone is shown sitting in a jail cell is The Prisoner’s Song.
There’s one called Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep that often accompanies cartoon and movie scenes of someone sleeping or trying to sleep. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a video of it on line.
The Benny Hill theme is Boots Randolph’s Yakety Sax.
Silver Threads Among the Gold is cliched “old folks” music.
The Song of the Volga Boatmen is used to invoke plodding toil.
You mean this piece?
