Repeat: The tune in the Popeye cartoon is the Hopak (or Gopak, depending on which region you’re from).
And it isn’t even Scottish.
How about Verdi’s Dies Irae? That one has seen service for the forces of good and evil.
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Repeat: The tune in the Popeye cartoon is the Hopak (or Gopak, depending on which region you’re from).
[/QUOTE]That tune appears before and after the tune that **Jeff Lichtman ** referred to, but your video does not contain the specific part in question, which is heard only briefly (when Popeye and Bluto dance up into the air, and when Popeye kicks Bluto’s butt).
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Repeat: The tune in the Popeye cartoon is the Hopak (or Gopak, depending on which region you’re from).
[/QUOTE]Yes, you’re right, the Hopak is heard in the Popeye cartoon, starting at 6:50. What I was trying to say (and mangled badly because I’m following a game in another thread 
) is that there are three stereotypically “Russian” songs heard, starting at 6:50 and ending at 7:45: the (Ukranian) Hopak, an as-yet unidentified song, and then The Song of the Volga Boatmen. The Hopak and the A-YUS alternate twice, and then the SotVB is heard. It’s that second song snippet I’m trying to ID.
FWIW…
Time stamps are approximate:
6:50 Hopak
7:05 A-YUS
7:15 Hopak
7:25 A-YUS
7:37 SotVB
7:45 Closing Popeye theme music.
(Please, please, please, don’t make me watch that cartoon again! I don’t even like Popeye. 
)
Aha! My fault for not watching to the end. I don’t know the name of the unknown piece right offhand, but I recognize it from Bullwinkle’s Corner (“Little Tommy Tucker”):
RUSSIAN DRESSING?!?
Tomatoes, beets, and turnips, we use to make it red! HEY!
Put it on your salad and you’ll wish that you were dead! HEY!
As a little kid, when I was still young enough to find most of the jokes in the WPIX Sunday Morning Abbot & Costello movies funny, the theme music in the early 1970s was Hot Butter - Popcorn.
On the subject of the '70s, no question that I associated John Philip Sousa “Liberty Bell March” 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)
On pre-Fox NY Channel 5 10:00PM local news - the song “Music Box Dancer” was often used to end the newscast.
And does the song Heavy Action have any other connotations in America than the obvious?
Interesting article about cartoons with classical music in them: 10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons - Listverse
The Apache dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s48wDOalMLw
The music is actually by Offenbach: “Valse des rayons” (waltz of the sunbeams) from “Le Papillon”. According to this video it was adapted for “le revue des femmes” at the Moulin Rouge, and called “la valse chaloupée” (swaying waltz).
Is “Mais non, mais non” that cover?
BTW, here are the lyrics for “la valse chaloupée”:
Google translation:
Mules slowly plodding along comes from - YouTube starting at 1:30 (The Grand Canyon Suite)
The typical circus music is Henry Hall:- "The Man On The Flying Trapeze" - YouTube (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze)
My ex, who is Russian, was able to identify it. It’s call Vo sadu li, v ogorode, which I would translate as “In My Backyard Garden, Eh?”*
*A little Canadian flavor, there! :DIf you’re curious, the stress in sadu is on the second syllable, li is with a long e, and ogorode is pronounced a-ga-ROD-yeh.
The part in parentheses indicates it’s a children’s song (detskaya [pesenka]).
Actually, the text to “Amazing Grace” was originally titled “Faith’s Review and Expectation” while the most familiar accompanying melody is called “New Britain” which itself is an amalgamation of 2 older hymns.
Not really true, the melody’s origin are unknown. There is some evidence that it’s quite possible the tune has a Scottish origin anyway.
This statement is somewhat misleading.
Some early Fleischer Popeye cartoons used “The Sailor’s Hornpipe” as an introduction to the Popeye theme song, and later entries in the series did sometimes use an uptempo version of it over the opening and closing credits.
But the Popeye theme song itself (“I’m Popeye the Sailor Man [toot]”) was purpose-written for the cartoon series by Sammy Lerner, and has nothing in common with “The Sailor’s Hornpipe.”
[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. As you point out, the character of “Popeye the Sailor” had his own theme song, “I’m Popeye the Sailor Man”.
(I had typed out a longer and more philosophical answer, but then my computer ate it, and I don’t feel like retyping it, so this will have to stand. But to sum up, I have spent far more time than I ought, on discussing a cartoon I do not like and have never liked. It was only my love of Russian folk music [and the current difficulty in accessing my CD collection] that has led me down this Popeye-tainted rabbit hole. Do svidanya to the squinty-eyed mariner.)
The most familiar versions of the Popeye opening titles *begin *with a quick snatch of “Sailor’s Hornpipe,” but this leads into an instrumental version of “I’m Popeye the Sailor Man,” which is the main theme.
The earliest Popeye cartoons had a different theme song, “Strike Up the Band,” but both the “Sailor’s Hornpipe” and Popeye’s own theme were in place from the very first episode.
Well, I’ll be! Thanks! And thank your wife for me!
Just because I heard this 22,000,000 times on The Flintstones and other Hanna-Barbera cartoons may not earn it “cliche” status. You decide.