# Can someone identify this tune? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144 "2006-11-12T20:31:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/1 "2006-11-12T20:31:14Z")
[musipedia link](http://www.musipedia.org/search.0.html?sourceid=melody-url&tx_mpsearch_pi1%5bsubmit_button%5d=Search&tx_mpsearch_pi1%5bpc%5d=lily+a'4.+f'4.+d'4.+c'4.+c'4+e'4+g'4+e'4+f'4+a'4+c''4+a'4&categories=CPHA&filtertext=&coll=m&onlymatchfrom=0.3) I’ve tried searching musipedia for identification, but I’m not having any luck. I keyed in the basic tune, but the timing is slightly off. Still, it’s definitely recognizable. I have this stuck in my head on a regular basis; I just can’t place it. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/2 "2006-11-12T20:43:39Z")
Music threads tend to do better in Cafe Society. Moved. **samclem** GQ moderator ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/3 "2006-11-12T20:56:27Z")
(It’s the top bit on the page you linked, right?) Argh! It’s very familiar! It’s right on the tip of my brain. It was used in cartoons, it’s a very lively piece, not Suprise Symphony, I don’t think it’s from William Tell… _cudgels brain_ If it’s the one that was brought to my mind, it was played frequently as part of the Vienna New Year celebration symphony in the 90s, maybe now too. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/4 "2006-11-12T20:59:29Z")
Speed it up, and it might be part of the can-can? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/5 "2006-11-12T21:02:26Z")
(To be more accurate, the music comes from Orpehus in the Underworld, by Offenbach: [dreadful midi version](http://www.nurisite.com/midisonly/internacional/cancan.mid)) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/6 "2006-11-12T21:11:04Z")
Yes, it was the [cancan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancan) that I was thinking of! Would it be Jacques Offenbach’s Galop Infernal from Orpheus in the Underworld? Check out the Wikipedia link for a simplified midi version of the song. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/7 "2006-11-12T21:26:18Z")
It’s not the cancan, it’s just the beginning that matches. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/8 "2006-11-12T21:42:34Z")
There is another lively song that has a similar opening, but I cannot bring it up. Bleh… ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/9 "2006-11-13T00:02:37Z")
I also think that it is part of the _Can Can_ by Offenbach. It would come in the middle of the “rowdy” part of the dance. But the _Can Can_ is from **Gaite Parisienne** , I believe. I used to play the _Can Can_ on the piano for some dancers and I played almost an identical series of notes. That is a really cool website! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/10 "2006-11-13T07:21:37Z")
The last three notes don’t fit the Can-Can. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/11 "2006-11-13T10:04:52Z")
I think it probably is the Can-can. I’m guessing I allowed the tune to mutate in my head a little, or maybe I’ve heard a mutated version as a cell ringtone or something. But that sounds like what I’m looking for. Thanks all. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-identify-this-tune/380144/12 "2006-11-13T16:49:00Z")
[QUOTE=ntucker] I think it probably is the Can-can. I’m guessing I allowed the tune to mutate in my head a little, or maybe I’ve heard a mutated version as a cell ringtone or something. But that sounds like what I’m looking for. Thanks all. [/QUOTE] I hate to throw a monkey wrench into your relief but I think it is something else. I pick it up from the last few notes. I sincerely want to thank you for something that is now driving ME crazy. lol. I am humming it from there but now need to identify it.