# Can you identify this stock cartoon music signifying libertine women? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 24, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511 "2004-11-24T19:15:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/1 "2004-11-24T19:15:21Z")
I seem to recall it being used whenever such a woman makes an appearance. I recall it typically sounding like a trumpet with a mute, going something like this: waaa wa-waaa waaa wa-waaa waaa waaa Granny actually sang this on an ep of “Beverly Hillbillies” but the only words I could remember were “dance hall” at the end of that line. I’m assuming she was actually singing the real lyrics, and that they weren’t just made up for the program. Any oldies experts??? ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/2 "2004-11-24T19:32:28Z")
Are you talking about that piece called “Stripper”? For an example, go here: [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033ZA/103-6239654-2703056](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033ZA/103-6239654-2703056) and check out the first sample. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/3 "2004-11-24T19:33:03Z")
Are you talking about the “stripper” music? Kind of like: Da da daaaa, dida da daaaaa. Da da daaa, dida da da da da. Da _babump_ Dida _babump_ Dida _babump_ Dida _babump_ Dida dida daaaa, daaa dida da. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/4 "2004-11-24T19:34:11Z")
Most definitely not. But thanks. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/5 "2004-11-24T19:34:36Z")
Darn! Missed it by THAT much… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/6 "2004-11-24T20:03:36Z")
I’ve been thinking about this…could it be the music associated with “Little Egypt”, the belly dancer from the 1904 World’s Fair? Kind of like: Doodle doo doo doo doodle doodle doodle doo… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/7 "2004-11-24T20:05:10Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I’ve been thinking about this…could it be the music associated with “Little Egypt”, the belly dancer from the 1904 World’s Fair? Kind of like: Doodle doo doo doo doodle doodle doodle doo… I just remembered the lyrics we used to sing to this when I was a kid! “There’s a club in France, where the naked ladies dance…” ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/8 "2004-11-24T20:13:34Z")
That’s funny **jayjay** , we always sang: “There’s a place in France where the ladies wear no pants/and a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all.” ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/9 "2004-11-24T22:43:05Z")
It’s the first few bars of _Frankie and Johnny_. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/10 "2004-11-24T23:14:46Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#): > > It’s the first few bars of _Frankie and Johnny_. Aww, I just missed it. ☹ Actually, it’s a really jazzy version of “Frankie and Johnny”. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/11 "2004-11-24T23:24:59Z")
Dammit! Now that it’s been identified, I can hear it in my head…if I could have done that before, I could’ve identified it! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/12 "2004-11-25T00:37:05Z")
> [@MaddyStrut](#): > > That’s funny **jayjay** , we always sang: > > “There’s a place in France where the ladies wear no pants/and a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all.” The version we sang was Oh I’m Cleo from the Nile And I live in elegant style And I swing a pair of wicked hips And I drink my beer in little sips ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/13 "2004-11-25T03:07:43Z")
Warner Brothers cartoons often used “The Lady in Red” to indicate the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/14 "2004-11-25T03:32:07Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Warner Brothers cartoons often used “The Lady in Red” to indicate the same thing. Carl Stalling used \*The Lady in Red \* so often in WB cartoons that it became something of an inhouse joke in the animation department. \*Frankie and Johnny \* was used a lot by Tex Avery. ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/15 "2004-11-25T03:44:32Z")
> [@Trion](#): > > Are you talking about that piece called “Stripper”? > > For an example, go here: > > [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033ZA/103-6239654-2703056](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033ZA/103-6239654-2703056) > > and check out the first sample. God, I’m old. That used to be the music from the “Aqua Velva” after-shave commercials. Someone shoot me now, please. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/16 "2004-11-25T06:16:16Z")
> [@MaddyStrut](#): > > That’s funny **jayjay** , we always sang: > > “There’s a place in France where the ladies wear no pants/and a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all.” In our neighborhood it was “There’s a place in France where the ladies wear no pants/and the men don’t care 'cause they’ve got no underwear…” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/17 "2004-11-25T11:32:34Z")
> [@TheInterruptingCow](#): > > God, I’m old. That used to be the music from the “Aqua Velva” after-shave commercials. > > Someone shoot me now, please. Are you sure it was _after_-shave? In my distant recollection, I recall the woman in the commercial huskily murmuring, “Take it off. Take it _all_ off,” as the guy _shaves_. Or maybe I’m conflating two different commercials in my memory. ---
**Author:** ![TheInterruptingCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@TheInterruptingCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInterruptingCow)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/18 "2004-11-25T16:25:35Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Are you sure it was _after_-shave? > > In my distant recollection, I recall the woman in the commercial huskily murmuring, “Take it off. Take it _all_ off,” as the guy _shaves_. > > Or maybe I’m conflating two different commercials in my memory. No, you’re right…I realized later that it was a commercial for Noxema shaving cream (I think)… ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/19 "2004-11-27T18:01:08Z")
> [@Trion](#): > > [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033ZA/103-6239654-2703056](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033ZA/103-6239654-2703056) > > and check out the first sample. I listened to the first track. And the second. And the third. And … what **is** it with stripper music and trombone glissandoes? When I hear a trombone glissando, I think of either (A) a drunk guy trying and failing to walk straight, or (B) someone slipping on a banana peel. When did they get associated with exhibitionist women? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511/20 "2005-04-02T16:53:15Z")
When someone asks for an ID, and then doesn’t respond? Many thanks, **Uvula Donor** for having pegged it from a pretty poor description. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-stock-cartoon-music-signifying-libertine-women/276511.md?page=2)