The Kohl’s holiday commercials (with the turkeys running around) and some of the Travelocity Roaming Gnome commercials feature it. It starts with a violin playing liltingly and then some brass instuments come in (as if they’re answering the violin) and then it’s the violin responding to that. Sounds like a light-hearted classical piece but I don’t recall ever hearing it on our local station. Does anyone have any ideas what it might be?
Thanks for your help.
Is it in this one?
Yup. Does it sound familiar to anyone?
I wish I could answer for you, but I don’t know it (other than it being “the Travelocity music”) and putting the notes into Musipedia doesn’t return anything that looks like this piece should look in notation.
I knew that it was a piece of production music, and I knew it was from the same production music library that that Simpsons parody that is in the running for Most Overused Piece of Production Music Ever (“Bartmania,” which turns out to be written by Fairly Oddparents composer Guy Moon!), so searching the Associated Production Music website, I see the title is “Cartooniacs,” composed by Charlie Brisette (Jimmy Neutron’s resident composer). I had no idea cartoon composers wrote production music on the side.
My mistake, “Cartooniacs” is more of a goofy, cat-chases-mouse theme. The correct title for the piece in questions is “Oh Ma Ma Mia!,” composed by Brisette and Tom Ambuster.
That explains why I’ve never heard it on our classical music station. Thanks, mobo85 and jayjay for your help!
Now I’m off to check out both those sites more thoroughly.