This should be an easy one! Kicking myself for not figuring it out myself.
Ok, here are the hints:
Sounds vaguely like a march, or possibly a drinking song that got turned in to a patriotic one.
Sounds French to me, my first instinct was Le Marseillaise but that’s not it. Reminds me of the 1812 Overture.
Could also sound Russian. You know, French, Russian, what’s the diff right?
About 100 bpm, perhaps a little quicker. Kind of stately.
Here, let me hum you some of it. Ahem:
Dum, dum de dum dum,
It would be helpful if you upload a sung or whistled version to e.g. YouTube.
WAG: “Those were the Days, My Friend” by Mary Hopkin?
wonky
January 8, 2015, 4:36pm
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Sicks_Ate:
This should be an easy one! Kicking myself for not figuring it out myself.
Ok, here are the hints:
Sounds vaguely like a march, or possibly a drinking song that got turned in to a patriotic one.
Sounds French to me, my first instinct was Le Marseillaise but that’s not it. Reminds me of the 1812 Overture.
Could also sound Russian. You know, French, Russian, what’s the diff right?
About 100 bpm, perhaps a little quicker. Kind of stately.
Here, let me hum you some of it. Ahem:
Dum, dum de dum dum,
Does it have a vocal part, or when you say “sounds French or Russian” are you saying more that it it from the Romantic period of music, like Tchaikovsky?
Not sure if there are lyrics…definitely the latter, though.
wonky
January 8, 2015, 4:43pm
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Nope, but definitely in that vein!
Sounds like Bizet’s “Toreador Song” (starting at about 1:06)?
You might want to try, “Toreador Song ” from Carmen (starts at 1:02). The beginning, of course, was used in, “The Bad News Bears” (among thousands of other places).
wonky
January 8, 2015, 5:03pm
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I don’t think of that as the Toreador Song. I think of it as “that Gilligan’s Island song about money”: Gilligan's Island Polonius' Advice to Laertes sung to the Toreador Song - YouTube
That’s definitely it; though NEVER would have suspected those two part of the song belong together.
kath94
January 8, 2015, 5:05pm
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I couldn’t identify the original, but the first thing I thought of was “Stand Up and Fight ” from “Carmen Jones.”
Several beat me to me with the actual opera song.
Now you’ve done it. This has been in my head for 40 years and now IT’S IN YOURS, BWAA-HA-HA! (start at 3:12)
Grrr
January 8, 2015, 5:15pm
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So weird. Just last night I was racking my brain trying to remember the name of this song. (I couldn’t remember any of the lyrics, I just had the melody stuck in my head.) It took me a good 10 or 15 minutes of poking around on YouTube before I finally figured it out.
