I don’t think it’s from a movie or TV show, but I’m sure everyone has heard it at some time in their life. It’s a kind of slow, rambling, banjo or rinkey-tink piano “wagon-train/way out West” piece that might have once been played in a saloon or out on the prairie. It’s similar to (but definitely NOT) “Farewell to Cheyenne” in Once Upon a Time in the West.
Any ideas?
Thanks, but none of those.
I don’t think it’s a traditional folk tune. I think it was written as a popular tune around the middle of the 20th century.
I have little idea.
Maybe:
Nope, not those either.
The melody goes “Do-do, do-doo / do-do, do-doo. / Do do-do, doodley-DOO! / Do-do, do-doo / do-do do-doo. Do do-do, doodley-DOO!”
Very slow and plodding, kind of like the rhythm of a horse walking. Definitely in a minor key.
Ok…one more guess since I love this song (and the documentary I first heard it in), Seems to fit your do…do…do thing.
Nope. I know all of those you mentioned, so i wouldn’t have trouble identifying them.
The one I’m thinking of should go on the list “Tunes You’ve Heard a Million Times but Can’t Name.”
Are you sure it’s not “Powerhouse”? It seems like forever since we’ve had that meme so I thought I’d shoehorn it in here.
Nope. So far as I know, it was never featured in a Looney Tune or a Merrie Melody.
For purposes of comparison, this is “Farewell to Cheyenne”:
This won’t be it, but here’s the Steptoe and Son theme tune.
That’s actually pretty close, but mine isn’t as “upbeat.”
Oh! Susannah?
On The Trail, from The Grand Canyon Suite?
“Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling?”
No, no, no, and no. Sorry!
Was it more Tiomkin, more Morricone or more Roy Rogers?
That was my thought, as well.
Yes! this is what I was thinking …“On the Trail”
I assume it’s an instrumental, with no words?