# Help me identify this pop instrumental please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468 "2011-11-01T06:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/41 "2016-04-29T23:58:18Z")
Zombies do instrumentals because the only lyric they know is “Braaaaaiiiinnnssss…” ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/42 "2016-04-30T00:20:21Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Have you got Shazam on your iPhone… Phone… hone… one… ne… e? Yeah it’s time we all download Shazam on our phones, good for times when we hear a song we like and try to identify. Especially with instrumentals. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/43 "2016-04-30T00:22:18Z")
I’m waiting for **Nobody** to reply to the above posts and confirm or not if those are songs he/she is looking for. I tried to take a stab at the song, but the link seems to be dead. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/44 "2016-04-30T01:13:32Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > I’m waiting for **Nobody** Samuel Beckett, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/45 "2016-04-30T01:33:16Z")
I’ve had success with two instrumentals I couldn’t identify by plunking them out on a guitar and posting a link to a recording here. Isn’t there an online piano or something you could use to do this? here’s a [virtual piano](http://virtualpiano.net/). I use audacity to record. ---
**Author:** ![BigBillyG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@BigBillyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBillyG)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/46 "2017-03-31T17:45:18Z")
I know this post is 6 years old or so, but the song you are looking for sir is called “Breezin’” by George Benson. 1976. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/47 "2017-03-31T18:31:36Z")
“Moonlight Seems Right”? :dubious: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HYnQsvtfEsQ/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGEQgUyhlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCzLZ1Kini6uWmypMOOc9mHkUOamQ "Starbuck - Moonlight Feels Right") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYnQsvtfEsQ) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/48 "2017-03-31T20:09:28Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > It doesn’t have a xylophone, it’s from the wrong century, and it goes “me me me” instead of “do do do”, but could it be Beaker from the Muppets performing the [Ode to Joy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA&feature=relmfu)? I missed this the first time around. So it took five and a half years longer than it needed to for my life to be made complete. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/49 "2017-04-01T08:49:03Z")
Oh wow, I didn’t realize this had been revived. Before I saw this I thought about embarrassing myself by recording my voice doing part of the instrumental but decided against it. But since the thread is back, maybe I’ll record myself and post it Sat or Sun. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/50 "2017-04-03T07:41:08Z")
OK, if you click [here](https://clyp.it/user/wwtwaao3) you can hear me try and imitate part of the instrumental. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/51 "2017-04-03T14:38:47Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > Crap, now I’m stuck with all these earworms. I thought you meant the xylophone kicked in during an insturmental part. > > [Yadig by the James Gang](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dCEzC-vuis)? > > I got nuthin’. Wow, thanks for the flashback! ---
**Author:** ![nate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nate/32/13085_2.png) [@nate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nate)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/52 "2017-04-03T19:34:23Z")
> [@initech](#): > > Abandoning the xylophone, perhaps the Axel F Theme? > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dASqLXiuomY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dASqLXiuomY) I think there is actually a xylophone in this song, or at least a synth that sounds like a xylophone. This song was real popular in the mid 80s… I always get it confused with another candidate, [Rockit by Herbie Hancock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/53 "2017-04-03T20:14:48Z")
> [@nate](#): > > I think there is actually a xylophone in this song, or at least a synth that sounds like a xylophone. There’s a glassy Yamaha DX7 sound in what I would call the bridge of that song. It’s not a xylophone, but it has that kind of digital vibe-marimba kind of sound to it. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/54 "2017-04-03T21:43:50Z")
It almost sounds like the breakdown from [Funkytown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF77Y1JLScc) around the 4:20 mark. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/55 "2017-04-03T21:55:39Z")
Thanks for singing it, six years after we asked you to :). So, it’s minor key, and has that sort of triplet phrase. This probably isn’t it, but what the heck: [Theme from Fletch](Theme from Fketch), by Harold Faltermeyer. Tierra del Fuego! ---
**Author:** ![Miles\_Standoffish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/54ee81/32.png) [@Miles\_Standoffish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miles_Standoffish)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/56 "2017-04-04T05:17:05Z")
Not Paul Hardcastle - Rainforest? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/57 "2017-04-04T22:02:20Z")
> [@Miles\_Standoffish](#): > > Not Paul Hardcastle - Rainforest? I like your username!! ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/58 "2017-04-05T00:38:05Z")
Finally found it. It doesn’t sound quite like I remember. Either I didn’t quite remember it correctly, or I heard a different version. Hiroshima - [One Wish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJEzRA_FbFo) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/59 "2017-04-05T00:42:20Z")
The good news is I have never heard this song before, so I don’t feel bad for not getting it. That is brain-crawlingly 80s though. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468/60 "2017-04-05T01:03:59Z")
I was hoping that the final reveal would produce a “Oh, yeah! I DO remember that one!” But, nope. Don’t recall that one at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-pop-instrumental-please/601468.md?page=4)