# Help me identify this ringtone from 2007's Jekyll **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-ringtone-from-2007s-jekyll/833178 "2019-04-28T17:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-ringtone-from-2007s-jekyll/833178/1 "2019-04-28T17:22:48Z")
You can hear it here [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zP68NgUWtnI/hqdefault.jpg "Jᴇᴋʏʟʟ ► (2007) || Eᴘ 6/6 ||") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP68NgUWtnI) I would like to set it as my own ringtone. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-ringtone-from-2007s-jekyll/833178/2 "2019-04-30T08:47:37Z")
Blocked in my country on copyright grounds. My country being where Jekyll originally aired, which might be a problem for getting am answer. ---
**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 30, 2019, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-ringtone-from-2007s-jekyll/833178/3 "2019-04-30T11:37:32Z")
Oh, good God, no! That’s from [the Crazy Frog cover of Axel F](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE). [Here’s it cut down to the right place](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnrnGX01VzI). ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-ringtone-from-2007s-jekyll/833178/4 "2019-04-30T13:16:47Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Oh, good God, no! > > That’s from [the Crazy Frog cover of Axel F](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE). > > [Here’s it cut down to the right place](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnrnGX01VzI). Ha, ha! Awesome. SDMB wins again! Thank you, pulykamell. ---
**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 30, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-ringtone-from-2007s-jekyll/833178/5 "2019-04-30T14:11:44Z")
> [@TGWATY](#): > > Ha, ha! Awesome. SDMB wins again! Thank you, pulykamell. I’m stunned it took that long! We’re slacking here. That tune was an international hit fourteen years ago (shit, has it really been that long?) Number 1 on Swedish, Australian, Belgian, French, Irish, New Zealand, Swiss, and UK charts (!?) #3 in Germany, but only #50 in the US. I would have had it earlier had I seem that thread, of course. 🙂 ---
**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 30, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-ringtone-from-2007s-jekyll/833178/6 "2019-04-30T14:22:35Z")
Actually, let’s add a little content and trivia to this. [Here’s the original, longer version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=v3e3NB14-eM) of the sound. While I know it only from being used in Crazy Frog, its history apparently goes back farther than that. > [@](#): > > In 1997, 17-year-old Gothenburg student Daniel Malmedahl recorded himself imitating the noises produced by a two stroke engine. He posted this on a website and caught the attention of a Swedish television researcher, who convinced Daniel to perform the sound live on air.[1] After it debuted on television, recordings of his performance began appearing on file sharing networks and various websites under the filename “2TAKTARE.MP3” (“Tvåtaktare” is Swedish for “two stroker”). From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog). Then it got hooked up [with some computer animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JycywHVPYjg) by another Swede in late 2003 and went for what passed for “viral” back in the day. Ya know, now that I see that animation again, that does start to ring a bell. It doesn’t seem that Axel F has that exact sound played verbatim in it, but rather chopped up and run with some effects, so I guess it’s not technically from Crazy Frog’s “Axel F,” but rather from a funny WAV file a Swedish kid uploaded to the internet in 1997 that was further popularized by a video called “The Annoying Thing” in late 2003. ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-ringtone-from-2007s-jekyll/833178/7 "2019-05-04T15:04:42Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Actually, let’s add a little content and trivia to this. Kooky. Thanks for sharing.