# Help Me Identify This Song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 27, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/664677 "2013-07-27T16:39:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/664677/1 "2013-07-27T16:39:31Z")

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DISCLAIMER: Please forgive my utter inability to describe music, and musical functions, in a way that musicians understand, and try to get by on my layman’s explanation.

First, go here: [http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources\_ftp/client\_ftp/ks2/music/piano/organ.htm](http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/organ.htm) and set it to Organ.

Second, mentally transport yourself to the 50’s. You’re at a dinner party at Don Draper’s house. The air is filled with cigarette smoke. Cocktails are flowing. Someone puts a cool record on the turntable, and this is what you hear:

E-F-G (where each is a whole note, and they sort-of run into each other).

-brief rest-

B-B-B-B-B (where each is a very brief, individual note- maybe eighth notes?)

-very brief rest-

B-B-B-

-very brief rest-

B-flat-b

-very brief rest-

A-A-A-A-A

-very brief rest-

A-A-A

Is this ringing a bell for anyone?

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**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/664677/2 "2013-07-27T18:15:53Z")

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Could it be the theme song to _A Man and a Woman_?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/664677/3 "2013-07-27T18:21:58Z")

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> [@HeyHomie](#):
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> Is this ringing a bell for anyone?

With all those repeated notes, “ringing a bell” is about the best description I can come up with for it.

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**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/664677/4 "2013-07-27T18:25:03Z")

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_[A Man and a Woman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UYTLIdjSyc)_

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**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/664677/5 "2013-07-27T18:35:12Z")

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That’s my guess, too.

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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/664677/6 "2013-07-27T19:41:26Z")

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_Man and a Woman_ it is! Thanks!