…it’s an instrumental clip, about 10 seconds, featured in the movie Death to Smoochy—it doesn’t appear to be listed in the song credits, like a couple of the other pieces used in the same scene.
It sounds familiar as hell, I just can’t place it. Can anyone help?
I don’t recognise it, but it sounds Russian or Turkish.
Damn, here I was pumped to be first in thinking I had a chance.
You sure it’s not just part of the soundtrack? IMDB has David Newman cited as “Original Music.” I just wondered because it sounds awfully modern.
I’m pretty sure—it was set during a stage show in the movie, which was otherwise using preexisting classical music. It was immediately preceeded by a couple of Wagner pieces, Ride of the Valkyries, and The Flying Dutchman, which weren’t listed in the credits, either.
Could it be something from The Red Poppy, maybe?
The part from 5-9 seconds sounds like the end of the opening phrase of “The Mikado” by Gilbert and Sullivan, but you wouldn’t normally hear it in that orchestration. Maybe it’s from Pineapple Poll, the ballet arranged from parts of the various operettas. But I’m just guessing because I don’t have a recording and I’m not all that familiar with the work.
Forget previous post.
IMDB’s soundtrack listing does give Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, so that’s the probable source. Again, I’m not all that familiar with the work, so I don’t know where it might occur.
The phrase I mentioned might have been a common Oriental-type riff, so that’s why it might have shown up in both places.