There’s just one lick I keep coming back to: It starts out climbing the scale (with some noodly variation), hits a note at the top, and then comes back down. It may have a female vocalist, or just horns.
DA-da-da-DA-da-da-DA-da-da-DA-da-da-DAAAAAAAAAA! (top of scale)
Da-DA-da-da, DA-da-da-daaaaaaaaaa! (back down)
I’ve seen enough successful song identifications here to trust you guys. What the heck is this one?
I don’t suppose it’s the climbing trumpet riff at the end of Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood”? I know that just gets louder and higher, but I don’t remember it coming back down. Can you describe the song any more? The instrument? Where you might hav heard it?
No, this was definitely the main melody, it was repeated several times as I listened to the song. It was played in the lobby of a theater before a performance Room Service (which, for the record, was produced in 1937. Not sure if the song was written/released in the same year, but knowing the theater’s attention to detail, it may very well have been).
Okay, I just plunked it out on an online piano keyboard, and here’s what I’ve got (starting on the F above middle C, with emphasized notes in bold and middle C in italics:
F-C-F-G-C-G-A-C-A-Bb-C-Bb-C
Bb-A-G-F-G-D-E-F
So, obviously it’s in F, if that helps anyone. You can go here to plunk it out.
Here is a midi version of TL’s mystery melody.
Did I get it right? I still don’t recognize it.
Nnnnot quite right.
The middle C is kind of a base that the scale-climbing keeps coming back to: if you take out the Cs, it’s F, F-G, G-A, A-Bb, Bb-C (that last C is at the top of the scale, an octave above middle C). So it climbs up very simply, and just sort of “touches” on the Cs at the bottom. And the first note of each climbing pair is twice as long as the other notes: Daaa-da-da-daaa-da-da-daaa-da-da-daaa-da-da-daaaaaaa! (The C at the top is held for a while.) Coming back down, every third note is emphasized/held: da-daaa-da-da-daaa-da-da-daaa. The Bb at the beginning of the descent has sort of a pickup feel.
Could it have been Rio, by Duran and the Duran Swing Band?
Is that a whoosh?
A new one! I haven’t kept up. :smack:
How else do we make you feel loved? 
Bumping this back onto the front page, because seriously, I have to know what this song is. (For the record, the MIDI that Fear Itself made – although I’m grateful 
– isn’t very close.)
can you describe the tune more?
Is it fast or slow? Is it a solo or a band?