# Let's list the 5-note themes we're used to hearing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-the-5-note-themes-were-used-to-hearing/693446 "2014-07-18T12:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-the-5-note-themes-were-used-to-hearing/693446/1 "2014-07-18T12:45:48Z")
Perhaps the most recognizable one is [Five-Note Sequence from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpsEqINeMS4) Also, there’s the T-Mobile theme (comes after the Nokia theme) at the end of [Nokia theme tune and tmobile theme tune. Learnt by ear](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QY-x9wFP1k) – starts at 0:18 here Still another, that may show your age if you recognize it immediately, is the intro to [Mr. Lucky Theme - Henry Mancini](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L455z60v9Vs) Please at least identify _by name of product or show or whatever_ or with a YouTube (or other) sound clip. And please try to refrain from the “dum-dah-dum-de-dum” identifiers if you possibkly can. How many must there be? \<\< We may need another thread to deal with the 4-note goodies like [Theme to Beethoven, Symphony No. 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrOq3QilPx8) \>\> Although this is kind of a Game, I figured CS was more likely to attract notice. We’ll see… ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-the-5-note-themes-were-used-to-hearing/693446/2 "2014-07-18T15:01:34Z")
There’s the [Intel theme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRLyMjvug1M), with [some back story](http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/20/business/fi-24321). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-the-5-note-themes-were-used-to-hearing/693446/3 "2014-07-18T20:48:37Z")
Well, it looks like this is far from a wildfire topic! Just to keep the thread in view a little longer I’m going to mention a few “opening phrase” themes (if you can call them that) to a few “popular” (as opposed to Classical) songs: [" I REMEMBER YOU " TONY BENNETT ARRANGED BY JOHNNY MANDEL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yslez7Ds0xM) [Ella & Louis - Autumn in New York](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50zL8TnMBN8) [moonlight in vermont willie nelson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M52UCChnME) [Tex Ritter - High Noon~Do Not Forsake Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTZ8MEi2yCo) [The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnkEZcTXu4k) [Frank Sinatra - Fly me to the moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhujM7T1_fQ) [“Love Me or Leave Me” Doris Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMY5HnL4qM) [Andy Griffith - Down In The Valley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJGuaNbXJ4) – Oh, and by the way, that’s [Tatum O’Neal’s mama singing!](https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AtIgCxYS0k2aYMaHAlaLWXSbvZx4?fr=yfp-t-644-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=joanna%20moore%20actress) ---
**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:** [July 19, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-the-5-note-themes-were-used-to-hearing/693446/4 "2014-07-19T02:52:26Z")
[Woody Woodpecker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xan2dkMouM) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-the-5-note-themes-were-used-to-hearing/693446/5 "2014-07-19T04:12:31Z")
[Thus Spoke Zarathustra](http://youtu.be/o09L-hkrzhw?t=20s) from \*2001: A Space Odyssey \* ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-list-the-5-note-themes-were-used-to-hearing/693446/6 "2014-07-19T04:49:47Z")
[Somewhere there’s music…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOzB7I2y7Ic)