# Music Quiz -- no fair Googling (or other search) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515 "2010-07-04T14:30:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **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 4, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/1 "2010-07-04T14:30:08Z")
Ever since some time yesterday, off and on, I’ve been dealing with an earworm that wouldn’t go away. So first thing this morning I had to go let Yahoo! search get me out of my pain. From the results of the search I suspect I might still be trying to identify the name of the song and where I first heard it. On your honor not to go using internet cheats to locate the answer, see if you can identify the title and – if possible – the source for this partial lyric. Better yet, do it now, after reading the OP and before looking at other replies (if any). “…when I hear that happy beat feel like dancing down the street…” ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/2 "2010-07-04T14:43:53Z")
Don’t Worry, Be Happy, Bobby Mc Ferrin? It scans, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/3 "2010-07-04T14:48:39Z")
Puttin’ on the Ritz ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/4 "2010-07-04T20:09:07Z")
Cuban Pete ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/5 "2010-07-04T20:18:18Z")
[spoiler]Tootsie rolls are fun to eat Steak and kidney pie I got nothing.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/6 "2010-07-04T21:17:36Z")
Okay. Most of the day is long enough to drag this out. [http://sfgk.free.fr/broadwaymelody.htm](http://sfgk.free.fr/broadwaymelody.htm) [Singin - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singin)’\_in\_the\_Rain [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWBOfsXsDA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWBOfsXsDA) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc16m2B2K1g](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc16m2B2K1g) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/7 "2010-07-04T22:42:07Z")
Now that we have the answer, I gotta say that the connections we make to identify a song (or book or movie etc.) are amazing. One of my daughter’s favorite things to do on holidays is send me YouTube links for favorite songs. She’ll send one that’ll remind me of another one. For July 4, she sent [Mr. Jaws, a family favorite and appropriate for summer.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDNlSpKLEEo) For no logical reason, that reminded me of a song I liked from the 70’s/80’s, but all I could remember was that it had the word “love” in the title, so a google search wouldn’t be helpful. I knew the song was from a group and the name “George” popped in my head and then “Hamilton” and then Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds and [I remembered the song!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_3QqzI23sE) What’s weird is that there’s no George in the name, but my brain went there anyway, so I could get the Hamilton. Brains iz weerd. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/8 "2010-07-04T23:04:32Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Now that we have the answer, I gotta say that the connections we make to identify a song (or book or movie etc.) are amazing. > > \<\< snipped \>\> > > What’s weird is that there’s no George in the name, but my brain went there anyway, so I could get the Hamilton. > > Brains iz weerd. You speak truth. The things that were cluttering my head on identifying this song were that somehow I had Gene, Donald and Debbie singing it, and that was _Good Morning_ and I knew _Make Them Laugh_ wasn’t it. What’s so rewarding in the search today was that I finally managed to locate our old VHS copy of SITR and fast-forwarded to the scene with Gene doing the hoofer looking for a job thing. I had no memory of its sequeing into that amazing Cyd Charisse bit (both of them) and that blew me away. That’s the most dazzling and memorable dance sequence I have ever seen and somehow I want to remember it as from _An American in Paris_. Unfortunaterly, I haven’t found a YouTube clip with the words being sung by Kelly. Other clips have it, but they’re pretty weak. There’s even some amateur production of SITR! Pales by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/9 "2010-07-05T04:38:40Z")
“Broadway Melody,” sung by Gene Kelly. And I didn’t cheat. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/10 "2010-07-05T13:26:42Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > “Broadway Melody,” sung by Gene Kelly. And I didn’t cheat. Great to hear that I’m not the only one to have this tune and lyrics snippet available for earworm recall. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-no-fair-googling-or-other-search/545515/11 "2010-07-05T21:33:24Z")
Without reading any replies . . . Don’t know the title. Gene Kelly dances to female voices singing it in \*\*Singin in the Rain \*\*during the long, fantasy sequence. He actually performs it three different ways, becoming more posh each time until he ends up in a tux, barely able to summon the effort to kick. **Singing in the Rain** is on my top 10 list of favorite movies–I’ve seen in countless times. The ditty may have (probably) originated somewhere else, but that is my connection. Now I’ll read the thread.