# Mystery Song redux, now with a link! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767 "2018-08-17T02:07:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/1 "2018-08-17T02:07:03Z")
A few months ago I posted [a thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=848951) asking for help identifying a mystery song that keeps cropping up in the rotation for the Seeburg 1000–the very definition of elevator music–and it’s a neat tune, but I just can’t place it. It was performed by a studio orchestra so it won’t be searchable via Shazam-like services, and my attempts at searching in Musipedia failed. The song sounds like a catchy show tune or something like that. Unfortunately, nobody quite figured out what it is in that thread. I have finally captured it: [Mystery Song](https://soundcloud.com/minor7flat5-748141182/mystery-song/s-4SwK5) (Soundcloud) Have a listen and see if you know what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/2 "2018-08-17T02:16:40Z")
Sounds a lot like theme music (opening or closing or both) to a TV show, possibly even British. Might have words, but doesn’t need them. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/3 "2018-08-17T03:42:26Z")
I think its a Broadway show opener or intermission cut. I would like to say Oklahoma or something upbeat. Can’t pin it down yet. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/4 "2018-08-17T04:19:24Z")
Speaking of musicals, the style is more like that of Li’l Abner than of Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_Full\_of\_Neutrality](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ab992/32.png) [@Heart\_Full\_of\_Neutrality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_Full_of_Neutrality)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/5 "2018-08-17T04:30:32Z")
It reminds me of “I Got Rhythm”. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/6 "2018-08-17T05:14:38Z")
I listened to some lil’Abner, Calaminty Jane, Harvey Girls. Nothing yet. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/7 "2018-08-17T09:24:12Z")
I hear a touch of “You are my sunshine” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/8 "2018-08-17T10:52:27Z")
Sounds like the theme of a '60s sitcom, or maybe a Disney movie of the '60s or early '70s. Very catchy tune, though. I’d be humming it on my way out of the cinema. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2018, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/9 "2018-08-17T12:15:09Z")
I’ve got this song… somewhere. Now I need to eliminate my other 28,968 tracks to identify it. It definitely has words, and the phrase “mi-re-do-la” is “\_\_\_ and \_\_\_”. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/10 "2018-08-17T12:52:04Z")
It sounds like the intro music to one of those comedic westerns. Kinda a loping, moving along music. It’s so familiar sounding. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/11 "2018-08-17T13:16:52Z")
Very familiar sounding, so another option is that it’s not something we would know but something that just was written to be one of those songs. I wish my mom were in the country, I’d send her the link! She would likely recognize it if it were from the 40s or so. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/12 "2018-08-17T13:22:47Z")
I’m pretty certain that this is a recognizable named tune from some show–the Seeburg library consisted of mainly orchestral versions of contemporary music, ranging from show tunes to the occasional Beatles song, so it is almost certainly a song with a name. We’re tantalizingly close! A jaunty melody indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/13 "2018-08-17T13:32:45Z")
I am listening to some intro-music to those comedic westerns. Nothing yet. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/14 "2018-08-17T13:38:37Z")
Have you tried calling or writing to Seeburg? They have [a website](http://seeburg1000.com/) with [a contact form, mailing address, and phone number for questions](http://seeburg1000.com/contact/). ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/15 "2018-08-17T14:29:25Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > Have you tried calling or writing to Seeburg? They have [a website](http://seeburg1000.com/) with [a contact form, mailing address, and phone number for questions](http://seeburg1000.com/contact/). I’m not sure that would be of much use–it’s all un-Shazamable analog media, so they would have to do the same guessing game we are doing here. There is one difference: if I were to hear it playing on their streaming station, I could say “What was the song playing at time X on date Y” and they _might_ possibly be able to say something like “Song 14 on BA115B” (BAsic collection, record 115; side B). The records themselves don’t list the songs, so it would then be up to whether Seeburg has a record of what songs were on what disc. But isn’t it more fun to see if the 'Dope can figure it out? ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/16 "2018-08-17T14:37:53Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > The records themselves don’t list the songs, so it would then be up to whether Seeburg has a record of what songs were on what disc. I’d be very surprised if they didn’t. They’re the ones who produced the records, after all. Could be they have some archivists or other people working there that know their collection inside out. > [@](#): > > But isn’t it more fun to see if the 'Dope can figure it out? Sure, but Dopers often consult outside sources. And what better source to consult then the, uh, source? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/17 "2018-08-17T14:39:02Z")
It’s so close to, “The Great Escape,” but it isn’t. I’ve checked a few dozen war movies from the '60s and '70s (Many are very similar) and it’s NOT: The Longest Day A Bridge Too Far Stalag 17 Kelly’s Heroes Von Ryan’s Express Battle of Britain (I only mention these in case it jogs someone’s memory.) ---
**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:** [August 17, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/18 "2018-08-17T15:42:51Z")
As has been mentioned, it sounds like something from Li’l Abner. The only other show by that composer (Gene de Paul) was “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” And I don’t think it’s from that show. ---
**Author:** ![Rahne\_McCloud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rahne\_McCloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rahne_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/19 "2018-08-17T17:45:50Z")
No, it’s not from 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, more like Here Comes the Brides. Both sound like they were written about the same decade. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767/20 "2018-08-17T23:16:13Z")
I don’t know that it is, but don’t forget the possibility that it could be a medley of several popular songs. That may be why people hear parts of various songs in it. To me, it sounds like an overture from a musical: One of those songs they play before the curtain opens that contains a few bars from a lot of the songs that will be performed during the play. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-song-redux-now-with-a-link/819767.md?page=2)