# Name of song - At Speedy you're a somebody...

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 6, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-song-at-speedy-youre-a-somebody/107460 "2002-05-06T01:47:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Neptune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@Neptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptune)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-song-at-speedy-youre-a-somebody/107460/1 "2002-05-06T01:47:20Z")

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Deedeedeedeedeedeedeedee Dum Dum Dum Dum Bombom Bombom Bom Bom Bom!

What’s the name of that piece of music?

How can I describe the piece of music I want here textually? The only way I can think is to reference a commercial that uses the music. So it’s the music used in the old commercial for Speedy Muffler that goes

“At Speedy you’re a somebody./We fix your muffler expertly/…”

Does that help?

One friend suggested either Verdi or Rogers and Hammerstein, but he’s not sure.

When wil there be a music database where you can, like, hum a song, and the computer tells you what song you’re humming?

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-song-at-speedy-youre-a-somebody/107460/2 "2002-05-06T02:05:13Z")

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Is it possibly the “CanCan” music? Seems to fit the rhythm pattern.

Midi file.  
[http://members.aol.com/\_ht\_a/buls233391/cancan.mid](http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/buls233391/cancan.mid)

If so, that’s Jacques Offenbach, technically from a piece called “Gaite Parisienne”.

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**Author:** ![Neptune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@Neptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptune)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-song-at-speedy-youre-a-somebody/107460/3 "2002-05-06T02:09:54Z")

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That’s exactly it! Thanks.