# Name this tune, please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [February 6, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440 "2026-02-06T15:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/1 "2026-02-06T15:00:59Z")
This lives in my head sometimes. Pretty sure it’s Tin Pan Alley, but what the heck is it? [https://onlinesequencer.net/5191171](https://onlinesequencer.net/5191171) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/2 "2026-02-06T15:24:05Z")
“Tonight You Belong to Me” . Known to most from the Steve Martin-Bernadette Peters duet in _The Jerk_. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/3 "2026-02-06T15:33:30Z")
Thank you! I only barely remember _The Jerk_ and might never have come up with that. The Lennon Sisters’ version probably appeared in my YouTube algorithm at some point in the past year. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/4 "2026-02-06T15:36:45Z")
Well, if you have ever spent more than five minutes with someone learning to play the ukulele, there is a 99% chance that’s when you heard it. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/5 "2026-02-06T15:46:22Z")
I hope you didn’t just reinfect me. > [@Quick, what's your current earworm?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/1684): > > More than a week ago I looked into the theme song for It: Welcome to Derry [[IT: Welcome to Derry Season 1 Opening Title Sequence] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wl4nzJEgIM) I found that it was a song (that I’d never heard of) by a duo (that I’d never heard of) called Patience and Prudence. Looking for info on Patience and Prudence, I found them doing a cover of Tonight You Belong to Me [image] Which I remembered having been in a Steve Martin movie. I was thinking The Man With Two Brains, but it w… ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/6 "2026-02-06T15:50:21Z")
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/7 "2026-02-06T15:52:57Z")
No, Tonight You Belong to Me wasn’t in _Welcome to Derry_, it was another thing that the girls who sang the theme song covered. But you might have read the earworm thread. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/8 "2026-02-06T15:56:50Z")
Got it. This is one of those songs that got better after the original version. In the 20s it was recorded as a ballad, and quite lugubriously IMO. [Gene Austin](https://youtu.be/S-HoFhLRuO4?si=Eogt8bpe1xH2udH0) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/9 "2026-02-06T16:00:35Z")
It was a minor hit for Dottie West on the Country music charts about a year before Steve Martin got his hands on it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-tune-please/1027440/10 "2026-02-06T16:36:04Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > “Tonight You Belong to Me” . Known to most from the Steve Martin-Bernadette Peters duet in _The Jerk_. With a trumpet solo. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wyinJyWUhas/maxresdefault.jpg "Tonight You Belong To Me; Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters The Jerk 1979 (High Quality)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyinJyWUhas)