# Name this very familiar tune **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202 "2008-08-25T15:34:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/1 "2008-08-25T15:34:16Z")
In the latest episode of _Mad Men_, about 12 minutes in, Don and Bobbie are traveling by car and the radio is playing an easy-listening tune I’ve heard about a million times in all kinds of circumstances, but never learned the title of. It sounds like it’s being played by the Mantovani orchestra or some such. Can anyone clue me in? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/2 "2008-08-25T16:31:52Z")
I’m going to guess [Clair de Lune](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKPBtZ0Zzok), simply on the “heard about a million times in all kinds of circumstances” line. Never seen the show in question, though. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/3 "2008-08-25T17:08:35Z")
No, that’s not the one. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/4 "2008-08-25T17:11:53Z")
[Found it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykpbKOnN93w&feature=related) ! Apparently it’s the theme from _A Summer Place_. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/5 "2008-08-25T17:14:31Z")
“Rio” by Duran Dur… oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/6 "2008-08-25T17:29:33Z")
[cue Jasper Beardley] the the-e-e-me froma Su-u-mmer’s Pla-a-a-ce. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/7 "2008-08-25T17:31:56Z")
Wasn’t the theme from Summer Place also in _Animal House_? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/8 "2008-08-26T02:50:37Z")
twartme writes: \> “Rio” by Duran Dur… oh, never mind. They played that too. But only once. In 1960. For about twenty minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/9 "2008-08-26T05:06:29Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] I’m going to guess [Clair de Lune](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKPBtZ0Zzok), simply on the “heard about a million times in all kinds of circumstances” line. Never seen the show in question, though. [/QUOTE] That didn’t sound familiar in the least. Where might I have heard it? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-very-familiar-tune/461202/10 "2008-08-26T11:13:19Z")
Off the top of my head, it’s in _Ocean’s Eleven_ and _The Right Stuff_.