Just the other day I hear Celestial Soda Pop by Ray Lynch. It is a great little song that I guarantee most of you have heard before, but never knew the title of.
What are some other examples of this? I think that O’Fortuna could fall under this category.
For a helluva long time I didn’t know the name or even the artist of a really cool (in my opinion) song. Turned out to be Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill.
That song that Michael Jordan used to come out to. I have no clue what it is called.
That Whoo Hoo! song from Starship Troopers. That one I do know Song #2 by someone.
That would be Woo Hoo by Blur.
Don’t know about “everyone” and “no one”, but a lot of people think Space Oddity is called Major Tom. I guess anytime you give a pop song a title that’s not in the lyrics, you’re asking for trouble.
Definitely cool.
Nice italicizing, TW.
The “Woo Hoo” song is actually called Song 2. What Michael Jordan song are we talking about?
The Chicago Bulls player intro song, which I think is Sirius, by the Alan Parsons Project. At least it used to be. It fits the topic well.
I think Green Onions by Booker T and the MG’s would fit in here. I had to actively seek it out.
There’s Perpetuum Mobile by the Penguin Café Orchestra. A really great song that everyone’s heard but no-one knows the name of.
For those who listen to 70s radio stations, there’s the 1970 song “Tighter, Tighter” by the one-hit wonder Alive & Kicking. It the one that goes like this:
*Hold on
Just a little bit tighter now, baby
I love you so much and
I can`t let go, no no no
Hold on, a just a little bit
Tighter now, baby
*
…
Another one from around the same era was the Ides of March tune “Vehicle”. Almost everyone recognizes the song, but most everyone who hears the song a) doesn’t know the title, and b) thinks it’s Blood, Sweat and Tears – it’s a pretty close sound-alike:
*Im your vehicle, baby Ill take you anywhere you wanna go
Im your vehicle, woman By now, Im sure you know
That I love you (love you)
I need you (need you)
I want you, got to have you, child
Great God in heaven
You know I love you
*
Thought of another one … Greg Kihn’s first top-10 hit. No … not “Jeopardy”, but this driving rocker with a twinge of surf-influenced rhythm guitar:
*We had broken up for good
Just an hour before
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
And now Im staring at the bodies As theyre dancing cross the floor
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
And then the band
Slowed the tempo and
The music gets you down
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
It was the same old song
With a melancholy sound
Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
They dont write em Like that anymore They just dont write em
Like that anymore
*
What’s the title? The tune is familiar to classic-rock fans, but the artist and title usually are not. It’s “The Breakup Song (They Dont Write Em)”.
The prelude to Act 3 of Longerin by Wagner. Used as heroic rescue music today, it was the prelude to what happened below.
“The Bridal Chorus” in the same opera was written for the bridal chamber scene in which intrigues were revealed.
Are you familiar with the Who song with the famous synthesizer play at he beginning? No not “Won’t be Fooled Again”, the one with the much better opening riff, with “It’s Only Teenage Wasteland” in the chorus. Yep, that’s “Baba O’Reily”.
Okay, I always thought that the Ides of March recorded “Vechile,” then Blood, Sweat, and Tears covered it. That cover is the one we’re all familar with or so I thought. Are you sure BST didn’t record a version, bordelond, I swear the lead singer of the version I’m thinking of is David-Clayton Jones (isn’t that his last name? I’m drawing a blank).
It’s David Clayton Thomas, and as far as I know, BST never covered “Vehicle.”
The Bob Dylan song with the refrain “Everybody must get stoned” is actually titled Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35.
What most people call “the Charlie Brown music” is titled Linus and Lucy.
Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. It’s most often referred to as “The Dating Game theme”.
“Classical Gas.” I’d heard it dozens of times, but I didn’t know the name of it until I saw an infomercial for “best instrumentals.” Same with “Run, Don’t Walk.”
Not only does nobody know the real name of the song, everybody hears that line and goes “Huh huhuh, stoned. He’s talking about pot!” 
Suicide Is Painless.
Yes, there are people who know that the theme music to MAS*H is actually a song, but those who know (or heck, those who can sing it) seem to be a minority.
Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be…
O fortuna?
The music from from the omen??
if so then its by Carl Orff, and is from a piece of music called Carmina Burana… I think anyway.