Just read the wiki for the song
" The instrumental version of the song is often associated with magicians performing their “magical tricks”, and flying trapeze acts, with whom it is often played in the background, especially in animated cartoons. It is so commonly associated with these entertainments as to be iconic, although few people know it the music by name."
Huh. That’s the year I was born.
No worries. I didn’t quote the post I was replying to, since it was immediately above, so I assumed that you hadn’t noticed it and thought my post was sui generis. Taken on its own, it doesn’t make much sense.
It’s possible. Instrumental songs can be maddening that way—you can’t tell anybody the lyrics for them to help you figure out which song it is.
Instrumentals you may not know by name will be my contribution to the thread.
Turkey in the Straw I think this one fell out of favor because it had been used in minstrel shows.
Santo and Johnny’s “Sleepwalk”
The Ventures “Walk, Don’t Run”
Percy Faith “Theme from a Summer Place”
Bob Krewe Generation “Music to Watch Girls By”
Booker T and the MGs “Green Onions”
Mason Williams “Classical Gas”
And a few bonus tracks…
Apollo 100 “Joy” is based on Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” of course.
Lots of people recognize Strauss/Sunrise from “Also Sprach Zarathustra” because it was used in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Here’s a jazz version by Eumir Deodato that I like a lot. His version
And a couple of jazz versions from Bob James.
“In the Garden” he calls it…it’s based on Pachelbel’s Canon in D.
Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” had me at “screaming trumpets.”
OK I’m going to have to analyze this a bit more later. I knew the “One Tin Soldier” bit. Hmm.
Thanks for posting that 
There’s internet lists, but the Rob Rant isn’t a bad summary. Glad I could turn you on to that. Pachelbel is following you and he’ll never rest.
WTWP!* Classical…RADIO!
*wall to wall Pachelbel
I gotta be careful, I’m taking a lot of pain meds. Really don’t remember that at all. It’s actually a little better than when I do remember the stupid things I post here without the lingering memory of the line of reasoning that when wrong.
Those links re-activated a lot of old memories, dormant in some cases for over a half a century. Thanks!
I’ll add Sukiyaki
Interesting fact about Pachelbel’s Rant - only a couple of the songs mentioned follow the Pachelbel chords exactly.
Usually because the songs have a chorus, e.g. Green Day’s Basket Case, which does the Pachelbel thing during the verse.
@squeegee - not really. I looked up Basket Case and it’s all power chords and if you ignore the major/minor thing it’s still not quite right.
Pachelbel is:
I V vi iii IV I IV V
Most of the songs in the rant start
I V vi IV
Basket Case is
I V VI III IV I V
Sure! Did you ever watch the NFL highlight films (narrated by John Facenda, sometimes referred to as the “voice of God”?) This first one has an interesting drum part at 2:00.
Sam Spence Ramblin’ Man from Gramblin’
Speaking of sports…
Thanks. I strum corrected!
Today I was cleaning out my inbox and found an email ca. 2006 from an old classmate which promised lots of cash if I forwarded said email on to others. I googled one of the names in the message body on a lark (to see if it was a real person) and damn if it didn’t turn out there was a whole history to this particular spam email.
Copy This Article & Win Quick Cash! (wired.com article)
I thought it was a neat little bit of Internet history.
Both written by Allen Toussaint!
nevermind
On Mary 28, 1970, more than twenty members of the Baseball Hall of Fame played an exhibition game in honor of Martin Luther King. The managers were Joe Dimaggio and Roy Campanella. Willie Mays flew in from Japan to be there (as a pinch hitter). Bob Gibson wasn’t the starter (Tom Seaver was).
Most interesting to me was Donn Clendenon, who wasn’t initially invited, but who replaced Ken Harrelson and would have come anyway. Clendenon had attended Morehouse College, which had a mentoring system for underclassmen. Who was his mentor? Martin Luther King.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/01/18/martin-luther-king-day-baseball-hall-of-fame
This is surprising. I’ve certainly heard “Over The Waves”/“The Loveliest Night Of The Year” used in establishing sequences for carnivals, fairs, and circuses, and sometimes for the depictions of carnival rides and individual circus acts. But I’ve never heard that music used in the background for magicians. Is this something I would have seen and heard in classic Warner Brothers cartoons, or is it a more recent development?