# Those tunes behind circus and magicians' acts

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 25, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-tunes-behind-circus-and-magicians-acts/561900 "2010-11-25T17:38:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-tunes-behind-circus-and-magicians-acts/561900/21 "2011-11-04T08:55:53Z")

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i’m a bit more fascinated by choices for olympic figure skating. russians almost always have a section devoted to ochi chornya and titana. americans like love songs and movie themes. david santee did the theme music for rocky. one guy did moolight sonata. unforgettable was the pair of randy gardner and tai babilonia. they used the music of battlestar galactica.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-tunes-behind-circus-and-magicians-acts/561900/22 "2011-11-04T11:27:54Z")

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Last time I caught some figure skating with Mom, we started counting uses of Concierto de Aranjuez after it came up for the third time. We eventually got up to eight and the show hadn’t ended yet. Capricho Español is a popular one as well.

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-tunes-behind-circus-and-magicians-acts/561900/23 "2011-11-04T15:01:25Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> You’re so welcome! I’m glad it was bugging more than just me and that I could provide a service to any and all. 😃
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> It would be great if we could have a thread that was devoted to helping people get the names for tunes they can whistle or hum but have no good clue to the name of the piece.
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> I’ve had poor luck with such websites that attempt that. Their libraries seem to be too limited for my tastes.

I found the one where you actually hum the tune you have in mind into the computer microphone. The one I wanted was a moody instrumental that was very familiar, like a ‘standard’, such as Smoke Gets In Your Eyes or Begin the Beguine. I tried three times, and each time, this website gave me the same answer: “Baby Got Back”. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: Yeah, I gots buns, hon, but what is that f’ing tune??

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