# Top Fifty Most-Recognized Tunes

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-fifty-most-recognized-tunes/361475
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 20, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-fifty-most-recognized-tunes/361475 "2006-06-20T20:21:28Z")
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### Author: ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-fifty-most-recognized-tunes/361475/21 "2006-06-21T14:51:34Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> How about some classic tv themes, like The Twilight Zone’s "doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo "?

And whatever the eee-eee-eee-eee music is playing in Psycho (combined with jabbing hand movement)…

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### Author: ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-fifty-most-recognized-tunes/361475/22 "2006-06-21T15:14:54Z")

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And, of course, everybody knows Wagner’s _Ride of the Valkyries_, not only from a classical music perspective, but from a variety of pop-culture references as well (_Apocalypse Now_, “Kill the Wabbit!”)

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