And I paid to read threads like this?!?!?! :smack:
(I love it.)
I always associate the Toccata in Fugue with Phantom of the Opera. I NEVER heard of it in association with Dracula.
I remember my high school chorus teacher taking us to the school chapel to break in the new organ, and he played a bit of the Toccata at our request. 
Okay, no worries then.
To continue throwing out titles, Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana is a good one I learned about back in music class. It’s the dramatic Latin choral piece often used for medieval battle scenes…or for introducing a new line of powerful automobiles or athletic shoes. Although it sounds trumphant, it’s about cursing the cruelty of fate. Oh, and while the lyrics do come from a medieval poem, Orff was a 20th century composer.
I always associated it with haunted houses. And Vincent Price.
You never played a wind instrament did you?
The hard T at the end of Dunt Dunt is much more like the tounging that you would have to do while playing.
All right, here’s another request for the title of a piece of music that everybody knows the tune of but no one knows the title to:
THE ANAMANA SONG
You know …
“Anamana, doot doo doo doo doo,
Anamana, doot doo doo, doo,
Anamana, doot doo doo doo doo,
Doo doo doo,
Doo doo doo,
Doo doo doo, doo doo
Doot doot doo doot, doo!”
They used to have a muppet sing this song on Sesame Street (before Sesame Street became “All Elmo, All the Time”). This song also appeared in a couple of episodes of Benny Hill.
But what the heck is the real title?!
Wow, I’m better at this than I thought, because I can do this one too! It’s “Mah-Na Mah-Na”, by Piero Umiliani. It originally appeared in, of all things, a 1968 documentary about drugs, suicide, and the sexual underworld called Sweden: Heaven or Hell.
Stop it, you’re getting me hot! I have to go now.
Sentences like that *are * why we paid for this service.
OK, what about the shave-and-a-haircut piece, where does that come from? You know:
Dutt dada da da … dutt dutt!
No, you paid to post in threads like this.
One that’s been annoying me for a couple of months: Where does that stereotypical short Chinese tune come from? Not Chopsticks but the one that goes…
Dun-dun-dun-dun, dun dun, dun dun duuuuuun [insert optional gong here]
Scale wise it would go something like 3333 22 11 2
IIRC it’s “Mais Non, Mais Non.”
To clear out a few more:
The “factory music” in Warner Bro’s cartoons is “Powerhouse” by Raymond Scott.
Alfred Hitchcocks theme music was “Funeral March for Marionettes” by Charles Gounod.
In old U.S. TV shows every establishing shot of London had “Rule Britannia.”
If in the UK but other than London, it was “In an English Country Garden.”
If in Paris, the can-can from Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld.”
If in Russia, “Meadowlands” (the Red Cavalry anthem that Michale Palin sang with the Russian sailors), or “Song of the Volga Boatmen” (“yo-oh heave ho”)
The sun always rises to either the opening of Grieg’s “Pier Gynt,” or Rossini’s "William Tell Overture (the part before the Lone Ranger music.)
That is the title of Henri Salvador’s later French version of the same song. It has different lyrics than the original, and apparently has no connection to the Muppets.
Whoops, forgot to include this awesome link, which has everything you could ever want to know about “Mah-Na Mah-Na” and Piero Umiliani:
How about that surfing/beach music? I was actually wondering about this a few days ago.
Does anyone know what I’m referring to?
Thanks, Slithy Tove. I knew that Warner Bros. factory music had a name, but I’d forgotten it.
You might be thinking of the distinctive guitar sounds of Dick Dale.
Well AndrewT and rowrrbazzle:
I have a beginning piano songbook that has the Shave and a Haircut riff at the end of the Arkansas Traveller.
The Arkansas Traveller is a very popular folk/bluegrass tune that is probably most famous as the "I have a little baby bumble-bee " song that was sung by the eagle that sounds like Pete Puma. The song tells of a fiddler playing a tune at his cabin. A traveller comes by and hears it and hijinx ensue. The point is that in my songbook, the Shave and a Haircut riff was used as the tune the fiddler was playing. None of the versions I have found online every tell you what the tune was that the fiddler was playing, so the writers of my book may have added that change.
According to this site:
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3arktrv.htm
The Arkansas Traveller has been around since 1860.
Alright, what’s the “1950s Going Shopping” music? Very plinkity-plunkity “Holiday for Strings”-y, but it’s not “Holiday for Strings.” They use it a lot in cartoons (Ren & Stimpy, SpongeBob) to indicate “glamorous 1950s housewife” or “happy suburban home.”