I love this piece. I associate it specifically with Excalibur and in general with cataclysmic clashes between the forces of good and evil. Unfortunately, every time this music comes on, my wife perks up and says “Old Spice!” Apparently in the 1980s in India, where she grew up, the music was used in an Old Spice (aftershave lotion) commercial. (groan)
Thanks, rowrbazzle – it was http://name-this-tune.com that I had seen before.
So, cool homework assignment: somebody whistle the doot-doot-doodle-doodle-doot-doot-dah-dum into the applet, and see if it comes back with “Entry of the Gladiators”.
Good list! One more…in old movies and TV shows, every establishing shot of a college or university features “Gaudeamus Igitur”.
I wonder if “Shopping Spree” on this collection is the one I’m thinking of? Gotta Google it at home, where I have audio.
No doubt this has already been covered elsewhere on the SDMB or by Cecil himself but I’m too lazy and fed-up with dial-up to search for it myself (no doubt someone will post a link momentarily).
However, what the hell is that “Neener-neener-neener” song that EVERY kid around the world knows and uses to taunt others with?
I don’t know about “neener, neener, neener” but “nah, nah-nah, nah-nah, nah” is probably from “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”, a good example of which can be found here.
Eve, I’ve listened to each one of the samples from that album (a complete list can be found here), but I haven’t found a match. Some of them are sooooo close, with all the plinking and the plunking. I also checked the short list of samples from this other TV Dinner CD, but still no luck.
I found some other suggestions from this thread and they were also close, but no match (Plink, Plank, Plunk! and Jazz Pizzicato are both on this Leroy Anderson CD).
The only bit of good news from my search is I found the “generic quiz show bonus question theme”, which I believe was used on ** The Joker’s Wild** and a few others. It’s Syncopated Clock from the Leroy Anderson link.
Pash
“Neener neener neener” is to the tune of “Ring Around The Rosie” I do believe.
Still no clue on the Chinese tune?
It would help if you could give a better example. Is what you’re referring to part of the bridge in “China Grove”?
Though Dick Dale pioneered the surf rock movement, the quintessential surfing song is Wipeout by The Sufaris.
I think you can hear it in (oddly enough) Turning Japanese by The Vapors. there is a sample clip on this page (song 9 - you can hear it between the :08 - :11 mark). Max, can you verify?
I’ll bet Vision of Love’s surf/beach music can be found on this CD (my money is on Dick Dale’s Miserlou).
Pash
Actually it’s Mah Nà Mah Nà (note the accents, which you can see on the album cover on the Umiliani link above).
Unless it’s a sports match, in which case it’s (IIRC) the Notre Dame fight song (or, more rarely, On Wisconsin).
That’s the one. I couldn’t think of a piece of music that incorporated it, but, yes, the beginning of Turning Japanese also has those 9 notes I think. Now then, where did it originate?
It’s something that can be played on all white keys on a piano, like Chopsticks. Keep the fingers a fifth apart, and you can play those few notes that everybody recognizes.
It probably came from some ancient movie that had the stereotypical inscrutable oriental parting the bead curtains, smoking a water pipe, and offering a serving girl to the visiting detective.
Yeah, that must be it. I think the problem was Max was a bit off in his numerical scale. the segment in “Turning Japanese” is more like 3232 33 11 3
The thing is that is more of a riff or a motiff then an actual tune. It just kind of has that ‘Oriental’ harmony sound. Just play on the black keys of a piano and you can have your own Oriental or Native American sound.
That particular one may have been written for something like a Charlie Chan serial or something like that and then just re-used over and over.
Though I’m wonder now if you listend to Mikado if you wouldn’t hear it there.
It’s not part of the Mikado score.