# What's that love music?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-love-music/523172>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 31, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-love-music/523172 "2009-12-31T08:28:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-love-music/523172/1 "2009-12-31T08:28:18Z")

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You know the tune I mean. They always play it when two cartoon characters fall madly in love at first sight.

It’s also in the background when Ralphie imagines his teacher reading his theme about wanting a Red Ryder 200-shot carbine-action air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-love-music/523172/2 "2009-12-31T08:32:32Z")

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Just a WAG: Do you mean the theme from Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet”?

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-love-music/523172/3 "2009-12-31T08:38:23Z")

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Tchaikovsky, [Romeo and Juliet Overture: Love Theme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMCiewc7mE).

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-love-music/523172/4 "2009-12-31T11:48:57Z")

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Barry White? 😃

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-love-music/523172/5 "2009-12-31T15:59:40Z")

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Tchaikovsky it is! Thanks. That was driving me nuts.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-love-music/523172/6 "2009-12-31T16:07:55Z")

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Really? That’s not from Swan Lake?