# What's that pipe organ music that everyone knows? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696 "2001-10-05T23:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/21 "2001-10-07T15:11:17Z")
When I was a kid in San Diego, I liked to go to Organ Power Pizza. They had picnic tables set up in a room, and there was a large pipe organ at the end with an organist to play it. I’d always request _Toccata and Fuge in D Minor_. Okay, now I’d like to ask for an identification. What is the music in Peter Lorre’s _M_? “Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo doo Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo” Five ascending notes, one descending, one ascending. The next two groups of three are up-down-up, with the second group a little lower. The next seven notes are the same as the first seven. Then four descending and two rising. I’m pretty sure it’s Wagner. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/22 "2001-10-07T15:50:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > **Okay, now I’d like to ask for an identification. What is the music in Peter Lorre’s _M_?** Grieg’s _In the Hall of the Mountain King_ from “Peer Gynt” - Fritz Lang’s [“M”](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/4088/lang3.html). ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/23 "2001-10-07T15:56:46Z")
When I saw this thread title, I couldn’t help thinking of “In the Garden of Eden” from the Simpsons… ---
**Author:** ![the\_O-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@the\_O-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_O-man)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/24 "2001-10-07T16:26:19Z")
> [@](#): > > since we’re on songs, I was wondering if anyone knows this song from Luc Besson’s “Taxi” (a French film). Misirlou. It was also used in “Pulp Fiction.” Here is a site where you can listen to it: [http://www.lunarace.com/dickdale.html](http://www.lunarace.com/dickdale.html) ---
**Author:** ![monny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@monny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monny)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/25 "2001-10-08T11:20:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by the O-man \* > \*\* > Misirlou. > It was also used in “Pulp Fiction.” > \*\* ---
**Author:** ![monny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@monny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monny)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/26 "2001-10-08T11:23:11Z")
Whoops. Thanks O-man! Haha sorry I’m an amateur poster as you can see 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/27 "2001-10-08T14:32:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sultan Kinkari \* > \*\*_Here comes the bride_? \*\* That would be the Wedding March from Wagner’s music-drama _Lohengrin._ – Uke, too late to be insufferably pedantic about the OP so making up for it where he can ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/28 "2001-10-08T14:47:55Z")
Off to Cafe Society. **DrMatrix** - General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/29 "2001-10-08T20:50:26Z")
re: the toccata / fugue question, my E. Power Biggs CD has it as 2 separate tracks–1: toccata, 2: fugue. FWIW. In virtually every version of Phantom of the Opera the phantom plays T&F in dm. [hijack] How would the phantom get a pipe organ into the sewer? But then, try to picture the Phantom playing T&F on more portable instruments-- Banjo. Harmonica. Ocarina. Kazoo. Accordion (yes, I saw that post…hard to believe). Bagpipes. Takes some of the creepiness out of it. [/hijack\ ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/30 "2001-10-08T22:10:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Glenoled \* > \*\*I was wondering about another Bach song… all I remember is very sketchy… I remember that it was on a tape my brother had, of Bach songs, that it was fast, that (iirc) it was played on modern keyboards, and I think I remember my brother saying something to the effect of, that song was written to be performed by one musician, but it took 6 to reproduce it. > > Any ideas? lol > > Glenoled \*\* Possibly something from “Switched on Bach” by Wendy (a.k.a. Walter) Carlos. Recently she re-recorded many of the same works and added on the T&F (D-) in "Switched on Bach 2000. [There is a thread going on it right now.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=91433) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/31 "2001-10-08T22:18:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \* > \*\*About 18 months ago I was in Stuttgart and I heard a couple of street musicians play the Bach Toccata and Fugue on two accordions. And it kicked ass. \*\* There is a secluded bay on Lake Superior with high cliffs on either side, and usually calm water. A trail comes in from the north - - about a 10km hike from the trail head, and overlooks the beach. I have a back way in to the beach, and a propensity to go there to play the T&C (D-) on my sister’s keyboard. Sometimes I wonder what the hikers must think, after having walked so far to get away from civilization, only to come across me playing one of the great works of civilization. At least no one has pitched a rock down on me yet. ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696/32 "2001-10-08T23:02:57Z")
If you like _Tocatta & Fugue in D Minor_ I recommend this cd: [Fright Night: Music That Goes Bump In The Night](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000026XI/qid=1002581618/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/103-0052261-6016665) There are some samples from the cd there too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-pipe-organ-music-that-everyone-knows/85696.md?page=1)