# Where else have I heard this music????

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 14, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-else-have-i-heard-this-music/335552 "2005-12-14T07:17:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-else-have-i-heard-this-music/335552/1 "2005-12-14T07:17:40Z")

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The theme song to "Curb Your Enthuiasm ". I don’t watch the show but I hear the music during commercials for it on HBO. Where have I heard that tune before? I’m not 100% but I believe it’s “Frolic,” by Italian composer Luciano Michelini. I’ve heard that tune, or something very similar to it somewhere else, but where?

Where?😕

Heaven can wait? Insatiable? Soup for one?

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**Author:** ![ephemeral1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f19dbf/32.png) [@ephemeral1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ephemeral1)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-else-have-i-heard-this-music/335552/2 "2005-12-14T08:29:34Z")

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Looks like you’re absolutely right! It is “Frolic” by Luciano Michelini…

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-else-have-i-heard-this-music/335552/3 "2005-12-14T18:14:13Z")

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> [@ephemeral1](#):
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> Looks like you’re absolutely right! It is “Frolic” by Luciano Michelini…

Yeah, but where else have I heard this tune before? I keep thinking it was a movie in the 70’s. Or am I thinking of a different (but similar) song?

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-else-have-i-heard-this-music/335552/4 "2005-12-14T18:32:51Z")

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> [@pkbites](#):
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> Yeah, but where else have I heard this tune before? I keep thinking it was a movie in the 70’s.

[Any of these '70s Italian movies sound familiar](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584994/)?

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**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-else-have-i-heard-this-music/335552/5 "2005-12-14T18:58:04Z")

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I read somewhere that Larry David heard the music on a commercial for a local bank and chose it for the Curb theme.

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**Author:** ![moviefan114](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@moviefan114](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moviefan114)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-else-have-i-heard-this-music/335552/6 "2016-10-22T20:43:01Z")

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> [@ephemeral1](#):
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> Looks like you’re absolutely right! It is “Frolic” by Luciano Michelini…

The song Frolic had the exact same melody in a 1960 movie called “Eyes Without a Face” and was composed by Maurice Jarre. I don’t know why after all these years Luciano Michelini is still getting credit for it. If someone can prove differently, please let me know.