BS: Can you identify this tune?

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 11:09 AM

You mean Night on Bald Mountain?

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Feb 09 - 10:09 AM

I'm not sure of the original, but whatever it wasit is the basis for the 'Sorcerer's apprentice" tune. (As made famouse by THE MOUSE in Fantasia)

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:19 PM

I've just come across another tune that needs identifying, so of course I came here to ask the opinion of my learned friends in Mudcat. You'll have to excuse me though, if I get the tiddle -i's and the pompety poms a bit confused or if I get by mirds wixed up. I hab a code in de dose.

It goes subthig like dis:

de dum de dum de diddle e dum
de dum de dum de diddle e dumpety
dun de dum de diddle e dum
de dumpety dum de dum dum

I really hope subwud cad help be wid dis as by code is gettig worse!

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 12:27 AM

MuddleC, thanks for the link! Hilarious and the one with Paul McCartney is pretty funny, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: MuddleC
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 08:22 PM

Sorry for not responding earlier, but I've been stuck in elephant traffic on the Mumbei bypass since the Monsoon season opened and have only just made it back to the club for tiffin. I remember the song well, it was the night of the Regimental Dance, and Reggie hadn't turned up... so Eccles(the tall person in one boot) and his assistant Miss Minnie Bannister(she's not a true red-head you know.. .AEOUGH!)played that wonderful haunting ditty you describe so well..
It was non other than that old tyme melodie 'The Ying-Tong song'. I feel I must point out that in your drunken haze, the object you took to be a modern-type cardboard Kazzoo was in fact my batman's personal boot scraper, one 'Trooper' Bluebottle.

ying tong iddle-i-po

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 11:20 PM

Thank you TheSnail. It's all much clearer now.

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: GUEST,IBO
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 02:32 PM

if im not mistaken,its UM DIDDLE DUM DOO DAY,second in eurovision 1967

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: TheSnail
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 06:39 AM

Lin in Kansas

But can someone please explain to me what folk really is? I just don't get the distinction...

If it goes -

Diddle de dum, dum, Diddle diddle de dum

it's folk. If it goes

Doo doo, doobee doobee doo

it isn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 11:58 PM

After careful research, and using clues given by Foolstroupe when he said: "Actually, there was also this sort of solo where the guy who sings falsetto with that sound like he had grabbed his adam's apple and wobbled it," I'm certain that it's that greatest of all country-Western tear-jerkers, "He Stopped Loving Her Today."

But can someone please explain to me what folk really is? I just don't get the distinction...

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 09:49 PM

"Half a beer, half a beer, half a beer onwards"...


Sorry....

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 09:34 PM

I must apologise here. In fact he heard the "tune" in the men's room at a mexican restaurant, I was in the next stall, it is just a bit of ass music, but he seems to have forgotten the percussive splooshing.
Nick

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 09:23 PM

_)

There ya go, Robin - careful it doesn't all fall out!

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 09:12 PM

So I get half a beer?

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Scrump
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 10:11 AM

The Sailor's Hornpipe certainly fits yours, Foolestroupe. But that's not what mine was meant to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 10:06 AM

Robin, I think yours is the Sailors Hornpipe, but I can't place Scrump's one. At first I thought it was the introduction to "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight?", but I'm sorta stuck.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 07:20 AM

Scrump, I quoted teh second part and I say is a nautical air.... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Scrump
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 06:25 AM

Not sure if anyone understands what I meant above. The 'tune' I posted is a well known tune, and I was hopin someone would be able to identify it from the "diddles" and "dums" (etc.) alone, with no hint as to the pitch of each note, etc.

I believe it should be possible. If anyone gets it right, I'll buy them a pint in LTS's pub (what happened to that, btw? And what was it called, The Mudcat Arms or something like that?)

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Sherbs
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 01:30 AM

Crane Driver,

I was pleased to see someone put the Welsh variant up here. Doesn't Dafydd Iwan sing a version but with inserted verses which I am assured are not about independence at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Dickey
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 01:00 AM

Hey, thats the way we used to call the ducks.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 09:12 PM

That's just the A part Scrump - I'm currently (if you'll pardon my expression) diddling the B part.


Diddle de dum, dum, Diddle diddle de dum,
Diddle de dum, dum, Diddle diddle de dum,
Diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle
Diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle de, dum, dum!

Not sure whether I did quite enough diddling (if you'll pardon my expression) in the last 2 line phrase though...

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: leeneia
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 04:36 PM

The name is on the tip of my tongue. It's modal, I know that.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Scrump
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 09:50 AM

Talking of identifying tunes from limited information, can anyone identify this:

De diddle diddle diddle diddle de, dum , dum,
De diddle diddle diddle diddle de, dum , dum,
De diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle
Diddle diddle diddle diddle de, dum, dum!

?

I'm willing to bet* someone can - this is an experiment to see if I'm right.

* but don't ask me to bet money, or nobody will try to guess it just so they can win the bet! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: John Hardly
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 09:49 AM

dweet doo-ya-doo
dweet dweet doo-ya-doo
dweet doo-ya-doo
dweet dweet doo-ya-doo
doo-doo
doo-doo

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Scrump
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 09:45 AM

100!!

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Scrump
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 09:45 AM

The Wurple Diddle I Do song is one of the finest lyrics ever written.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 08:32 AM

No, I disagree... Adge's recording of the Wurple diddle I doo song states specifically that it's to be done with jugs.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: autolycus
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 05:43 PM

LTS

    Same thing.






       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Dickey
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 02:17 PM

Is it like

Dum de dum
Dum de dum de dum

Dum de dum
Dum de dum de dum

Dum de duuuum
Dum de dum de dum

Dragnet

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 01:45 PM

Are you absolutely sure it's not Adge Cutler and the Wurzels with the 'Wurple diddle I doo song'?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: autolycus
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 01:21 PM

i thin I've got it.

   It's our oldeast song from pre-literate times.

   Language hadn't yet been invented.

   Sorry for delay.





       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 11:37 PM

sung by Ted Haggard,

If I had a hammer
I'd hammer on the gays and queers
If I had a second chance
all over this land
I'd preach about Satan
I'd preach about gay ay sin
I'd preach about hate between the faithful and the sinners
all all over this land.

If I had an ego
I'd brag about it endlessly
If I had a book to sell
all over this land.
I'd spew out blind faith
I'd spew out God's design
I'd spew out evolution is the devil's institution
all all over this land

If I had an hour show
I'd ask for viewers last dollar
If I were on TV
all over this land
God needs all your rent checks
God needs all your savings
I'd tell them that all they give would come back twice as needed.
all all in the name of God.
-but sign the check to Haggard-
all all over this laaaaaand

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 09:26 PM

A tune, of the Dumdums, by the Dumdums, for the Dumdums?

Didn't they have a Top Ten Hit?

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: autolycus
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 04:57 PM

We've never asked Foulstroupe - if the tune went

Dum de dum   etc.,


which is what he/you said in the first post - and here's the stupid bit, How did the words go? (I think we should be told)






       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: leeneia
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 11:05 AM

I think it's a song I learned in grade school.

Tum tum tiddle tum is my song.
This I sing when things go wrong.
Tum tum tiddle tum you sing too.
Then you never will feel blue.

I think the tune was stolen from Rachmaninoff.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 09:05 PM

Lyr Req: What is this?

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: autolycus
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 10:27 AM

A few candidates.

Is it perhaps the secret tune in Elgar's Enigma Variations (it sounds like it.)?

Then again the sheer primitiveness of it suggests it's Viennese.

There is also ,to my ears, a clear Uzbekistan undercurrent.(That's not as smart as it looks; I has to look up the correct spelling of unnercourante. It's not ch or ck just k.)

Or could it be the first evidence of aliens being musical.

Would it be thread drift to ask why, when peop .........on reflection, it probably is.

Auto.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Trevor
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 04:55 AM

I've heard this song in a Mayfair drawing room, where the "folk process" had changed the words to 'La de da de da de da'.

And does anybody know the rest of the shanty that goes 'Rumty diddly diddly tum, rum tumpty tum tum'?

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: number 6
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 10:20 AM

Can you whistle it one more time please?


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 08:16 AM

Clicked on the "Another candidate"thread,sorry.
As I said there,it sounds like-Didler On The Roof.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 07:32 AM

Another candidate.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 06:03 AM

Sure it is not this

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 08:27 PM

Copy Cat?

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: GUEST,Paranoid Android
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 11:07 PM

Joe Dolan (an Irish singer at whom females throw their thongs or things) sings "The house with the whitewashed gable". That's yer answer.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 10:48 PM

For anyone reading this thread for the first time, ya gotta read it all the way through - it's a "hoot" - played of course on the flolodler with an orgiethumper backing.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 10:45 PM

It's the third verse of "Here I stand on Buttermilk Hill" as recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary. The song was too short to make the top forty, so they added nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 07:34 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: jack halyard
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 07:58 AM

Look guys, the Coptic euponium back there has no bearing on the issue.
What you have here is an ancient north Lancashire counting mnemonic dating back to the viking invasions. The DUM element is a softening device used to minimise the impact of the more penetrating latin UNO which carries much further in a resonant fog.

Thus DUM - one
    DUM-DE- two
    DUM-DE-DUM- One plus two. I/e three
Since in those days the next word beyond three was "Many" it was necessary to repeat the exercise thus getting a base three mathemetical model.

This accounts for the great number of threes in the Anglo Celtic folk tradition; The three great heroes of Ireland. The idea of the trinity in its various forms and of course the three stooges, The epitomy of DUM-if I may say so.

                         Jack Halyard.

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 26 Sep 04 - 07:33 PM

God is ssooooooooo good.
If LAUGHTER ever dies it won't be because you guys couldn't give it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.   Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Sep 04 - 04:44 AM

Mornington Crescent!

Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Sep 04 - 03:13 AM