Questions tagged [identify-this-song]
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This American Life 644: Act 2 Exit Through The Gift Shop Background Music [closed]
Struggling to find the the artist and track name for background music used in This American Life episode 644: Random Acts of History. Act Two: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Starting at time code: 54:45 (...
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K'Naan Wavin' Flag Unofficial Rhapsody Version
I remember listening to this on some obscure site (probably downloads.nl) about 11 years ago. The lyrics contained in it are similar to the "making of" video of Wavin' Flag (with Bruno Mars) ...
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What's this French song sung by a female, with the lyrics « sous le ciel bleu » + « des gens amoureux » + « sous mon chemin »? [closed]
What's the song in this YouTube video titled 2021 莎莎婦女銀袋日 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Day?
My daughter's French teacher can discern merely a few phrases.
sous le ciel bleu
regarde(r?)(z?) des gens amoureux
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A soft song where "Valkyrie" is in the song or the artist's name [closed]
I heard this song some time ago but I'm unable to find it again. It was a nice and soothing song.
It contained the word "Valkyrie" and was a love song. It was a soft song and there was echo/...
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What is this Beethoven piece?
I found an mp3 on my PC, marked as Fur Elise by Beethoven. I recognise the piece, but know it's not Fur Elise.
Can anyone tell me what it is? Here is a link to a cut-down version (as I'm sure you'll ...
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Please help me identify this famous Classical Music melody
I sometimes have a piece of classical music stuck in my head and I just can't identify it. I just downloaded a free composing software so I can transcribe what I hear in my head. So please forgive ...
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Phrase opening, three decending octave intervals with timpani roll
I think of a big orchestral piece that starts or has this at a major phrase.
Two descending staccato octave intervals with a pause between on the 1st (8th) and 5th. Then a timp roll and a 3rd ...
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"Bubbles in the bathtub" novelty song
I heard this song a few times on the radio like Dr. Demento or something.
I sang (my) lyrics to my Mom who is very good with songs but to no avail.
The lyrics are something like:
Bubbles in the ...
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Traditional(?) Italian(?) accordion instrumental waltz
It's an Italian song and I think it's folkloric (and maybe not).
It hasn't any lyrics.
You can watch it from this Youtube video.
The poster of the video credits it to ...
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What is the 70s/80s rock song that ends with this extended Mixolydian-based vamp?
I heard this on a Classic Rock radio station recently and haven't been able to track it down for the last few weeks.
A single-voice rendition of the vamp is available here.
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Brendan Kavanagh Piano video: "Guy in blue..."
What piece is being played in the beginning of this video at about 1 minute 30 seconds:
Would really appreciate the help in identifying it.
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Trying to identify a song about a doctor trying to treat the victims of a factory fire or mine collapse [closed]
The song is fairly old, circa 1950s +/- 20 years.
It is a song about an industrial disaster of some kind, factory fire, mine collapse etc.
The song POV is a doctor detailing the injuries and measures ...
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What's this song that repeatedly says "just the way I am", sung by a woman? [closed]
Found a song that repeatedly says "just the way I am", sung by a woman, used in an Absolut Vodka ad on Youtube, 2020-12-25.
Found it by refreshing the video that spawned the ad in a Private ...
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Can someone help me to find this song? Background music of “Lipstick Prince” korean show
can someone help me to find a Korean song? The song is a background music for “Prince Lipstick Season 2 and Episode 6 (Part 2 in minute 27:12) ON Daily Motion. which is Pentagon and Hyuna as a guest. ...
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Please help me to find this 80's-90's rock song
I don't remember the name of a song I heard some time ago, but I remember the video of this one.
All starts in a wedding where the groom starts noticing strange things in the guests at some point they ...
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Which song is very similar to "Vallecito" by John Craigie?
I just listened to this very nice ballad by John Craigie: Vallecito, which he published in April 2020. You can listen to it here:
It reminds me very clearly of another ...
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What songs share (variations of) the "As I Walked Down the Street" melody?
I was recently listening to a list of PBS Kids intersticials on YouTube, and I found a song called As I Walked Down the Street and the melody of it reminded me of a few different possibilities.
A ...
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What piece of music is this from?
This has been rattling around my head for a while. Please help identify.
My closest approximation of the sheet music:
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Did that kid rapper "Lil' Bow Wow" really not release his iconic "That's My Name" song in the mid-1990s?
I have a distinct memory of myself hearing this song on the radio in a certain rented "summer house" in the (roughly) mid-1990s, perhaps even earlier, with the memorable refrain going:
Bow ...
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What is the first North Korean song in this video called?
I really like the first song played. However, it's mixed together with the street noises in the video, so my downloaded copy of that video, minus the video, is full of noise. I'd like a "clean&...
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Which Haydn piece was used to set "Though my soul may set in darkness" to music?
Sarah Williams' lyrics "Though my soul may set in darkness" from her poem "The Old Astronomer" were set to music with a nice melody. See this YouTube video, for example.
The melody ...
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Was this Swedish song from the 1980s-2000s an imitation musically of some 1960s USA song? If so, what was that song's name?
I've been unable to figure out which year it was made, but I know the artist ("Eddie Meduza") and the name of the song ("Åh! en sån lyrik"). It was re-released on the album "...
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Music in Dunkview "Knack" review on YouTube (from the game soundtrack?)
The song is in the background between 2:11 to 2:15. What song is it?
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Looking for an early 90s pop song
I've been trying to find this song for ages, maybe someone here can help me out. Here is what I know :
this is a pop (or RnB) song, from around 1991 or 1992. More specifically, it's from a mixtape I ...
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Can anyone please help me Identify the piece at the beginning of this video?
It sounds like a cello duet. Please help me!
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Looking for Classical/Romantic Music that used a String Quartet/Quintet with a Lute/Guitar
The title says it all,
Need Classical/Romantic Music that used a String Quartet/Quintet with a Lute/Guitar, Preferably the simpler ones (I understand "simple" here is subjective, What I mean ...
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Classical Piano Piece, could you help me to identify it?
could you help me to identify this piece? Here it is , on 17:22, on this Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vWvHaaMJnM&t=1091s I am not very knowledgeable about music. Thanks a ...
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Can Anyone Identify This Japanese Rock Song in the Background of this Mika Nakashima Video?
Link to Mika Nakashima video here
This is a personal video of Mika Nakajima (中島 美嘉) towards the beginning of her fabulous career (2002). The song in question starts here at 5:53. I'm pretty sure the ...
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Please help identify this beautiful piece of music played by legendary violinist Ida Haendel
Please help identify this beautiful piece of music played by legendary viloinist Ida Haendel. The music is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr9fOXyT70M
Ida Haendel plays the violin ...
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Help identify late 80s or early 90s New Wave single
It's a song that I heard on the radio in the car with my parents driving (USA), so it probably isn't an underground/obscure single or group.
I remember the single was New Wave pop rock, the male ...
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Can't remember the name/composer of this well-known classical tune
I try to find this tune but can't remember the name. Can anyone help? It goes like E5 D5 E5 C5 E5 B4 E5 A4 E5. I also tried to play this on virtual piano which I think might help.
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Can you identify cello and piano piece in last scene of Agatha Christie ABC Murders (v. 2018 John Malkovich)? [closed]
I thought I knew my classical music well until I heard this piece in the 2018 BBC/AMAZON PRIME VIDEO production of Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders with John Malkovich as Poirot. It is a cello and ...
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Simple, straightfoward rendition of "I skovens dybe, stille ro"
There is a very beautiful, Danish song, with the Danish title "I skovens dybe, stille ro" - (poorly) translated as "In the deep, quiet calm of the forest".
I have been looking for ...
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Identify this Chopin snippet from Yale's 'Listening to Music' course
I'm taking the online 'Listening to Music' course by Professor Craig Wright from Yale University.
I was hoping you could help me identify where the Chopin snippet he played as an exercise at the time ...
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Identify Japanese instrumental song
I'm trying to find out the title of a supposedly Japanese song, since whenever I hear that tune on TV, they're talking about Japan. I've been trying with Shazam and SoundHound, but in vain.
I have ...
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Help identifying this piece of music
I heard this piece of music https://youtu.be/G2CcgbFU-fI and recognise it but can't for the life of me remember what it's called/how I know it. Is anyone able to help please?
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"Voyage, voyage"
I was listening this song with my friends during our trip to Tbilisi (Georgia, USSR) in 1982 (March). (I had a floppy disk brought by a relative from France or Belgium.) I remember this fact exactly ...
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What is this "famous" love song played in many American romantic/highschool ball movies? [closed]
This has been bugging me for a very long time now. There is this song which I know I've heard in "countless" American movies from the 1990s and maybe 1980s, usually when there is a ball or prom and ...
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Can someone tell me the name of this piece?
I learned this tune a long while back and do not remember it's name or the entire piece. I've recorded what I remembered and was hoping if someone knows it and can tell me it's name.
You can listen to ...
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What’s the song at the end of the Easy A trailer? [closed]
I’ve been hunting it down for weeks. I can’t seem to find it. Shazam can’t identify it because the length’s too short.
Link:
https://youtu.be/KNbPnqyvItk
Please help.
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The "Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" [closed]
Twelve years ago, a catchy New Wave anthem appeared on the internet with no information about who wrote or recorded it. Amateur detectives have spent thousands of hours since trying to figure out ...
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Chasse-Neige in Frozen II?
I was watching Frozen II at the cinemas the other day, and I was listening to some of the background music, and I'm pretty sure that I heard Franz Liszt's 12th Transcendental Etude in some of it. It ...
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What is this piece of classical music heard on the UK Channel BBC 2, on the Great Australian Railway Journeys series?
Can anyone help with identifying this piece of classical music, please?
It was on Great Australian Railway Journeys series 1 episode 5 (Kuranda to Townsville) last Saturday (Nov 23), on the UK ...
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Identifying an excerpt by Beethoven (Ddim7ㅡAbm/EbㅡEbㅡAbm)
While working on an assignment based on secondary leading-tone chords, I found this excerpt that I am not quite familiar with:
I see a secondary leading-tone seventh chord to the dominant, then a ...
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What is this theme from the Harry Potter movies called?
There's a bit of a jingle that is super familiar to anyone who's ever watched Harry Potter movies. I'm trying to find some sheet music with the notes for it, but so far I'm out of luck, especially ...
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Song identification help, Big band tune
Had this stuck in me head for a couple of days now and it's really bothering me.
Can you help identify it?
I seem to remeber it starts with a bari or trombone maybe with a snare rim click in the ...
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Identify Rio Bravo Opening Song name
What is the song name, in the opening of movie Rio Bravo?
It is playing from beginning to 1:05.
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