Comments on: Name That Tune!

By: Eeyore

Eeyore — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:25:58 +0000

Dang. I read the liner notes wrong. The Handel is track 3. I had the right piece of music, but misidentified it. Track 4 is indeed the Vivaldi. Here’s an MP3 of Brian Slawson performing this piece entirely with percussion off his great album, “Bach Beat”. http://www.ee0r.com/misc/Vivaldi_Largo.mp3

By: erink

erink — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:12:06 +0000

My finishing school/liberal arts education comes to the rescue yet again!

By: peterb

peterb — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:28:49 +0000

Apparently, I may have first heard this on Sesame Street. The internet is full of people saying things like this:

“I donâ€™t know if you guys still remember this butâ€¦
there is this Sesame Street song which still haunts me to this day and I donâ€™t know the title, but
the clip shows pictures of a sunflower in a pot on an apartment window sill and there is an acoustic classical guitar playing in the background.
and I donâ€™t know the title, arrgh.”

“I donâ€™t know the episode
But it was like 25 yrs or more ago
The scene was a sunflower on a flower pot
sitting on the ledge of a balcony
just after the rain.
There is a solo nylon/classical guitar playing on the background”

I am, it seems, a creature of my generation.

By: peterb

peterb — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:12:45 +0000

Erink, you have just won the delicious and refreshing beverage of your choice. I salute you and your detective’s ear. I cannot tell you what a relief it is to finally know what that song is, after so many years.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

By: erink

erink — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:04:50 +0000

Seriously? I think it’s Vivaldi. The Largo movement of Lute Concerto in D, “RV 93″. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jizQFJxQ1i0

This was in several TV ads over the years, as well as a Sesame Street short that I don’t quite remember (according to comments on YouTube), but I remember it most from the movie A Little Romance.

By: Eeyore

Eeyore — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:04:24 +0000

G-Minor Minuet from Handel’s Water Music Concerto Grosso #25

By: Cynthia Closkey

Cynthia Closkey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:12:02 +0000

It sounds like it might be one of these, or a derivative thereof: http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Inventions-and-Sinfonias-Complete/dp/B0000013W7

By: Cynthia Closkey

Cynthia Closkey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:31:57 +0000

I am almost positive I used to play that on piano.

By: psu

psu — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:21:05 +0000

Tried Shazam. It failed on this one.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:05:03 +0000

don’t you have one of them fancy iphones? get Shazzam and let it tell you the name? maybe?