Name That Tune!

On October 7, 2008, in Culture, by peterb

I can’t get this song out of my head. I don’t have a copy of the original. I’m pretty sure it was from a commercial for color film from either Fuji or Kodak in the late 1970′s or early 1980′s. But I could be misremembering.

I jotted down the notes and made a brief MP3 fragment of the melody here. Please take a listen, and if you know what this is called, tell me. First person to correctly identify this song wins a beer or a cup of coffee, at their option.

Update: A million thank-yous to reader ErinK for identifying the song; it’s a Vivaldi Largo in D-major.

Originally aired on Sesame Street (also known as “my other mother”), many people remember this video as being about a Sunflower, although it looks more like a variety of daisy to me. Nice view of the Brooklyn Bridge from the window.

 

10 Responses to “Name That Tune!”

  1. Chris says:

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

  2. psu says:

    Tried Shazam. It failed on this one.

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

  4. Eeyore says:

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

  5. erink says:

    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.

  6. peterb says:

    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.

  7. peterb says:

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

    “I don’t know if you guys still remember this but…
    there is this Sesame Street song which still haunts me to this day and I don’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 don’t know the title, arrgh.”

    “I don’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.

  8. erink says:

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

  9. Eeyore says:

    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