I’ve been humming this song all day. I think it is the soundtrack for some western comedy movie (Wagon’s East or Blazing Saddles or something, but neither of those is it).
Now the only question is why was I singing it as a western theme song and picturing horses when it sounds there like such a military band influenced thing there?
@zachdecker I think it was used at the end of City Slickers – at least that’s where I imagined it being used. I can hear military tones in it, but I think the general chorus has been used in more than a few mid-90s westerns. Maybe Maverick?
All I can find is that it was used in an episode of family guy… Which might explain why I was looking for the soundtrack to A Million Ways to Die In The West.
@RiotDemon You should watch Stripes sometime. One of the best worst movies of all time. My brother worked at a drive in when the movie came out and saw it like 167 times or something like that. He joined the army the next year after he graduated from high school.
I wanted to add… I tried playing your clip for SoundHound. At first it didn’t recognize it… But then when I turned the volume up, it thought you sounded like The Jonas Brothers’ song Mandy, apparently.
To play along, my wife and I hummed this/searched for two days until we eventually hunted it down in a 50 song military movie theme song youtube playlist:
Is it this?
@JerseyFrank No, that’s not it. Although now I am singing that too.
Stripes with Bill Murray
@sammydog01 YES, that’s it!!! Thank you!
Now the only question is why was I singing it as a western theme song and picturing horses when it sounds there like such a military band influenced thing there?
@zachdecker Maybe because it does sound vaguely like the Bonanza theme?
@zachdecker I think it was used at the end of City Slickers – at least that’s where I imagined it being used. I can hear military tones in it, but I think the general chorus has been used in more than a few mid-90s westerns. Maybe Maverick?
It bears a vague resemblance to this, which makes my cats come running to see who’s dying.
I’ve never even seen Stripes and that song was super familiar to me. I wonder if they’ve used it in other movies?
All I can find is that it was used in an episode of family guy… Which might explain why I was looking for the soundtrack to A Million Ways to Die In The West.
I don’t really watch westerns.
@RiotDemon You should watch Stripes sometime. One of the best worst movies of all time. My brother worked at a drive in when the movie came out and saw it like 167 times or something like that. He joined the army the next year after he graduated from high school.
I wanted to add… I tried playing your clip for SoundHound. At first it didn’t recognize it… But then when I turned the volume up, it thought you sounded like The Jonas Brothers’ song Mandy, apparently.
how bout this one?
Wow. Counter-tenor much?
WOAH I’m very glad I listened to that. Thank you.
To play along, my wife and I hummed this/searched for two days until we eventually hunted it down in a 50 song military movie theme song youtube playlist:
@vanslaterco Classic!
Rawhide was always a favorite of mine.
Of course, F Troop had one that can stick in your head like gum on a shoe.
@daveinwarsh That is one young Clint Eastwood.
My biggest problem with the new Magnificent Seven movie is they don’t seem to be using the magnificent seven theme.
/giphy idiots
@MrGlass
One of the great ones
@MrGlass This is where I know that theme from:
Two favs
Hogan’s Heros
The Great Escape
@f00l We just watched The Great Escape last weekend. Great ending.
A lovely one
While we are on the subject of great theme music, anyone else have an obsession with the Peter Gunn theme? There’s a ton of great covers
@MrGlass Which leads to Mission Impossible:
Which, once you have a nice drink or two can find you yearning for some Mancini: