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PeonForHer -> RE: Please name this frigging tune! (10/23/2010 6:28:57 PM)
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FR,
Oh lordy - a thousand apologies - I went away and had no access to the net. Thank you, everyone, for your kind help. And thank you for your compliments on my voice, too. I'm blushing like a beacon. I shall try to use my voice next time I speak to a woman, in case I get better luck that way. I've often been told that women like men to speak to them occasionally, and may one day try that out.
And Poise – Greedy is right – brilliant! That was a true gem of a poetic invention. I feel very honoured - seriously. It takes a rare sparkle to be able to do something like that. Thank you.
Twoshoes and Ron:
No, I can't say anything more about the original. I don't even know when, or how, it came into my head. It may or may not have been whistled in the original - but I think unlikely, just because very few tunes are whistled in the original.
Windchymes:
Sousa - yes, possibly. I shall check on that. Thinking about it, it sounds like tunes I've heard played on American parades and I know Sousa's behind some of the most famous of those. (In fact, I whistle a few of them a lot, too.) I'll give that a whirl.
LadyRian:
Verdi - Verdi ? It sounds too naff for him. Too much something drummed up by a TV advert jingle-writer. But, then again, I should think outside of the box.
Lady Hib and thishereboi:
Thank you. I shall send carefully-butchered parts of my personage to your respective homes. You probably won't need any extra sauce. [;)]
Greedy, soul2share, Missokyst, Mistress Lavinia, Raymond, Tantriqu and DesFip:
(Russian accent, Ray? What???)
Thank you for those votes of confidence! OK, I’ll give that voiceover idea a try! My mother has often told me that I’ve got the perfect looks for acting on the radio – now I can feel confident about my voice, too!
Wolf2Bear – thanks for making a special effort to find the tune on your iphone. Likewise OohAhMrs (superb nick, as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before [;)]), Tantriqu, Poise and MistressRosalyn for pondering and researching.
I listened to the Al Jolson ‘Pretty Baby’ track and my first impulse was to say, ‘Nope, that’s not it. But then, I ran the lyrics from MistressRosalyn in my head - and also the masterful reworking of them by Poise along with my whistled tune.
Both sets of lyrics fit perfectly with 'my tune'.
This leads me to wonder if 'my tune' was, in fact, once 'Pretty Baby', but 'metamorphosed' into my version of it over the course of many years' whistling. I know that's happened with a few other tunes that 'caught' me as a kid and stayed in my head forever after. Damn. I don't feel totally satisfied with this conclusion, though. I'll try Sousa, as Windchymes suggests.
Meantime - possibly my favourite whistling-tune of all time. My Dad used to whistle it a lot. Essential for any warbling repertoire, IMO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQQ5sEOhbjQ
I hope the 'cutting-edge graphics', as well as Mr Smith's terrible miming and slightly disturbing appearance, don't cause too many winces . . . .
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