Does anybody know this tune?

[PhiliGol]

Since quite a while I'm looking for any background on this great piece of music.
I listened a lot of Dick Contino tunes w/o success - but don't want to bring you on the wrong track.
Does anyone know tie title, performer or composer of this piece?

It's a zipped mp3 as I wasn't able to upload mp3 directly.

 

[Pipemajor]

Sounds a bit like Flight of the Bumble bee, but I may be wrong

 

[PhiliGol]

Sounds a bit like Flight of the Bumble bee, but I may be wrong

No, it’s not flight of the bumblebee.
But thank you for listening and checking.

 

[boxplayer4000]

I think an App or software has been referred to on this site which can identify music; a bit like how a string of words can be located and identified.
I haven't used the music identifier but if you can't locate it yourself maybe some helpful person will pop up here.

 

[Renaldo]

I think an App or software has been referred to on this site which can identify music; a bit like how a string of words can be located and identified.
I haven't used the music identifier but if you can't locate it yourself maybe some helpful person will pop up here.

Shazam for Iphone or Android on Apple's site.

 

[PhiliGol]

I think an App or software has been referred to on this site which can identify music; a bit like how a string of words can be located and identified.
I haven't used the music identifier but if you can't locate it yourself maybe some helpful person will pop up here.

Thank you for the hint - Shazam doesn’t recognize it.

 

[JeffJetton]

I don't know it, but it has the vibe of those sorts of flashy "novelty" pieces from the 1920s & 30s. Like Zez Confrey's "Dizzy Fingers", Frosini's "Hot Points", or Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse". (But it's not any of those.)

 

[JKJ]

SoundHound doesn’t recognize the piece (I tried starting at several places). Nor does Google. Maybe it‘s a rare gem.

 

[PhiliGol]

SoundHound doesn’t recognize the piece (I tried starting at several places). Nor does Google. Maybe it‘s a rare gem.

Thank you for checking.
Yes it’s something rare, I spent quite some time browsing music-libraries but couldn’t find it so far.

 

[PhiliGol]

I don't know it, but it has the vibe of those sorts of flashy "novelty" pieces from the 1920s & 30s. Like Zez Confrey's "Dizzy Fingers", Frosini's "Hot Points", or Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse". (But it's not any of those.)

Thank you very much Jeff.
Yes also stumbled over these tunes and recognised it's none of them.

 

[boxplayer4000]

PhiliGol: Perhaps you can come at the tune from a different angle ie. source the company who recorded and published it; hopefully search their records/website for their artists and their recordings.
I have sympathy for Jeff Jeton's suggestion that the tune might have been a overnight 'sensation' which quickly disappeared.

 

[PhiliGol]

PhiliGol: Perhaps you can come at the tune from a different angle ie. source the company who recorded and published it; search their records/website for their artists and their recordings.

Thank you boxplayer.
Unfortunately I did research everything I could get hold of - based on the mp3's meta-data it's a tape-recording, digitised one day.
The guy from whom I got it doesn't have more information.

 

[boxplayer4000]

PhiliGol:
It's hard to know where you go next. Perhaps if you keep the recording in the public eye somebody, somewhere will pick up on it. (I'm not a computer expert so don't understand fully about 'keeping in the public eye' but given some of the stuff given regular exposure I think it can be done). Good Luck.

 

[PhiliGol]

PhiliGol:
It's hard to know where you go next. Perhaps if you keep the recording in the public eye somebody, somewhere will pick up on it. (I'm not a computer expert so don't understand fully about 'keeping in the public eye' but given some of the stuff given regular exposure I think it can be done). Good Luck.

Thank you boxplayer
My hope is that this place is public enough and one day an accordion player will remember it.

 

[JeffJetton]

I also plugged the first few notes of the main "melody" into Musipedia, but it come up empty.

 

[PhiliGol]

I also plugged the first few notes of the main "melody" into Musipedia, but it come up empty.

I could smell that this won’t be an easy one - still optimistic that one day someone will be able to give a hint.

 

[boxplayer4000]

Just a thought: Could it be that the melody is being played so fast that the software of those tools for identifying music just can't cope?
The music could be slowed down. I use two tools for this; one is Mac's Garage Band or 'Audacity' which will do it as well.

 

[wirralaccordion]

I would guess that this is music played as an accompaniament to a silent film made in the 1920's ( Harry Langdon, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, etc ). I went to a concert by Neil Brand, a silent pianist expert and I would bet he would know.
I would watch a few films from this era/ilk and you may eventually come across it. e.g. Find a car chase or something similar.

 

[PhiliGol]

I would guess that this is music played as an accompaniament to a silent film made in the 1920's ( Harry Langdon, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, etc ). I went to a concert by Neil Brand, a silent pianist expert and I would bet he would know.
I would watch a few films from this era/ilk and you may eventually come across it. e.g. Find a car chase or something similar.

Thank you, this may be a good hint.

 

[PhiliGol]

I would guess that this is music played as an accompaniament to a silent film made in the 1920's ( Harry Langdon, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, etc ). I went to a concert by Neil Brand, a silent pianist expert and I would bet he would know.
I would watch a few films from this era/ilk and you may eventually come across it. e.g. Find a car chase or something similar.

Thank you
Yes it sounds like a perfect accompaniment to some crazy scenes