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[Cartimand]

Found it - thanks to Google's "What's that tune" app.
It wasn't originally from a musical, but was part of Dvořák's Symphony No.9 in E minor (1893). It has been used in a couple of movie soundtracks.
Check out the melody from 4:23 here:

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Cartimand]

You mean the instrumental snippet played on a kazoo?
Does sound familiar. Think it could be from some American musical from the 50s or 60s....

[Cartimand]

If any of you are watching the absolutely brilliant Britannia - for my money the best series on TV at present, you will have noticed the superb choice of theme music.
Season 1 opened to Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man.
Then we had Season of the Witch.
Now it's Marc Bolan and T-Rex's Children...

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Glad to see that two songs from the Gabriel era made it into the set!
I've seen a few classic bands when they were years past their heyday - Wishbone Ash, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Hawkwind, Gong etc. but they still put on a great show.
This latter-day version of Genesis really didn't appeal...

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So no Musical Box, Return of the Giant Hogweed, Suppers Ready, Battle of Epping Forest, Carpet Crawlers, In the Cage etc?

I think I would find it rather tragic indeed to see Genesis as a pale shadow of their early 70s magnificence and an obviously very frail Phil Collins struggling to go...

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Pssst.... wanna make some money on the side?
I know a couple of blokes called Patterson and Gimlin who would like to borrow your costume when we've finished filming for the day....

[Cartimand]

Have many covers amongst the 1,500 or so songs on my iPod playlist.

No fewer than 4 versions of House of the Rising Sun, by The Animals (of course), Frijid Pink, Lena Hall and the heavy metal version by Leo Moracchioli (which is brilliant!).

Leo Moracchioli also does a cracking...