Please help me out with this...

[cousin jesse]

this is a clean clip of a 1959 Phil Woods/Clark Terry session, on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUrLH1JQtv4

at exactly 1:09 into the tape, Clark Terry quotes, with a few notes of classical/cartoon music.

Will someone please help me identify the tune he's quoting ?

i will be forever grateful.

i really want to know what he's saying to Phil.

[Jakeweiser]

man... you've posted this like 3 times now! No one knows! This is spam, I doubt you intend to spam us, but that's what this is.

I've listened, it doesn't sound like anything i've heard from a cartoon. I wish I could help you but unfortunately I cannot.

he's probably just saying he's a badass

[cousin jesse]

the obsession with it has temporarily gotten the best of me.

i'll let it rest, and trust that no harm has been done.

[Jim R]

Jeez, Jake. Maybe it was posted before, but I never saw it and I check the board frequently. Anyway, I wouldn't call this spam at all. It's a perfectly legitimate question, and one that I'm now also interested in knowing the answer to.

If CT's quote doesn't sound familiar, then you're giving away your inexperience (maybe you're too young, or just haven't been exposed to some of the most famous classical themes of all time...?). It WAS used in cartoons, maybe more in the 50's and 60's than later, but this is a FAMOUS clasical theme.

Now, having said that, there are a lot of classical themes that I recognize musically but can not attach a name to. This is one of those cases. I've never really been very interested in or knowledgeable about classical music, but my first thought was that it might be Brahms, or Mendelssohn... from the so-called romantic period, if I'm not mistaken? I also wondered if it might be a minuet. I tried some searches and tried listening to some YouTube clips based on some lists of famous themes by famous composers, but so far I've come up empty. I hummed it to my mother, who is more knowledgeable about classical music, and she of course recognized it too, and went on to sing the rest of the piece. Unfortunately, she couldn't remember the title. :shrug: Somebody around here has got to know this, or know somebody who knows it. Anyway, Jake- just ignore this if you need to.

[Noj]

https://www.transactionserver1.com/_images/UncleJesse.jpg
Maybe Uncle Jesse would know.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Jim R]

cousin jesse, thanks to someone on another board (where I posted your question), the answer is...

Mendelssohn's Spring Song (Opus 62, No. 6)

So, now we can sleep nights. Don't ever do this again! ;)

[cousin jesse]

i appreciate you staying with me on that.

makes sense to me now in more ways than i thought it would.
i'm thinking the quote comes down to being an apology, for not quite
having his thoughts together on the first chorus.
(Jake, it's a Sylvester/Tweety Bird thing)
but then he goes on to blow the entire second chorus in one breath.
beautiful.

like i said, i am forever grateful.
without feeling that it should be, or could be otherwise.

Jerry