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Ours plays the 1979 hit Music Box Dancer which is weird because it's definitely not public domain.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQzA8NTuLA

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

In Philadelphia PA we got Mr. Softee blasting this down the street.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It sounds almost like "Hail to the Bus Driver"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It reminds me of O Du Lieber Augustin. And it took me a really long time to figure out that title… I thought it was some well-known nursery rhyme melody, but it’s a 224 year old Viennese tune.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Apparently it was adapted to “Did you ever see a lassie?” which has much brighter and simpler lyrics than the original, which is very dark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

tangentially related: the football chant Who ate all the Pies? and the Mary Poppin's song Step in Time! both share the same origin of an old Cockney song Knees Up Mother Brown

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