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Ptah

(33,028 posts) Fri Mar 2, 2018, 07:22 PM Mar 2018

"Bumble Boogie" went to # 21 on the Billboard charts in June 1961.

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"Bumble Boogie" went to # 21 on the Billboard charts in June 1961. (Original Post) Ptah Mar 2018 OP

The Batman theme! Or close to it. Squinch Mar 2018 #1

Closer yet Cirque du So-What Mar 2018 #3

Not to be confused with JUNGLE Boogie rocktivity Mar 2018 #2

Obviously inspired by. . . DinahMoeHum Mar 2018 #4

Ha... I used to play that on the piano defacto7 Mar 2018 #5

let's put some steps together and rurallib Mar 2018 #6

Good grief. I remember that well. Hadn't heard it in years. Glorfindel Mar 2018 #7

Squinch

(50,949 posts)

1. The Batman theme! Or close to it.

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Fri Mar 2, 2018, 07:35 PM

Mar 2018

Cirque du So-What

(25,935 posts)

3. Closer yet

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 2, 2018, 08:36 PM

Mar 2018

to the theme from The Green Hornet.

rocktivity

(44,576 posts)

2. Not to be confused with JUNGLE Boogie

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Fri Mar 2, 2018, 08:34 PM

Mar 2018

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Kool and the Gang 1974

rocktivity

DinahMoeHum

(21,784 posts)

4. Obviously inspired by. . .

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Fri Mar 2, 2018, 09:26 PM

Mar 2018

. . .composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee

defacto7

(13,485 posts)

5. Ha... I used to play that on the piano

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Fri Mar 2, 2018, 10:30 PM

Mar 2018

As a kid.... from this very single. I think i still can actually. I was 5 when it first came out and used to dance to it. By the time i was 10 I was able to play it. And yeah it comes from Rimsky-K Flight of the bumblebee that I used to play on pipe organ... don't think I can still do that though.