Talk:Shave and a Haircut
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Does anybody knows where this one-note melody comes from(try tapping it with your finger to recognize) - "| | ||| |||| ||" ?
It says the 8-note version is a "complete song". What does that mean? I'd like to see some more music-theoretical analysis in this article. --131.193.179.146 23:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
How about this: the first five notes are a heroic clausula (dactyl + spondee) as in "esse videtur," and the "two bits" is another spondee. The clausula system of Latin prose rhythm gave rise to cadences in modern music.72.218.83.205 (talk) 12:50, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Match in the gas tank
I never saw the movie "What's eating Gilbert Grape." But I heard the "Match in the gas tank" almost three decades before the movie.
Around 1965 or so, I used to take some regular bus trips from Lacona, New York to a YMCA in Watertown to go to the swimming pool, then back again. Several people on the bus would sometimes sing a song about how a Ford is put together--kind of a "toe-bone's connected to the foot-bone" sort of thing. The next-to-last line in the song was "Motor in the Ford makes the wheels go 'round."
Then as sort of a coda, to the "Shave and a haircut" tune they'd sing "Match in the gas tank, [a single hand-clap] No Ford!" 140.147.160.78 16:16, 19 July 2007 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza
[edit] Brown Bread?
I had never heard of 'shave and a haircut' so I assumed that this tune came from the 'Eye tiddley eye tie, eat brown bread' song. Does anybody have more information on that song? I couldn't find an article on it but it's difficult because the spelling isn't really well-defined. If it is the same tune then it could be mentioned in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Angelastic (talk • contribs) 15:57, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
- It is the same tune, but it's proving very difficult to find information about the song, sadly. 91.107.177.82 (talk) 21:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Media file
Is it just my browser, or does the media file miss the last note? "Shave and a haircut, two" - but no bits! Mittfh 18:35, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
- Works for me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shavehaircut.ogg was last updated in 2006 according to the cover page, so most likely just your browser.193.110.108.67 (talk) 07:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mexican version 'citation needed'
Could the CN not be removed? Or if it needs to stay, what sort of citation would satisfy it? Guyal of Sfere (talk) 17:20, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- I've seen it in a book called Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish. Maybe I'll add that as a citation. --Śiva (talk) 23:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] A vs. A-flat
Is it definitely established which is the original? They are both often used. Kostaki mou (talk) 21:35, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- If the musical notation shown is from the sheet music for "Cakewalk" (as stated in the image description) and that is indeed the original source then A-flat is the original. Gr8white (talk) 17:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] References getting out of hand
Not surprisingly, the "References" section is turning into a long, boring list of moments when Shave and a Haircut showed up in some movie/TVshow/song. A trivia pit - pointless. A couple of the items are worthwhile, but most aren't. Deciding on the cutoff will be interesting, of coursre. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:04, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Les Paul?
The shortest record is by Les Paul and Mary Ford, from the 1950s, with "Shave and a haircut" on one side of the record, while "Two Bits" is on the other side of the record. Interesting if true. Unfortunately I can find absolutely no evidence of such a record. I'll remove it as probably apocryphal (if someone knows this to be true please add back w/ a reference). Gr8white (talk) 20:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Further research reveals this to be partially true. I'll reword & add ref. Gr8white (talk) 21:51, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
