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What are some worn and used songs in other countries?

  • In the U.S., there are those songs that relentlessly show up everywhere. Songs like C&C Music Factory's "Good Vibrations," for example. I've heard it on numerous commercials, shows, in arenas, etc. These are songs that are still used LONG past their 15 minutes of fame due date. But what about other countries? I'm curious about what pop songs are relentless in other countries. I'd love to know if Japan, for instance, has some typical songs that everyone there recognizes that have been around a while and are used for many different applications. Does anyone have any insight on this?

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    The Hockey Night in Canada theme. Most Canadians could hum it in the sleep. Quite a few probably do just that.

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In Japan, you'll sometimes hear "Auld Lang Syne" as a store is closing for the evening. "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is apparently quite popular in many parts of Asia. The nominal max playing time of a CD was developed to be 74 minutes in order to contain the entire 9th symphony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc#Storage_capacity_and_playing_time) because of a Japanese New Year's tradition of playing the whole thing.

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The "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is apparently quite popular in many parts of Asia. I was watching a news segment a couple of weeks ago about Wal-Mart opening stores in Asia, and the employees at one of the stores were all singing a song about being loyal to the company, set to that melody.

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A fun question agregoli. In England, Flanders & Swann's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0WPwFD9is (http://www.poppyfields.net/poppy/songs/hippopotamus.html). Among Tibetan refugees living in India and also popular amont people from the Philippines, the ancient http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRpzKXEmuWE, (played here with Pete Seeger onhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAD23x_3Q90). Also among the Tibetan refugees in India, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnmImt2y6RA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mlxQ16Wcpk (here with Chinese subtitles) by The Eagles. In Tibet,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5q4vM7J-UQ and thesehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlHScCPKywc. In India the 70's classic, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VooHala_fAw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80kYvzKNWfM especially. In Greece Mikis Theodorakis' music, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTPbkqECZKc. In France Edith Piaf's- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR782HywSpg, the national anthem, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8dafLxLcI. In Italy the Neapolitan song,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VboYMwfLi0.

nickyskye

I almost forgot. Country Roads, the original John Denver version (thank god), is way overplayed in China as well. I sang it with a group of Tibetan yak herders who spoke not one word of English around the fire one drunken night way up in the snowy moountains of Yunnan and they knew every single word phonetically!

Pollomacho

One I've heard multiple times here in SA, and I also heard getting decent play up in Greece, was The New Radical's "You Only Get What You Give." But I think they're great, so I don't mind the recurrence.

allkindsoftime

I found one of the Chinese "end of journey" songs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4HhnskNog But there's another one that I was thinking of that eludes me. It's more fast-paced and sounds like something that would play at the end of an 80's movie involving deceit and intrigue.

pravit

"Credits roll" jazz music Could you possibly be thinking of "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty? Cause I picture the same sort of thing every time I hear that sax riff. It's like the sun going down on The Big Easy in my head.

fishmasta

I don't know if they count as pop music, but tracks from the Zero 7 album Simple Things are everywhere on British TV. I don't know their later albums, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are also heavily used but I haven't recognized the songs. The plinky-plonky intro from Dead Already from the American Beauty soundtrack was insanely overused a couple of years ago and still turns up fairly often. I suspect not many people can actually name these, so they might not be exactly what you're looking for.

tomcooke

Poland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCLc8cZdhLI gets constant airplay on the radio and is also a pretty popular ringtone.

juva

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