indianajones - Posted - 04/30/2024:  07:02:51

Like me, you probably have these tunes in our head that come out when you are noodling on your fiddle. What tunes that aren't fiddle tunes do you sometimes play? I've got Baby Elephant Walk, Fly Me To the Moon, In the Mood....

hokelore - Posted - 04/30/2024:  07:15:26

Moondance

pete_fiddle - Posted - 04/30/2024:  10:59:07

Yep, most jazz standards with a vocal melody. The jazzers certainly know how to create an earworm.... Moondance is one sophisticated earworm...

farmerjones - Posted - 04/30/2024:  11:50:01

Do you suppose Michael Jackson listened to Van Morrison's Moondance, before he came up with the start of Billiejean?

ChickenMan - Posted - 04/30/2024:  12:11:03

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Originally posted by farmerjones

Do you suppose Michael Jackson listened to Van Morrison's Moondance, before he came up with the start of Billiejean?

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Meh, those are pretty common cords to put together. I pretty much only play bluegrass or fiddle tunes (Irish and old time) when I'm fiddling by myself. If playing with others, I'll do what is needed.

Lonesome Fiddler - Posted - 04/30/2024:  13:45:17

I keep a list of them. Just for starters --

First off, I do Moon Dance, too.
Parlez Moi d'Amour, which I got off my Henry & June soundtrack CD.
Star Spangled Banner
The first tune in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony.
And the Beat Goes On by Sonny & Cher.
Alley Cat
As Time Goes By
Michelle, by the Beatles
Blarney Pilgrim
Blues in the Night
Maria, from West Side Story
Corpus Christi Carol
The head riff of Jerry Garcia's solo in Dark Star
The "beep beep bop bop" tune that was regularly used in the old TV show Burke's Law.

Etc. etc. ad nauseam.

Gunther_az - Posted - 04/30/2024:  15:00:16

Hey Jude.

Flat_the_3rd_n7th - Posted - 04/30/2024:  17:06:05

Theme from Love Story (How Do I Begin)

Evenin' (Cab Calloway)

farmerjones - Posted - 04/30/2024:  17:28:51

This is excruciating and frustrating, and it happened again today. I built a tune with a looper, fiddle and keyboard. Wouldn't you know it, came out another 12bar Blues. Without lyrics, one is very much like the others, key excluding.

Flat_the_3rd_n7th - Posted - 04/30/2024:  17:29:34

Thought of another:

Hier Encore (Yesterday When I Was Young)

These are songs I play for parlor recitals

Shawn Craver Fiddler - Posted - 04/30/2024:  19:17:55

I don't play much else on the fiddle but fiddle music. I hit on Yesterday the otehr day...sits nicely in F on the fiddle. I play old hymns ... they're kind of like fiddle tunes, though.

grahamtodd - Posted - 05/02/2024:  13:41:06

If I Only Had A Brain

(Wizard of Oz, not a self-deprecating comment (but could apply))

farmerjones - Posted - 05/02/2024:  16:51:50

Three word: Sweet Georgia Brown

buckhenry - Posted - 05/02/2024:  17:37:48

Star Wars main theme.
Apache.
Misirlou.

indianajones - Posted - 05/03/2024:  12:17:58

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Scotland The Brave, or is that a fiddle tune?

Also a few old Baptist hymns I think I learned from my mother. In the Garden. Just a closer Walk With Thee. Two of my favs