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* ''[[http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/277117/Hollywood-Hotel-Movie-Clip-Hooray-For-Hollywood-.html Hooray for Hollywood]]'': Hollywood scenes, movie stars. See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6gX37d2eP8 That's Entertainment]]''.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttvZzK_CVMM Sleep, Baby, Sleep]]'': Bedtime and/or drowsiness

* "''[[https://i.ytimg.com/an_webp/ycmQpXWwT0c/mqdefault_6s.webp?du=3000&sqp=CIeCnYkG&rs=AOn4CLBOS9WiSj1887ycqTiVzBf4N_gqlw On A Mission]])''" (Music/GabriellaCilmi): High energy, intense action; scenes of fast cars or driving, occasionally used in {{Fanservice}} scenes, MsFanservice. Words sometimes cut from this.

* ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x816o_song-of-the-marines Song of the Marines]]'' ("We're Shoving Right Off For Home Again"): Sailors, sailing vessels, long voyages at sea (particularly Naval)

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4 Mad World]]'' (Gary Joules' version): Scenes of desolate environments, or a sober/tragic scene in a drama.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjfkwvOOAM Greensleeves]]'': Pastoral England. Also occasionally associated with Christmas due to being used for the melody of certain Christmas carols.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5nhMIyeqI&t=2m23s Light Cavalry'' overture]] (Franz von Suppé): TheCavalry (when not being BigDamnHeroes).

* ''[[https://youtu.be/gH476CxJxfg Bad Day]]'' (Daniel Powter): Things are clearly not going so well.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrUfJW1JGk New York, New York]]'': The BigApplesauce's "Official Horrendously Overexposed Hit Show Tune" (as Creator/DaveBarry put it). Liza Minnelli's signature song. The New York Yankees used to play it at the end of all of their home games: Music/FrankSinatra's version if they won, Liza's if they lost (until Liza complained about being associated with losing, so now they just play Frank's version whatever happens). Also, the coda serves as the unofficial DownToTheLastPlay theme for the professional sports teams residing in Madison Square Garden. For many years Sinatra's version was played in Times Square just before the New Year ball drop; as of 2005, Music/JohnLennon's "Imagine" has replaced it.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byGI1mDi3no Hungarian Rhapsody no.2]]'' (Music/FranzLiszt): Mostly here because it is ''not'' an example: it was used in [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry famous]] [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons]], yes, ''but played directly by the characters.'' It is used as a snippet in ''Theatre/MyFairLady''.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBnMlFENTvk&t=9s God Save the Tsar!]]'' ("Bozhe, Tsarya khrani!"): The Russian Empire; non-Communist Russian military forces. Also used at the aforementioned climax of the 1812 Overture; when the Tsarist anthem was banned in the USSR, its use in the 1812 Overture was replaced with a tune from an opera by Glinka.

Many songs owe their entries on the list below to the work of Carl W. Stalling, the musical director for the vast majority of the Warner Bros. WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons. He had a well-known tendency toward musical quotation and punning; Creator/ChuckJones was known to complain that Stalling would always use certain pieces of music in certain situations and would go out of his way to find preexisting pieces whose titles corresponded to the action he was scoring.[[note]]Stalling would have been foolish ''not'' to make the most of the studio's great facilities: the vast Warner music catalogue and a full studio orchestra. Stalling's contribution to those Golden Age cartoons is noticeable when you compare the 1940s classics to the later shorts of the 1950s, with much more minimal scoring. (Classic Warner Bros. cartoons also used some songs that were neither public domain nor from the Warner music catalogue, particularly Raymond Scott's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC0vNLdLvY "Powerhouse")]].[[/note]]

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlRApdy4fFw O Sole Mio]]'': Venice, especially a gondola ride - overlooking the fact that the composer, Eduardo di Capua, hailed from Naples ...and that the lyrics are in the Neapolitan dialect, not Venetian! (No wonder its use in the Venice gondola rides has later been banned in Venice itself.)

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk God Save the Queen]]'' (UK National Anthem): UK Royal Family, particularly the Queen; any scene in London. The USA patriotic song ''My Country 'Tis Of Thee'' is [[ToTheTuneOf set to the same tune]].

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6d03gbmAzc I Left My Heart In San Francisco]]'': UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, oddly enough.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rTjJUcJNAw Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy]]'' from ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'' (Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky): Ickle children waking in expensive houses on snowy Christmas mornings.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t894eGoymio Lullaby]]'' (Creator/JohannesBrahms): Getting sleepy.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJIpVj_YkNo The Barber of Seville]]'' (Music/GioachinoRossini): ''Largo al Factotum'': Opera singers, barbers. Often mistitled "Figaro" after the name of the character and the main refrain.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ilXc0j1iHA Mundian to Bach Ke]] by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjabi_MC Panjabi MC]]. Similar to the above-mentioned Asian riff, but used for Indian characters.

* "Barwick Green": The British countryside, Radio/TheArchers.

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ilXc0j1iHA mundane to Bach Ke] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjabi_MC]. Similar to the above-mentioned Asian riff, but used for Indian characters.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3fbIGREh4Y It's a Long Way to Tipperary]]'': World War I, usually from the British perspective though notably it was used by the Germans in the WWII epic Film/{{Das Boot}}. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXcs1Vv3YlE Pack Up You Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag]]'' is also frequently used, usually in older works, and for Americans WWI is more usually associated with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCUzD5eBTNU Over There]]''.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sgkMXm6TkA Rhapsody in Blue]]'' (Gershwin): EstablishingShot of New York City

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4NVg8i8i1Y The Camptown Races]]'': Horse races. Associated with the Warner Bros. character WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn, who generally walked around humming it. Also used in Saloons in The Wild West. Also used by English soccer fans to mock German soccer fans: "Two World Wars and one World Cup, doo dah, doo dah!"

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjTsfIYeDsI My Old Kentucky Home]]'': Rural homes, the South. In RealLife, always played just before the running of the Kentucky Derby.[[note]]The words have changed a little, although not much they could do about the HaveAGayOldTime; it's now "'tis summer, the ''people'' (or the children) are gay."[[/note]]

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaB5320ZftE On the 5:15]]'': Train travel. See also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svRBivcvnd0 Chattanooga Choo Choo]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtdXk4auA0 On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe]]''.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCUzD5eBTNU Over There]]'': UsefulNotes/WorldWarI (U.S. involvement, 1917-18)

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M Theme from A Summer Place]]'': RelaxOVision, [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus medium-sized intermissions]], [[BlackComedyRape "comical"]] [[Film/AnimalHouse date rape]], [[Film/Batman1989 getting romanced in a museum café by a]] [[MonsterClown Monster]] [[ComicBook/TheJoker Clown]]--in general, SoundtrackDissonance.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQKlA5VUwRk Basic Instinct]]'' (Music/JerryGoldsmith): Sexy, erotic thrillers.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLs0V8T5AA Six Million Dollar Man]]'' theme: Superhuman strength or speed, in slow motion.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0H3RlaQVrM Welcome Home]]" (Music/CoheedAndCambria): Threatening apocalyptic action music, [[StandardSnippet especially the closing guitar solo and chorus]].

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0H3RlaQVrM Welcome Home]]" (Music/CoheedAndCambria): WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} action music, [[StandardSnippet especially using the guitar riffs and chorus at the end]].

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeBYqL8nuSw Das Lied der Deutschen]]'' (''Deutschlandlied'', [[RefrainFromAssuming "Deutschland über alles"]]): Germany, Germans (with dignity), Axis forces (in [[WartimeCartoon WWII propaganda cartoons]]). Note that only the third verse is now sung in Germany- it's their National Anthem.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUrUfJW1JGk New York, New York]]'' ([[RefrainFromAssuming Start Spreading The News]]): The BigApplesauce's "Official Horrendously Overexposed Hit Show Tune" (as Creator/DaveBarry put it). Liza Minnelli's signature song. The New York Yankees used to play it at the end of all of their home games: Music/FrankSinatra's version if they won, Liza's if they lost (until Liza complained about being associated with losing, so now they just play Frank's version whatever happens). Also, the coda serves as the unofficial DownToTheLastPlay theme for the professional sports teams residing in Madison Square Garden. For many years Sinatra's version was played in Times Square just before the New Year ball drop; as of 2005, Music/JohnLennon's "Imagine" has replaced it.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mmFPyDK_8 The Battle Hymn of the Republic]]'' ([[RefrainFromAssuming Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory]]): Any American patriotic speech (especially if triumphally Yankee), the American Civil War

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1xATrGMtg Fortunate Son]]" from ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys'' (Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival): UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Has its own MemeticMutation: "*[[RefrainFromAssuming It Ain't Me]] starts playing*"

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2pPJywRGTk Gonna Make You Sweat]]" (C+C Music Factory): TheNineties, rave culture, cash-in compilations of "rave" music, energetic dancing. Often known by its [[RefrainFromAssuming main repeated lyric]]: "Everybody Dance Now". If there's a DancePartyEnding, there's a high probability this song will be playing.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk&ob=av3e Song 2]]" (Music/{{Blur}}), AKA "[[RefrainFromAssuming Woo-Hoo]]": Action scenes, particularly extreme sports.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4RuNuPH3ik&feature=related The British Grenadiers]]'': The British Army in general, Redcoats in particular

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os&ab_channel=ABKCOVEVO Gimme Shelter]]" (Music/TheRollingStonesBand): Something intense/violent/erotic is going to happen. Usually in Creator/MartinScorsese flicks.

* "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", Music/IronButterfly: Another one often used for TheSixties, hippie or NewAgeRetroHippie things, drugs, traveling in psychedelic painted vans, etc.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs Lacrimosa]]'' (from Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart's ''Requiem''): Deaths, [[Manga/HunterXHunter moments]] [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind of]] AlasPoorVillain. The lyrics of the OminousLatinChanting help.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaDbHGusNgQ The Streets of Cairo]]'', or ''The Poor Little Country Maid'': The Middle East, snake charming, "hoochy-kootchy" belly dancing. (You may know it as "There's a Place in France".) Originally part of a 1893 World's Fair exhibit which is reenacted in ''Show Boat''.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfiAsWR4qU Hallelujah Chorus]]'' from ''The Messiah'' (Music/GeorgeFredericHandel): Epiphanies; particularly fortuitous events, someone finally getting what they want (often used facetiously). MindRape, in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.[[note]]Note that this latter use is actually closer to the original context of the piece; in the cycle of ''Messiah'' it represents Christ's Second Coming, which of course is happening during an incredibly violent apocalypse.[[/note]] [[Wrestling/DamienSandow You're welcome.]]

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