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= January 20 =

What's the c. 2009 song that does this?
I'm sorry I'm not good with intervals, the number of semitones above the start might be approximate for the 8s and 4s. I could write it in notes but it'd likely be transposed and also that's extra work for translation. (this is normal counting, where 1 octave is 12 semitones)

! is two exclamation marks, as the notes all sound excited. I tried to give a sense of note length. > is a continuous transition. Oh, and all the lyrics are "oh".

0>12! 12-12 8-8 4 (several times), 0>12! 12-12 8-8-8 4.

I liked this song (and '07 through '11). Instead top 40 got dumber since ~2012. Though less so than 2002-04 (Lights - Goulding, Summertime Sadness ('13), Slow Down - Selena Gomez and Katy Perry - Dark Horse being the reasons). Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 02:57, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Trying to find other versions of song in Hebrew
Somewhat by chance, I found this album by Gibert, who seems to be a Brazilian singer, on Spotify. I'm not a Hebrew speaker, but I've noticed that a number of these songs are probably covers of relatively famous things, like Jerusalem of Gold, Donna Donna, My Yiddishe Momme, Hava Nagila, or Hatikvah. (Those are the only ones I know of.)

I got "Am Echad Shir Echad" stuck in my head, and I've been wondering if it's also not an original song. However, I haven't much luck. There was one other song of this name on YouTube, which apparently was sung in the 1980's by a bunch of presumably Israeli pop singers, but the melody seems different from the song of the same title (at least by Latin alphabet transliteration) by Gilbert.

Might somebody be able to help me with this? Morningcrow (talk) 06:04, 20 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Update: searching for "am echad" on Spotify, I found that the song "Am Echad Lev Echad", which also seems to be known as "Kol Yisrael" matches the melody. This seems reasonable; I seem to remember a line that sounded something like that in the Gilbert song. Morningcrow (talk) 01:04, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Sound effect companies for Wreck it Ralph
Hi, I'm looking for a sound effect company that the movie "Wreck it Ralph" uses. I'm just looking for the sound effects that are for actions and not voice clips. If anyone has any idea what the sound effects on the movie come from, please reply. There is a company that I don't know where the sound effects were made by including the one that is played by the time "Ala-mode" voice pops up on the screen.--HappyLogolover2011 (talk) 07:19, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The sound effects for all movies are just made by people working on the film, not by some separate company. IMDB has a full list of credits for Wreck It Ralph, including sound effects people, here. --Viennese Waltz 09:31, 20 January 2015 (UTC)


 * That's not always true. Companies like Sound Ideas are the Warner Chappell Production Music of melodyless things. Not practical to make leaves rustle for each movie that needs rustling leaves. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:38, 20 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Skywalker Sound did the post production for that movie. Someone there might be able to help you find the specific sound they used. Their Contact Us needs Javascript enabled. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:04, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

octogenarians in pop music?
Chuck Berry is 88 years old; George Martin 89. Who else in this loosely-defined field has reached 80? —Tamfang (talk) 22:55, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * There are 45 old geezers listed here, including Fats Domino and Little Richard. Petula Clark is 82?!? I feel old. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:02, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Doris Day a rocker?! —Tamfang (talk) 23:10, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Pop music. "Que Sera, Sera", and such. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:34, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Please note the title of the page linked by Clarityfiend. —Tamfang (talk) 08:19, 23 January 2015 (UTC)


 * And then it occurred to me to look at 1935 and proceed back. Ronnie Hawkins, Nana Mouskouri, Leonard Cohen, Pat Boone, Frankie Valli, Otis Rush, Wink Martindale, Willie Nelson, Roy Clark, Mike Stoller, Corry Brokken, Mel Tillis, Casey Kasem, Loretta Lynn, Hubert Sumlin, William Shatner —Tamfang (talk) 23:07, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * And wherever he's hiding out, The King turned 80 this month. Rojomoke (talk) 06:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd hide, too, if I looked like this. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:06, 21 January 2015 (UTC)


 * I could've sworn Fats Domino died when I was a kid. Weird. But thanks! InedibleHulk (talk) 09:04, 21 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Depending on your definition of "pop", or indeed "music", we have The Zimmers; "thought to have the oldest members of any band in the world". Click here (caution advised) to listen to their greatest hit, a cover of My Generation. The name of the group is derived from the Zimmer frame, in case you didn't get the joke. Alansplodge (talk) 16:48, 22 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Well next year there'll be a septagenarian in techno. The oldest member of Kraftwerk reached the We Are The Robots level of techno-ness years before "techno" meant "some crappy machinery sound-funk-Kraftwerk alloy from the prehistory of techno". Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 17:47, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Edgar Froese recently made 70, then more recently died. InedibleHulk (talk) 19:58, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Super Bowl questions
(1) What team has won the most? (2) Who is the oldest (and who is the youngest) Super Bowl quarterback? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 23:22, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * For (1), the Pittsburgh Steelers have the most wins (six), see List_of_Super_Bowl_champions. According to  John Elway is the oldest, at 38 and Dan Marino is the youngest at 23.  RudolfRed (talk) 23:29, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Oldest to start. Not sure who the absolute oldest QB was to appear, but Johnny Unitas came off the bench to relieve Earl Morrall in Super Bowl V, and he was also 38 at the time.  Not sure the exact number of says, but Unitas may have been older than Elway by a small amount.  Also, I don't know if he appeared in the game itself, but Steve DeBerg was on the Falcons roster in 1998 for Super Bowl XXXIII at age 45, he did start at least one game during the season.  -- Jayron 32 01:44, 21 January 2015 (UTC)