Google earworms.
Last night, my dear husband was watching a DVD about the Irish Brigade and some of the music got stuck in my head. All night long. Nothing like staring at the ceiling in the middle of the night with a melancholy fife-and-drum tune playing in your head, especially when you can't remember the title.
So around 6:00 AM, I decided to ask him.
Peony: Psst! Honey! Are you awake?
Posco: Uh?....I am now.
Peony: What's that music from your DVD last night? You know: La-laaaa la lalalala la la la, La lalaaa, la lalalala lalala....
Posco: I don't know. Google it.
Peony: How can I google a tune I don't know?
Posco: Search on Civil War Irish music.
Peony: *thinks* But wouldn't it be cool if you could google a tune? They could call it Google Earworm! You could sing into a little microphone....
Posco: I bet Bill Gates is working on it right now.
Peony: Bill Gates doesn't own Google. I bet they're mortal enemies.
Posco: He's probably more concerned with Dan Snyder.
Peony: *wonders if Bill Gates owns a football team*
Posco: *smiles at having successfully distracted his wife and goes back to sleep*
I did figure out what the tune was later this morning. It was...
You were close, Paul Allen of Microsoft owns the Seahawks.
There is a telephone service you can call when you're at the dance club and you want to know the name of the song playing. Just let a few measures of the song play over the phone, and it can identify it. I'm not sure how far away they are from pattern matching whistling or humming.
Yeah! The Minstrel Boy! I love that tune ... It is EPICALLY featured in the "Man Who Would Be King" with Sean Connery ... it is an awesome little ditty ... I remember hearing a cool version on an old LP my older brother owned by an obscure artist named Dick Rosmini (a link I found!: http://www.wirz.de/music/rosmifrm.htm )
A good first melody for anyone learning any instrument guitar, banjo, piano, harmonica, theremin ...)
Yess! Great tune, or "chune" as the Irish say.