Music Banter - View Single Post - Cocomelon Wheels on the Bus intro / outro ... where is it from?

Soap · 07-26-2021, 07:50 AM

well i wanted to follow up on my own post in case anyone else was wondering.... it turns out it's Entrance of the Gladiators, an 1897 classical music piece by Julius Fučík.

Yes, that's right, a 100+ year old military march is worked into Cocomelon's rendition of Wheels on the Bus. Today is a very happy day.

As for my video game reference .... I was probably just wrong, but it's possible that somewhere along the line a video game aimed at young kids also sampled this song and used it as the game over music.

edit: and yes..... that mystery's been solved for me now, too ... it was used in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. As an ordinary level theme, not a game-over theme, but it does kind of sound like one. Oh frabjous day.

edit again: it's also the game over music in Super Mario Kart. this might be all over the place, like the famous "womp womp" thing.

07-26-2021, 07:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
Soap Groupie Join Date: Jan 2021 Posts: 2	well i wanted to follow up on my own post in case anyone else was wondering.... it turns out it's Entrance of the Gladiators, an 1897 classical music piece by Julius Fučík. Yes, that's right, a 100+ year old military march is worked into Cocomelon's rendition of Wheels on the Bus. Today is a very happy day. As for my video game reference .... I was probably just wrong, but it's possible that somewhere along the line a video game aimed at young kids also sampled this song and used it as the game over music. edit: and yes..... that mystery's been solved for me now, too ... it was used in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. As an ordinary level theme, not a game-over theme, but it does kind of sound like one. Oh frabjous day. edit again: it's also the game over music in Super Mario Kart. this might be all over the place, like the famous "womp womp" thing. Last edited by Soap; 07-30-2021 at 03:05 PM.