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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: Re: Sounds Like The Raiders March
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 07:37:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:11:30 -0000 (UTC), John Savard wrote:

> Back when the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark came out, I thought that
> John Williams' music for The Raiders' March sounded familiar.
> 
> That I had heard one song from the 1950s or early 1960s that sounded
> very similar to it.
> 
> One song I checked out was "You've Got to Have Heart", from Damn
> Yankees, but that wasn't like it at all. The reason why I thought that
> might be it was because I thought I might have heard the music I'm
> thinking of...
> 
> in a beer commercial showing bottles of beer going down the assembly
> line.
> 
> Does this ring a bell for anyone?
> 
> John Savard

Sounds like an Elgar-Holst hybrid to these classically trained ears
but not lifted directly from either.