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Shave and a Haircut (Two Bits)

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RedRec · 26/09/2025 22:24

Has anyone heard of this? It's a tune (which we would all recognise) but I have never heard it called that! Just stumbled across it today. Apparently very well known?

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Reachedtheend · 26/09/2025 22:28

I'd never heard of it.
But I just looked it up on YouTube and listened to it and I do recognise the rhythm.

ShrubRose · 27/09/2025 00:39

I think it may be an American thing.

BartokRules · 27/09/2025 07:21

Heard it on The Good Old Days on tv which I love!

BirdShedRevisited · 27/09/2025 07:27

Yes. Thirty years ago a manager had it as his message alert tone.

De de dedede de de

OccultGnuNew · 27/09/2025 07:39

Wasn't it in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

WTDress · 27/09/2025 07:44

OccultGnuNew · 27/09/2025 07:39

Wasn't it in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Yes!

PrizedPickledPopcorn · 27/09/2025 07:51

It’s shorthand for music. When you’re telling the musicians what you want to punctuate your comedy show.

To mark the punchlines.

OneFootAfterTheOther · 27/09/2025 07:58

Yes, I thought that is what it was called.

KvotheTheBloodless · 27/09/2025 08:00

Yes I knew that.

Sgtmajormummy · 27/09/2025 08:00

In Italy it’s
“Ammazza la vecchia col Flit!” (Kill the old woman with fly spray, maybe a post-war advertising jingle)
You only need the first 4 notes of a scale to play it
Fa do do re do Mi FA.

So maybe it’s something a non musician would play on a piano.

Yamyamabroad · 27/09/2025 08:10

Its mentioned in " Blue Hawaii" 1950s film too, so older than Roger Rabbit, no idea what it is though

BalladOfBarryAndFreda · 27/09/2025 08:14

Yes, I know it as a door knock rhythm.

Gingernaut · 27/09/2025 08:18

OccultGnuNew · 27/09/2025 07:39

Wasn't it in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

It was used by the Judge to 'out' Roger Rabbit from his hiding place

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