most often-heard / widely-known tuba solo

[timdicarlo]

Well there's always the old polka standby: F to C four times, then walk it on up.

And I'm not sure how well-known it is, but when I first heard "Play That Country Tuba" by the Vandals, I more or less hit the ceiling. Priceless.

[Mark]

"The Mothership" from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[eupher61]

Jaws or Close Encounters or Jabba the Hutt??

[Søren]

Tuba solo in "The bare necessities" from the Jungle Book??

[imperialbari]

I don’t know which tuba solo is most widely known internationally. Isn’t bloke rather outing a not so secret message?

Tubby the Tuba als was known here 50 years ago, but not so much as a very popular tuba polka, The Forest Troll, by Hans Jørgen Nielsen, a trumpeter also writing several trumpet polkas.

Klaus

[samulirask]

I have to post this. The best known tuba solo IN FINLAND is the theme of "Pikku kakkonen", a children´s program that´s been around for already decades. I did watch is as a kid, and now my 4-year old son watches it. I think the theme has been re-recorded in this decade. Here´s a link to the programs web page, the theme will play immediately in the beginning. Very simple solo, two notes in the end of the piece. And finnish children hear it ten times every week...

http://www.yle.fi/pikkukakkonen/" target="_blank" target="_blank

[Uncle Buck]

Bloke's OP actually asked two separate questions:
1. Most often heard; and
2. Most widely known.

For #1, Bloke's answer is, IMHO, the clear winner. That show has had SO many viewers every day for so many years, there probably isn't anything closer.

For #2, I would assume the answer would require it to be most widely known by those who are aware it is a tuba solo. Most Price is Right listeners probably are not consciously aware that passage is a tuba solo. Same for most movie and TV parts - most listeners probably just don't pay that close attention.

My vote for #2 would be the Jaws solo - simply because of the press coverage it received after Johnson's death.

[lgb&dtuba]

Not technically a solo, but the Second Line or Joe Avery.

[The Jackson]

For younger folks, probably

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T0GRjxOP98" target="_blank

[dmmorris]

What about the solo from the theme of the Munsters TV show?

[TonyZ]

My guess would be the "You're a loser" solo on the game show, The Price is Right...

(...recorded by Tommy Johnson...??)

And the three-trombone gliss down after the tuba solo is the best played trombone ensemble ever heard/played/known!

[eupher61]

Gilligan's Island had a lot of tuba, too.

As to my favorite....Seduced!

[BVD Press]

How about The Lonely Goatherd (around 1:10 in):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zohQykbX ... re=related" target="_blank

It has been seen by millions so...

As a side note, I took my kids to meet Julie Andrews this Spring and she quite an amazing and nice lady.

[eupher61]

in that case, Bloke...hell, I have no idea what the TPIR loser's ditty sounds like.

I'd go for Close Encounters. Hands down. Maybe "The Lonely Goatherd" second, actually. (Thanks, Bryan!) The Ride, maybe, even if most would say "kiww da wabbit", and it's not really a solo.

Stars and Stripes dogfight? or is that not solo enough??

[BVD Press]

in that case, Bloke...hell, I have no idea what the TPIR loser's ditty sounds like.

I'd go for Close Encounters. Hands down. Maybe "The Lonely Goatherd" second, actually. (Thanks, Bryan!) The Ride, maybe, even if most would say "kiww da wabbit", and it's not really a solo.

I go with Goatherd just because it hits kids as well as adults and I can sing it!

[Tubanese]

the Meistersinger Prelude, Letter J to L.

[pierso20]

For younger folks, probably

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T0GRjxOP98" target="_blank" target="_blank

Hahaha...you got me...........I enjoyed that one quite a lot.

[rocksanddirt]

For younger folks, probably

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T0GRjxOP98" target="_blank" target="_blank

That is such an odd show.

[Dean E]

These are the ones which I first knew:

Ride
God Save the Czar
National Emblem (Trio)

[quinterbourne]

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