Name that tune (again)

[simont]

I now have a positive identification of the tune I posted yesterday. I had one piece of information I didn't mention in this diary when I posted the tune, because I wasn't entirely sure of its accuracy and didn't want to skew anyone else's unbiased judgment. That information was one of the lyrics sung to the tune; I eventually identified it by creatively googling for that lyric. (I'd tried this several times before, but this time I added some random search terms suggested by people who responded to my last post; so despite me having identified it myself, posting it here was a useful exercise. Thanks for all your help, people who helped.)

I had expected that this would be the end of the matter: that having worked out where the tune comes from, I would snap my fingers, kick myself, and exclaim something along the lines of ‘Oh, of course it is’, and be forevermore unpuzzled. Well, on this particular topic anyway.

However, as it turned out, it doesn't work that way: having identified the tune, I'm now more confused than I started out. The tune in question (adjusted slightly for my imperfect musical memory, but unmistakably the thing I was thinking of) appears in the middle of a '70s hit called ‘Playground in My Mind’ by Clint Holmes. The only trouble is, I've never in my life heard of either the title or the artist. And although the lyric I remembered is indeed present, exactly where I thought it was, not a single one of the other lyrics rings any bells whatsoever.

So I'm none the wiser as to where I might have encountered this fragment of music. Was it on a film soundtrack, perhaps? IMDB says yes: it was in a film called ‘Old School’ (2003), which I've also never heard of before. Furthermore, it looks like the kind of film I'd remove my own visual cortex with a wooden spoon rather than watch, so it seems extremely unlikely that I encountered it half way through on TV and decided to keep watching. So that probably isn't it.

I'm left with the suspicion that I encountered the same tune somewhere other than in the song I cite above. Perhaps someone else parodied it (and perhaps they changed all the lyrics except for the one I remembered, which is actually quite plausible). Or perhaps my snippet wasn't original to the Clint Holmes song: it's quite different from the ‘main’ tune surrounding it, and could perfectly well have been put in there as a reference to something pre-existing.

But bah. I wish I'd never started now. I'm more confused than I was to begin with!