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OT: What's this Exxon Mobil music?

LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,098
edited December 2014 in The Commons

It's driving me nuts. The music behind this Exxon Mobil commercial is delightful and resonates with me as if I've heard it somewhere else.

Yeah, I know, grumps are not supposed to be happy and like things* but this music cracked my shell a bit. Anybody know where the music came from?

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7Ecg/exxon-mobil-enabling-everyday-progress-egg

* Actually I like many many things, it's just more fun to grump than squeal in delight! 8-Q

Edited to add:
I thought it might be from the soundtrack of the movie "Hugo". So I checked it out on YouTube. Music seems similar..., but no cigar.

Edited again:
Oops, found it, right there in the comments on the link I posted. "Once Upon A December" from Anastasia
Now to go check it out.

Edited yet again:
Nope, not from "Anastasia". :-( Some songs in the "Hugo" soundtrack still seems more similar.

Post edited by LeatherGryphon on

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  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,273
    edited December 1969

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKsHwqaIr4&list=PLAACC56CFF7E14435&index=8

    your welcome!


    (it was in the comments, Merry Christmas!)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,098
    edited December 2014

    StratDragon said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKsHwqaIr4&list=PLAACC56CFF7E14435&index=8

    your welcome!


    (it was in the comments, Merry Christmas!)

    Thanks, but um..., still no cigar. That link takes you to "The Moldau" by Smetana. A beautiful piece in its own right, and one of my favorites, but not the same.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,273
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    StratDragon said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKsHwqaIr4&list=PLAACC56CFF7E14435&index=8

    your welcome!


    (it was in the comments, Merry Christmas!)

    Thanks, but um..., but still no cigar. That link takes you to "The Moldau" by Smetana. A beautiful piece in its own right, but not the same.

    go in just over a minute, I tried Shazam on my phone and it brought me back to that commercial.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,098
    edited December 2014

    StratDragon said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    StratDragon said:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKsHwqaIr4&list=PLAACC56CFF7E14435&index=8

    your welcome!


    (it was in the comments, Merry Christmas!)

    Thanks, but um..., but still no cigar. That link takes you to "The Moldau" by Smetana. A beautiful piece in its own right, but not the same.

    go in just over a minute, I tried Shazam on my phone and it brought me back to that commercial.

    Yeah, it's similar, it may have been the inspiration but it's not the same song, even if you used the same instruments. No cigar.

    I had a similar experience with a commercial several years ago for diamonds that used this song:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TX_w15_gH0

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  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,273
    edited December 1969

    well it could simply be a different orchestra, different conductor I have 3 versions of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in Dm which are so different in arrangement, style and tempo they sound like 3 different songs.

  • icprncssicprncss Posts: 3,694
    edited December 1969

    It could also be an original work owned by Exxon Mobile.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,098
    edited December 2014

    icprncss said:
    It could also be an original work owned by Exxon Mobile.

    Original works are often created by artists with similar works either published separately or as contracts with various companies. A year or so ago there were a series of slightly different Christmas commercials that were used by different companies but created by a the same artists. The style was unmistakable.

    I'd love to find this Exxon tune as a standalone. If not already available, it's good enough to become one.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • Virtua36Virtua36 Posts: 13
    edited December 1969

    This sounds like '' Two Steps From Hell''. They're making Trailer Music. I couldn't find this one, but they have hundreds
    of songs on Youtube.
    https://www.youtube.com/user/TwoStepsFromTheMusic

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited December 1969

    Yeah, that was my first guess... It sounds very much like Two Steps, but sometimes it is hard to find out if a piece is theirs or not... They seem to have a lot of work that is not directly credited to them.
    The body of their work is great to listen to when you are doing creative work.

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,273
    edited December 1969

    and "Come Back to Jamaica" from the Jamaican Board of Tourism sounded suspiciously like John Lennon's "And so this is Christmas."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuJUm9-0Mxk

    they'll intoxicate you will hibiscus!
    Where can I score a half oz. of this intoxicating Jamaican hibiscus?

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,101
    edited December 2014

    I am no help but I have heard this tune before
    on an Australian commercial

    it has sort of a Hans Zimmer feel to it

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,101
    edited March 2015

    interesting
    i revisited this and found all the Youtube videos including the Exxon ones using "Once Upon A December" from Anastasia have been silenced

    oh nevermind bloody youtube settings

    Post edited by WendyLuvsCatz on
  • icprncssicprncss Posts: 3,694
    edited December 1969

    wendy♥catz said:
    interesting
    i revisited this and found all the Youtube videos including the Exxon ones using "Once Upon A December" from Anastasia have been silenced

    oh nevermind bloody youtube settings

    Did you ever convince youtube that your work was original and not lifted from a game?

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    edited December 1969

    it shall make you feel the opposite to what you see
    that's spooky to me
    imagine the same video with some threatening music

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,101
    edited December 1969

    icprncss said:
    wendy♥catz said:
    interesting
    i revisited this and found all the Youtube videos including the Exxon ones using "Once Upon A December" from Anastasia have been silenced

    oh nevermind bloody youtube settings

    Did you ever convince youtube that your work was original and not lifted from a game?
    not that particular video and another, most are OK

  • quack916quack916 Posts: 0

    I believe the basis of the Exon music for their algae commercial is "Oh Suzanna", redone in a twany guitar instrumental.  Thought it was very good.....Kind of reminded me of the clip in the movie "Platoon" towards the beginning that also used this song - but just the lyrics

  • lskeeterlskeeter Posts: 0
    LeatherGryphon said:

    It's driving me nuts. The music behind this Exxon Mobil commercial is delightful and resonates with me as if I've heard it somewhere else.

    Yeah, I know, grumps are not supposed to be happy and like things* but this music cracked my shell a bit. Anybody know where the music came from?

    http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7Ecg/exxon-mobil-enabling-everyday-progress-egg

    * Actually I like many many things, it's just more fun to grump than squeal in delight! 8-Q

    Edited to add:
    I thought it might be from the soundtrack of the movie "Hugo". So I checked it out on YouTube. Music seems similar..., but no cigar.

    Edited again:
    Oops, found it, right there in the comments on the link I posted. "Once Upon A December" from Anastasia
    Now to go check it out.

    Edited yet again:
    Nope, not from "Anastasia". :-( Some songs in the "Hugo" soundtrack still seems more similar.

    I don't know who did the version on the Exxon Mobil commerical. But it is from Bugs Bunny "A Hunting we will go" 

     

  • mhymer01mhymer01 Posts: 0
    How about the children's song " The farmer in the Dell" , goes with Energy Farmer.
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