The World’s New Theme Song
One of the ways the internet has changed the life of the pop-culture trivia searcher is that it used to take years to identify a song we heard in a TV show or an old movie (before they started identifying all the songs in the closing credits of movies). Now a lot of songs are identified in the "soundtracks" section of the IMDB, and others can be found with a YouTube search. So when someone mentioned that the theme song for the U.S. default deadline should be the Yodel music they play on The Price is Right, a YouTube search turned up the actual recording they use - the yodeling begins at 0:53, but they’ve also used the opening music for Swiss vacations and such.
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