Not just a song that can be found in the archives, but one that almost everyone can hum, even today.
(Somebody asked what was meant by “today’s…” Throw whatever you want out, somebody tossed out “Love me tender” as being a tune from in the 1860s.)
One of my favorite little details of Blood and Wine, Witcher 3, is random people humming or singing small refrains of modern pop songs like the Beatles, implying these tunes are exactly what you’re asking about.
Belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam by Technotronic is one for the ages. Some say it has always been with us.
Good one, I kinda thought Salt-n-Pepa’s Push It had a little more staying power though.
Get your booty on the floor tonight, make my day
Bohemian Rhapsody
XcQ, link stays blue
Well, green.
I want to click, but I don’t want to click
So, 500 years from now people will still be doing this?
I can see it
Define “today”? My first pick would be Yesterday, but that’s about 60 years old already.
On the scale of Greensleeves, I would suggest Yesterday is today.
Yesterday
Probably a Jazz song since the musicians often cover the same Songs over and over again and thats how they could stay very long? Dont know which one though. A Train? Misty?
Something from Michael Jackson maybe. I heard you can go somewhere where there is no civilization and they’ll still know him.
In the U.S., “Neck” by Cameo has become a college marching band standard. I wonder if that will help. Not that it would come from U.S. college sports but maybe a song like “Sweet Caroline” or “Seven Nation Army” that’s played at professional sporting events in multiple countries.
I don’t know what it is but I hear it at sports stadiums. Duh duh duh duh- duh duh duh-duh It repeats
“Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes.
I know it’s not the song that you’re saying but I read that in Suzanne Vega - Tom’s diner tone
There’s a surprisingly good cover of it by Britney Spears.
O Fortuna, Carmina Burana.
The poem was written in the medieval period, but finally set to music in 1935-1936. It still took till the 1970s to be used in TV/Film and became so widely used, it is now known as the most overused piece of music in film history.
It’s not overused, it’s just used a lot (not that I have heard it in anyway)
“O Fortuna” has been called “the most overused piece of music in film history”, and Harper’s Magazine columnist Scott Horton has commented that “Orff’s setting may have been spoiled by its popularization” and its use “in movies and commercials often as a jingle, detached in any meaningful way from its powerful message.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna
I’m not the one that called it that.
Based on what I hear playing, my money is on Mr. Brightside.
Gershwin’s Summertime is my real answer. It has been covered by so many artists already, it might keep going.
Oh this is easy, but you may not thank me for it. Hum, whistle or sing, anyone near you will do the same after a minute or so. It’s timeless and it even has it’s own website
I give you Lipps Inc. - Funky Town
The nes super Mario bros overworld theme comes to mind. People who have never played a Mario game in their lives know that tune.
House of the Rising Sun
But to the tune of Amazing Grace
/s
Please God, no.