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signature tune
signature tune
noun
- a melody used to introduce or identify a television or radio programme, a dance band, a performer, etc Also called (esp US and Canadian)theme song
Word History and Origins
Origin of signature tune1
Example Sentences
Often called “Mr. Snap, Crackle” in tribute to his brisk, articulate drumming style, he wrote a signature tune with the same name for his own 1962 album, “Out of the Afternoon.”
The former Beatle has let “We All Stand Together” — the signature tune from an award-winning animated film he wrote and produced 40 years ago — be used in a promotional film for the International Paralympic Committee.
Every brood contains a minimum of three or a maximum of four of cicada species — each species with its own signature tune.
Langston Hughes’s poems were featured on posters in my local library, and everybody knew Duke Ellington because of his signature tune, “Take the A Train,” written by Billy Strayhorn.
He earned his first Grammy in 1962 for what would become his signature tune, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”
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