When I was a kid, I saw the movie Young Sherlock Holmes. It wasn't particularly good, but there's this scene where this evil choir sings an evil song about some big evil guy or whatever.
This is the song. I never remembered anything about the movie except for this song, because I thought it was so cool.
Anyway, years later I was in the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus (basically the companion choir to the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra) and we were pairing with Alberta Ballet to do Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. This was in the late 90s or something.
Now if you've ever heard Carmina Burana, you know it starts and ends with the same song, O Fortuna. You've definitely heard it. They used it in a bazillion movie trailers.
Now, I didn't think about Young Sherlock Holmes when I was doing O Fortuna. I never thought about Young Sherlock Holmes. And it wasn't like I could fire up the internet and be like, hey, uh, this song is definitely a Jimmy Hart version of O Fortuna. But it totally is.
If you aren't familiar with the term Jimmy Hart version, it's the former trope name on TV Tropes of what is now termed Suspiciously Similar Song, names after pro wrestling manager and entrance theme composer Jimmy Hart, who (during his time at World Championship Wrestling) wrote pro wrestling theme songs which were basically Nirvana and Pearl Jam songs with the chords in a slightly different order.
Anyway, despite it being a huge ripoff of O Fortuna, I still have a soft spot for the song from Young Sherlock Holmes, and I think it was one of the songs that set me on the path to loving evil-sounding music.
