Talk:The Girl I Left Behind

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Whoever posted the "unreferenced" and "not notable"... I'm sorry you've never heard of the song, but if you put "The Girl I Left Behind" in Google you'll find countless references to recordings of this song. I don't know what to narrow it down to, frankly. Wahkeenah 14:13, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Gen. Custer

Regardless of how Hollywood has portrayed it, the tune associated with Custer, which was played as his troops left for his ill-fated meeting with Sitting Bull at Little Bighorn, is called "Garry Owen." See this wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garryowen —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BellyOption (talk • contribs) 20:38, 6 February 2007 (UTC).

?? I really doubt an Army band knew just one song. To say "Gary Owen" was always the song they played in pretty closed-minded. The Custer Museum contains some of Custer's Journals. "The Girl I Left Behind" is proclaimed, in the Generals own handwriting, to be a favorite tune of his. Since no one alive and SPECULATING on the Internet today was actually there when the 7th left to massacre the women and children on the Bighorn River, your proposal is heresay and assumption. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.48.202.89 (talk) 19:30, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants did a song called "Why Does The Sun Shine" whose tune is obviously based on this folk song. I think there should be a meantion of that in this article and possibly on the page for "Why Does The Sun Shine". 67.141.95.104 (talk) 04:54, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. I was just listening to Waxies Dargle and trying to figure out why it sounded familiar, before realizing I knew it from "Why Does the Sun Shine". 23.242.72.1 (talk) 19:46, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Jerma985

Please don't put his use of this as the "Pirate Shpee/Pyro/Scout" again. A joke is a joke, but notability is notability... ––Dan2paul (talk) 18:20, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Okay, but he has a tv tropes page and a KnowYourMeme page dedicated to him. What makes you the master of all things notable, Random Wikipedia User? 108.223.130.26 (talk) 13:19, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Neither of those are considered reliable sources by Wikipedia and anyone can self-publish pages on any obscure topic on those sites. Adding a popular culture reference requires a reliable third-party source attesting to its impact on culture. See Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content, we don't need every minor reference to the song ever, but those that were notable and shown to be relevant years later. Sorry, but most stuff on Youtube simply isn't notable, and this is from someone who has played TF2 and loved to watch all of star_ and Jerma's videos. Opencooper (talk) 14:28, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

The video in question has over 1.7 million views. More than that understand the origin, which is more than some other pop culture mentions.00:16, 22 September 2017 (UTC)192.182.117.154 (talk)

Again, read Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content and try to understand what it is saying. In order to demonstrate notability of included pop culture references, you need reliable independent sources. The circumstances of the video itself are irrelevant. I'd also appreciate it if you'd stop edit warring and instead used this page to try to establish and respect a consensus. Opencooper (talk) 11:53, 22 September 2017 (UTC)