Just remembered playing my Rhodes solo at a birthday party in a marquee when a group of uninvited surfers appeared and let all the ropes down so it collapsed into the centre . I had to crawl out . Afterwards people would remark how my singing had really brought the house down !
Dido's Lament , from Henry Purcell's opera Dido And Aeneas
Hit the charts in 1689
Edited to add :
- Or any Lament Bass . Wikipedia has a list of more examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament_bass