Major seventh interval

Aha! Wikipedia's got the scoop!

Take On Me! OMG, that's so obvious now they've mentioned it (and is the thing my little tune was reminding me of!).

Although it's the first two notes of the chorus rather than of the whole song, so it's still not quite the right answer.

Seems to me that Geir's been asleep at the wheel on this one.

the triste canto/"terra addio" aria from Aida does this. (Gb to F) six months, that's all i got.

Related: Most well-known songs based around a major seven chord?

also related, from the Marina Records website:

richard carpenter once said:
"I love major sevenths", and so do we!

For as long as I can remember, I've had a bias against this interval. Rather, the interval, divorced of a chord, is pretty cool, but a chord of 1-3-5-maj7 to me has *always* been something to dread, unless it was inserted in so completely an out-of-the-blue moment that I couldn't process it as a "lame melodramatic chord". I don't know why I have a problem with the major-maj7 chord, but I do. (I suspect the physics of this chord resolve into more consonances than the more-agreeable-to-me major-minor7, or major-9 w/minor7)

That said, a melody jumping from 1 to maj7 is pretty bold. I've tried this myself, and it's hard to fuck up; the interval is so large, and since you don't actually end up jumping an octave, it's also very dramatic. I wish I could make amends w/the chord.