Man, it's such a good feeling when you finally find that song or album where the name of it and the name of the artist that created it eluded you for years. Tonight, I finally found out who made the song that I've been searching for since God knows when. It's Donald fagen's "New Frontier":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBruAooXPNU&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BBiZE7ViZDE8AjDmgN7HqL

I always remembered the fifties themed video with the couple and I always remembered there was animation contained in it. I even remembered the melody of the song and I remembered how I used to see the video on TBS' "Night Tracks" back in the day. However, the name of the artist and the song always escaped me and I tried hard to find the song. I was on that Quirkz; straight beating my head in trying to find it.

Tonight, while on the phone waiting for IT to answer, I heard it playing during the hold. Messed around and used the song ID app on my phone to catch the song and ended up being directed to the video via YouTube. Man, those of you who can relate gotta know how elated I am right now. I wanted to ask about the song on here for the longest but I couldn't remember any lyrics, at all. Posting "♫ ♪ la la la, dah dah daaaa-aaah daaaaahhh ♪♫" wouldn't have conveyed the melody, so I fell back.

Anyhoo, what forgotten songs have any of you finally found by accident and how did you find them? Post YouTubes of 'em if you can.




Since 1976

Since 1976

Your post gives me hope.

my elusive tune is a jazz song with no lyrics. and all i have is the first few bars of the melody to hum.

have not found it in 12+ yrs now. the person i heard the song from is no longer in my life, but...that's the way it goes.

peace

I remembering hearing it at a young age and always associating it (nostalgia wise) with Groovin' by The Rascals. My parents & their friends were huge 60's & 70's music fans, so I was always hearing old stuff unconsciously. The song has no lyrics....I had nothing to go off of except a tune. A piano player i knew ended up remembering the band and enlightened.

Shits just smooth...

>I remembering hearing it at a young age and always
>associating it (nostalgia wise) with Groovin' by The Rascals.
>My parents & their friends were huge 60's & 70's music fans,
>so I was always hearing old stuff unconsciously. The song has
>no lyrics....I had nothing to go off of except a tune. A piano
>player i knew ended up remembering the band and enlightened.
>
>Shits just smooth...

>Anyhoo, what forgotten songs have any of you finally found by
>accident and how did you find them?

one that eluded me for 10 years was Joan Baez "Diamonds & Rust." i heard it on scratchy AM radio out of state as a kid on a car trip. i thought it was joni mitchell. i think what finally happened was i was reading about judas priest and their unlikely hit cover of this song, so i listened to it and finally heard the song i'd been looking for for so long. oh, and it's sappier and more produced than i remembered and heard it on the radio that one time.

there are other examples, but that is the big one. there are still songs/pieces of music i'm looking for.

at APT years ago and I straight lost my mind by the time the last HEY! and horn riff comes in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--JID3Y6HBk

it never has the same strength when I found it and listen at home but it's still a bad ass song

The Cure's Fascination Street eluded me for years. At work one day, we had to work a Saturday at the office, it's quiet and one of my co-workers had her pandora playlist going, that song comes on, I jump up and yell "THAT'S THE FUCKIN SONG I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!" Awkward silence followed and then everyone there laughed. It was a great moment.

it was on a mixtape he released in the early 2000s
*edited to add the mixtape was called MVP
my cousin got it from him when he performed at sobs
i shoulda burned a copy but i didn't
and my dad who had a copy played it til it skipped to hell
so yea
the song is forever gone from my life
thought it was the song 'africa' found on the 'circuit city' version
of his album masquerade but that's a whole nother song

yea.

still waiting to know how it feels to find this fucking song.

http://www.4shared.com/mp3/4LO7Wafl/Zouk_-_Wyclef_Jean_-_MVP_Kompa.htm



Since 1976

i remember a lyric like "slow it down...make it easier"

similar melody to dj shadow's/little dragon's "scale it back." i actually wanted to chop up the mystery song above for that remix contest shadow was doing for "scale it back".

i think the song was a single, pressed to 45. from the 80s.

damn.

Til 98 on Power 106's "Phat 500"....yet I still couldn't find the name. I don't think I found the name of it til damn 2006!!!

But it's a Jazz instrumental song that I used to hear ALL THE TIIIIME in the 90's....I might even play the melody and put a clip up so y'all can tell me the name of it.

i'd been mumbling the lyrics to people for years and the song finally came on a CNN broadcast in a deli one day when i was getting a breakfast sandwich.

i'm still looking for a song that was on Latyrx's first album. there's a brief clip of it right before "Balcony Beach" starts. can't figure out what it is for shit.

you can hear it in the first 20 seconds here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pqs0lDi2PU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaNlTyFS1aw



Since 1976

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I think my cousin had recorded it and we were listening

this was before I knew the Smokey song so that guitar sample was so dope to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L4zl6aJHMs

my cousin said it was Brotherhood Creed, who had a song on the radio at the same time "helluva" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDB9FMdkLrg

I think I bought (actually probably stole lol) the cassingle of Brotherhood Creed Helluva and was MAD AS FUCK

Cause that song was lame as hell

Eventually I found the right name for the single bought the little 3 dollar single and played on repeat on my walkman

It's a recording of a 60's/70's soul "medley" I heard on the oldies station.. I believe it's one guy who does impressions of all of the soul greats like Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Ben E. King, etc. Basically, it's a love song, but he goes into his interpretation of different singers distinctive styles/voices to get his point across.. For example, "Otis would say.."

Anybody have any ideas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPeV8zNIkyI

I first forgot about this song and my love for it. Then I was on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn for the NYC marathon and a DJ played it a few times. Problem was he was on the opposite side of the race from me and there was no shazam app yet. Fast foward a few years and I'm on Myspace on OKP and somebody posts my favorite Common single "Reminding Me of Sef" and I think that voice sounds like ole girl from the song. I do a little research and look her up on Myspace. Sure enough she has a page and what's the first song on her list. When the first cord hit I damn near lost my mind. It was like 2 in the morning on a Sunday and nobody could tell me SHIT. That whole next week I was on cloud 9. Even got her to hit me back on Myspace after I told her how much I loved that song.

Fast forward a few more years and I go out on a date with a woman who is playing that song on her iphone as we wait to enter the movie. She got MAJOR points for being a fan of that gem and I wound up marrying her. I know the power of the elusive jam aka the "hmm hmm hiiimm" (c) Al Bundy

And for those that don't know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq470zxsVT0