The Wordsmith Member since Aug 13th 2002 17070 posts
Thu Feb-21-13 11:56 PM
"When you found the name of the song that eluded you for years."
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":
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.
3. "Young Holt Unlimited - Soulful Strut" In response to Reply # 0
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.
>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...
4. "RE: When you found the name of the song that eluded you for years." In response to Reply # 0
>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.
6. "dude, it's like heaven" In response to Reply # 0
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.
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10. "still looking for wyclef 'africa (zouke')' " In response to Reply # 0 Fri Feb-22-13 11:55 AM by motherburd
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.
11. "STILL looking for this one song...HELP" In response to Reply # 0
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.
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12. "I heard Paperboy "Ditty" in 93 while in Florida and neeeever heard it ag..." In response to Reply # 0
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.
14. "for me it was "Sweetness" by Jimmy Eat World" In response to Reply # 0
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.
18. "I'm still looking.." In response to Reply # 0
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.."
20. "Chantay Savage - Betcha'll never find" In response to Reply # 0
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