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Thread: rock song heard in 1975-1976, wrongly thought to be Genesis (14 Replies, 6,714 Views) by simnia
Nope, not The Strawbs. I went through every one of their albums through 1976 that was available on YouTube (only their first album was not on YouTube). I found a lot of good songs along the way, or...
Thread: rock song heard in 1975-1976, wrongly thought to be Genesis (14 Replies, 6,714 Views) by simnia
Thanks. I remember people mentioning them in 1973 as a band to watch, but I never did (yet). At the moment I'm overloaded with listening to the other albums in the progressive rock list above. I'm...
Thread: rock song heard in 1975-1976, wrongly thought to be Genesis (14 Replies, 6,714 Views) by simnia
No, not that one, but thanks. I was fairly familiar with that song in 1976, and I still am. (I never liked that song, by the way, for some reason!)
Thread: rock song heard in 1975-1976, wrongly thought to be Genesis (14 Replies, 6,714 Views) by simnia
Thanks for the suggestion. It's a good-sounding song (nice Latin percussion) and from that era, but no, that's not the one.
It's that particular chord progression I mentioned that most readily...
Thread: rock song heard in 1975-1976, wrongly thought to be Genesis (14 Replies, 6,714 Views) by simnia
Here's an update on my attempts to identify this song, since I've been in the mood lately to hear it again...
I checked all Billboard charts from that era. The four radio songs that I most...
Thread: Tahitian chant, heard in 1973 music class (0 Replies, 1,831 Views) by simnia
This is going to be a difficult one unless somebody reading this is very familiar with South Pacific music (Tahiti, Hawaii, Bora Bora, etc), especially primitive drum music and chants.
I'm looking...
Thread: Instrumental - strings at the beginning with a great guitar solo in the middle. (3 Replies, 909 Views) by simnia
Need more information. Was it fast or slow? Was the guitar electric or acoustic? Was the guitar distorted or clean? Was there an identifiable style, like surf music or progressive rock or classical?...
Thread: Please help identify instrumental from 70's (27 Replies, 78,305 Views) by simnia
Just a couple more ideas:
Soulful Strut/Young-Holt Unlimited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX1XSOzDPik
Burt Bacharach ~ "NIKKI"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFIZtu8OlIo
Thread: Dixieland jazz in Disneyland (0 Replies, 624 Views) by simnia
America the Beautiful - Full Attraction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxoNUjMXr4
9:05-9:22
This is the lively Dixieland jazz tune on horns that lasts for about 17 seconds at the indicated...
Thread: circa 1974 rock song with riff like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (22 Replies, 12,136 Views) by simnia
Oh my God, I'm pretty sure that's it! There couldn't be another song that close from that era! It fits very well what I remember, though I didn't remember those quick key changes. I'm blown away....
Thread: circa 1974 rock song with riff like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (22 Replies, 12,136 Views) by simnia
Ooh, excellent guess and a good song...
Lady Love (Robin Trower, 1974, "Bridge of Sighs" album (4-20-1974), authors Robin Trower & James Dewar, length 3:21)
...and the date is perfect, but...
Thread: circa 1974 rock song with riff like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (22 Replies, 12,136 Views) by simnia
No, the fundamental problem with that Kinks song is it wasn't released until 1979, which is 5 years after I heard the mystery song. I definitely heard it in summer 1974, in fact I'm pretty sure July,...
Thread: circa 1974 rock song with riff like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (22 Replies, 12,136 Views) by simnia
No, sorry, that's not the one. The mystery song is dominated by a riff, not chords, with vocals weaving in and out of it, in the style of early Led Zeppelin songs, like...
LED ZEPPELIN - Four...
Thread: SOLVED: Heard it a few times - lyrics in the description (11 Replies, 5,890 Views) by simnia
Another possibility: "My Life" by Billy Joel. My first guess was already mentioned above: the song by The Animals.
Thread: SOLVED: ca 1930s-1940s acoustic guitar song with bent blue note (2 Replies, 2,181 Views) by simnia
Bump and news... I found it!
I found this song recently by going through many, many bluegrass videos on YouTube and borrowed similar CDs from the library.
It's called "Steeling the Mood" and I...
Thread: circa 1974 rock song with riff like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (22 Replies, 12,136 Views) by simnia
Bump with more news.
I received two e-mails of people who thought the song I was seeking was...
Money for Nothing (Dire Straits, 1985, "Brothers in Arms" album (5-13-1985), authors Mark...
Thread: (SOLVED) banjo side melody in Pete Seeger's "Buffalo Gals" (2 Replies, 2,569 Views) by simnia
Awesome, bugmenot1! That's it! I wonder how the heck you knew or found that.
Yes, I did watch Bugs Bunny as a kid, though unless that tune was in multiple places I probably wouldn't have...
Thread: (SOLVED) banjo side melody in Pete Seeger's "Buffalo Gals" (2 Replies, 2,569 Views) by simnia
Here's a melody I'd really like to identify, if it *is* an independent song, which it might not be. You can hear it within the banjo song "Buffalo Gals" by Pete Seeger in the following YouTube...
Thread: SOLVED: Jane's Addiction, "some purple in the sky"? (2 Replies, 2,097 Views) by simnia
jp12345:
That's a truly excellent guess, but I just haven't decided yet if that's the one.
Reasons I think that's it:
(1)
It has many parts that would definitely have caught my ear: an intro...
Thread: SOLVED: Jane's Addiction, "some purple in the sky"? (2 Replies, 2,097 Views) by simnia
On June 11, 2010, I jotted down some notes for a song I heard that I intended to look up later. It's now later but I can't read all my notes, and I can't find the song by the notes I can read.
The...
Thread: Song about Wanda (2 Replies, 2,760 Views) by simnia
You may have misheard the lyrics of "wonder" or "Rhonda", in which case you might consider these:
Runaway (Del Shannon, 1961, "Runaway With Del Shannon" album (1961), authors Del Shannon & Max...
Thread: Ident request (2 Replies, 1,289 Views) by simnia
Bugmenot1 probably guessed it, but here's another consideration just in case he missed:
20/20 (George Benson, 1985, "20/20" album (1-7-1985), authors Randy Goodrum & Steve Kipner, length 4:07)?...
Thread: what is this tune ? track included (4 Replies, 1,652 Views) by simnia
I don't know, but musically it has the chords and structure of a polka, mostly composed of I and V7 chords, and I believe that unusual descending scale is a harmonic minor scale, which is...
Thread: SOLVED: November 1989, "Nobody Gets Out Alive"? (6 Replies, 4,218 Views) by simnia
Good guess, and it's a good rock song, but I'd bought that Led Zeppelin album years earlier, so I likely would have recognized the song or at least the group. Also, the lyrics on that song of the...
Thread: SOLVED: November 1989, "Nobody Gets Out Alive"? (6 Replies, 4,218 Views) by simnia
I think you probably got it, wurzlsepp. Although the song doesn't sound familiar to me now, it's a fast rock song that would've caught my attention, the year is perfect, the chorus has the title...
Thread: Song name (5 Replies, 1,576 Views) by simnia
Just My Imagination (The Rolling Stones)?
Thread: SOLVED: November 1989, "Nobody Gets Out Alive"? (6 Replies, 4,218 Views) by simnia
Good guess, bugmenot1, but I was relatively familiar with "Love In an Elevator" back then (though I used to think it was called "Living It Up in La Veta" since I could never hear exactly what the guy...
Thread: SOLVED: November 1989, "Nobody Gets Out Alive"? (6 Replies, 4,218 Views) by simnia
On November 5, 1989 I jotted down two apparent song titles from memory I'd heard earlier that day on the radio in Los Angeles County in Southern California. (1) One my notes was "Hot Shock" which...
Thread: Solved: Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo song? (not Heartbreaker by the Rolling Stones) (62 Replies, 275,118 Views) by simnia
Disappear (INXS, 1990, "X" album (9-25-1990), authors Jon Farriss & Michael Hutchence, length 4:10)?
Thread: Help me ID the famous disco instrumental (3 Replies, 1,910 Views) by simnia
Please mark this thread as "solved".
Thread: Need help to find a song heard in JCPenney (3 Replies, 4,054 Views) by simnia
Please mark this thread as solved. And preferably also the name of the song (MIss Amani - Sunshine Love).
Thread: Song: Sunshine (i think) in lyrics lots of times (6 Replies, 1,783 Views) by simnia
Sunlight (The Youngbloods, 1969, "Elephant Mountain" album (1969), author Jesse Colin Young, length 3:07)?
Thread: Solved: "Home Again" refrain - Classic Rock (4 Replies, 1,739 Views) by simnia
I don't understand by your wording if you mean you know for sure it's *not* by Pink Floyd at all. The song...
Breathe (Pink Floyd, 1973, "The Dark Side of the Moon" album (3-1-1973), authors Roger...
Thread: SOLVED:"High, High" song from the 80's or early 90's? but maybe someone remembers? (20 Replies, 29,830 Views) by simnia
Easy (Commodores, 1977, "Commodores" album (3-30-1977), author Lionel Richie, length 4:16)?
Thread: Solved: like "Let It Die" but on electric guitar (2 Replies, 1,077 Views) by simnia
Awesome! That's it! Thanks so much!
The correct lyrics at that point are:
"Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out."
Thread: Singer for these lyrics (70s) Burning the midnight oil & What you see is what you get (4 Replies, 2,990 Views) by simnia
The second wouldn't by chance be this 1971 hit song, would it?
THE DRAMATICS ~ WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jk7wiDGuiQ
Thread: Some 80's songs that I'm searching for (8 Replies, 2,319 Views) by simnia
The first one sure sounds like David Bowie, from around the years he recorded the song "Fame" and "Young Americans".
Thread: Solved: like "Let It Die" but on electric guitar (2 Replies, 1,077 Views) by simnia
Yesterday in a Del Taco in California I heard on the radio a song that sounded a lot like the Foo Fighters' "Let It Die"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63NiS3uZaTA
...but it had a clean...
Thread: Song that sounds like "walk of life" by Dire Straight and "Rough Gem" by The islands (6 Replies, 11,985 Views) by simnia
Quick ref for anybody trying to ID this song:
Rough Gem- Islands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk2qo4th3-I
Could you be thinking of Young Turks (Rod Stewart, 1981, "Tonight I'm Yours" album...
Thread: country music instrumental from film "Little Sweetheart" (1989) (0 Replies, 1,990 Views) by simnia
Here's the second and last song I haven't yet identified from the British TV movie "Little Sweetheart" (1989) that has any decent chance of getting identified. This excerpt is directly from the...
Thread: rock video in "Little Sweetheart" (1989) (4 Replies, 2,415 Views) by simnia
That's very good information, thanks, since somehow I missed both those names in my searches. I remember the name Lalo Schifrin as the artist of some pop song from around 1968 whose title I looked up...
Thread: rock video in "Little Sweetheart" (1989) (4 Replies, 2,415 Views) by simnia
No, sorry, that's of no help whatsoever, since the info I posted here already exceeds what is on IMDb, and that song is not listed there.
...
Thread: Solved: "radio 60"? "radio 16"? in 1989 TV movie (0 Replies, 2,074 Views) by simnia
Here's the second of three songs I'd like to identify from the 1989 movie "Little Sweetheart".
I made an mp3 clip of the film at that point, but the song is playing very softly in the background...
Thread: rock video in "Little Sweetheart" (1989) (4 Replies, 2,415 Views) by simnia
This is a rock video that is excerpted in the 1989 movie "Little Sweetheart". The video is played at two different places in the movie, the first time in two separate fragments, one with dialog, the...
Thread: Sleepwalking 2008 (3 Replies, 1,477 Views) by simnia
"This video contains content from Starz Media LLC, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that."
(I'm in the U.S.A.)
Thread: SOLVED Anyone know what this is? (22 Replies, 6,029 Views) by simnia
Some of the lyrics *sound* to me like (but uncertain):
somebody
I know that it's
ooh baby
out
stay out tonight, it's a Saturday night
there's a full moon out and
you remain enough (?) 'til...
Thread: Solved: from a musical: "with a girl like Teresa" (2 Replies, 1,622 Views) by simnia
Wow, excellent! Great detective work. It matches exactly, and that's the song, alright, although I'm humbled and a little confused as to how I could have either misheard or misremembered that name....
Thread: Solved: from a musical: "with a girl like Teresa" (2 Replies, 1,622 Views) by simnia
Yesterday I happened to think of a song I heard from a musical that I saw either at a theater or in a film around 1971. The lyrics were something like "What do you do with a girl like Teresa?" or...
Thread: children's song: "We all ride on the school bus..." (1 Replies, 3,757 Views) by simnia
OK, I finally got around to recording myself playing the melody (on guitar) to this song I remember, and I posted it on YouTube today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsvTLYslssY
Now we have the...
Thread: SOLVED: ca 1930s-1940s acoustic guitar song with bent blue note (2 Replies, 2,181 Views) by simnia
I just posted myself playing this song fragment on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf5rX5Ndz28
Here is the description I posted there:
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I'm posting this unknown song...