SOLVED: Help solve these two songs

Maybe this song:

Vampire Weekend - M79
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgT9UruWe8

Originally Posted by Fence Sitter

Ah - the funny thing was - I made a google search (90s+songs+that+start+violin) after your reply, and the top result was your sample on youtube. I'd forgotten about that sample. It sort on points towards a different rhythm altogether to what I suggested.

I'd run across that yahoo link - it formed part of the that very search. It suggests a few songs too, but the author was lucky in that someone suggested the right song.

Speaking of the quick rest you've mentioned, (though it's not the song you're looking for) how similar stroke / rest is it to the electric violin in Annie Lennox - "Walking On Broken Glass" near the start?

Same here. The real problem is the sample is an attempt at the notes played by both violins/violin and viola. It can't really give enough justice to how that part of the song went. That's a great song you brought up for this. Very similar stroke this song had. I would say that Walking On Broken Glass had a little bit stronger violin strokes, but it is a slight difference. In this song you can hear that it is two violins or one violin and one viola playing 5 notes in harmony more than once. As for the rest, try to think of the 1st violin stroke and the 2nd violin stroke in Annie Lennox's song regarding the rest durations. Hope this makes sense.

Originally Posted by GlassCurtain

Maybe this song:

Vampire Weekend - M79
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgT9UruWe8

Thanks GlassCurtain but that is not the song.

Someone showed me a video on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBctlX1bhx8 Just before the 2:20 mark till the end. There is a violin, viola, or cello playing a lower part. It sounds pretty similar to the song I am searching for. Now if there was a way to identify the song and listen to a full audio of the song in that commercial.

Originally Posted by cbwillallen25

Someone showed me a video on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBctlX1bhx8 Just before the 2:20 mark till the end. There is a violin, viola, or cello playing a lower part. It sounds pretty similar to the song I am searching for. Now if there was a way to identify the song and listen to a full audio of the song in that commercial.

Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7jSp2xmmEE

The string section was sampled from:

James Gang - Ashes the Rain and I http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...38XHV6Q#t=249s

Thanks Mixalopoulos. Unfortunately that isn't the song. The lower stringed instrument sounded like that instrument, which leads me to believe that it is either a viola or even a cello. So the part I remembered had a violin playing those notes with a viola or a cello. I may have to go even deeper into different charts.

Also this song isn't it, but also can help describe the way the strings were played. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZa3Supq79Y

The way the notes are being played. It's like the notes are somewhere in between being played normally, and being attacked. The song I just posted is a little bit faster than the one I'm searching for. During the verses there can be times where a few notes are played by string instruments. If the rests between each note was shorter as well as the notes themselves, then it would match the way it is done in the song I'm searching for.

Now these things I am not 100% sure, but I feel better than halfway about these things.

1. Male artist/singer, probably a single artist or a group
2. US more than likely, if not then I would say the UK
3. I heard the song on 106.7 lite fm (WLTW in New York)
4. The song has lyrics, but I don't recall anything, just the harmonic strings part. The 5 note harmony part.
5. It's 90s - mid 00s, although I will tentatively say mid 90s (perhaps 1996) to early 00s (perhaps 2003)
6. This is another tentative one. I say the voice of the singer didn't sound aggressive, which leads me to think that this song was a soft rock type of song or at least the parts when the string harmony was.

Hi Will,
I was searching my memory for great anthem songs in response to emporius' great new rendition for his post. This didn't fit his, but it does yours, I think, except for the time stamp. Anyway...

Album : Deep Purple (1969)
Song : April
Composers : Blackmore and Lord

The middle, chamber orchestra part of interest (4m22s - 8m40s)

btw, the whole song is worth listening to...

Thanks Blue, I listened to the section. It isn't the song, but as with several other songs mentioned here, it was worth the listen. The violin strikes in this piece are a little more aggressive than the ones in the song I'm searching for. Also, the 5 note clarinet part after 5:30 actually is similar to the 5 note part played by the two stringed instruments in the song being searched for. The notes aren't exactly the same but the tempo is very similar. Thanks again for the piece, I will give it a full listen.

Well, after a while I ended up hearing a song I haven't heard in quite a while. Funny thing is it ended up being the song. I had the impression that it was from the 90s because I was still a kid - teenager when I last heard the song. After that I never heard it again. When I did hear it, I didn't know who sang it, its genre, etc. I just remembered the aggressive strokes on the strings. The notes even I couldn't guarantee 100%, but I felt good enough about the notes I presented. In the end they weren't correct. So Thank you to all for the help, effort, time, patience, and so much more. Here is the song finally, wasn't even 90s - 00s either. Apparently I remembered the intro for the most part and nothing else from when I was that age.

Madonna - Papa Don't Preach (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkxqxWgEEz4

Glad you finally found it (no more sleepless nights )

Never give up, Never surrender!

Thanks atmaster. This was such a huge burden. I thought I would never get it. Then one day while I was working I heard Papa Don't Preach. I didn't hear the beginning of it, but it did sound like a song that I haven't heard in a long time, perhaps 15 years about. I heard it again at a Buffet my family and I were eating at and of course I couldn't hear every detail so well so I decided that I would try to listen to the whole song. Once I did it struck me. It's funny in life, there are times you look for something so hard and you can't find it. Then when you aren't looking for it, when you least expect it there it comes.