Please help identify instrumental from 70's

Originally Posted by rcampbell7

I have this song in my head from my childhood that comes and goes every few years. It used to play on the radio in the early to mid-70's and I quite enjoyed it. While I am thinking about it again I am asking for help to identify it. It is an instrumental that features the trumpet. To describe it I would say it is similar in feel and tempo to Herb Alpert's "Rise". I've done a bit of searching and listening but haven't come across it. Any ideas? Thanks!

Could it be "The Horse" by Cliff Nobles & Co? I remember the high school band playing this in the early 70s

Originally Posted by rcampbell7

I have this song in my head from my childhood that comes and goes every few years. It used to play on the radio in the early to mid-70's and I quite enjoyed it. While I am thinking about it again I am asking for help to identify it. It is an instrumental that features the trumpet. To describe it I would say it is similar in feel and tempo to Herb Alpert's "Rise". I've done a bit of searching and listening but haven't come across it. Any ideas? Thanks!

I've been looking for a song for about 15 years that fits a similar description. I read your post a couple of years ago and always wondered if we were looking for the same one. I found mine today and thought of your post.

Could it be "Music To Watch Girls By" - The Bob Crewe Generation? Let me know if that's it.

How about "Morning Dance" by Spyro Gyra? It's got that same "baja marimba band" feel to it...

Hmmm, you never know:

Chalawa - Hop, skip and jump

Or the trumpet-part in: Crown heights affair - Dancin',

Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) {1973}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKs7yXJd5p4


Dan

This seems like a good place to get help on a jazzy trumpet that I've had playing in my head for years... no luck identifying it. I'm pretty sure it's also from the 70s (it has that sound to it), maybe the early 80s.

In some part of the tune, the trumpet (I mean, I'm pretty sure it's a trumpet) goes like this:

http://www.miloonline.net/stash/jazz_trumpet_lick.mp3

Anyone know what that's from?

Originally Posted by MiloDC

This seems like a good place to get help on a jazzy trumpet that I've had playing in my head for years... no luck identifying it. I'm pretty sure it's also from the 70s (it has that sound to it), maybe the early 80s.

In some part of the tune, the trumpet (I mean, I'm pretty sure it's a trumpet) goes like this:

http://www.miloonline.net/stash/jazz_trumpet_lick.mp3

Anyone know what that's from?

I recognize the melody, but can't pin it down right now. I'm kind of thinking of music by Al Jarreau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqSHqn6HmYU


Dan

The trumpet lick provided was very familiar. I know I heard it in Robert Palmer's version of "Mercy, Mercy Me/I Want You" from 1991. If you listen to that song, that trumpet melody plays at around 4:03.

https://youtu.be/kOqtvMRo3Cs?t=4m2s

So I figured that it must be part of one of the two songs that were combined, both by Marvin Gaye. I looked up both but couldn't find this melody in either. Had Robert Palmer used a line from another song to bridge the two songs he was combining? I don't know.

I hope this help on the way to figuring this one out.

-Daniel