Conference mr1pst::music

	>Note 102.15 started me trying to recall who else did a song called
	>"See the Light".

    	Perhaps you mean "See a little light" by ex-Husker Du member
    	Bob Mould off the Workbook CD?

    	Neal

    I heard a song the other day that I liked when it was "popular" but I
    never heard the name of the group that sang it.  I've asked several
    people at work if they knew what group it was and no one knows.  (they
    all know what song I'm talking about though).
    Part of the chorus is:
    	"You've gotta be crazy baby, to want a guy like me"
    	"well you gotta be out of your mind, ....crazy!"
    	"there must be some kind of mistake, to want a guy like me"
    
    I thought it was "Crowded House".  Am I right?  Also what's the name of
    the song?
    
    	Thanks for any guidance! :-) (It's bugging me)
    	Greg	

    Re: -1
    
    "Crazy" is by the group ICEHOUSE off their "Man of Colours" album
    (1988, I believe).
    
    chUck

    
    Also a most triumphant song done by the John Hall Band.

    
    	RE: Pete
    
    	Same name, different song.  But John Hall's "Crazy" is by far the
    	better of the 2 songs.
    
    							GTI
    

    There's a song I've heard a couple of times that I really like but have
    yet to find out who does it.  The singer reminds me of a young Robert
    Plant, not in screech mode, but when he used to the slower stuff like
    the beginning part of Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You and Stairway To Heaven. 
    Anyway  some of the lines are "You're alive she said, why shouldn't I
    be and further on he sings "I'm alive" a few times in succession.  This
    song is not a ballad.
    
    Anyone know what I'm talking about?
    

    
    	Sounds like "I'm Alive" by Pearl Jam.
    
    							GTI

Definitely "Alive" by Pearl Jam.  See personal name.  ;^)

Also available in video format on eMpTyV.

                          'Something in the air'
    
    Covered by Fish on the Internal Exile album.

'Something in the air' - wasnt that a sixties hit for Thunderclap Newman

    
    I've been hearing this song on 'BCN.  Words something like "what the 
    world needs now is another rock singer like I need a hole in my head."
    Pretty rocking, I'm trying to find out who does it...
    
    - Sean

    The band is called "Cracker".  The singer is David Lowrey (sp?) who
    used to be in Camper Van Beethoven.
    
    
    -brian
    

    
    Cross-posted in ASKENET and MUSIC notesfiles.
    
    Just heard a song on the oldies station.  My guess is that the song is
    titled "Just a Little Bit of Soap".  Anyone know who sings it and can 
    confirm that is the song title?
    
    Also, what is the song and by whom that starts "Don't know much about
    Biology, don't know much about philosophy...."
    
    Thanks.
    Lisa  

>    Also, what is the song and by whom that starts "Don't know much about
>    Biology, don't know much about philosophy...."

    "Wonderful World", originally by Sam Cooke.  There've been many covers,
    from Herman's Hermits to Otis Redding...    - Jay

RE: .15

"A Little Bit of Soap" is probably the song you heard, performed by The Jarmels.

Keith

    re: .13
    
    .14 is correct (although I don't know how to spell his name either :-).
    I believe the title is "Teen Angst".

    
     Does anyone know who does that song 'Bad Boys' that is more or less
    the theme song for Fox TV's COPS ?
    

    Funny you should mention that .... a friend of mine was tellimg me he
    saw that band perform it a few years ago.  But naturally, I forgot who
    he said it was.   8^)
    
    Jerry

    re: -1 & 2,
    
        Inner Circle, if I remember correctly.  They did an amphitheatre
    gig here at the Roper Mountain Science Centre last spring...sure, would be
    nice about now....
    
                                                            Capt. Scott

This is a real stab in the dark but one of the first songs I
can remember hearing on the radio ( mid 1970's) was a song 
sang by a male about a girl who worked in a MacDonalds who
wore a plastic uniform (?). Tenious link but that's all I 
have. Help! 

Who sang it? What's it name? Any help would be appreciated.

                       James.

    "Devil with the McBlue Plasti-dress on" ?????
    
    Capt. Scott             

    
?Foreigner - I Wanna Know What Love Is
?Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
?Crosby, Stills, Nash - Our House
?Crosby, Stills, Nash - Teach Your Children
?Engelbert Humberdinck - Release Me
?Drifters - On Broadway
?Little River Band - Cool Change (Time For A)
    
    							GTI
    

? Jack Jones             -Friends and Lovers
? Roger Miller           -King of the Road
?-Mister Sandman
?-Instrumental-Kai Winding-   More
STD-Stan Getz and Astrid Gilberto  -Girl From Ipanema, The
STD- Andy Williams (et al) - Hawaiian Wedding Song, The



Jim



    

    
    
    I thought the title by Hall & Oates was 'I can't go for that'?
    
    
    Steve

    re-,1
    
    		Yeah that's it...sorry!
    
    B.A.

    I put in artists I remember (maybe) versions by, or left it alone if I
    thought it was right.
    
    -Jesse
    
    
?-I Wanna Know What Love Is  ---> Foreigner
?-Island in the Sun          ---> Jimmy Cliff
?-King of the Road	     ---> Roger Miller
?-Most Beautiful Girl, The   ---> Charlie Rich
?-Paloma Blanca, Una	     ---> Slim Whitman (?)
?Beatles? -Here Comes the Sun ---> correct
?Crosby, Stills, Nash -Our House 
?Crosby, Stills, Nash -Teach Your Children
?Engelbert Humberdinck-Release Me
?George Benson, or Drifters(original) -On Broadway
?Paper Roses-Anita Bryant(?)
?Cool Change (Time For A)- Little River Band
?STD (Van McCoy)-Hustle, The
?Seekers-Georgy Girl
?Show:The Fantasticks -Try to Remember
?Simon & Garfunkel-Feelin' Groovy

STD Moon River- Pat Boone
STD (Scott Joplin)-Maple Leaf Rag
STD-Because-Beatles
STD-Blue Bossa-(Stan Getz)
STD-Fascination-Human League (though I don't think that's what you mean)
STD-Girl From Ipanema, The-Stan Getz , written by A.C. Jobim
STD-I Love Coffee, I Love Tea (could this be "Java Jive"?, in which case 
	there's  a version by Manhattan Transfer)
STD-Misty-(Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney?)
STD-Satin Doll-Duke Ellington
Show:Beverly Hills Cop-Axel F. --->Harold Faltermeyer
Show:Hello Dolly (Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing?)-Hello, Dolly
Show:Romeo & Juliet-Time for Us, A (is this "Somewhere" from West Side Story?)
Show:Sting (Scott Joplin)-Entertainer, The
Show:Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland)-Over The Rainbow
    

    
    	John Wesley Harding did a free show at the Galleria in Cambridge a
    while back and he did a cover  called 'This song's no good' by some
    band from California - for the life of me I can't remember the name -
    anyone recognize it??
    					-jimbo
    

    RE: .33
    
         A trip to your local record store should get you most of those
    answers.  Look up the song titles in the phonolog and it will list
    everything you need.  Hope this helps.
    
    Capt. Scott

Because by the BEatles or by Dave Clark Five

?Music To Watch Girls By   (think this was Herb Alpert, but maybe not)
?Herman's Hermits, Carpenters-Kind of Hush, A (done by both?) - yes
?Marie Osmond-Paper Roses  - yes
?Mary Hopkins-Those Were the Days - yes
STD-Because	(It's an older "Because", pre-Beatles - heard at weddings
			and nursing homes, that sort of thing ... who did it?!)
		"Because you come to me with not save love..."? I'm not sure
		any one artist can be credited, but maybe so.
STD-Glow Worm, The Mills Brothers
STD-Satin Doll, Everybody and His Brother

"Satin Doll" is a Duke Ellington composition (with Billy Strayhorn)

"Java" - Al Hirt

I think the "I love coffee I love tea" thing is actually called "Java Jive".
There's also a song called "Jada" (Chorus:  "Jada, Jada, Jada Jada Jing Jing 
Jing").

Kai Winding is a Danish trombone player.  "More (the Theme from 'Mondo Cane')"
was recorded by hundreds.  An Italian composer -- Erico Moroconi? - wrote it.

"Alabama Jubilee" - Al Jolson, but Jerry Lee Lewis has recorded it.

"Alley Cat" - "Bent Fabric" (actually Steve Allen)

"Arkansas Traveler" - old fiddle tune, title of current Michelle Shocked album, 
but I don't know if it's on there.

"Calcutta" was a hit for Lawrence Welk.

"Happy Wanderer" was a German hit that somehow crossed the pond

"Sweet Georgia Brown" is the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters.  The 
Coasters recorded it, but in a sort of heavy-metal arrangement, not what you 
want.

Lots of these songs are standards not identified with anyone in particular

I notice you don't ask about "Baby Elephant Walk".

    "hey... it's the American dream,
    we can travel without any means..."
    
    "sunny beaches, drinkin' rum every night..."
    
    "split the difference, go to Coconut Grove..."
    
    thasall I can remember
    
    vocal harmonies, folk-rock style band, one-hit band
    released Nov/Dec 1979
    
    \Gary

    Re: .39
    
    Linda Ronstadt is coming to mind...
    
    K.C.

    
    	Yup, that was The Dirt Band, "featuring" Linda Ronstadt on lead
    	vocals.  Great song when it came out ... now I've moved onto
    	bigger and better things.
    
    							GTI
    

    Re. last few ...
    
    Someone asked what I'm doing with all these titles...over the years,
    I've accumulated a lot of songs into a "fake book" that I've assembled
    myself.  I was trying to "cross-index" it - by title, then by "musical
    style", and now, by "artist/composer/etc".  That's why I'm asking.
    
    Some of the more "unusual" & older songs are in there 'cause I sometimes
    play (keyboards) for a much older crowd (and they wanna hear some of
    these!)
    
    	Thanks again to those that helped - I'll take that advice 'n' go
    	to a record store, maybe I'll find some of 'em there ...
    	
    	Jim

    RE: .39
    
    Isn't that something by Jimmy Buffett?  I can't for the life of me
    remember the title although I can hear the tune.
    
    - Dave

    Well, the only thing I know for sure is that it's not a Buffett tune.
    
                                                            Capt. Scott

Re:: 172.22 

I was listening to the radio yesterday and suddenly the song I was searching for
was accosting my ears. It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. 

It was performed "some years ago" as the DJ described by Dean Freedman. The 
lyrics go something like this

I am in love with the MacDonalds Girl ....

..... An angel in a polyester uniform

....  She has a smile so innocent and warm and I want her!

Bit lewd as the girl was only 15 ;-).

                           James.

    
    	I beg your pardon, mama, what did you say?
    	My mind was drifting off on Martinique Bay.
    	It's not that I'm not interested, you see ...
    	Augusta Georgia is just no place to be.
    
    	...
    
    	Voila, an American dream,
    	yeah we can travel girl without any means.
    	When it's as easy as closing your eyes,
    	and dream Jamaica is a big neon sign.
    
    
    
    	It's called "American Dream" and it's by Linda Ronstadt and the
    	Dirt Band.  Are you going to believe me now, or do I have to dig
    	deeper into the memory banks and come up with more lyrics?
    
    	8^)
    
    							GTI
    

    Who had the 70s hit "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"?
    

    > Who had the 70s hit "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"?
    
    I believe it was the BeeGees.

    Neil Diamond.
    
    K.C.

 The Hollies

    
    Neil Diamond wrote it, the Hollies had the hit with it.

    RE:  .52.
    
    How certain are you about the Hollies?  I thought it was the
    BeeGees.
    
    (I wouldn't question you, but there are *beers* riding on
    this  :-).
    
    Thanks.
    

    I'd bet the keg on The Hollies

    Both The Hollies and Neil Diamond have recorded and released it, but it
    was most definitely The Hollies who had the hit with it.
    
    The Bee Gees, to my knowledge, never even recorded it.
    
    K.C.
    
    P.S.  No beer for me, please.

    Bet the brewery.  It was the Hollies.
    
    tom_p

 Definitely the Hollies. Used to do it in a GB band. Still goes over big.


   - Bob

    Wait a minute - what about the Osmonds?  I seem to remember hearing
    them sing "He Ain't Heavy, . . ." a looooong time ago.

    
    Yes, the Osmond Brothers also graced us with a version of this.  I
    believe it was after the Hollies, though.
    
    DFW

    
    The Housemartins also did a cover - not too shabby IMO.
    

    My CD of Neil Diamond's "20 Greatest" (an authoritative source if ever
    I saw one) says Neil did not write it, it was written by
    "Russell/Scott" (sic), and was originally for The Hollies.
    
    Best Wishes
    
    Brian
    

    RE:   last 12 or so
    
    Thanks for all the responses to my inquiry about HAHHMB.
    Seems as though the ONLY group that didn't record it was
    the BeeGees.
    
    	-doug   (who has to go buy some beers)
    

    Uncle Neil didn't write this song....
    
    
    Just kidding......He ain't my uncle. But he didn't write this song.
    Which is amazing, since he writes almost everything he sings, and stuff
    other people sing.
    
    Mike

    Uncle Neil...gotta love it!  :^)
    
    Well, I'm guilty of assumption.  I have the 45, and ASSUMED that (like
    .63 said) he wrote it...as he writes about 99.99% of his stuff.
    
    K.C.

    
    Anybody know who did the song "Witch Queen of New Orleans"?
    		(circa 1975)
    It sounds like the Meters or the Neville Brothers, but I'm
    not really sure...
    
    "...Marie,Marie Laveau( She'll put a spell on you)
    	She's the Witch Queen of New Orleans"
    
    				Jimbert
    
    

    Re: .65
    
    Redbone did "Witch Queen of New Orleans".
    
    
    							Brian

Marie Laveau was a real person, or, actually, a succession of real persons, who
was/were witch queen of New Orleans for most of the nineteenth century.

    Dear All,
    
    I need some help finding a singer/band and song title. Unfortunately,
    the only info I have is the following :
    
    - The singer sounds like Annie Lennox, but I don't think it is her (I
      skipped through her latest CD and the song is not on it. - the song
      is recent)
    
    - The chorus goes something like : "I feel sooo high...."
    
    - At one point she says : "I'll be loose (yours?), I'll be carefree..."
    
    The song is pretty slow, (I guess about 90 bpm). The beat is your
    basic sampled drum loop and the music is mostly low volume strings. 
    
    I need to know who sings this. I listened to this song on the radio in
    my car and am since addicted to it. 
    
    Beware of the incredible rush that will overcome you whilst listening to 
    this song (especially if you are driving).
    
    I thank you all in advance for your help and info.
    
    David Jenefsky
    ES - Geneva, Switzerland

    <<< Note 172.69 by SHAWB1::ENTWISTLES "Bah, Humbug!" >>>
                      -< is it Des'ree? >-
    
    Yup, it is indeed, and the song is called "Feel So High".  Quite like 
    it myself ... reminds me somewhat of 'Rapture' period Anita Baker.
    
    - Dougie

There are several songs being played on local (CXO) radio stations that I 
believe are all by the same guy(s).  The singer has a very distinctive voice,
but I've never heard the name of the band.  Does anyone recognize the following
titles and can you give me the name of the performing band(s)?

	"Evenflow"
	"I'm Still Alive"
	I don't know the name of this 3rd song, but it's almost spoken, not 
	sung.  Lots of "angst" type lyrics, even some talk about depression
	and the desire to "go on".  I can sing you a few bars, but that 
	wouldn't help...  :-)  Has a lot of lines that start/end with "She
	said"/"I said".

The vocal style on all these songs is similar, sort of a monotone but not 
quite.  "Evenflow" is probably the most musical of the bunch.  It's a punchy,
rocking number.  Any help identifying the artist(s) will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

-- Sam

    The description of the last song mostly sounds like 
    "She Said, She Said" by the Beatles (from "Revolver").  I think this
    may have been covered at some point by the Feelies.  (I know they
    covered some song from Revolver.)
    
    - Dave

    Sam that be Pearl Jam, grunge band from the northeast. In the vein of
    Nirvana.
    
    Joe 
    
    still full from lunch?

Thanks Joe!  Off to the record store I go...  :-)

re: Dave W.  Yeah, I thought of that as I was typing it in, but this definitely
isn't a remake.  The Beatles song was much more upbeat.

-- Sam

    -2 from the NorthWest...Seattle to be exact...The city that also
    spawned Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Mother Love Bone.
    
    
    Bob
    :*)
    

re:

. . . and Kenny G. But he must have come from a different neighborhood.

jcf

    
     Who performed the song don't leave me this way, I think it
     was a disco hit in the 70's.
    
            Eric

    Thelma Houston...
    
    B.A.

    
    RE:78
     
    Thanks, that settled a bet among our group.
    Some thought is was gloria gaynor, others
    thought it was donna summer.
    
          Eric

    
    
    RE:-1
    
     The Communards (sp?) also did a remake of it.
    
    
    ChAoS
    

    	There was also a version by Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes.
    
    	In the UK this version preceded the Thelma Houston one, and
    	was more successful.
    
    	Ian.

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Hi All,
    
    I would like to know the title and interpreters of a certain song.
    
    The song is sung by a man and a woman. The man sounds like Bob Dylan,
    but I did not find any CD with a title on it that was similar to the
    one I think it could be: "The palace of tears" ???
    
    Part of the text that I understood was as follows:
    
            ... hungry for power ...
            ... where she was born ...
            ... I've seen her on the stairs ...
            ... follow her down ...
    
    Does anyone know the interpreters and the exact title? You are my last
    chance.
    
    Thanks in advance,
    
           Manfred (from Germany)

    re. .79
    
    It's a well known fact that Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summers, and Thelma
    Houston are all the same person.  As proof, I offer the fact that I
    have never seen any "two" of them together.

>    It's a well known fact that Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summers, and Thelma
>    Houston are all the same person.  As proof, I offer the fact that I
>    have never seen any "two" of them together.


	The same holds true for Johnny Cash and Mr. Ed (the talking horse).
	Just Listen; You'll agree.

							Jens

    Hows bout Steven Tyler and Carly Simon?
    
                Crazy_*ouch*_Al

    Or Geddy Lee and Patti Smith.
    
    Mark.

    re: .85
    
    Based on dental impressions, how bout Carly Simon and Mr. Ed?

    No one has ever been able to successfully explain the difference
    between actresses Meg Ryan and Melanie Griffith.  Do they exist apart
    from each other?  Is one just the stage name for the other?  Has anyone
    else noticed this?  Have you reported it?  Well, why not?
    \Gary

    
    I am trying to find out who does a certain song I've heard on the
    radio. The DJ's never mention who does it, and I want to find out
    at least what the name of the song is.
    
    I only know some of the lyrics in the chorus. they seem to be singing
    "Come to the party dressed to kill".
    
    Sorry to be so vague. anyone know what this song is called and who does
    it ?
    
    thanks,
    
    Peter
    
    

    eminence front - The Who
    
    -Jesse

    If all that is needed to prove that two artists are the same is that
    they sound alike, look alike and have been been seen together,  I would
    say that I can prove that in fact, there is only ONE rap artist doing
    records and videos.

    re .89
    
    And Melanie can successfully have an orgasm with me.

    
    RE: .92
    
    Using this logic, couldn't we conclude that there is only one dog, one
    truck, and one divorce in all of country music?
    
    later,
    
    douglas
    

    Frank Zappa = Leon Redbone
    
    David Bowie = Geraldine Ferrarro 

    
    I = Elvis
    
    

    "The kd lang Story" film is in the works.  The lead role will be played
    by Matthew Modine.
    
    - Dave

    Bahaha!
    
    Mark.

    
    
    
                 Early Eighties MTV. A song about a girl (the title)
    foreign group, Video has her hanging around with her friends and he's
    hanging around with his singing about her. They go around light poles
    and other fickle things.
    
    Crazy_who_and_What_and_Why_AL.....

    "Come On, Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners?
    
    K.C.

    
    British group, I think.  They had this MTV vid with the "ever popular
    exploding spaceman helmet" scene at the end.  Cars and people floating.
    Whodunnit?

    
    
    re.-1 The exploding spaceman helmet sounds like Planet P's "Why Me".
          With Tony Carey singing lead.
          I have been looking for the cd ever since my tape started to get
          warbly. 
    
    
    ChAoS
    

    
    	RE: -1
    
    	Same here ... can't find that CD anywhere!!
    
    							GTI

    
    	Yes!  Planet P.  Is the whole cd good?
    
    	-planet pat

    Hello,
    
      There is a country and western song, called 'I cant be myself, when
    I'm with you', It was sung bu Oz in the British series 'Aufweidersehn
    Pet', and I would like to know who has recorded it.
    
    MArk

    
    
     re.104 Planet P 
    
            I haven't heard it in ages, but I remember liking it a lot. The
     song "King for a Day" I have on a tape and still gets a lot of play on
     my deck. It was a conceptual album, about an astronaut who gets chosen
     for a mission and while on that mission the earth is destroyed. 
    
    
    
    ChAoS

    
    I heard a song this a.m. went kinda like this:
   	
    	 PMS, she's all uptight
    	 PMS, she'll start a fight
    	 PMS, she's on overload
    	 PMS, watch her explode!
    
    Then at the ends it says:
    
         What a B*TCH!
    
    Real funny song!  Soundwise it reminded me of "dirty deeds, and they're
    done dirt cheap."  Anybody got a clue?
    
    Helen

    It sounds like a take off of AC/DC's "TNT".
    
    K.C.

    Not exactly a "who performed," but who wrote "Act Naturally?"

Buck Owens first performed it.  Since he wrote a bunch of other songs, I'm
guessing he wrote that one too.

    
    	Some interesting tidbits.. I was watching a show with some of the
    members of Exile. They were talking about how country music fans didn't
    know that they where well established in the Pop field. Also, that they
    had written a song called "Heart and Soul".  But it didn't go anywhere!
    
    	Until Hewey Lewis got a hold of it and made it up tempo and a few
    other changes and had a hit with it.
    
    	It's amazing where some people get their hits!
    
    B.A.

> Buck Owens first performed it.

   P.S.  Rhino just released a 3-CD compilation of Buck Owens, seemingly
         intended as a corrective for years of mishandling of his catalog...

    re: Act Naturally
    
    I have the answer now.  Buck Owens did first perform it, but he didn't
    author it.  This is an interesting story.
    
    							Marc
    
    P.S.  Thanks, Mikey!
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    
From Buck Owens interview - (Goldmine - Feb-9-1990 issue)

Goldmine: You didn't write "Act Naturally."So how did that song
origionally find it's way to you?

Buck Owens: We were playing in a place in Fresno,California called
The Barn and this young lady named Vonie Morrison,a part writer on
the song(with Johnny Russell-ed.),she had an acetate with six songs
on it,three on each side.She played us five of them and Don Rich and 
I didn't like them.Then she said,"Well the other one is not your style."
But Don Rich put the needle on the acetate and the first thing we heard 
was,"They're gonna put me in the movies,"and I looked at Don and he 
looked at me and we said,"Yeah we'll take it."The first line just knocked
us out.
  She actually sang with me at The Barn.I worked there regularly in the 
early '60s and most bands would have a girl singer in those days.I don't
know if she ever wrote anything else or not.

    Hi, 
    
    Who can tell me the singer of my favorite song "eternal flame"?
    
    Thanks & regards

    re .-1
    
    This song is done by the Bangles. (Sung by Susanna Hoffs).
    
    
    thomas

    What's the name of the band out of Austin, TX that has Charlie Sexton
    in it?  There's some other well known people in the band, too.  I
    think maybe Ron Ely, also.
    
    Also, thanks to note .10 DEDSHO::CLARK who pointed me in the right
    direction - it was Pearl Jam.  My neighbors, however, are not as
    pleased.
    

    >What's the name of the band out of Austin, TX that has Charlie Sexton
    >in it?  There's some other well known people in the band, too.  I
    >think maybe Ron Ely, also.
    
    
    Arcangels??
    
    -Jesse

    Didn't Ron Ely play Tarzan in the 1960's TV series?  Are you perhaps
    thinking of Joe Ely?
    
    - Dave

    
                            ArcAngels it is. 
    
              The rhythem section is from "Double Trouble". 
    
                               SRVs band.
    
    -dave-

    Well if I couldn't remember the name of the band how'd you expect me to
    get Ely's name right? 8^) 8^)
    
    Thanks for the info.
    
    T
    

    
      Can anyone tell me who does the song with these words in it...
      they go something like
     
                    "just like the pied piper
                     (antother line in here)
                     just like marionetts 
                     dance  to the symphony"
     
      at least I "think" that's what they're saying. It's currently
      being played on 'AAF.

    
    
     It sounds like "Symphony Of Destuction" by Megedeth. Its on the new
    release Countdown to Extinction.
    
    Just like the Pied Pieper
    Led rats through the streets
    Just like marionettes
    Swaying to the symphony of destruction.
    
    
    Does this sound like it?
    
                                mike
    

    
    re. 122 -
    
      That's it. 
    
     Thanks Mike!

    
    	I don't really like Megadeth, but I love the new album, if you're
    	looking to add to your "to buy" list.
    
    							GTI
    

	I don't even know if I have the name of the song right, but
	anyone know who does (I think) "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong"?

	Thanks,
	D.

    Little Miss Can't Be Wrong - Spindoctors
    
    -Jesse

>>    Little Miss Can't Be Wrong - Spindoctors
    
	Thanks.  You know, I put that question in just before I left
	work last night, went out to my car, turned on the radio, and
	the DJ said, "...and here are the Spindoctors, with 'Little
	Miss Can't Be Wrong'."  Unbelievable.  But true.

	Thanks again,
	Diane

    
    	My sister is trying to find out who did the song "Have You Talked
    	to an Angel" [if that's the name of it].  I guess it's fairly new.
    
    	Also, who does "Lift Me Up" ["Love Is What I Need"?]?
    
    	Thanks for any info.
    
    							GTI

          <<< Note 172.128 by BUSY::SLABOUNTY "Shake me, bake me." >>>

    
    >	My sister is trying to find out who did the song "Have You Talked
    >	to an Angel" [if that's the name of it].  I guess it's fairly new.
    

	If the song your sister is thinking of is "Sent by Angels"
	it is done by Arch Angels and is a new song just starting
	to get a lot of airplay.

	Dave

     re: -2
    
    Unless she is looking for the theme to Fox TV's "The Heights".
    The song is "How do you talk to an angel", as performed by the 
    pouting members of the "band" in the show.
    
    just a guess,
    
    chUck

    
    I was watching an older rerun of Saturday Night Live the other night 
    and I saw a band do a tune, it was kind of a funk-bluesy tune.  There
    were 7 pieces in the band, drums, bass, guitar, keys, congas, and 2 
    guys doing vocals, one playing a cowbell.  The chorus of the tune was
    
    I got the midnight key to the city
    I got the key to your heart
    
    Not much to go on I suppose, but I was wondering if anyone knows what
    the name of the band is that does this tune.
    
    Thanks, Larry

    re: .131
    
    I think I saw the same one.  Saturday at 10 pm on Comedy Central?
    
    If this is the show you were watching, then you were watching
    "The Neville Brothers".  I don't remember which album they were
    supporting at the time, but I'm pretty sure it was a couple or
    three years before "Yellow Moon" which puts it at about '86.
    
    hope this helps,
    
    -Jesse

    
    Thanks Jesse, that was the show I was watching.  I liked the tune,
    good groove.
    
    Larry

    Hi all,
    
    I got a tape of a soundcheck Bruce Sprinsteen did in Tacoma in 1978.
    On this tape, the band plays a song called "I realize".
    
    Have you any idea about the creator of this song, and who recorded it ?
    
    Many thanks,
    
    Dominique

    
    
    
    Maybe if you toss out a few bits of the lyric we'll have a better
    chance...or you could digitize the tape & post it on the network so we
    can all hear it...
    
    

    Does anyone know who sings the song "I love you period, do you
    love me question mark" or something like that... it sounds like
    Aerosmith, but I'm not sure, just curious...

    
    I heard it it the singer from the Georgia Satellites.....any help
    out there?????  It is a cool song.
    
    /ab

    Dan Baird.

    .....IMO...it's cute the first 5 times and gets old from there on out
    ........../k

    ex-lead singer from The Georgia Satellites...
    
    /w

    Why do so many people think that this song sounds like Some_Thing
    AeroSmith would do???I don't hear it.Maybe the Slide Guitar A_Bit.
    
    
          Crazy_Basic_Fun_R&R_Al

    Re: .141
    
    Maybe because it has humorous lyrics (Aerosmith has done many tongue in
    cheek numbers) and has that sloppy swagger to it that characterizes stuff
    in the Stones/Faces/C. Berry/Aerosmith vein.  
    
    I'm sheepish I didn't guess who it was on first listen myself.
    
    						Brian

    Here's an oldie I'm looking for ...
    
    It's called "The River Seine" or something close to that. It's
    in Waltz time as best as I can tell, kind of a lilting, almost
    lullaby melody. I've never heard the song on record, but I've
    heard my dad sing it for 35 years and I'd like to get him a
    copy (so I can hear it done competently :-) )
    
    thanks for any pointers - Dave

Who preforms the song with the line

"This aint no technological breakdown,
This is the Road to Hell."

?

Cheryl

    Lyrics go something like...what the world needs now, is another folk
    singer, like I need a hole in the head...who does it?

    Cracker ?

    Yup.  The song is called "Teen Angst" by Cracker.
    
    -Jesse

    
    Who does "Simple Sister?"  I starts out like maybe Mountain, but mostly
    sounds like Procol Harem (to me).  Sounds like it has horns and piano
    as well as guitar.  In any case its an older song...

Simple Sister is on the 'Broken Barricades' album.

Didier

		I've heard a song on the radio a few times over the last
	six months or so... Can only remember little snatches of the lyr-
	ics:

		"Superman never made any money
		 Saving the world from Solomon Grundy
		 .........
		 Sometimes I despair the world will
		 Never see another man like him"

		A slow song, sung very low...

		Anyone know who did it?



	--- Shawn

    "Superman Song" was done by the Crash Test Dummies.  It's on their
    only album.
    
    -Scott

     I know who played it, but was wondering if anyone could tell me what
     album/disc/tape Sting's solo acoustic version of "Message in a Bottle"
     is on...?
    
     AdTHANKSvance,
    
     Tim
    

    Re: .153
    
    There is a version on the "Secret Policeman's Ball" album on Island. 
    Be careful, there are a few of these (like "Secret Policeman's Other
    Ball", etc.), it's the original one you're looking for.
    
    I think he also does "Roxanne"?  And Pete Townshend does a couple of
    solo tunes as well.  I bought the vinyl back in the 80s when it was
    new, no idea if it ever made it to CD.
    
    						Brian

    Who did "The Sweater" (I assume that was the name) singing about the
    stages of a teenage girl's crush/love affair ?  It was on the radio
    last summer ('FNX ?)...

    
    I don't think "Message in a Bottle" is on the SPB or SPoB... I had the
    latter on tape and I know it wasn't on that one.  I'll have to look
    at SPB.  Thanks for the pointer!
    
    Tim
    

    Re. .156
    
    I just checked it. 
    Message In A Bottle is on the The Secret Policeman's other Ball.
    
    /Per

    
    Who does the song, "Let's Give Them Something To Talk About" ?
    

    Bonnie Raite(Sp?)

    >    Bonnie Raite(Sp?)
    
    Bonnie Raitt

    
    Raitt, Bonnie - Luck of The Draw [AAD] Capitol
    
     - Something To Talk About     - Good Man, Good Woman
     - I Can't Make You Love Me    - Tangled And Dark
     - Come To Me                  - No Business
     - One Part Be My Lover        - Not The Only One
     - Papa Come Quick             - Slow Ride
     - Luck Of The Draw            - All At Once
    

    The question of the morning is....who did Time, about 69-70 vintage?
    

    
    
    Pink Floyd "Time" ?
    
    /a

>    The question of the morning is....who did Time, about 69-70 vintage?

		Do you mean the one that goes like this:

		"Time has come today
		 Young hearts can go their way
		 Can't put it off another day
		 I don't care what others say
		 They say we don't listen anyway
		 Time has come today!"

		If that's what you're thinking of, that's the Chambers
	Brothers.



	--- Shawn

    Thats it, thanks.

    
    Great lyric.
    
    Tim
    
    

    You guys are so much help... here's some more I need help with!
    
    There is a song called EVERLASTING LOVE.  There is a fast version and a
    slower one.  I'm looking to find the slower version.  Who did that?
    
    Also, who does...
			- The Times of Your Life
    			- Try To Remember (probably lots of artists?)
    			- The Hands of Time
    			- Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
    

    > - Nothing's gonna stop us now.
    
    Has to be the very dreadful Starship?
    
    barry. 

    "Try to Remember" (the kind of September) is from the show "The
    Fantasticks", so you might try the "Soundtrack" section of that for an
    artist.
    
    -Jesse

    
    One version, done quite a while ago, was by Alan somebody?
    
    A more recent rendering was done by U2, but I don't believe it was ever
    officially released.  At least not that I could ever find :-(
    
    DFW

    "The Times of Your Life" was written and performed by Paul Anka.
    I believe it was commissioned by Eastman Kodak Co.
    
    Dave

    
                                 THANKS!
    

    
    	I forgot to look it up when I went home last night, so:
    
    	Who did "How Much Is that Doggie in the Window" [woof woof!]?
    
    
    							GTI
    

    Patti Page?  I think I remember her signing it when I was little. 

    Yeh, maybe Patti Page or Doris Day?  I guessed Doris until I saw the
    reply.
    
    ccb

>>    Yeh, maybe Patti Page or Doris Day?  I guessed Doris until I saw the
>>    reply.

	I would have bet on Doris, too.  Hmmmm.  Now you've got me thinkin'...

	Di

    It was the Singing Rage, Miss Patti Page, also "Old Cape Cod", "Tennessee 
    Waltz".
    

		Anyone know who does a song called - I think - (She's) The
	Sensitive Kind? The song as a whole sounds to me like something
	Santana would do, but the guitar playing itself doesn't sound like
	Carlos.

		Sorry I don't have any more clues to offer.

		Any ideas?




	--- Shawn

    Sensitive kind was recorded by J.J.Cale, John Mayall and Santana.
    Don't know if they are the same songs.
    
    -- Minne

    
    I am trying to find the performer(s) that have recently released a song
    that I think is titled "Alive". The first two lines are;
    
    "don't know what color your eyes are baby,
    but your hair is long and brown.."
    
    	I thought it was by Pearl Jam, but their "Alive" is a different
    version. The group sounds a bit like INXS.
    
    	any ideas?
    
    			thanks,
    			fred deady
    			wbc::deady

    RE: -1
    
    Love and Rockets
    
    Jim C.
    

    Sensitive Kind
    John Mayall - A Sense Of Place (1990?)
    
    slide solo - Sonny Landreth
    guitar solo - Coco Montoya
    \Gary

		Heard an updated version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
	this morning. Very true to the original, but a tad "heavier". Nat-
	urally, the announcer didn't say who'd done it.

		Anyone know?

    Jeff Healey did a cover of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'; perhaps
    that's the version.

		Thanks for your reply. I think you're right about it being
	Jeff Healey; just before I checked back here for an answer, that
	name popped into my head. My mind made the connection to other
	songs I'd heard by him, and the singing voice was the real tipoff.

		Thanks, again.



	--- Shawn

    
    re. 182
    
    Thanks Jim, Love and Rockets, name seems similar to Guns n Roses. ;*}
    
                fred deady
    				

    
    
    Who performed these songs:
    
    1. I'm Henry the Eight I am, Henry the Eight I am, I am
    2. I'm your Venus, I'm your fire at your desire
    3. In the year 2525
    4. Where do you go to my lovely
       When you're alone in your bed
       Tell me the thoughts that surround you
       I want to look inside your head, yes I do
    5. Turn turn turn
    
    Any ideas ? Shoot whatever springs to mind.
    
    Lale

    
    
    1. Herman's Hermits
    2. Shocking Pink (more recently, the Bangles)
    3. Ross Perot (his campaign theme)
    4. can you hum a few bars?
    5. sounds like Roger McGuinn (and the Byrds)
    

    2 - Shocking *Blue*
    3 - Zager & Evans
    4 - Peter Sarstedt
    
    Rainer

    
    Ach yes, Sarstedt, I knew his first name was Peter and I knew his
    last name started with an S. Thanks. Do you know, by any chance,
    if the girl in that song is a celebrity or not ? It is a very
    sarcastic song, don't you think ? It almost seems as if she is
    someone we all know.
    
    ref. .189: John, yes, you do win something. You receive the honour
    of taking me out for dinner one night !
    
    I think your Bangles was wrong though, for the recent version of Venus.
    That was another equally bad, all girls band called BANANARAMA.
    
    Tschuess
    
    Lale	
    

    I'm surprised myself that I remember Sarstedt's name...I never really
    listened to that song, but at that time the song was such a huge hit,
    also in Germany, that one could not escape from it.
    
    Rainer
    

    
    
    Does anyone know who sings the song
    
    
    	GET ALONG
    
    It has a kind of AC/DC sound to it, it gets air play on
    stations like FNX and AAF.
    
    Thanks!!
    
    -Meg-

Junkyard? 

There is a song on "energie" lately that I have never heard the name of nor who
performs it.  It is a ballad about someone who has lost someone dear to him.
The singer sings the song with a very large vocal range, sometimes in the 
basement and then rising to a falsetto soprano.

The words are about "wanting everything, wanting you"  Then they've taken
her away and they might as well take him "down down to hell" etc.

What is the name of this song and who performs it?  It took a bit of getting 
used to but it has grown on me.

ccb

    
    	Who does the song with the line
    
    	"Little pig, little pig, let me in!!"
    
    							GTI

    
    
    re.-1  Green Jello  (maybe there isn't always room for jello)
    
    

    Here are some more lyrics from the song I want to know the name of.
    
    It starts out something like "No one can have more than their due.  I
    wanted (mumble) I wanted you..."
    
    Then there is the hell part "Down down to hell, I don't care.  They can
    put me anywhere.  Throw away the key."
    
    I am also trying to find a CD for my son.  This is even more vague. 
    There is a frog on the cover playing a guitar and the title should be
    something like "Sing a Song".  I think one of the songs in the CD has
    lyrics like "Everybody's got to live together.  Come along and let the
    people kow.  ....  Love is all.  Love is aaaalllllll.  Let the good
    times roll."
    
    Good Lord, singing frogs!
    
    Cheryl

    OK, I heard it again on "energie" and it is sung by Peter Kingsbury. 
    Does someone know the name and what CD it is on?  Thanks,
    
    Cheryl

    Does anyone remember the name of the group that had a hit called
    "Voices"  
    
       ( Voices...I hear voices... ) I think that they might have been
     a boston based band. Any Idea's ?

    Are you thinking of "Voices Carry"? 

                                         
    	Has anyone ever heard of "Mountain Stage"?  I was CD shopping
    	in Tower Records this weekend and picked up a CD called "The
    	Best of Mountain Stage Live, Volume II".  I loved it the first
    	time I heard it.  I'm going back for Volume I.  It's from Blue
    	Plate Music.  
    
    
    	The CD liner says,
    
    	"Mountain Stage" makes the music of the radio come alive by
    	providing a forum for an often underestimated artform - the
    	performance of live music.  To be gifted enought to be able to
    	write words with music, and be able to communicate that to
    	masses of people is the best language that can be spoken.  This
    	is the essence of what "Mountain Stage" celebrates - the 
    	marraige of great performers with live radio.
    
    					Al Bunetta & Dan Einstein
    
    	About Mountain Stage
    
    	Mountain Stage is a weekly, two-hour live performance radio
    	program broadcast nationally on more than 100 stations.  We 
    	feature three or four guest acts that defy categorization.  We
    	are an alternative show, a blues show, a folk  show, a world
    	beat show; we like Celtic music, Baltic music, Art Rock, and 
    	funky New Orleans piano.
    
    	In our Second Volumn we have some real treasures.  These live 
    	performances are like snapshots - not posed and not touched
    	up.  We think you'll like the pictures.
    
    					Larry Groce
    
    	Mountain Stage is produced by West Virginia Public Radio, a
    	division of the West Virginia Education Broadcasting
    	Authority, and is distributed by APR, American Public Radio.
    	Major funding for Mountain Stage is provided by the National 
    	Endowment for the Arts.
    
	*** Work in MKO and live in Mass, just over the NH border.  Does
    	anyone know which radio station this may broadcast on in the 
    	local area and at what time?  Blue Plate Music does have an
    	address on the label, but I thought this forum might be quicker
    	and easier.  Thanks in advance. ***
    
    				Eileen Thompson
    

    no....thats by til tuesday.

    re .198
    
    (Frog playing a guitar)
    
    This wouldn't happen to be the Muppet Movie Soundtrack, with Kermit
    sitting on a log playing a banjo?
    
    The opening song from that is (I think) "Rainbows" and goes something
    like:  "Why are there so many songs about Rainbows?"
    
    
    	

    Believe it or not I remember the tune too, I think. It seems to me it
    was someone like Dave Mason, or one of the Al Cooper incarnations,who had 
    much bigger hits. Are you familliar with a band (from Canada I think)
    called Hello People ? It might have been them also. The vintage is
    early to mid 70's ??? If I get a flash of inspiration, I'll reply
    again. Do you know any more of the words ? 

    You can find Mountain Stage in Massachusetts on WBUR 90.9 FM on Sunday
    nights, about 6-7 PM I think, it runs for 2 hours.  You should be able
    to pick up WBUR near the NH border.  WICN in Worcester at 90.5 also
    carries the show, not sure what day/time.
    
    It used to have a folk music focus, but they are adding more rock all
    the time.  I heard Juliana Hatfield rockin' out one night and thought
    maybe BUR had dropped the show for a local rock show (she's from
    Boston).
    
    							Brian

    
    	It was/is by Russ Ballard ... I think he performed with a band
    	at one time, but I'm not sure which one.
    
    	I know I've seen his name in the credits of an album or song
    	not done by him, but can't remember which one.
    
    							GTI

    
    Vol II is a good 'un - there's now a vol III out, not as good.  I've yet
    to run across vol I . . . If you write to them let us know what you
    hear back . . .
    
    						-Jimbo

    
    I knew Shawn was gonna get that one!
    

    It's on 90.9 from 7PM to 9PM Sunday's, following Car Talk from 6 to 7 
    (which is also worth a listen, if you like to laugh).
    
    Ken

The song I am looking for is called "Only the Very Best" by Peter Kingsbury.
Does anyone know of the CD which has it?

Cheryl

    re. 198
    
    The song is 'Love is all' by Roger Glover and guests. Roger Glover used
    to be - and perhaps still is - in Deep Purple.
    It's on the album 'The Butterfly Ball' (1974). 
    The song was a number 1 hit in the Netherlands. 
    The frog is featuring in the cartoon video.
    
    - Minne
    

Thanks, that is it!  I found the album in the Migros (with the frog playing
guitar on the cover like my son said).  Unfortunately it was quite pricey-
Sf 28.50.  It doesn't seem to have been as big a hit in the US or UK since
neither my husband nor I could find it in those two places.

Cheryl

I need help in figuring out who did this song. These are the some of the
lyrics, but I don't know title or singer: 

Something like: "How could I love her so much and then lose her so 
quickly to someone like you..."

Thanks,
/Linda

    Variation on the "Who did this song?" question.
    
    Can anyone tell me who did the ORIGINAL versions of the following
    songs:
    
    - "Brand New Cadillac", covered by the Clash (on "London Calling") and
      by the Purple Helmets (and probably others)
    
    - "Baby Jane", covered by Dr. Feelgood on "As It Happens" (and on one
      of their studio albums)
    
    Thanks,
    
    Dom

... Vince Taylor (and the Playboys)

Didier

	Hi,  I heard this song a while ago and was wondering if anyone knows
	who wrote/sung it.......
	
	There are places I remember, all my life, though some have changed,
	Some forever not for better, some are gone, and some remain.
	All these places had their meanings with lovers and friends I still
	can recall, some are dead and some are living, in my life I've loved
	them all.


	Thanks, Emma

    "In my life" - The Beatles (I believe John wrote it)

	Thanks - I didn't realise it was a Beatles tune!

	Emma

    This isn't a true "who performed this" question, but it's close.  I
    love the theme song to Fox's sitcom "Flying Blind."  It's pretty
    obvious that it's a Talking Heads or David Byrne song.  The words go
    something like, "I ain't gonna work here no more.  I ain't gonna work
    here no more.  I'm a million miles away from here, but I ain't gonna
    work here no more."
    
    Does anybody know the song?  Do you know what CD I might find it on?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mike

    
    
    
    I thought I knew both Byrne's and the T-Head's repertoires pretty well,
    but I don't know where you could find that tune.  That's a pretty good
    show, too...
    
    

   >> "In my life" - The Beatles (I believe John wrote it)

	For a contrast, you might want to check out the Judy Collins
	version of it, too.  In my humble opinion, a much more stirring
	rendition.

	Di

	Re: -1

	Di,

	I think the version I heard was by Judy Collins, which I why I
	didn't realise it was by the Beatles.  She has a lovely voice,
	and sings it with such feeling.   

	Emma

	I'm sorry if this question has been asked already - I really
	need to know before I got nuts -

	Who sang, "It Never Rains In Southern California" in the early
	70's???

	Help, help.  8^(

    
    	Who did the original? of that new Ray Charles song.  I think
    	it's called "Song for you" or something like that.  My guess
    	is Leon Russell...
    
    	Can't help but picture Michael Bolton destroying that song.
    
    	Tom
    

    RE: .244 ("It Never Rains In So. CA")
    
    More brain cells being put to evil purposes...
    
    I think it was Albert Hammond.
    
    - Dave

    Definitely Leon Russell.  Great song!
    
    David

	Thanx, Dave...{phew} Albert Hammond it was.  I can sleep tonite.  8^)


	-Deb

    
    Actually a backwards "who did that song?"
    
    A group called Chilliwac had a hit few years ago - can anyone remember
    what it was?  The subject came up and now I'm curious.
    
    - Sean

    If it's the one I'm thinking of, it was *quite* a few years ago (like
    maybe 15?).  It was called "Lonesome Mary", and yeah it was a great
    tune.

    
    re. Chilliwac tune
    
      Was that the one with the "gone, gone, gone, she's been gone so long
                                 she's been gone, gone, gone for so long"
      part in it?
    
    ChaAoS
    
    

>    A group called Chilliwac had a hit few years ago - can anyone remember
>    what it was?  The subject came up and now I'm curious.

I forget the title, but it starts out "Gone gone gone, she's been gone so 
long..." 

That was their only hit that I remember.

alan

    I think the title is "MY GIRL"
    

    Yep, the song is "My Girl," with opening lines as quoted, by the
    Canadian group Chilliwack.  I have the cassette at home; if memory
    serves, it was released in 1981.  I'll try to remember to check on
    it....

    -- Cathy

    
    	I don't remember "My Girl" by Chilliwack, but I do remember "Mr.
    Rock". I can't recall if it's on the same album or another one. I wonder
    what the group is upto?
    
    			fred deady
    	

>    	I don't remember "My Girl" by Chilliwack, but I do remember "Mr.
>    Rock". I can't recall if it's on the same album or another one. ...
    
    Same album....

    I just checked the floor of the car :-) -- it's not there.  I'll try to
    remember to grab the tape at home....

    -- Cathy

    Awhile back I thought I placed a "Who did this song or what's the name
    of this song" write/reply in MUSIC, but can not find such a note or
    reply. So ...I 'll try again...I asked if anybody knew the name of an
    instrumental that had a Booker T. & the MG's sound. It had been done by
    Paul Shaffer and T.W.M.D.B. on David Letterman. I only comment about
    the song was, Paul had a memeber of the band playing a cow bell , and 
    stated that this was the only R&R song to date that "had a cowbell
    solo" in it. Well, I never found out the name of the song or who did
    it. I even bought two(2) best of Booker T's CD's and it wasn't on
    them..
    
    
    TA DA......Last night there was an advertisment for "the funniest movie
    of 1993"  called "DAVE" and the song is playing during the ad...Cowbell
    SOLO and All.......If anybody sees/has seen the ad, could you PLEEEZE
    let me know the title and artist of this song.?????......  It's been
    driving me nuts for well over 6 months...maybe more..
    
    
    					Thanks, John
                
    
    
    		

    I thought Chiiliwac did the song ...
     I Believe
    
    "i believe there's been a change in me.
    "can't you see, you were always on my mind."
     I believe....I believe in you and me.."
    
    			
    
    
    			I check it out...I have their album at home...john

    Listing from Chilliwack's _Wanna Be a Star_ (1981):

    A	"Sign Here"		    B	"Mr. Rock"
	"So You Wanna Be a Star"	"My Girl"
	"Tell It to the Telephone"	"(Don't Wanna) Live for a Living"
	"Too Many Enemies"		"Walk On"
	"Living in Stereo"		"I Believe"

    Dunno if they had any other releases....

    -- Cathy

Help on a song and artist!

The lyrics I have so far are:

When I was young,
out on my own,
I hadn't a care,
fooling around,
walking the town,
growing my hair

Then one day you came into my wife,
it was almost like living a dream
and ooooo, I want you....

thanks
daryll

    
    The song is (you won't believe the ingenious title!) "I Love You" by
    the Climax Blues Band.
    
    And don't make fun of it  :^)  'cause it was me and my wife's wedding 
    song!
    
    - Sean

>>>>>  Then one day you came into my wife,

	Interesting lyric.

    
    
    
    Ooo, what images come into mind with that one!!
    

    RE 172.237
    
    		Anybody heard the theme music to the movie "DAVE"??
    
    		Anybody know the name and artist of song??
    
    							John

    RE.237,.244 AGAIN...Nobody heard or knows the name /artist of THIS
    song!?!?!
    
    
    						J

Who performed/performs Achy Breaky Heart ?

Didier

P.S. : I apologize in advance if this one's too trivial
but this song is not known at all in France.

    re: .246
    
    Billy Ray Cyrus

>>Who performed/performs Achy Breaky Heart ?

>>Didier

>> P.S. : I apologize in advance if this one's too trivial
>> but this song is not known at all in France.

Lucky you!!!  It's all too well known in the U.S. of A.  For your sake, 
I hope it never becomes well known in France.

Walker

Who does "Life is a Highway"?

>> Who does "Life is a Highway"?

   Tom Cochrane

I've heard a song that I like many times on the radio, and of course have never
heard the DJ actually announce the name of the band or the song.

	"... I wish I was special
	 but I'm a fool (?)
	 I'm a ?
	 What the hell am I ? ..."

How's that for a lyrics sample?  So, any ideas?

- thanks
  DC

    Yeah, I know the song you're talking about.  The title is
    "Creep" as in "I'm a creep" (one of the lines you were asking about).
    
    Can't think of the band's name; it's not someone you've heard of before

    
    "Creep" is by Radiohead.
    
    	fred deady
    	wbc::deady

    Album is called "Pablo Honey"
    
    -jesse

    Well as long as we're on the subject...
    
    How's the rest of the album?  The guitar entrance on "Creep"
    is almost worth the price of admission alone, but I've been
    burned by too many one-hit wonder albums.

    
    I've had this song buzzing in my head for ages and I can't remember
    for the life of me who sang it, although the guys name is on the tip 
    my tongue. The song is "Spanish Stroll", came out in 1978 I think.
    Anybody got a line on it?
    
    Thanks
           Graham
                                                    

    
    Of course!!!
    
    Thanks profusely.
    
    Graham
    

    Help!
    
    Does anyone know the artist/name of the song with the chorus of:
    
    "millions of people,
    are the last ones to know"
    
    It's really heavy on the rhythm section (bass&drums), with a
    "softly-strummed" acoustic guitar and a male singer..
    
    Thanks!
    Chuck

    
    There's a new Movie being released called Meteor Man, which reminded
    me of a tune with the same name...  who did it?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Tim

    Are you thinking of Media Man by Flash and the Pan, from about 1980?
    
    "Clap hands for the media man..."
    
    Mike

    
    Yup, that was it!  
    
    BTW; Flash and the Pan...
    
    I wonder if the name was premeditated?
    
    Tim

    
    re. Flash
    
    Great album, though!  One of the Young brothers (a la Angus Young of
    AC/DC) was in this band.  
    

    Who sings the song - PINA COLADA???  The one that goes:
    
    If you like Pina Coladas and "something" in the rain...
    
    Thanks

>    Who sings the song - PINA COLADA???  The one that goes:

Rupert Hine.

alan

    RE: -1
    
    RUPERT HOLMES
    
    

>    RUPERT HOLMES

Oh yeah, that's it! (Rupert Hine is a producer..... keep getting them
mixed up...)

alan

    
    
    
    Who sings the song "Start the Car"?
    
    Thanks.
    
    Meg

    RE: Start the Car  
    
    ...is buy Jude Cole.
    
    
    
    
    
    Steve

    
    
    
    Thanks!!!

    
    Who does the heavy metal cover of Focus' "Hocus Pocus" I've been
    hearing on the radio?
    
    I like the little dive into the opening riffs of Sweaty Teddy's 
    "Stranglehold" about 3/4 of the way through...
    
    - Sean

re:    <<< Note 172.271 by WONDER::REILLY "Sean Reilly CSG/AVS DTN:293-5983" >>>

    
>    Who does the heavy metal cover of Focus' "Hocus Pocus" I've been
>    hearing on the radio?
>    
>    I like the little dive into the opening riffs of Sweaty Teddy's 
>    "Stranglehold" about 3/4 of the way through...

Funny you should mention this.  I was flipping stations in my car yesterday,
and I came across a song in the middle of a heavy guitar solo.  I actually
turned it off, thinking it was a new heavy metal song (which generally don't
interest me).  I then turned back to it, and it took a few seconds to realize
what the song was!

I just assumed it was Focus doing it live.  I know there is a live album out
with that song on it.  I never considered the fact that it might be a cover. 
But the fact that there was no yodeling could indicate it's a cover :-)  I know
of very few rock vocalists who can yodel in that octave without sounding like
Brian Johnson. :-)

adam

    
    	I'll have to listen for that!!  Great song!!
    
    	[Now that also means I'll have to actually listen to a radio
    	station to hear it, too.  8^)]
    
    							GTI

re <<< Note 172.255 by RICKS::CALCAGNI "speeding towards our sun, on a party run" >>>
                   -< okay, who has the catalog number :-) >-

>    How's the rest of the album?  The guitar entrance on "Creep"
>    is almost worth the price of admission alone, but I've been

You like the guitar entrance; check it out on the song "Pain" by 
the band Catherine Wheel.   :^)

Music O' The Future.

- DC

    
    	Who does a song called "Closin' Time"?
    
    	The guy that asked me said the performer is somewhat of a Joe
    	Cocker look-alike.
    
    	Thanks for any info.
    
    							GTI

    
    Leonard Cohen.
    
    Closing Time is the first song on his latest CD "Future".
    The title track is as good as Closing Time.
    
    Some of the songs have very disturbing lyrics. I bought the CD
    just for Closing Time and didn't like the rest of the songs very much
    and promised the CD to Jim Carroll since he loves disturbing lyrics.
    But before I could pass it onto him, I listened to it a few more times
    and liked a couple more songs, mostly Future and didn't want to give it
    away. I ended up buying another one for Jim ;-)
    
    Lale

Lyle Lovett does a song called "Closing Time" also.  I don't know if it's
the same one since I haven't heard the Leonard Cohen one.

-Hal

Heard a song with a positivley *mesmerizing* guitar part this morning, but had to
leave the car before they announced the artist (if they ever did!). From the
lyrics, I'd say it's a safe bet that it's titled "Treetop Flyer."

Anyone know (1) who does it, (2) what album it's on, and (3) whether the rest of
said album is of the same style and/or caliber?

Thanks in advance-

	Bob

    Isn't it Stephen Stills?  I've only heard it a couple of times, but it
    sounds very much like (a well-aged) Stills.  Dunno what album, though.
    
    Dave

Re : Treetop Flyer

>    Isn't it Stephen Stills?  I've only heard it a couple of times, but it
>    sounds very much like (a well-aged) Stills.  Dunno what album, though.

Sounded a lot like him to me, but sort of an "edgier" vocal quality, so I wasn't
so sure. If I get a chance to drop into a shop, I'll browse the available SS
titles and see if I get a match...

Bob

    Does anybody know where I could buy records from PRINCE FARI (he died -
    same type of music as the one from Bob Marley, Peter Tosh)?
    Quite impossible to find it here in France.
    Thanks for your hints/addresses re. real good reggae music.
    
    Beatrice from Valbonne, France.

    I'm looking for the exact title of a beautiful song performed by
    John Lennon.
    Words come like this, as far as I  can remember :"It's hard to be a
    working man..."
    On which CD could I find it?
    Thanks
    Beatrice

    You might be thinkin of"Working_Class Hero".
    If so..I believe it's on the"Imagine"Album.
    
        Crazy_It's_SomeThing_To_Be_Al

    "Working Class hero" is not on "Imagine";
    it's on an earlier album. Don't know if
    it's the right song, though...
    
    			Henrik

>    "Working Class hero" is not on "Imagine";
>    it's on an earlier album. Don't know if
>    it's the right song, though...

  Right, it's on "Plastic Ono Band" -- the same one with "Mother", "God Is",
  "Love", "Remember", etc.
  
    "There's room at the top they are telling you still,
     But first you must learn how to smile as you kill.
     If you want to be like the folks on the hill...
     A working class hero is something to be."    etc.  - Jay

    but you're still f'ing peasants as far as I see!
    
    Classic song for the ages.
    
    Jim C.
    

    Help!
    
    Looking for the title and artist of a song that keeps being played on
    KISS 108.  The only words I know is "All that she wants is another
    baby".  This is part of the chorus.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Nancy

    re .-1:
    
    "All that she wants" - Ace of Bass (Swedish group).
    
    
    A trickier question - about 15 years ago, I heard a country kind of
    song with much of the same melody as John Lennon's "Merry Xmas".
    Does anybody know what that may have been?
    
    Henrik

    Thanks for your answer re. John Lennon.
    Beatrice

I know all the lyrics to this one - just don't have a clue who recorded it:

(first verse & chorus)

The words I have to say
May be simple but they're true
Until you give your love
There's nothing more that we can do

	Love is the opening door
	Love is what we came here for
	No one could offer you more
	Do you know what I mean?
	Have your eyes really seen?

...and it's the only one of his that I know/sing.

Bob

    Any idea which album?
    
    

    RE:-1
    
    Recorded it with Sandy Denny I believe.  Look for one of his *early*
    albums, possibly his first commercial "Elton John" or perhaps
    "Tumbleweed Connection"
    
    _stew-

Re .293:

I've no idea what album this appeared on- I'm not really an EJ fan. I liked that
particular song, though, and have always remembered the words/chords/feel of it.
It goes *very* nicely indeed with one voice and one guitar.

Good luck finding it-

	Bob

    The song is called "Love Song" and is on Tumbleweed Connection.  A live
    version can be found on "Here and There".
    
    By the way, Elton didn't write the song.  It's written by a a woman
    named Leslie Duncan (I *think* that's her name).  She duets with him on
    the Here and There version.
    
    				- Paul

    I clearly remember the first time I ever heard Elton John's
    "Love Song".  I was eighteen and on my first airplane flight.
    I was about as nervous as one could possibly be and the 
    flight attendant noticed how unsettled I was and suggested I
    plug my headphone in and listen to music. Love Song played as
    the plane lifted off the ground. I found myself suddenly 
    completely as ease while listening to the song. 
    
    I too later learned the song on guitar and sang it every 
    so often.
    
    Jodi-

    Leslie Duncan later recorded the song herself on an LP for Columbia,
    then vanished into obscurity.
    
    							Brian

    Sandy Denny, Leslie Duncan, Sandy Duncan...I knew it was there
    somewhere.  I was right on the lp (2nd guess) though.  I loved to
    listen to that song on headphones, the click, click at the beginning
    with the guitars and how they layered the vocals.  Fabulous!
    
    _stew-

    I heard a tune on an AOR radio station yesterday that contained a line
    something like

        "When Jesus, left Birmingham"

    Anyone know this tune and who does it?  I like it a lot but couldn't
    quite pin down the lead vocalist. I thought maybe Mellencamp.

    --Ron

    It's Mellencamp's new album!
    

    Well that about does it then. I must now buy it. The three or four songs
    I've heard so far have just about knocked me out. I've never been a fan
    of his before. Always thought his stuff was a tad hoaky and unfinished
    sounding. This new stuff is very very good.

    --Ron

    I want to get the words to a Cheech and Chong song, I think it was
    called "Ear ache my eye!".  Can anyone confirm that title name?
    Remember which album it was on?
          
    Its the song where the kid is listening to the music and the father
    comes in and scrapes the needle off the record playing "ear ache me
    eye"?  and tells him to get his butt out of bed and off to school.
    
    Thanks, Mark

    
    "Ear ache my eye" is on the self titled Cheech and Chong album.  It's
    a yellow jacket.  That album also contains, "Dave", Trippin in Court,
    The Horendo Revolver interview and some other classic C&C skits.
    
    Great stuff!
    
    TT

    Nah, "Earache My Eye" isn't on the first C&C album, but I can't
    remember which one is *was* on...the third or fourth one.
    
    Since they performed it in "Up In Smoke", it's likely on the soundtrack
    to that movie if such a thing exists.
    
    							Brian

    wasn't EAME on the LP with the big rolling paper in it ?

    
    	Scatterbrain also does a cover of this [just the song, not the
    	dialogue] on "Here Comes Trouble".
    
    	If I think of it, I can bring in a copy of the Cheech and Chong
    	version for you.  I taped it off the radio a few years ago.
    
    							GTI
    

    Cool Slab...
    
    I'll take you up on your offer to bring the tape in.  That will give
    me the licks and the words (providing I can figure out that fast
    dialogue)!!!  
    
    Thanks, Mark

Big Bambu was the one with the rolling paper.

Ear Ache My Eye was in Cheech and Chong's Wedding Album.

Tim

    Which also featured "Dave and Man at the Drive-In".  Classic.
    
    Mark.

    What's the one about Santa Claus?  where Chong keeps saying, "yeah
    I *played* with that dude!"

    It's pretty damn funny, especially at Xmas.

    Ah yes, my favorite..."Santa Claus and His Old Lady"
    
    "Ma ma ma me, donde de Santa Cleese, the guy with the boney knees,
     walking down the street, with no shoes on his feet. no no no...
     Ma ma ma mas, donde de Santa Claus the guy with the hair on his
     jaws..."
    
    I'm going to have to drag this one out for the kids to listen to.
    
    Jodi-

    "No! No, man. Santa Claus ain't a musician!"
    
    		"Oh, I'll say! That cat couldn't play anything!"
    
    Edd

      <<< Note 172.313 by MANTHN::EDD "Busted, down in New Orleans..." >>>

    "No! No, man. Santa Claus ain't a musician!"
    
>    		"Oh, I'll say! That cat couldn't play anything!"
    
    You mean, "I'm hip, man...That cat couldn't play anything!"
    
    
    Mark.

    
    just so we don't perpetuate an inaccurate lyric...
    
    it's not:
    
    "Ma ma ma me, donde de Santa Cleese, the guy with the boney knees,
    
    it is:
    
    "Ma ma ma cita, donde esta Santa Cleese..."
    
    as in "little momma, where is Santa?"
    
    

    Well, it *has* been 20+ years since I really listened it.
    I knew I was only guessing at most of it.  
    
    Regardless, it's a fun cut fun cut.  Too bad my record 
    skips at the word recession.recession.recession...
    
    Jodi- 

    10,000 Maniacs have a song out that is a remake.  The version
    of the song was done on MTV Unplugged.  The name of the song
    is something like "The night belongs to lovers".  Who originally
    sang this song?   A friend of mine says it's one band, and
    I say it's another,,,,  but who actually sang it????
    
    

    
    	I believe it was Patty Smyth
    
    				- Jim
    
    ps - But I've been wrong before :-) . . .
    

    
    
    That's the second vote for Patty Smyth,,, so I would say you're right!
    
    
    Thank you!!!

  Are we talking about "Because the Night", the Bruce Springsteen song Patti
  Smith augmented (gaining a co-author credit) & recorded...?   - Jay

    
    	I believe it's on Bruce's Live set.  I don't think it's on
    	any studio album.  Bruce wrote it.
    
    	Tom
    

    Re .-1 
    
    That's right.
    Bruce never recorded that song, but he played it live a lot of times.
    
      Dm

    
    Yes, Bruce wrote it and it was originally recorded by Patti Smith,
    NOT Patti Symth.
    
    					- Patti Cake

I believe that Patti Smythe (not Smith) was in Scandal. 

Big diffence...

One is attractive and shaves her pits, the other...isn't/doesn't

/Billy_K

    OK, as the previous replies have said (in bits and pieces):
    
    1. Patti Smith recorded it first, it's on her "Easter" album (78? 79?).  
    It was a minor hit for her.
    
    2. Springsteen wrote the tune. The notes on "Easter" give joint
    songwriting credit to Bruce and Patti.
    
    3. Bruce's live album has his version, the lyrics are a bit different
    (suggests that was Patti's contributions). Not owning a copy I have no
    idea what the songwriting credits say.
    
    							Brian

    On the Bruce Springsteen live set the song Because the night is 
    credited to Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith.
    
    - Minne

The music sheet of "Because the night" (from Bruce Springsteen's Complete)
says:

	authors Bruce Springsteen & Patty Smith.

Tonino

   (Couldn't decide whether to put this here or under "Country Music" but
    this topic won out.)

   Can someone tell me who did the (country) song, "Tell Me Why"?  I think
   that's the name - a snippet of the song goes like this:
	.
	.
	.
   	I can see, you really got a hold on me
	A fool in love is a fool in paradise
	.
	.   
   	Can you tell me why, i, i, i...
	I can't say goodbye, i, i, i...
	(etc, etc)

   It was a hit last year or the year before.  I think it sounds an awful lot
   like Mary Chapin Carpenter.  My wife thinks it's Wynonna Judd, and I just
   can't picture it.  Please help settle this dispute.  :-)

   Thanks in advance,

   -- Sam
   

    Re. -1
    
    Your wife wins..... :)  it is Wynnona Judd.
    
    						--Eric--

It's driving me nuts!  What song contains this line: "sue me if I play too
long?"  I know I've heard the song a million times but the neurons aren't
doing their thang ... is it a Neil Young song?  Argh.

- thanks
  DC

-1 is correct, "Deacon Blue" by Steely Dan.

"I cried when I wrote this song,
 Sue me if I play too long,
 This brother is free
 I'll be what I want to be"

alan

BOINK!  synapse reactivated

- thanks
  DC

    That line got a standing O at their Great Woods show. 
    
    Funny how a line will stand out.
    
    Edd

    
    	Come on, Edd!!!  Dave thought it might be Neil Young!!!!
    
    	I love it!!!
    
    	I'll get alot of mileage outta that one, Eddwardd...
    
    	;^)
    

    But it *was* Neil Young who said: "sue me if I play this note too
    long"
    
    :-)

No insult to Steely Dan intended.  ;^)

I had the vague idea that the line was from a song on Neil's "Hawks and Doves"
album ... oh well.

    > But it *was* Neil Young who said: "sue me if I play this note too
    > long"
    
    Hmmmm. I thought Young said "sue me if I play this note too *often*".
    
    He'd played too long 90 seconds after picking up his first guitar...
    
    Edd

    No...  you still have it wrong! Neil Young said; "sue me if I play". 
    
    Not being the biggest Neil Young fan, if he plays a 90 second guitar 
    lead...  
    
    
    
    
       		
    	it's 90 seconds too long for me. Maybe this belongs in the 
    	"I don't get it" note.
    
    			Fred

    No, I think it was Neil Young who said, "I'm still a big star
    (nominated for both a Grammy and an Oscar this year) and nobody
    remembers who was even in Steely Dan."
    
    :-)
    
    Lorna
    

And then the musicians say something about the hoi polloi .... ;^)

    Fagen was also nominated for a Grammy.
    
    Young was nominated for an Oscar? I know he's famous for acting like
    a guitarist, but his portrayal is unconvincing.
    
    Edd

    re .342, he is nominated for best song for "Philadelphia" in the movie
    of the same name.  (Springsteen is also nominated for his song "Streets
    of Philadelphia" from the same movie.)
    
    Lorna
    

    re: .340
    
    Gee Lorna, the ability to say "I'm still a big star" puts Neil right
    up there in an elite category with folks like:
    
    		Wayne Newton
    		Neil Diamond
    		Neil Sedaka
    		Meatloaf
    
    BTW, I "remember" who was in Steely Dan as well as most of the folks
    that played with them and I'm not even that big a SD fan.  I've
    never found anything about Neil Young memorable other than that
    grating voice and pompous attitude.
    
    	db

    > Never found anything memorable except...
    
    What about his guitar playing, Dave?!?!?!?
    
    Steely Dan hadn't put out an album in over 10 years and they still
    played to sold out houses. Hard to say "nobody remembers"...
    
    Edd

Err, db, I think Lorna was joking with that "quote" from Neil ...  :^)

- DC

    > Never found anything memorable about Neil Young except...
    
>    What about his guitar playing, Dave?!?!?!?
    
    I hadn't remembered that he even played guitar.
    
    ;-)
    
    >Err, db, I think Lorna was joking with that "quote" from Neil ...  :^)
    
    Err, DC, that was obvious.  Don't know why you mentioned it.

    re .344, yeah, I was joking, but I do love Neil Young's music, as you
    know.  I just have this compulsion to stick up for Neil whenever anyone
    says anything negative about him.  I only hope he appreciates it!  :-)
    
    (Besides, db, life hasn't been *all* good to Neil.  His kids have
    cerebral palsy and he has epilepsy, or so I've read, not that that has
    anything to do with music. But, you did say "life's been good..."  
    It's been good in some ways, but not all, I guess.)
    
    Lorna
    

    Ya know, Lorna, I might love Neil's music too, I don't know. Let me
    know if he ever makes any, OK? <Wicked G>
    
    Bob

There's a song I hear every so often, I think it's about 8 years old or so.
It may be called "Life in a Northern Town" - goes something like this:

   the salvation army band played
   the children drank lemonade
   ...

   In winter 1963
   it felt like the world would freeze
   with John F. Kennedy
   and the Beatles... 

Anybody know who does this song?  

Joann

    
    	The Dream Academy.
    
    							GTI

  Oh!  Now I remember hearing that name, The Dream Academy.  It's just
  been a long time.  Thanks!

    
    
     Does anyone know who the original artist was that recorded the song
    that Mariah Carie(?) is now singing? "Can't Live" is that the title?
    I've heard answers from Bee Gees to Bread. Anyone?
    
                                                        mike
    

    Harry Neilson? From the Neilson Smeilson album?
    
    Jim C.
    

I was thinking it was either Nillson or Eric Carmen ...

    Nillson
    
    Edd

    It wasn't Air Supply was it..

    Sorry for the spelling.

    
    I believe the song was sung by Air Supply.  
    
    Lv

Maybe other groups covered it as well, but Nilsson definitely had the first
track on this one.

Bob

    I think it was written by Badfinger because I remember hearing that
    they lost the rights to the song. It was first performed by Nilsson,
    though and I like his version better.

    
    I think Heart did a version, perhaps on their live album?
    
    DFW

    I remember it on an old Badfinger album, and I liked their version
    better.
    
    Lorna
    

    
    	It was Nilsson [I looked it up the other night because I had
    	the same question], and the name is "Without You".
    
    							GTI

    
    
    Thanks for all the replies. I guess that settles it.
    
                                                          mike
    

    Hey, let's get the spelling right.

    
    	Oh, quiet.  I can definitely "live without you".
    
    	[I crack myself up!!]
    
    							GTI

    I'll cross-post this in COMET::RECORDS.

    There's an old tune called "Ragtime Cowboy Joe", that a lot of people
    seem to know, but no one really knows who wrote it or recorded it.  My
    boss says that Hoagy Carmichael wrote it.  Seems like a possibility,
    but surprising.

    Can anyone tell me more about it?

    Thanks,
    Charlie

You might want to also ask in AKOFIN::AFTER_HOURS.

(KP7, etc....)

-Hal

>    There's an old tune called "Ragtime Cowboy Joe", that a lot of people
>    seem to know, but no one really knows who wrote it or recorded it.  My
>    boss says that Hoagy Carmichael wrote it.  Seems like a possibility,
>    but surprising.
>    Can anyone tell me more about it?

  On an impulse, I looked it up in Brian Rust's "Jazz Records 1897-1942".
  It was recorded 4 times in the late 30s by jazz (well, quasi-jazz)
  artists, as follows:
  
    Pinky Tomlin, Jan. '35
    Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins, Oct. '37
    Ella Logan, Sept. '38
    Van Alexander & His Orchestra, June '39
    
  All these artists dabble in novelty stuff that's stylistically all over
  the map -- which is what I'm guessing this cut is.  8)
  
  Pinky Tomlin (the book says) is a well-known American songwriter, and did
  the first jazz recording of it -- could be the author?   - Jay

    > I looked it up in Brian Rust's "Jazz Records 1897-1942".
    
    Did anyone else mis-read this as "Brian Rost's..." and still not bat
    an eyelid as to the validity of the source?
    
    :^)
    
    Edd

>    Did anyone else mis-read this as "Brian Rost's..." and still not bat
>    an eyelid as to the validity of the source?

  Come to think of it, I've never seen Brian Rust and Brian Rost in the same
  place at the same time...  Hmm.

What band was Brian Ferry in?  This has been driving me nuts

Tim

Roxy Music

    Bobby McFerrins' (sp) "Don't Worry, Be Happy," video included himself,
    Robin Williams, and a third person. Does anyone know who this third
    person is?
    
    thanks,
    		Fred Deady

Don't know his name, but he also played the "Flying Man" in a couple
of episodes of Northern Exposure.

    Who did the earlier (60s) recordings of "Turn On Your Love Lights"?

    --Ron

    Depends exactly what you mean by "earlier". I *think* the original was
    written by Bert Berns for Van Morrison's Them, but there were umpteen
    other versions.
    
    Quick, someone call Brian Rost!
    
    Dom

    I think there were a couple versions of it done before Them did it.

    
    	Wow, I just saw that song in a catalog [BMG?] over the w'end,
    	and now I can't remember who the artist was, or whether it
    	was the original or a remake.
    
    							GTI

  Well, Bobby "Blue" Bland's "Turn On Your Lovelight" certainly predates
  Them, the Dead, etc.  What the heck, if I don't bump into Mr. Rost, I may
  look it up in blues/R&B discogs.   - Jay

    YES! Thanks. I think there was one other very cool cover of it from
    around that same time.

    --Ron

    
    re: .383
    Yeah, I think Jay's right. You guys aren't going to believe this, but
    I originally wrote a reply saying that Bobby "Blue" Bland did the first
    version of the song...and then thought better of it (I somehow recalled
    having seen Bert Berns' name on a Them album cover)!
    
    And then I got it mixed up with "Bright Lights, Big City" by Jimmy
    Reed, which Them have also covered, and....oooh, next question please!
    
    Dom

>    Yeah, I think Jay's right. You guys aren't going to believe this, but
>    I originally wrote a reply saying that Bobby "Blue" Bland did the first
>    version of the song...and then thought better of it (I somehow recalled
>    having seen Bert Berns' name on a Them album cover)!

  Bobby Bland's "Turn On Your Lovelight" was a #2 R&B hit in 1962, recorded
  in 1961.  It was recorded for Duke, and the songwriter's credit is to
  "Duchess Music", so I'm guessing it was written for use at Duke, and
  Bland's is the first hit version.
  
  Bobby Bland's heyday was from 1957 -- when "Farther Up the Road" was a hit
  [covered by Eric Clapton as "Further On Up the Road"] -- to 1964, when
  "Ain't Nothing You Can Do" was a hit [covered well by Van Morrison].
  
  In between were hits like "I'll Take Care of You" ('60), "I Pity the Fool"
  ('61), "That's the Way Love Is" ('63), and of course "Lovelight", which
  was probably the song most identified with Bland.  Bland also did arguably
  the classic cover version of T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday" (the version
  that inspired the none-too-shabby Allman Brothers cover).
  
  As of 1957, Bland and BB King were state-of-the-art in blues.  The hits
  slowed after '64, but in the 70s and 80s, Bland has continued as a leading
  soul/blues practioner on labels like Malaco, which cater to the
  sizable/disregarded black audience for blues.  (You'd group him with
  Little Milton, ZZ Hill, the 2 Johnny Taylors, Junior Parker, and Robert
  Cray as plying the blues side of the soul/blues fence...)  - Jay

    I've got a Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels (is that the right name
    ?) version of Lovelite.
    
    

    >I've got a Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels (is that the right name
    >?) version of Lovelite.
    
    Pretty much so. It's Ryder with a "y" if you want to be fussy.
    
    Re: .387
    Jay - with or without Brian Rost, I think you're than sufficient as a
    blues/R&B/jazz encyclopaedia ;-)
    
    There are too many names in that list (Z.Z. Hill, Little Johnny Taylor,
    Little Milton...) who just haven't received the credit they deserve.
    O.V. Wright and Arthur Alexander are other names that spring to mind.
    
    Personally, I've nothing against the Blues Brothers phenomenon.
    However, in retrospect, it appears to have reinforced the popularity of
    Eddie Floyd, Aretha Franklin and co., instead of introducing the masses
    to some of the lesser known greats.
    
    Dom

    Last night I saw a double CD compilation set of Bobby Blue Bland's
    recordings  at Strawberries. I think it was called "Turn On Your Love
    Light". I believe it's made up of his Greatest hits Vol I and II sets.
    At $32.99 I passed on it for now, but as Arnold said, "I'll be Bach".

    I was in a band in the mid 60s that did this and most other dance/party
    tunes of the day. But Love Light was always one of my favorites though I
    never owned a recording of it. Last weekend I heard it on a blues radio
    show.

    --Ron

    
>    Personally, I've nothing against the Blues Brothers phenomenon.
>    However, in retrospect, it appears to have reinforced the popularity of
>    Eddie Floyd, Aretha Franklin and co., instead of introducing the masses
>    to some of the lesser known greats.
    
    You gotta start somewhere...I'm sure that more than a few budding
    bluesologists got their start from the mainstream players.  Personally,
    I think it's a miracle we all survived disco...
    

>    Personally, I've nothing against the Blues Brothers phenomenon.
>    However, in retrospect, it appears to have reinforced the popularity of
>    Eddie Floyd, Aretha Franklin and co., instead of introducing the masses
>    to some of the lesser known greats.

    Dom,

    I'm not sure what you mean by the "Blues Brothers phenomenon", but as
    someone that's been listening in varying degrees to blues since my older
    brother started bringing me to tiny coffee houses in 1966 to hear
    artists like Muddy Waters, I'd like to point out that there's nothing
    wrong with anyone discovering the talents of Eddie Floyd, Sam and Dave,
    Aretha Franklin, et al. They're no more or less worthy of admiration
    than any of their predecessors. They've earned their place in music
    history. And it's not like they were ever over-hyped to begin with or
    that their popularity is very big now.

    If you ask me, no one makes great music to introduce the masses to
    anybody. Great music is created simply because somebody needed to make
    it. If those in the audience with the ambition use it to trace it's
    roots, that's great.

    --Ron

> Personally, I think it's a miracle we all survived disco...

    "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

>    Last night I saw a double CD compilation set of Bobby Blue Bland's
>    recordings  at Strawberries. I think it was called "Turn On Your Love
>    Light". I believe it's made up of his Greatest hits Vol I and II sets.
>    At $32.99 I passed on it for now, but as Arnold said, "I'll be Bach".

Sounds good...  Speaking of Bobby Bland double-CD sets, the complete Duke
recordings (his early recordings) are being released chronologically in a
series of 2-CD sets.  I point this out mainly so you'll be alert to the
possibility that the box you saw might be the 3rd in that series.  (Actually
I don't think so, because the 2nd one just appeared a couple of months ago.)
  - Jay

>    There are too many names in that list (Z.Z. Hill, Little Johnny Taylor,
>    Little Milton...) who just haven't received the credit they deserve.
>    O.V. Wright and Arthur Alexander are other names that spring to mind.

  Yes, and add in Otis Clay, maybe Garnett Mimms, James Carr, ...
  I didn't mention these 5 just because I hear them as more on the "soul"
  side of the soul/blues street.    - Jay

    re: .391  
    
    Agreed. James Carr - wow! I've heard some pretty authorative experts
    who think he has the greatest voice of the lot! I've only got a couple
    of things by him (on compilations) but he's pretty hot. Incidentally, I
    read that he's been trying to make some sort of a comeback, but that
    was a couple of years ago. 
    
    re: .390,.391
    
    >I'm not sure what you mean by the "Blues Brothers phenomenon", but as
    >someone that's been listening in varying degrees to blues since my older
    >brother started bringing me to tiny coffee houses in 1966 to hear
    >artists like Muddy Waters, I'd like to point out that there's nothing
    >wrong with anyone discovering the talents of Eddie Floyd, Sam and Dave,
    >Aretha Franklin, et al. They're no more or less worthy of admiration
    >than any of their predecessors. They've earned their place in music
    >history. And it's not like they were ever over-hyped to begin with or
    >that their popularity is very big now.
    
    I guess my previous comment must have come across as sounding a bit
    snobbish! Not for one moment did I intend to criticise people who
    listen to Aretha or Sam and Dave (I still think Aretha Franklin has the
    best black female voice on this earth!). The Blues Brothers
    film/records (what I referred to as the "Blues Brothers Phenomenon",
    Ron!), and the subsequent interest in soul/R&B music that they aroused,
    still only had a relatively superficial effect on the popularity of the
    genre. In other words, the sales of Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett and
    Eddie Floyd albums probably doubled, but Joe Public still doesn't know
    who Arthur Alexander or Lee Dorsey are/were. 
    
    Nothing particularly surprising about that; in fact, it was probably
    fairly predictable. And I'm not for one moment suggesting that the
    artists covered in the Blues Brothers film (or "The Commitments") are
    any less valid than the relative unknowns that I listed above. 
    
    Perhaps we should be grateful for small mercies. Looking into my
    crystal ball, I see a bleak future where Michael "Fa-Fa-Fa" Bolton tours
    Europe heading the "Great R&B All-Stars Revival"! Uughrr...
    
    Dom  

    OK, Dom. I guess I misunderstood your message somewhat. It seems that we
    pretty much agree. I just didn't realize that the Blues Brothers had
    much of an effect on anyone's interests in music. I must have missed
    that one. I always thought of that as a parody, albeit a fairly
    thoroughly executed one.

    --Ron

I'm seeking help trying to remember the name of a male singer who was featured
on NPR's Morning Edition this morning. They likened him to a mix between Taj
Mahal and Bonnie Raitt. His name is strange (to my ears anyway) and is two
short syllables that have a rhythm maybe like "sha na" or something. I think
he's a blues singer but now they described his music as "less is more" and he's
doing simpler songs. Is this an easy or hard one? Also posted in the "Blues and
R&B Music" conference. -- Steve

    
    	Hey, leave disco alone!!
    
    	Where would we be without The Village People and The Bee Gees??
    
    
    							GTI

    
    	Steve,

    	I believe his name real is Kevin Martin but his stage name
    	is Kevmo and he'll be feature on the newly revived OK label. 

        If anyone has more info I would be greetful.
    
    					Michael
    
    

Thanks, Michael. That's probably it. -- Steve

    Does anyone know the name of the artist/group that does
    the song "Love that Dirty Water", which is about Boston?
    Some of the words...."Love that Dirty Water, Boston you're 
    my home"
    
    Thanks
    

    re .0
    
    The Standells (all from LA, by the way) did "Dirty Water".

    Anyone know what the name of this song is and who does it?
    
    
    Feel I'm on top again baby that's got everything to do with you.
    
    I'm alive. Yes so alive.
    
    
    Thanks
    
    John
    
    

The group is Love & Rockets, I think the song is So Alive
No clue what album but I think late 80's, maybe 89 or so

    
    Thanks!!
    
    John

A friend asks the following. The "article" referred to was a radio story on
NPR's All Things Considered. If anyone knows the name of the group or CD, I'll
forward it to him. Thank you. -- Steve
 
    The other day there was an article about a bunch of musicians on
    Martha's Vineyard who got together and recorded a CD.  The music was a
    mixed bag of styles but from what they played it sounded like something
    I would want. Do you recall the name of the CD?  No distribution
    information was given and I suspect I'll have a hard time finding it,
    but without a title I'll get nowhere.  As I recall the title is about a
    road to a cabin or something like that.

I didn't heard the NPR story but I heard something on some folk program 
recently and I think you might have heard about a new release coordinated by
Christine Lavin.  Something about getting together a bunch of
singer/songwriters in  a house (her house?) with an informal studio in the back
or something.  Somehow it was  associated with the Wintertide Coffeehouse in
Vineyard Haven but I don't  remember how.  I think this was a new release 
different from her previous Vineyard/Wintertide compilation but I'm not 
sure.  Perhaps someone else, not so vague, could supply some details or 
the people in the FOLK conference may know more.  Hope that helps you find it.

Walker

    I didn't hear the NPR story, but the Glob had an article about a CD
    from Martha's Vineyard that was an 'eclectic' mix of styles, by all
    local artists, just a coupla days ago.  Maybe Tuesdays living section? 
    If you can find this article it might be the CD you are thinking of...

    Didn't have time to check every reply in this string, but does
    anyone know the name of the band (punk) that recorded the song
    "Love Comes in Spurts"?

I think it was Richard Hell and the Voidoids. 

/tOM 

My friend replies as follows:

    I poked around the Internet last night and I found an interesting news
    group "alt.radio.networks.npr".  Among the postings here was a synopsis 
    of the ATC shows.  I read through a few of these and found what I was 
    looking for.  The title of the CD is "Follow That Road" and it was
    compiled  by Christine Lavin.  In addition, a phone number was listed
    for a service which sells most music heard on NPR, 800 756-8742.  

    There were a lot of other interesting posts here as well.  Lots of
    comments on ATC stories, some consider NPR too liberal, others too
    conservative. Interesting reading.

    Thanks again.

    A couple of us have had this song in our heads for a couple of days, 
    a mid-late 70's song that goes:
    
    Why can't we be friends
    why can't we be friends
    why can't we be friends
    why can't we be friends ...
    
    Can anyone tell us who did it?
    Sorry if I put this song in your head for the rest of the day.
    Thanks in advance.

I think it's War, but I might be wrong.

    WAR  is right..unless someone else did a song singing that line over
    and over and over...
    
    check out "The Best of War" it is a fun cd, with "Why Can't We Be
    Friends", Spill the Wine, Cisco Kid, Low Rider, Me and Baby Brother
    etc...a pretty funky cd

    Yep, "Why Can't We Be Friends" is by War off the album of the same
    name. Excellent album, incidentally; it also features the great "Low
    Rider".
    
    Dom

    Anybody know how does the song, "If you asked me to?"  
    
    I *think* it was featured over the end credits of a James Bond movie,
    one of the Timothy Dalton ones.  ("Living Daylights" maybe?)
    
    
    So it's a few years old.
    
    
    thanks,
    
    kim

    This is A Long_Shot..But it might be Chrissy Heines of The Pretenters.
    I heard her sinOne Song at the end of one Bond Movie.
    
    
    Crazy_Not_Sure_If_It's_That_One_Al

    The Pretenders did two of the tracks on the "Living Daylights"
    soundtrack (although not the title track, which was done by a-ha). 

    Their two songs were "Where Has Everybody Gone" and "If There Was a
    Man" (great song! btw), which might be the one you're thinking of. 
    Does this snippet ring any bells?

	If there was a man I could dream of
	I'd dream about a dream come true
	If there was a man I could ever love
	I'd wait a million years for someone just like you

    I think I have the rest of the lyrics, if you're interested....

    -- Cathy

    .hmm.....when i hear the line 'if you asked me to'..i think of that
    song by Celine Dion......not sure of the name of the tune or if it had
    any 'bond' association..but that's what the above line brings to
    mind....../k

    re .418 (I think)
    
    No, that's not it.  At least I don't think that's it.
    
    Lessee if I can remember more of the lyrics -- 
    
    It kinda goes like this:
    
    "If...
    You...
    Asked me to
    [then she says something like love you forever, but I'm afraid I have
    another song in my head right now and can't remember any more of this
    one! :) ]
    
    I really thought it was played over the ending credits of a Dalton Bond
    movie.  Or maybe a really late Moore Bond...
    
    Now I guess I'll have to watch them and see. :)
    
    Thanks, tho!
    
    kim

    Almost forgot.  
    
    Alas, not all CD's have the lyrics printed in 'em these days,
    especially re-releaed of vinyl.  Does anybody know have the correct
    lyric to this line in U2's "Bad" (off "Unforgettable Fire" or "Wide
    Awake in America")?
    
    .....................................
    If you should ask
    Then maybe they'd tell you what I would say
    True colors fly in blue and black
    Through silken sky and burning flack
    
    Colors clash
    [here's the line] Could I [something] in bloodshot eyes?
    
    
    If I could, you know I would 
    (etc.)
    
    ....................
    
    I listen really hard, but all I hear is "Could Iiiiiiii...bloodshot
    eyes?"  Sounds like there's a verb missing in there somewhere. :)
    
    Appreciate it,
    
    kim

I always heard it as "colors clash, collide in bloodshot eyes"

-Lance-

    re: .420...by your description, it sounds like that Celine Dion song.....
                                                   /k

    re .419  Aha!  That makes sense.  :)  Thanks.
    
    
    re. 420  What Celine Dion song was that, or was it in the reply?
    
    
    kim
    

    ..well truth is stranger than fiction..as it happened..i left early 
    yesterday as i was feeling a little under the weather...went home, made
    a cup of tea and flopped on the day bed....;")....just in time to see
    the last 10 minutes of the 'living daylights' with timothy dalton as 
    'bond, james bond'.....and you were absolutely right..they play 'if you
    asked me to' at the end of the movie and all through the credits..of
    course i listend intently and it was the song i thought it was,
    however, it wasnt' done by celine dion..it was done by Patti
    Labelle...so there ya go...search her releases to find it...however,
    (editorial comment ccoming up) ...if Celine Dion had done this
    song...she would have done it better than Patti.......who did  a nice
    job but i just hear Celine doing it in her style...and it sounds
    better to me..which is probably why i thought she did it in the first
    place.............;").........................../k
                                                    

    Well, it's nice to be vindicated. :)
    
    Too bad I didn't know this before I went to Lechmere's during lunch.
    Coulda browsed the soundtracks section to see if I could have found it. 
    
    
    Thanks!
    
    
    kim

>    Too bad I didn't know this before I went to Lechmere's during lunch.
>    Coulda browsed the soundtracks section to see if I could have found it. 
    
    Check out the artist's releases, 'cause I know for certain that song is
    not on the movie's soundtrack....

    (And if you find the _Living Daylights_ soundtrack on CD, let me know
    where! -- I need to upgrade my cassette! :-) ) 

    -- Cathy

    OK, there was a song, haven't heard it in years, but goes something
    like:
    
    my gal is red hot, your gal ain't diddly squat
    

    Robert Gordon.  I think the title was "Red Hot"
    

>    Robert Gordon.  I think the title was "Red Hot"
    
  Now, wasn't Gordon's a remake of a version recorded for Sun Records way
  back when?  By Link Wray, maybe?
  
  (I have the older version somewhere, and could check, but am feeling
  lazy...)   Jay

    Original version of 'Red Hot' was by Billy 'The Kid' Emerson
    on the Sun label. He also wrote it.
    
    - Minne

    re .430
    I'm pretty sure that Link Wray played on the Robert Gordon album that
    contained that version of Red Hot. The title was (I think) Robert
    Gordon with Link Wray.
    
    			John

    Yup, the Robert Gordon album with RED HOT does indeed feature Link
    Wray.  That's the only version of the song that I have heard, but I do
    suspect it was a remake of the song, as previously mentioned.  I do
    love that Robert Gordon album.  Very cool stuff.
    
    	Willy

    
    	This might not be the title, but i'm sure i'll be able
    	to get an answer.  
    
    	Who did this?
    
    	"I'm the number 1 fan of the man from Tennesee"
    
    								Scott.
    

   re: .-1

   Haven't got the author/performer, but I believe the song title is,
   "Please Come to Boston".

   -- Sam

re:      <<< Note 172.435 by GOES11::LAMBERT "Sam, Storage Mgmt. S/W @CXO" >>>
>                     -< I'm embarrassed to know this  :-) >-

>   Haven't got the author/performer, but I believe the song title is,
>   "Please Come to Boston".

Hey, you think *you're* embarrassed, I remember the singer as well! :-)
It was Dave Loggins.

-Hal

    i have a question......a friend asked me to get this info.
    
    this morning on Kathee Lee and Regis, a couple got married and
    someone sang the song 'True Companion'.  i'm trying to find out
    who the artist is.
    
    any info will be appreciated,
    					kelly

Mark Cohn.

    thank you!

re .435...

I think the title is "Rambling Boy".  I'm pretty sure it *wasn't* 
Kenny Loggins.

       ...rambling boy why don't you settle down... 

>    this morning on Kathee Lee and Regis, a couple got married and
>    someone sang the song 'True Companion'.  i'm trying to find out
>    who the artist is.
    
    I knew that sooner or later folks would start using that song at
    weddings.
    
    I'm in a band that does weddings and boy... we've had a lot of
    different songs requested but I don't think any other song we've
    done says it better than that song.
    
    "Always" now makes me gag...
    
    BTW, that whole album is GREAT IMHO.  It also has "Walking in Memphis"
    which I've been humming now for two weeks.
    
    	db

re: .440

>          -< I really liked the song at the time.  Dates me (*sigh*) >-

Like many songs, it really wasn't a bad song until it was played on the
radio a gazillion times.


>I think the title is "Rambling Boy".  I'm pretty sure it *wasn't* 
>Kenny Loggins.

The title is definitely "Please Come to Boston".  And I didn't say
Kenny Loggins, I said *Dave* Loggins.  And no, I don't know if they
are related. :-)

>       ...rambling boy why don't you settle down... 

That's a line from the chorus.

-Hal

    I Think you Rapped That One_Up,Hal-
    
    My Question..Who did that Sappy_Song from The_70's Called..
                          "Alone Again,Natly"  ?
    
    
      Crazy_Sounds_Like_McCartney,But_It's_Not_Al
    

    
    Gilbert O'Sullivan, _Alone Again Naturally_.
                         

    
    Who did the pop/rock number "Switching To Glide"?
    
    - Sean

    There may be a "Who sang what??" confrence but I can't find it,but
    as its 3am I have a good excuse......
    
    Anyway I will start with this one...
    
    Who sang Moonlight shadow?? it was out in the early 80s,someone at work
    has been singing it for days and its driving me mad trying to remember
    who had a "big hit"with it!!!!!!
    
                         Greg.

    Moonlight Shadow was a Mike oldfield song that was sung by Kirsty
    Maccoll.
    
    						rod.
    

    
    Mike Oldfield is right but the singer was Maggie.......somebody.
    (Reilly?).
    
    
    
    
    
    Derek.
    

    I've been Listenin to This"Classis_Rock"Station at work..WEGQ(The
    Eagle)...So I'll be Askin About A_Few Songs..
    As for What Maggie's Last_Name is..I Dunno..
    
    "Ride Captain Ride on Yer Mystery_Ship"or Some_Thang like that..
    Is that by The Blue Magoo's???
    
         Crazy_You"ve_Done_It_Again_Al

    re. -1
    
    "Ride Captain Ride" was by the Blues Image I think.
    
    cheers,
    		fred deady

    
    Re- Moonlight Shadow....
    
    I have just been told it was "Sally Oldfield" but I still have my
    doubts......She was/is Mike Oldfield's wife,can someone confirm
    this???????
    
                          Greg.

    I thought Sally Oldfield was Mike's sister. And "Moonlight Shadow" was
    definitely sung by Maggie somethingorother, I actually saw the video
    on TV this weekend.

    Jane.

    
    Re. Moonlight shadow..
    
    The singer's name is Maggie Reilly. She is a Scots lass and was in a
    band called Cado Belle in the mid late 70's. They released 1 possibly 
    2 albums and then did like a banana and split. Anyone else remember this
    band?
    
    
    rgds
    
    Des.

    
     RE: .445 and "Switching to Glide" - done by another one hit wonder
    band never to be heard from again. I don't think you have to worry
    about another "greatest hits" album from .....
    
    
       *** THE KINGS ***
    
        (not to be confused with the Kinks)

    And the people all said sit down, sit down you're rockin the boat...
    
    That's all I can remember from that song.  Heard it on a soft rock
    station, and it sounds exactly like Don Henley.  Familiar to anyone?
    Thanks in advance.

    
    	It is Don Henley, although I can't help you with an album name
    	since I'm pretty sure I don't have it.
    

    its on his latest solo release.
    
    the song is originally from the musical "Guys & Dolls".

    
    	'Rockin' the Boat' is (also?) on the Leap of Faith soundtrack -
    
    	 

    Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat, Guys and Dolls, composed by Frank
    Loesser. Also happens to be on the 3rd Harper's Bizarre LP, The Secret
    Lif of Harpers Bizarre circa '68.
    
    Richard
    Reading, UK

    ..whjat was the name of the band that did the song 'whitebird'...been
    having a mental block on this name for weeks........tx......./k

 It's a Beautiful Day - and I don't mean the weather...

    .Of Course!.....thanks!.....that was quite the mental block i had on
    this!......./k

    
    Great album.  Great jacket!
    

	great live version on the closing of the filmore cd.

    Does anyone know who does this song? To me it sounds like the Animals
    but I'm not sure. I know many bands have covered it.
    
    Thanks
    
    John
    
    Baby please don't go
    Baby please don't go
    Baby please don't go
    Baby please don't go down to New Orleans
    Girl I love you so baby please don't go.
    

Van Morrison

    The Yardbirds.

    
    	I don't think he wrote it, did he?
    
    	I'm pretty sure that song is pretty old ... like the 50's or so,
    	by someone like B.B. King.  For some reason I remember it as a
    	blues song.
    
    	It's been done by Ted Nugent, AC/DC, etc.
    

>    	I don't think he wrote it, did he?

  Big Joe Williams wrote "Baby Please Don't Go", I'm pretty sure...  He
  recorded it dozens of times, it became identified with him.  The 50s
  recording of it included in the Smithsonian blues anthology was a later
  one -- it might go back as far as the late 30s.  [I can check authorship
  in the Smithsonian booklet.]

  It must've been covered several dozens of times on record, by blues, pop,
  and rock artists...  - Jay

    
    	Was he the same one who did "Big Ten Inch [Record]"?  He was
    	the one I was trying to remember.
    

    "Big Ten_Inch_Record"was by F.Weismantel.
    
    
    
    
       Crazy_AerO_Across_The_World_Al

    
    Van Morrison was a member of Them, a Belfast band, when they recorded
    "Baby please dont go" in the 60's.  

    "Baby Please Don't Go" was also performed by The Amboy Dukes, who
    featured Ted Nugent.
    
    cheers,
    
    		fred deady

  I'm glad someone chimed in about "Big Ten Inch"...  I had no idea.
  
  I checked up on "Baby Please Don't Go".  As I thought, Big Joe Williams is
  credited with authorship of the song, and it's the song most identified
  with him.  (Others are "Crawling King Snake" -- he did the 1st commercial
  recording of this old Mississippi standard in '41 -- and "Highway 49".)
  
  He first recorded "Baby Please Don't Go" in 1935 for Bluebird (this
  version is on the Smithsonian 4-CD anthology "The Blues").
  
  I also have a 1941 recording of BPDG featuring him and Sonny Boy (#1, John
  Lee) Williamson, which is on the excellent (budget) Bluebird CD, "Throw a
  Boogie Woogie".  Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Joe Williams each do 8 tunes
  [includes the original "Crawling King Snake", a remake of Highway 49",
  and SBW's 1937 "Good Morning School Girl".]  Plenty of Williams' 9-string
  guitar and Williamson's harp, all over this record.

  I say Williams is "credited" with authorship because, according to the
  Smithsonian, he "got" the song from his wife, St. Louis Bessie Mae Smith:

  "When she heard it on the jukebox of the tavern below their apartment, she
  ran down to see who had stolen her song.  Evidently she was not pleased,
  for she and Joe are said to have had quite an argument."
  
  Big Joe was one of blues' legendary fighters (not mentioned in the
  Smithsonian notes) -- Bessie Mae must've been a piece of work herself.

  Anyway, apparently Bessie Mae Smith is the actual, uncredited author of
  Big Joe Williams' trademark song.  Jay

One of the best versions of "Baby Please Don't Go" is by Beausoleil (sp?)
with Michael Ducette (sp?).  This is a Cajun version with only the first
verse sung in English - the rest being in Cajun/French.  

Jim

    Hi,
    
    Does anyone know the name of the artist who sang "Time" in the Ghost
    movie?
    
    thanks,
    
    
    Gary

    
    As far as I know, it was the recording done by the artists who first
    released it, the Righteous Brothers.
    
    DFW

    Thanks,
    
    that has just settled a bet.
    
    cheers,
    
    Gary

    The Righteous Bros. were hardly the "artists who first released it. Al
    Hibbler had a hit with it in 1955, and there was an orchestral hit
    version of it, too.
    
    Danny W.

    hey, wasn't "Time" done by the Chambers Brothers?
    

    As others have noted, the Righteous Brothers recorded the version
    of "Unchained Melody" used in "Ghost."  Its been recorded by lots
    of people, but the Righteous Bros recording is probably the most
    popular.
    
    Actually, the song is a Bobby Hatfield solo-- Bill Medley, (the other
    "brother") doesn't sing on it.
    
    Jim

    RE .4:  Although I'm by no means certain, I think the actual title
            of the Chambers Brothers song was "The Time Has Come Today".
	    I think someone else might have put out a song entitled
	    simple "Time", but I can't remember who.

    
    	Culture Club did one, I believe.
    
    	As did Pink Floyd [but not the same song].
    

    
    As did the Alan Parsons Project.
    
    DFW

    
    ... and ELO did an Album %^)

    
    	RE: DFW
    
    	I was riding in this morning and thought of Alan Parsons.  But
    	as always, someone beat me to it.  8^)
    

   As a guitartist, I can't believe I can't remember who did this song, nor
   it's exact title.  I think it's name is "Oh Well".  It's made up of "blocks"
   of lyrics interspersed with guitar jamming.  A typical verse is:

   	When I talked to God I thought he'd understand
   	He said, "Stick with me I'll be your guiding hand"
   	Don't ask me what I think of you
   	I might not give the answer that you want me to

   Any ideas on title and/or artist?  Thanks in advance.

   -- Sam

    
    
     I think you're right Sam, I think Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well"
    
                                                                 mike
    

    Ditto. Great tune from a great Album. Before they went "pop". 8-)
    
    Jim C.
    
    

   I thought it might be Fleetwood Mac, but wasn't quite sure.  Any idea of an
   album title?  I saw a whole bunch of albums the other day and this song 
   wasn't on any of them, at least by this title.

   Thanks,

   -- Sam

    
    I don't recall the title, but I think that song was Peter
    Green-era Fleetwood Mac... time to set the Wayback Machine,
    Sherman...
    
    -b

    
    	It's on the double live album, called "Fleetwood Mac Live", I
    	believe.
    
    	I have it on LP, but if there was a CD released also then I
    	can't say for sure whether or not it's on that as well.  But
    	I'd figure it would be.
    

    Sam, if I remember I'll check the olllldddd record collection to
    get you an album title. And yes, this was during the Peter Green
    period. Black Magic Woman and Green Manaleeshi, sic, are also on
    the album.
    
    Jim C.
    

    You'll definitely find it on "Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits" (CBS,
    1970?). It also contains "Oh Well - Part 2" which was the B-side to the
    original single, an almost medieval-sounding instrumental...totally
    different from Part 1.
    
    Great album - also contains The Green Manalishi, Need Your Love So Bad,
    Shake Your Moneymaker, Man Of The World, Albatross, etc.
    
    Dom

    The original studio version of "Oh Well" is on the album "Then Play
    On".  There's also a killer live version recorded at the Boston Tea
    Party in 1969, when Green, Kirwan and Spencer were all in the band.
    Various packagings of different Tea Party tracks have shown up on CD;
    "In Boston Live" is one of them, but not sure if Oh Well is included
    in that particular set.
    
    /rick
    

   Thanks everyone!  I'll start checking the record bins.

   -- Sam

    
    I think 'Oh well' is correctly credited to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac,
    they became plain old Fleetwood Mac later.
    
    Graham

    >The original studio version of "Oh Well" is on the album "Then Play
    >On".  
    
    At the risk of providing more information than the original poster
    asked for, I think there's a discrepancy between the UK and US versions
    of "Then Play On" (much as there was between the early Stones albums on
    Decca). I've got the UK version of "Then Play On" and Oh Well"
    definitely isn't on it, probably because there was a (fairly) strict
    policy of keeping singles and albums seperate in those days..
    
    Actually, the comparison with the Stones is fairly appropriate. They
    too left their early singles (e.g. "Satisfaction", "The Last Time") OFF
    their UK albums, but included them on the US LPs. 
    
    Dom 

    Even more off the track...
    
    I was watching a show on the making of Sgt Pepper (great show btw) and
    George Martin was commenting on the practice of not putting the singles 
    on albums.  He said something to the effect that he did this because
    he felt including the singles on albums the would have been short-changing
    the public!!!
    
    Ahh, those were the days...
    

    
    	I was going through a bunch of my old personal_names and came
    	across:
    
    	"I want a yacht, bought by you"
    
    	I'm pretty sure it's from a song, but I have no idea what song
    	it came from.  Any ideas?
    

    
    	The line in .489 [and my current p_n] is the title of a song by
    	Dweezil Zappa on the "Havin' a Bad Day" album.
    

    Does anyone know the original artist who sang "Devil With A Blue
    Dress"?
    
    thanks, Charlene

    Mitch Ryder ???

Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels

    Hi all,
    
    I recently heard on the radio a song that I'd like to sing and play
    (I play keyboards), but I did not recognize the voice and I don't 
    know the title. it is not a recent music the style looked like a 70's disco.
    Can someone tell me about title/author(s) etc.
    
    The words I could approximately catch are:
    
    	Lady take me
    	high upon your side
    	high up where the stalions meet the sun
    
    	bridge..
    
    	Babe I love you come, come
    	come into my arms
    	let me know the wonder of all of you
    	And babe I want you now, now
    	...
    
     Thanks in advance,
    Arnaud	
    
           

    The song in question is "Could it be Magic" written by Barry Manilow.
    There are at least two recorded versions I know about.
    
    1. Barry Manilow version...slow, sung like a ballad.
    2. Take That...fast, disco style.
    
    Hope This Helps
    
    dickie. (not a Barry Manilow fan)

    Sorry, but Barry Manilow did NOT write "Could it be Magic".
    
    It's a thinly disguised adaptation of a Mozart composition.
    
    He did however write the lyrics.
    
    	db

    re: .2
    
    Isn't it Chopin, not Mozart?  Anyway, I disagree on the "thinly disguised" 
    bit-- he fully acknowledged the original piece, and did not attempt
    to disguise it at all.  
    
    Technically, I would say Manilow is still the composer of "Could This
    Be the Magic" (I think that's the title), even though he only adapted 
    a theme from a different composer.  There are significant departures
    from the original work (the intro and outro are direct steals, but
    the "song" itself is only loosely based on the original).  I don't
    see this as different than countless "Variations on a Theme by
    Composer XYZ" compositions credited to the creator of the variations
    (e.g., Sor's "Variations on a Theme by Mozart").
    
    Jim 

    You're right - it is Chopin.
    
    > I disagree its "thinly disguised"...
    
    I was really just joking there although I did forget the funny faces.
    
    I actually saw an interview with BarryM where he acknowledged the
    source of that tune, so it wasn't an attempt to "disguise" anything.
    
    Having said that, I think that the main "theme" IS basically straight
    out of Chopin and so let's put it this way... I wouldn't say that
    an outright note-for-note copy but I would say there's MORE than
    enough Chopin in there such that I would have to regard crediting 
    it as anything but "Chopin/Manilow" as "plagiarism".
    
    	db

    RE: I was really just joking there...
    
    OK.  I just wanted it clear that there was no charge of theft.  We
    may accuse Mr. Manilow of numerous crimes, but theft should not be 
    among them ;^)  (apologies to all Barry fans out there)
    
    I think the composition is credited to Manilow / Based on xxxx
    by Chopin.  I'd certainly agree that omitting any reference to 
    the original work and composer would constitute plagiarism.
    
    At least he doesn't end this one by modulating up a 1/2 (or whole) 
    step (the standard Manilow "big finish")...   :^) :^) :^)
    
    Jim

    It's the Chopin C-minor Prelude (one of 24, though I can't remember
    which one).  The "intro" is in fact note-for-note the first section of
    the prelude, and the "outro" is note-for-note the last 8 measures of
    the prelude.  And all the stuff in between is painful to hear IMO.
    I cringe just thinking of it.

    Somebody ought to tell this Chopin guy, because Barry's getting all the
    royalties ;^)
    
    I put Barry as the composer because the person who asked is probably
    looking for sheet music of the song "Could it be Magic" not the sheet
    music of the Chopin piece.
    
    IMHO Barry is no more guilty than a lot of 'popular' performers/
    songwriters of ripping off classical pieces...step forward Andrew Lloyd
    Webber.
    
    dickie.

    Guys... guys...
    
    He's not "guilty" of anything.  I really was kidding.
    
    And in mentioning "plagiarism" I really was NOT trying to suggest
    that there was any going on - I merely was trying to say that there's
    enough Chopin in the tune such that it goes well beyond a sort of
    "inspired by" type description.  The Chopin stuff is very prevalent.
    
    	db - who admits to appreciating Barry Manilow even if he	
    	     doesn't own any albums

    
    	Hey, leave Barry alone ... he's got a great voice and isn't too
    	bad of a piano player either.
    
    	And I DO own a couple of his albums.  8^)
    

    
    >        And I DO own a couple of his albums.  8^)
    
    You could blackmail some people if you knew that about them...:)
    
    
    "Gimmee ten grand or I'll tell your kids that you own Barry Manilow
    albums!"
    
    "No, no, not that! Here, take the money!"
    

    I loved the way Keyboard magazine started out their first and only
    Barry Manilow interview (which was the cover story).  It was something
    like:
    
    	"He may cause you to go running from the room but... your
    	 mother LOVES him."
    
    ;-)

    Imagine a Barry Manilow/Michael Bolton duet..
    
    *ouch*
    
    Edd Cote (confessing_to_actually_LIKING_"Paradise_Cafe")

    
    	Speaking of Michael Bolton, does anyone know which album of his
    	includes the song "Everybody's Crazy"?
    
    	If I could find it I'd buy it.  But I can't, so I haven't.
    

    Funny, I just mentioned to someone the other day that Manilow's
    2AM Paradise Cafe was a decent listen.
    
    Gerry Mulligan, Mendel Lowe, a few other oldtimers (but good ones)
    plus duets with Mel Torme and the late Sarah Vaughn.
    
    Manilow and his usual co-writers put all new songs together, yet
    they sounded as though this album came out of some smoky blues/jazz
    club the Barry said his step-father would sneak him into as a kid.
    
    Barry goes for the commercial airplay stuff, but he's always puts
    at least one or two gems into most of his releases.  I have one
    of his first albums that has a killer version of Avenue C on it.
    
    

    who sang "visions of love", a grammy winner in 1990?
    
    	ann
    

    
    	And if so, it's "Vision of Love".