Songs that took you forever to find out the title and who recorded it...

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I hate it when radio stations play a song and never tell you who or what it was afterwards. That seems to be the norm now though. I heard "Put It Where You Want It" by The Crusaders for years without ever knowing who did it or what the name of it was. Then only by chance someone mentioned "the Crusaders" when it was on. Same thing for "Working With Fire and Steel" by China Crisis. What songs did you take years to find out who and what it was?

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. Seriously, I've got several I still haven't figured out

Techno songs are the worst, because there are no or few lyrics, they're a bear to humm (and I can't humm in any reconizable key, anyway),and it's dumb luck on hearing the tune again. I had a helluva time finding the Stanton Warriors remix of Azzido Da Bass' "Dooms Night"

There was a song played briefly during a scene in "Notes From the Underbelly" that I can't figure out to this day.

[Contrary1]

7. Do you remember what that episode of Notes...was about?

Maybe I can help get one off your list.

[OmahaBlueDog]

10. OK, I'll give this a shot

I'd heard this song prior to notes, but this is the only place I can actually pin the song as a time/place reference. This is the only episode of the show I've seen. I can't describe the whole episode, but this scene sets up a running gag through the whole episode.

Cooper (Rachel Harris) is in a bar with one of the other characters. The other character doesn't want Cooper to know she's pregnant, so they're both doing shots, and the pregnant character is tossing the drinks over her shoulder. During the scene, Cooper sees a former lover walk into the bar. Cooper then tells how this man has come into possession of her Grandmother's cigarette case, and how she gets it back. <<CUE MUSIC I'M WANTING>> The scene shifts to a flashback: Cooper and her lover are in a window office, at night, in a high rise office. During this scene, we are shown the object in question, Cooper's Grandmother's cigarette case, which Cooper has converted to a condom case.

The music in the flashback is what I am seeking. I hope this helps.

[Contrary1]

15. Here's what I've dug up so far:

From your description, I am guessing it was episode #2 that you saw. If it was, the flashback would have been to the pilot episode. Here are the songs that played during that program:

Old Time Rock & Roll" by Bob Seger
Sample:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B000002TSS/ref=pd_krex_listen_dp_img?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img

"Ooh La La" by Goldfrapp
Sample:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B000EGDC14/ref=pd_krex_listen_dp_img?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img

"So Here We Are" by Bloc Party
Sample:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B0007NFMDK/ref=pd_krex_listen_dp_img? ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img

"Your Love Gets Sweeter" by Finley Quaye
Can't find a snippet of this song, but Quay usually sings reggae style, if that helps.

Any of them sound familiar?

[OmahaBlueDog]

19. "Ooh La La" by Goldfrapp

THANK YOU!!!

If it is on Napster, I shall pay a buck, and it shall be downoladed, and it shall be placed on my MP3 player, and it shall be listened to with high volume, away from Mrs. OmahaBlueDog, who does not share my taste for techno music, and it shall be enjoyed!

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Okay..

The title music for the old game show "Jokers Wild". Great synthesizer stuff back when the synthesizer was just making inroads into popular culture. Some three decades later, I am collecting "Moog" records from that time, having entered into that field of work, and listening to a Perry and Kingsley collection, there it suddenly is. "The Savers". Blew me away.



Years ago, I was on the way home from work listening to the local interesting music station, which is just about completely fuzzing out from distance, and I hear an odd drumset and beat with a preacher's voice. It was excellent and hypnotic. I was unable to find out what it was, and much later, a friend was playing a record for me and yes, there it was. After yelling a bit, I found out about it. Dimensional Holophonic Sound's "The House of God".

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. This is too coincidental

I LOVE the House of God. I got it on a mix CD recorded for a club in Canada called Tonic. I got the CD in my search for Azzido Da Bass' "Dooms Night." (see my response to the OP)

[DarkTirade]

3. I used to hate it when that happened with movies on TV too.

They'd have a pre-made little blurb to announce their Saturday Afternoon Movie or somesuch crap, but they wouldn't bother to add a little bit of text to say what the goddamned movie was. So if you missed the first couple of minutes, there was no way to find out.

Now we have the internets so you can just go online and check the TV listings, but back before the intertubes were around, you were SOL.

[begin_within]

5. There are a couple of broadcast channels around here,

which show a lot of movies, and they flash the name of the movie on the screen for a few seconds, each time they come back from a commercial. This is a great help and I don't know why it wasn't started decades ago.

[DarkTirade]

6. It's not like they couldn't do it with the equipment back then either

It's just sheer lazyness on their part, really.

Even if they couldn't afford the equipment to put up an image with text on it, or a real announcer to announce it, they still coulda had some janitor read the name into the microphone once and play it back every time they came back from commercial. :\

[last_texas_dem]

8. "Time Ago" by Black Lab

I heard this song a couple of times back when I was a freshman in high school ('97-'98) and, even though it's nothing overly spectacular or timeless, it lodged itself into my brain firmly enough that a part of it would manage to run through my head from time to time in the years since I first heard it. A few months ago, when it was running through my head one day, I ended up googling the lyrics and was able to remember enough of them to figure out that the song was "Time Ago" by Black Lab. I've since even managed to track down their album for $1.99 at Hastings! haha

Here's the video for the song for anyone curious, though unless you were listening to "modern rock" stations in '97 or '98 you've probably never heard it; I haven't heard it anywhere since it was initially a hit. The video may give you mid-nineties nostalgia, though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OD3T7-ApDA

[Perry Logan]

9. "Fly to the Rainbow" by Scorpions.

The instrumental section that finishes that song knocked me out when I first heard it in the mid-70s. It was the late 90's before I found out the group and song.

[Strawman]

11. "Sharevari" by A Number of Names

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhE-0IDpkiM

[DS1]

12. I'm still trying to figure one out that was always played at least once

when we had meetups at the Peoples' Republik in Cambridge.

[dembotoz]

13. Kathleen Edwards -song called hockey skates??

Heard it on the radio without hearing anything about it.
song hit me like a 2 by 4 right between the eyes.
Took a long time, but I found it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Wolfgang Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581

In the last episode of MASH, the Chinese prisoners (musicians-turned-infantry) tortured Charles Winchester by playing Mozart badly while he attempted to teach them.

It took a while to find it. Pre-google search.

:hi:

[Recursion]

16. Best. Piece. Ever.

I did a semester on that piece in undergrad. Man, that is an amazing piece of music.

[Recursion]

17. "Coyotes" by Don Edwards (from the end of Grizzly Man)

All I could remember was "the guy howled like a coyote"

[KatyaR]

18. "Sandy's Song" by Dolly Parton--

it took me over 30 years to figure it out. I love the internets!

I tried to find out the music that was playing in the PBS advertising for Masterpiece Theatre's "Prime Suspect--The Final Act" miniseries, but no luck. I even wrote PBS, but they didn't have a clue, either. They gave me a classical piece--not even close.