I haven't thought about that LP in a long time. Hope it's still in one of the boxes. I better go find it!
Long lost songs
This is a discussion on songs or versions we've heard maybe just once on the radio and spent years searching for. Anything you knew existed, but couldn't find.
For instance, about 1972 I was lying in bed listening to the local progressive rock station (WNEW) as I was falling asleep. On come a great R&B song with a line something like "Before I Die I want to be the kind of man you want me to be". The DJ never announced the title or artist that I could hear. Never heard it again. Years later I heard "She's Gone" by Hall and Oats and figured it was them. Nope. Continued to search on and off for decades, employing new technology as it became available.
Early this year, while searching for something totally different on SecondHandSongs I came across "When I Die" by Mother Lode. Bingo! Joy, joy, joy! Found the CD on Amazon, (only format available) Love It. Most of the rest of their songs are weird but "When I Die" is almost as good as my memory had made 'Before I Die'.
Another example is versions. There are some song that I love that have very different interpretations by various artists. "Hey Joe" and "Morning Dew" are two. I like to collect those versions. Long ago I heard a version of "Morning Dew" sung by a guy with a very unique voice. It had a mesmerizing rhythm guitar line that got into my brain. I never forgot it, because the girl I was with turned out to be a nymphomaniac. What a night!
Using SecondHandSongs agin, I found Long John Baldry on his self-titled album on EMI. What a crystal clear LP! He's recorded several fine versions of the song, but this is THE one with that guitar line. Highly recommended.
I am sure many of you have similar tales and can relate to the elation I felt on finding something I'd been searching for for decades. Let's hear them.
For instance, about 1972 I was lying in bed listening to the local progressive rock station (WNEW) as I was falling asleep. On come a great R&B song with a line something like "Before I Die I want to be the kind of man you want me to be". The DJ never announced the title or artist that I could hear. Never heard it again. Years later I heard "She's Gone" by Hall and Oats and figured it was them. Nope. Continued to search on and off for decades, employing new technology as it became available.
Early this year, while searching for something totally different on SecondHandSongs I came across "When I Die" by Mother Lode. Bingo! Joy, joy, joy! Found the CD on Amazon, (only format available) Love It. Most of the rest of their songs are weird but "When I Die" is almost as good as my memory had made 'Before I Die'.
Another example is versions. There are some song that I love that have very different interpretations by various artists. "Hey Joe" and "Morning Dew" are two. I like to collect those versions. Long ago I heard a version of "Morning Dew" sung by a guy with a very unique voice. It had a mesmerizing rhythm guitar line that got into my brain. I never forgot it, because the girl I was with turned out to be a nymphomaniac. What a night!
Using SecondHandSongs agin, I found Long John Baldry on his self-titled album on EMI. What a crystal clear LP! He's recorded several fine versions of the song, but this is THE one with that guitar line. Highly recommended.
I am sure many of you have similar tales and can relate to the elation I felt on finding something I'd been searching for for decades. Let's hear them.
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Martykl, FYI SecondHandSongs lists 6 versions of "Pretending to Care", none of which are by Froom. MusicStack has one of his CDs. http://www.musicstack.com/item/571514 |
martykl So glad you scored! It is a triumphant feeling isn't it? Like being rewarded for keeping the faith in searching for something that after so many years, sometimes you doubt even exists. I'll give another example. When I was young I never bought Beatles albums. They were always on the radio and my sister and friends and cousins were always playing them, so there was no need. Consequently I was not well versed in some of their more obscure songs. Fast forward 15 or 20 years and I am at a cousin reunion picnic. As was our tradition, after everyone was good and drunk, we started "singing" oldies. My cousin starts "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away". Great song I hadn't thought of for years. I says, 'who did that?' She says "the Beatles, of course." I says "no, there was a female vocal." Bets were laid but never collected. I kinda figured my memory had played a trick on me. Another decade goes by and I get a fabulous 3 CD collection, The British Invasion. Highly recommended. There it is. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away by the Silkie!!! |
This almost qualifies. I fell in love wit a group called AUM almost 50 years ago. The album was Resurrection, the particular song was Today and Tomorrow. The electric guitar just drove into me, so I borrowed it from my older sister - permanently. That LP has been through all my turntables and cartridges and a few of my sister's, some not so good for vinyl. It has also picked up a few scratches during hundreds of plays. I always searched for another copy in any format without success. So I only listened to it when I needed it, to save further wear. Then, this July 29th I found it in CD on Amazon. It's not like I haven't looked there half a dozen times before. Now I can listen to it as much as I want and save the LP for those relive-the-whole-experience days. Or if I ever try some weed again. It was THE best on those days! |
I believe it is SOMETHING ABOUT YOU by Level 42 from their 1985 album World Machine. I love it! https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/8822 If that's not it, let me know. There are several other possibilities. |
I like to collect various versions of my favorite classic songs, Hey Joe, Morning Dew, Summertime. I was going through my parents old LPs that have been stored in my basement since they passed. I found a Perry Como album with Summertime on it. I thought 'what the hell' and cleaned it up and gave it a play. Wow! The dude nailed it. Great female backing vocals, too. Sam Cooke must have gotten the idea from Perry. |
Still looking for help on this one. It's the last one on my "only heard it once" search list: Can someone help? Heard the song once about 12 years ago, maybe. Sounded like Phil Collins or Peter Gabriel; but I doubt it was one of them. Some of the words were along the lines: 'Don't go by the water' or waterfront and 'If they can do it to her, they can do it to you' or they can do it to us. It was a dark song about someone being murdered at night. Might have had a white van in it. |
Scored a copy of "Sally Go 'Round The Roses" by the Jaynettes, 1963. It got into my head and I downloaded versions by Judy Collins and Susanna Hoffs. Here's another interesting version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLIUK6yY4es |
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That's it!!!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!! Funny, it doesn't sound like Phil Collins or Peter Gabriel at all; but I guess my memory played tricks over the years. I am soooo happy that you solved this mystery for me, @wbs ! Do you have the album? |
@onhwy61 . Spelling was never my strong suit. Girl groups may be. Can you guess how many lead singers the Crystals had? Or how many Ronetts'/Darling Sisters songs Ronnie wasn't on? Phil was famous for that stuff. I'd heard all the versions of SGRR in your link except Donna Summers'. Thanks. @ghosthouse , thanks for the bon mots. Was it WNEW and was it a Channelmaster? |
Ghosthouse- Of course it was WABC. I must have been having a mixed memory. My Channel Master was AM only. https://img0.etsystatic.com/057/0/9851142/il_570xN.716978392_dqrp.jpg Well, I find that there are three 7-M-3 albums with 3 different versions of Water's Edge, actually 2 and a various artists collection called Road Rage. None of them are easily available so I down loaded the 5 minute version from iTunes. That is the LAST long lost song on my to find list. On one hand I am euphoric. On the other I kinda feel like Don Quixote when they took his lance away. I do have another story: Years ago we went to see Neil Young and Emmylou Harris was opening. She did a great version of what I remembered as Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. A few years ago I became bemused by the song. I now have 5 versions of it, but could never find Emmylou's. Last week I somehow stumbled on her song The Pearl, which has a lot of Alleluias in the chorus. That must have been what we heard. It is a great find! |
@wbs I bought That Jaime Brockett album when I was at George Washington in DC. We used to alter our neurologic conditions and try to sing along. I put it on the table a few months back and realized that there is some good songwriting and musicianship on that LP. @ghosthouse I works at Somerset Medical Center for 6 years. Geeze, guys. It seems we all have a lot in common. I wish we had a bigger following. |
@ghosthouse by doing a Duck Duck Goose search rather than a Youtube search I am coming up with plenty of Crabby Appleton songs, all of the ones I've sampled are pretty good. Never heard of them before. Thanks for the tip. Can you be more specific about the ones you've ruled out? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Crabby+Appleton&atb=v109-5_y&ia=videos&iax=videos Here's a link to the Brokett piece, no relation to Dylan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg @rwisen I've been thinking I need some Everly Brothers in my collection ever since I got Raising Sand (Gone, gone gone.) |
It must have been 1974 when I heard She's Gone ( @ghosthouse how do you get italics?) on WNEW late one night. I never heard it again and couldn't find it in the record stores. That's the way we searched back then. About 2 years later Hall & Oates original was a hit nationally, as it had been in the Philadelphia market. I was happy I could hear the song anytime I wanted now; but it didn't quite sound the same as my memory. Last year I cam across Tavares' version, also released in 1974 when they were a much better known group than Hall & Oats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP20RxVPUCk Is that what I heard in 1974? Who the F can tell at this point? Or maybe it was the rarely heard 5 minute Hall & Oats cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3CdDwBf4kc |
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I just remembered another one; the oldest, I think. It was between 1967 and 1970. I was at a high school dance and a local band named Grisby's Clan was playing. Mostly, if not all covers. They did one I've never heard before or since. What I remember is: Shake me Wake me Don't let me sleep too long I gotta make it in due time before............... It wasn't R&B like the Four Tops hit. Definitely rock. Ring any bells? |