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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Ever listen to these guys out of Long Island? Not exactly lost, but long ago. Kinda fits the spirit of this thread (I think). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJNQg3lh_Y8 They were still working until not that many years ago. |
2channel - No clue the Myddle Class were from NJ. The most I can claim about them is a vague recollection of seeing their name at some point. At least the spelling looks familiar - though I’m not sure where I would have seen it in print. Yeah, Y instead of I. Things were very HEAVY back then. Seems to me, given the age of these guys, it would be entirely possible they were the band you remember at that dance. Guess there's no "student council" to contact for info.... |
Pleased to return the favor on the Crabby Appleton tune, 2channel8. Note the different titles here, I searched on "Don't Let Me Sleep Too Long" which happens to be the title of the version by The Myddle Class. Info about the Blues Project connection (and different title) came from one of the comments (see that by Al Riggi) about the Myddle Class single. |
There's a version by the Blues Project (Al Kooper). Some controversy about The Myddle Class stealing the song from Blues Project. Another candidate for your consideration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSr5SdukpQ4 |
No. Sorry. Doesn't ring any bells. Maybe if you could whistle a few bars? :-) I'm guessing you tried Googling some of those lines. How about this on by the Myddle Class? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAK5YiHKuoE |
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? |
It's mostly a show-off meet with some swapping and selling on the side. The Stax cans I have are all vintage round "earspeakers" as Stax calls them. I love them because they are so detailed and balanced; but with the need to drive them off speaker terminals (not all newer models) and use a driver box, they are a bit of a PIA. I'd like to hear some planar designs to compare. I don't think there are any dynamic drivers that can match their speed. |
We had a great time. About 6 systems on display. I brought a pair of Boston Acoustics T-830 speakers and my Primare I32 integrated, as well as 3 pairs of Stax headphones. I swear the T-830s sounded better than I remember. I got a lot of compliments. Must have been about 30 audiophiles wandering around. I listened to some Maggies and Dayton speakers. My Win 10 software doesn't have fonts in the drop down. Thanks for the links. You don't see too many rock bands with harps. One of the guys mentioned a jazz harp player yesterday. |
Sorry 2channel8. No plans to be there. Live too far away now. Have fun. Give a report on anything noteworthy that you find. Did you get a chance to try the italicizing instructions? Here's another too quickly gone/seldom heard treasure. Talking "Art in America" released in the early '80s. Heard it some time before '84. Liked it but never owned it until finding it, probably 20 years later, in a neat record shop in Berlin Germany of all places. Here are some links for anyone interested: Their "hit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9d6ek3KDRI The Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_America_(band) |
Here’s the wikipedia entry for Abandoned Luncheonette - H&O album with that great, great song. Lots of interesting background provided. In addition to Tavares, looks like Lou Rawls did a cover too. Write She's Gone, then Sara Smile, then retire! That woulda been my plan. Unfortunately just a couple of things lacking :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned_Luncheonette |
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 |
Hey 2channel8 - I knew nothing of Duck Duck Goose as a search engine, so thank you for that tip. Now I do feel kind of foolish because the first video in what you linked to with CA playing Go Back (Dick Clark Am Bandstand appearance) seems like it could very well be the song I was thinking of. The year is certainly right (1970) and, after all, it was just THE hit single off their (first?) album - Track #1! I remember the tune being hooky with interesting changes; something you just wanted to put on repeat. So that matches up to Go Back too (at least for me). Not sure why I didn’t recognize it or how I managed to overlook it previously. But I think that was the song! THANKS. |
@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.) |
Great idea for a post. I have chased songs for months or years myself. Today, with the internet and the various music services, It is much easier to find things. A couple of mine: When I was in H.S. in 1961, I heard a brassy, uptempo version of Pomp and Circumstance on the radio. It was by "Adrian Kimberly". I had to order it from the nearest record store, because they didn't carry it. I still have the 45 and only recently learned Kimberly was actually Don Everly. In the 1990's I heard a song as background on a PBS station. I was obsessed with it and called the station to get the name. They were no help. It was a very sweeping, emotional tune and it then showed up as the music constantly used as the theme for the TV broadcast of the Olympic Games. It was also used as background music for several movie trailers. I finally was able to determine that it was a song called "The Dragon's Heart" from the movie Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Soundtrack by Randy Edelman. |
Too funny, 2channel - Was born there and worked part time in the lab there during the ’70s. BTW - I think I had my satellites confused. That was probably Echo 1 that would have been visible to the naked eye. Anyone here know Crabby Appleton? I remember hearing a killer song by them in 1970/71. It possibly got some airplay on WMMR but I can’t seem to find it (or at least, recognize it) in the CA tracks that are on You Tube. Ring any bells for anyone? Does that Titanic song have any relation to the Titanic-themed song Dylan included on Tempest? |
@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. |
Glad to help w/Water's Edge. I have the American Standard cd. My own lost song story goes back to college days at Cal Poly. I used to hear this looong song late at night on the campus FM station. For 30 years I wondered about that song until one day on this forum someone started a thread about songs with long lyrics. One of the posters mentioned The Legend of the U.S.S. Titanic. I hunted it down (by Jaime Brockett) and it has brought back some great memories. I still can't imagine remembering that long of a song for a live performance. Bill |
Grew up in Central NJ. Somerville until Bridgewater got a post office. I take it you are talking satellite and not production work on the single! I remember my pop taking me outside at night and trying to help me spot the thing. Supposedly visible...a little moving dot of light (or so I seem to recall). Not sure I ever really saw it. re ELH's band...well, yeah! aka The Hot Band. |
Emmy Lou Harris... Talk about the complete package. She was and still is that. Case in point.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbaz_T6BN3g Now, from the sublime to the ridiculous... With loss of a couple more brain cells, this could have been a "long lost song". But apparently the responsible cells are still in place and functional. Back in those AM radio days, liked this one quite a bit. (and my wife thinks I have questionable taste...go figure) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrEPzsx1gQ |
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! |
2channel8 - No...back in the early ’60s it would have been 77 WABC on the AM dial. At this point, WNEW was news, talk or Andy Williams kind of music. Nothing that interested me. ABC had DJs that played the hits. Sometimes I’d tune in (WFIL?) from Phila. This all would have been a few years before "Underground FM Radio" was happening. THEN I did listen to WNEW a LOT (Scott Muni, Jonathan Schwarz, Allison Steele). My first 2 channel gear (circa ’69/’70) was an HH Scott receiver w/SuperEx headphones. First song I heard on it was CCR doing SusieQ. Hahaha...Channelmaster. You would think I might remember given I did spend a lot of time with that thing. But I don’t. Something like that red Sceptre maybe in second row (see link). Used to listen with it under the pillow before getting up for school in the morning. The Beatles were happening. Lot of excitement, believe it or not. Everything was NEW; never done or heard before. https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+transistor+radio+from+the+%2760s&source=lnms&tbm=is... |
@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? |
Hello 2channel8 Glad to see you keeping this thread going. A lot more interesting than that blue fuse thread. Wish you were getting more input here. Wish I had more for you. Re-reading, I see that I never replied to your comment about the William Devaughn. I think a LOT of people thought Be Thankful for What You Got was written by Curtis Mayfield. He did a version and that probably eclipsed the original. On a more current topic, I think you are exactly right about the eeriness in Sally Go Round the Roses. The Wiki entry gets into this a bit in the section on "Interpretations". I remember the song and liked it a lot when all I had to listen to was AM radio (WABC out of NYC, mostly) on a little Japanese transistor. These years later, I would have bet it was done by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas but looks like I am wrong about that. If you haven’t read the entry you might find the "Other Versions" interesting. Keep up the good work! Thanks for the thread. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Go_%27Round_the_Roses |
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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? |
It's Jaynetts, not Jaynettes. They were a completely fictional band. A studio concoction. A link to some other versions. https://dangerousminds.net/comments/a_tournement_of_sally_go_round_the_roses |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
HELP HELP HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I remember one electronic song or house, lyrics is going: something about you something about you, and repeating that in reffren, and there is something like: think about tommorow night everything is gonna be alright, its slow song and very relaxing, if anyone knows please HELPPPPPPPPP |