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Old songs you can't identify

Started by bandit957, November 04, 2019, 10:56:29 PM

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bandit957

Remember any old songs on the radio that you can't identify now?

I remember one in the late '70s that I always called "The Backwards Song" because it sounded like the music they used in the 'Sesame Street' segment where a man walks backwards through a city. For the life of me, I can't identify the real title or artist of this song, so it probably wasn't a very big hit. I also remember a Styx-like song where the first line is something about "the 21st century", but I can't identify it either.

There were some songs I pretty much gave up on identifying but then was able to identify them later.
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roadman65

There is one that sounds similar to Sunday Morning by Maroon 5 that was in the late 60's or early 70's.  In fact I thought that Sunday Morning was a cover of it, but it's not.  Its just similar to it, but sounds like it IMO.
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kphoger

I have a lot of these.  My dad used to record airings of The Midnight Special public radio program onto cassette tape, and we often listened to them on road trips.  There are countless songs from those tapes that pop into my head every so often that I have a dickens of a time identifying online, because so many were little-known songs before the advent of the internet as we know it.
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kphoger

Quote from: bandit957 on November 04, 2019, 10:56:29 PM
I also remember a Styx-like song where the first line is something about "the 21st century", but I can't identify it either.

Are you sure you weren't simply mistaken and that it's not actually "Edge of the Century"?
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bandit957

Quote from: kphoger on November 05, 2019, 02:10:23 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on November 04, 2019, 10:56:29 PM
I also remember a Styx-like song where the first line is something about "the 21st century", but I can't identify it either.

Are you sure you weren't simply mistaken and that it's not actually "Edge of the Century"?

This was 1978 or 1979. I'm pretty sure Q-102 in Cincinnati regularly played it.
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GCrites

^I know what song you're talking about but can't think of the name or band. There's an internet station that I listen to where I hear it about once a month. I'll try to catch the name next time I hear it.

bandit957

Another one I remember is a song with a line about "dirty water." This was probably in the '70s, so it was not the '80s song "Dirty Water" that MTV played.
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jp the roadgeek

Quote from: bandit957 on November 06, 2019, 12:01:10 AM
Another one I remember is a song with a line about "dirty water." This was probably in the '70s, so it was not the '80s song "Dirty Water" that MTV played.

Are we talking about the song that we Red Sox (and Bruins) fans love to hear at the end of a game: Dirty Water by The Standells?
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bandit957

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on November 06, 2019, 12:15:54 AM
Are we talking about the song that we Red Sox (and Bruins) fans love to hear at the end of a game: Dirty Water by The Standells?

I heard this on YouTube, and that's not the one.
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PHLBOS

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on November 06, 2019, 12:15:54 AM
Quote from: bandit957 on November 06, 2019, 12:01:10 AM
Another one I remember is a song with a line about "dirty water." This was probably in the '70s, so it was not the '80s song "Dirty Water" that MTV played.

Are we talking about the song that we Red Sox (and Bruins) fans love to hear at the end of a game: Dirty Water by The Standells?
Correct regarding that song being sung by the Standells.  Such dates back to 1966.
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Brian556

There a song that sounds like its from the 60's. Its title may or may not be "Counting Down the Days". It has a R&B/Pop sound

kevinb1994

Quote from: Brian556 on November 15, 2019, 03:34:14 PM
There a song that sounds like its from the 60's. Its title may or may not be "Counting Down the Days". It has a R&B/Pop sound
You mean that one by the Kinks?

Brian556

Quote from: Brian556 on November 15, 2019, 03:34:14 PM
There a song that sounds like its from the 60's. Its title may or may not be "Counting Down the Days". It has a R&B/Pop sound

Found it. It's called "Picikin' Up The Pieces" by Fitz And The Tantrums. Its from 2010, but sounds like its from the late 60's or early 70's. Excellent sound.
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bandit957

Anyone remember this one? "Doo doo doo doo doo...Doo doo doo doo doo...BOING!" It was a dance hit in the early '90s that got a little bit of airplay.
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texaskdog

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Quote from: bandit957 on November 04, 2019, 10:56:29 PM
Remember any old songs on the radio that you can't identify now?

I remember one in the late '70s that I always called "The Backwards Song" because it sounded like the music they used in the 'Sesame Street' segment where a man walks backwards through a city. For the life of me, I can't identify the real title or artist of this song, so it probably wasn't a very big hit. I also remember a Styx-like song where the first line is something about "the 21st century", but I can't identify it either.

There were some songs I pretty much gave up on identifying but then was able to identify them later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECPWpAlgaU  Sunny day sweeping the clouds away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrsIX-OajaY

bandit957

I thought of another one I've been trying to identify for years. It was a female modern rock song around 1996. The chorus went, "Crazy..." The few times they played this on the radio, they never identified it.
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roadman

Quote from: bandit957 on March 12, 2021, 06:02:32 PM
I thought of another one I've been trying to identify for years. It was a female modern rock song around 1996. The chorus went, "Crazy..." The few times they played this on the radio, they never identified it.

"Crazy Over You" by Heart perhaps.
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renegade

Quote from: roadman on March 14, 2021, 12:29:52 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on March 12, 2021, 06:02:32 PM
I thought of another one I've been trying to identify for years. It was a female modern rock song around 1996. The chorus went, "Crazy..." The few times they played this on the radio, they never identified it.

"Crazy Over You" by Heart perhaps.
It's "Crazy On You", and it's from more like 1976 ...
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jp the roadgeek

Quote from: roadman on March 14, 2021, 12:29:52 PM
Quote from: bandit957 on March 12, 2021, 06:02:32 PM
I thought of another one I've been trying to identify for years. It was a female modern rock song around 1996. The chorus went, "Crazy..." The few times they played this on the radio, they never identified it.

"Crazy Over You" by Heart perhaps.

Maybe you're thinking of Crazy by Knarls Barkley.  Cee-Lo does have quite the falsetto.
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bandit957

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on March 14, 2021, 01:41:33 PM
Maybe you're thinking of Crazy by Knarls Barkley.  Cee-Lo does have quite the falsetto.

It definitely wasn't that.
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TheHighwayMan3561

One that keeps bugging me is this song with a very loud computerized wah-wah-esque intro. I hear it fairly frequently at sporting events.
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bandit957

Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on March 14, 2021, 04:21:10 PM
One that keeps bugging me is this song with a very loud computerized wah-wah-esque intro. I hear it fairly frequently at sporting events.

Probably "Rock & Roll (Part 2)" by Gary Glitter. It was a big hit in the 1970s.
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TheHighwayMan3561

Quote from: bandit957 on March 14, 2021, 04:22:56 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on March 14, 2021, 04:21:10 PM
One that keeps bugging me is this song with a very loud computerized wah-wah-esque intro. I hear it fairly frequently at sporting events.

Probably "Rock & Roll (Part 2)" by Gary Glitter. It was a big hit in the 1970s.

It's not that.
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