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Locating a song, please help!!
OK, so there is a song I estimate to be about 40 years old that I am trying desperately to locate. It was playing at my grocery store sound system several months back and the chorus keeps popping back into my mind and I NEED THIS on my iTunes.
I have no clue who the artist is, the exact year it came out, the name of the song... nuthin All I know is it starts with trumpets playing a bouncy and catchy opening... it has a jazzy yet soulful and r&b feel and the background singers sing "yeah, yeah... yeah, yeah. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah." Followed by the uppity trumpets again. At first I thought it might be The Grass Roots, but it's not. I even sang the trumpet part into the phone app that can locate songs, but no dice. Google searches are turning up nothing as well. Fuck... I'm at a point where if one of you old timers has a clue what I'm talking about, to call me and let me sing the damn opening part of the song to you in case you might be able to help LOL. |
Is it more jazzy or more Motown?
Do you have any idea what any of the lyrics are at any point in the song? |
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah sorry but no can't help you.
Any actual lyrics? |
Yeah I know I'm giving you guys very little to go on, sorry.
The song is definitely Motown but it is very horn/trumpet heavy. I'd put the song somewhere around 1970. My store has a wicked awesome playlist. Lots of obscure songs from popular artists as well as forgotten classics. Unfortunately the lyrics are really at the tip of my tongue. I just know how the opening trumpet part goes... Man I feel like Al Bundy in that Married with Children episode... |
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In the mean time, let's strut.
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"yeah, yeah... yeah, yeah. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah" and trumpets were pretty popular back then, but I honestly can not recall a Motown song with that refrain.
Male or female singers? |
Female or male voices, or both?
Might be a start. |
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You forgot both! :upsidedow |
If you have a piano handy or an app at the ready... the opening trumpets start out:
C E-E D, C-C E-E D, E G-G F, E-E G-G F... Then the Yeah yeah part is just background during the chorus... F F, F E, F F, F E... |
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All male singers... |
You aren't talking Marvin Gaye, Stubborn Kind of Fellow are you?
edit: All male changes that guess. |
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Fast Motown with trumpets and yeah, yeah, yeah . . . . hmmm . . . . wondering if it isn't an English band with R&B leanings. Can't wait to hear what song it is.
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hmmm thinking but I'd have to hear those notes out loud. lol
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I gotta figure out a prize for someone who helps me the most in my quest here LOL... it'll for sure make the voices in my head go away. |
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I'm working on this problem now too. :)
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Well, I'm not coming up with anything in the way of the song. But I did find this:
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/reso...2/music/piano/ Pretty cool. . |
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http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/reso...2/music/piano/ |
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http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/get+out...df4_956158.gif |
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brickhouse?
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I'm looking up various John Mayall tracks, he had quite a few with trumpets and similar to motown.
But can't seem to find anything. |
Got ya covered Jay. |
I know what it is....
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Thank you Chris ... you saved me hours and hours of sleepless nights. I actually sang a few bars to him over the phone and he got it within a second. |
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too late. lol
so.. |
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^^ thanks :-)
Love playing those music trivia games. |
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This wasn't a game tho... my well being and sleep depended on it man!! |
For some reason every time I go grocery shopping this song is playing. My supermarket has about the worst fucking playlist you could imagine.
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use this tool, helps me every time
http://www.shazam.com/ |
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great song - one of those songs i've heard many times and never knew the name or artist who recorded it. i think that song has been on movie soundtracks. not sure where else i'd have heard it. i'm old but not that old. |
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