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?

If the store uses Muzak, it's likely their music comes to them on disc along with a playlist. Wouldn't hurt to ask.

Unfortunately that doesn't help :P

Im pretty sure this is what your looking for LAJ

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XZ5TajZYW6Y

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...

lmao!!!!!

In the mean time, let's strut.

"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.

:1orglaugh

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...

Yeah I know :/ ...

All male singers...

You aren't talking Marvin Gaye, Stubborn Kind of Fellow are you?

edit: All male changes that guess.

The tempo of the song I'm thinking is considerably faster...

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.

hmmm thinking but I'd have to hear those notes out loud. lol

Hadn't considered that... it's def. possible...

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.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Is there actual singing in it or is it mostly instrumental?

I'm working on this problem now too. :)

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/

this it? https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ

:thumbsup:thumbsup very cool

Damn it...

http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/get+out...df4_956158.gif

BAHAHAHA someone please post a video of a guy chasing his secretary around the office with that playing.

brickhouse?

No way that its brickhouse.

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....
 

You're describing "Sweet Soul Music" by Arthur Conley I can't post a link to youtube since I'm not a power user.:D

Great tune regardless if its the one or not. :thumbsup

I own a piano actually...

Soundhound, mate, sing it to your phone and have it recognized!

WE HAVE A FUCKIN WINNER!!

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.

Someone beat me to the link lol. I posted that for people that dont and cant read music to get an idea of what you were describing.

YUP... fuckin grinning from ear to ear right now. That's the one!

too late. lol

so..

Chris knows good music for sure.

^^ thanks :-)

Love playing those music trivia games.

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.

use this tool, helps me every time
http://www.shazam.com/

I would not have guessed the artist in this instance (and Jay, you can't carry a tune in a GFY post bucket, LOL), however I am an undisputed Trivial Pursuits champ when it comes to music trivia.

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ADG

nice work!

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.