i am desperately trying to find a song. I have no idea who sang it, or what the title is. I've never heard enough of it to remember the lyrics, but I've heard the song, and it's currently stuck in my head. There's a pretty long sax solo, and the only parts of the lyrics I remember were something like "you're trying, you're crying now" and another bit that goes "he's the rolling stone" When I've heard it, it was usually on WQKL or WOMC. I'm thinking late 70's. I know it's not much to go on. If anyone has the slightest clue what song this is, or who sang it, please respond. (I'm not actually pulling my hair out, I got a haircut recently and I don't have very much to pull out)19 responses total.
Gerry Rafferty, "Baker Street." There's a Rafferty web page at http://www.redstone-tech.com/gerry/ Gerry Rafferty is also known for "Stuck In The Middle With You" by the band Stealer's Wheel, and he did kind of a British folk thing a long time ago as a duo with Billy Connolly called The Humblebums. Next! :)
Ken, you are amazing. Thank you.
It just means I'm old enough to have had "Baker Street" played constantly on the radio for a certain period of my life. A (now deceased) friend had some tapes he had made up for party games, where there were little snippets of music and the listeners were to race to identify the song. (For example, one of the tapes consisted of sung versions of the word "I".) I was fascinated to see how the contestants shook out by ages. One couple, about five years older than me, scooped up all the 1960s and early seventies stuff. I had pretty good command from the early 70s to about 1980. And there were a few people 5-10 years younger than me who knew all the 1980s songs. (This would have been 1983, when we were playing this game, the year my friend was murdered.)
Baker Street - A staple of the late 70's college scene (I'd know! ;-)
We should start a "I've heard this song, but I don't know the title and/or artist" item..
If you want, another band recently redid Baker Street. Foo Fighters, I believe. A pretty credible job, too. :)
And just about as forgetable as Andy Gibbs "I Just Want to be Your Everything".
(that sounds like a fun party game, Ken.)
You see, Andy Gibbs "I Just Want to be Your Everything" was the #1 song that kept Jerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" at #2.
RE #9 It was the late Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing" that kept "Baker Street" out of the #1 position in 1978. Gibb's "I Just Want To Be Your Everything" was a hit in the previous year (1977).
oops.
Ok Ken (or anyone else), got another one. I think I have a title on this one, but I need an artist, (and confirmation that the title is correct) I believe the title is "Another Silly Love Song".
Paul McCartney had a massive hit in 1976 or so with "Silly Love Songs," that's the only thing that comes to mind. Here, I'll hum it for you...
Thats it. I thought I had heard a DJ once say it was Paul McCartney, but I wasn't quite sure.
Q:Which Paul McCartney album had Silly Love Songs on it? A: All of them!
> Paul McCartney had a massive hit in 1976 or so with "Silly Love Songs"
and everyone else had a massive heave.
Mind you, I actually like some of his silly love songs. ("Ob-la-di ob-
la-da" is a silly love song.) But this one, which is neither silly nor
a love song, is ... oh dear.
Not his worst, though. Not by a long shot.
you wanna a love to last forever one that will never fade away i wanna help you with your problems stick around i say....
coming up...like a flower
*clap clap clap*
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