Name that Tune

[waysider]

Is that last one "Get A Job"-------The Silhouettes?

[waysider]

"Goodnight Sweetheart"?----Don't know the artist

[GeorgeStGeorge]

waysider was right with "Get a Job.'

"Goodnight Sweetheart" goes Doh doh-doh-doh doh. :B)

I have a feeling that no one is going to get the first song, "I Wonder Why" by Dion and the Belmonts.

Since Raf got three of them, I suggest that he has the next turn.

George

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Obviously, Raf is passing this up.

Waysider, you give it a go.

George

[waysider]

Yeah, everybody in the neighborhood

Will testify that my girl she sure looks good

And she's so fine

She'd give eyesight to the blind

And if she ever leaves me

I will lose my mind.

Hint: this was also a big hit as an instrumental.

OK, the words don't help with that but I think you know what I mean.

[wasway]

Kind of a Drag The buckinghams

Here is a obscure little B-side tune from around the same time frame.

Oh, their wives and their sweethearts came down to port their last fond good-byes there to say.

Each tried her best to be tearless and brave. They promised to meet there some day.

Ev'ry man jack on board was a hero. Ev'ry man jack on board there was brave.

Ev'ry man jack on board was a hero. Each man risked a watery grave

Then "Dive," said the Captain and we held our breath. A sound like she'd broken in two.

That was the last we ever heard of her. Last word we had of her crew.

[waysider]

It was , indeed, The Buckinghams but it was not "Kind Of A Drag."

Here's more info.

It was originally recorded by Cannonball Adderley a year before the Buckinghams had a hit with it.

[wasway]

It was , indeed, The Buckinghams but it was not "Kind Of A Drag."

Here's more info.

It was originally recorded by Cannonball Adderley a year before the Buckinghams had a hit with it.

Your right, of course it was Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (have mercy on me) I was singing it while I posted the answer... just not thinking right... got a Les Paul for Fathers day still not thinkin' straight

Edited June 18, 2007 by wasway

[waysider]

A Les Paul for Fathers' Day!!!

Come on over to Guitar Talk and tell us about it.

Still thinking on the lyrics you posted. Sounds familiar.

[wasway]

A Les Paul for Fathers' Day!!!

Come on over to Guitar Talk and tell us about it.

Still thinking on the lyrics you posted. Sounds familiar.

I can't give any more clues using lyrics as they would include the title...but the original "A" side was a tune called "Desert Pete."

[GeorgeStGeorge]

B-sides are like album cuts. If they didn't get airplay, it's not really fair to post them. (Some B-sides were well-played, of course. "Rain" (B-side of "Paperback Writer") comes to mind.) I don't think I've ever heard this one's A-side, though.

George

[wasway]

B-sides are like album cuts. If they didn't get airplay, it's not really fair to post them. (Some B-sides were well-played, of course. "Rain" (B-side of "Paperback Writer") comes to mind.) I don't think I've ever heard this one's A-side, though.

George

This "B" side was one of those not unlike these "b" side hits

ABBA: "Eagle" / "Thank You for the Music"

Jimmy Dean: "I Won't Go Huntin' With You Jake" / "Big Bad John"

The Who: "Dogs" / "Call me Lightning"

Deee-Lite: "What Is Love?" / "Groove Is in the Heart"

Frankie Ford: "Roberta" / "Sea Cruise"

Gloria Gaynor: "Substitute" / "I Will Survive"

Bob Lind: "Cheryl's Goin' Home" / "Elusive Butterfly"

Madonna: "Angel" / "Into the Groove"

Pink Floyd: "Point Me at the Sky" / "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"

Righteous Brothers: "Stuck on You" / "Unchained Melody"

Rod Stewart: "Reason to Believe" / "Maggie May"

The Stone Roses: "What the World Is Waiting For" / "Fools Gold"

Gene Vincent: "Woman Love" / "Be-Bop-A-Lula"

the Five Satins: "The Jones Girl" / "In the Still Of the Nite"

Bobbie Gentry: "Mississippi Delta" / "Ode To Billie Joe"

U2: "A Celebration" / "Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl" (also known as "Party Girl")

Queen: "We Are the Champions" / "We Will Rock You" (usually played by radio stations as one song)

Robbie Williams: Eternity/Road to Mandalay

The Beatles: "Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever"

Cream: "Strange Brew" / "Tales of Brave Ulysses"

Carole King: "It's Too Late" / "I Feel the Earth Move"

Fats Domino: "I Wanna Walk You Home" / "Walking to New Orleans"

Elvis Presley: "Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog"

Kiss: "Detroit Rock City" / "Beth"

Paula Abdul: "Straight Up" / "Cold Hearted"

Daddy Cool: "Eagle Rock" / "Bom Bom"

Deftones: "Pink Maggit" / "Back to School (Mini Maggit)"

The one that I posted got so much Air play is 1963 that it was placed at location A-1 on the groups subsequent Album. In fact nearly 45 years later you can still hear it played daily at the Permanent Exhibit of SSN-593 at the Smithsonian.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Point taken. But I still don't recognize this one.

George

[Suda]

Sorry, WaySider, no clue.

Suda

[wasway]

Lets try something else.... we need a beatnik or 2 to join this thread... it was " the Ballad of the Thresher" by the Kingston Trio...

It's the same kind of story

That seems to come down from long ago

Two friends having coffee together

When something flies by their window

It might be out on that lawn

Which is wide, at least half of a playing field

Because there's no explaining what your imagination

Can make you see and feel

Seems like a dream.....................

[waysider]

I may be mistaken, but I think this one has been done before.

Re: The Thresher

I Googled it and found it to be a very interesting read.

Memories of the tune have probably been overshadowed by the British Invasion.

[Tom Strange]

yeah waysider... I think it was... but then I may have been hypnotized...

[wasway]

yeah waysider... I think it was... but then I may have been hypnotized...

I think that that must be it it...sorry if its a replay...but hypnotized is correct Tom (fleetwood mac) please go ahead

[Tom Strange]

here's a relatively easy one:

Along the coast youll hear them boast

About a light they say that shines so clear.

Edited June 27, 2007 by Tom Strange

[waysider]

Timothy Leary's Dead!

[Tom Strange]

why... yes he is... tis sad but true...

here are a couple of more lines:

Along the coast you'll hear them boast

About a light they say that shines so clear.

So raise your glass, we'll drink a toast

To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier.

now... I never thought it would take this long for this to be guessed...

[WordWolf]

Sorry, but I'm apparently not at the top of my game lately.

I even missed the Bob Dylan one a page back....

[Tom Strange]

I'm going to give it to Waysider for... well.. just for the heck of it...

the title of the song is "Legend of a Mind"...

[waysider]

I was kinda hopin' somebody would respond with:

"No! No! He's outside looking in!"

I worked like a slave for years

Sweat so hard just to end my fears

Not to end my life a poor man

But by now, I know I should have run.

[Ca_dreaming]

I know it's been awhile since I have been here.

But when I know a song I so enjoy, I have to chime in,

Ride My See Saw by none other than the Moody Blues.