Name that Tune

[GeorgeStGeorge]

A pleasant benediction, but I don't recognize it at all.

 

George

[WordWolf]

1 hour ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

A pleasant benediction, but I don't recognize it at all.

 

George

A shame. Some people (I would expect a lot) think this was his best song.

[WordWolf]

Ok, same artist, different song.

 

"Billy left his home with a dollar in his pocket and a head full of dreams.
He said somehow, some way, it's gotta get better than this.
Patti packed her bags, left a note for her momma, she was just seventeen,
there were tears in her eyes when she kissed her little sister goodbye."

 

[Human without the bean]

21 hours ago, WordWolf said:

Ok, same artist, different song.

 

"Billy left his home with a dollar in his pocket and a head full of dreams.
He said somehow, some way, it's gotta get better than this.
Patti packed her bags, left a note for her momma, she was just seventeen,
there were tears in her eyes when she kissed her little sister goodbye."

 

This is Rod Stewart, "Young Turks".  I always think that it's name is young hearts, because that's the hit line in the song.  Now thinking back, the other song was Forever Young  and I can't believe that I didn't know that then.

Edited September 17, 2016 by Human without the bean

[WordWolf]

13 hours ago, Human without the bean said:

This is Rod Stewart, "Young Turks".  I always think that it's name is young hearts, because that's the hit line in the song.  Now thinking back, the other song was Forever Young  and I can't believe that I didn't know that then.

Correct on both.   Probably his 2 best songs, but I'm sure there would be some disagreements as to which were his 2 best.

[Human without the bean]

Seasons change with the scenery,

Weaving time in a tapestry

Won't you stop and remember me?

At any convenient time?

Funny how my memory skips

Looking over manuscripts

Of unpublished rhyme

Drinking my vodka and lime

Edited September 18, 2016 by Human without the bean

[Human without the bean]

On 9/18/2016 at 9:08 AM, Human without the bean said:

 

Hang on to your hopes, my friend

That's an easy thing to say

But if your hope should pass away

It's simply pretend

That you can build them again

Look around, grass is high

Fields are ripe, 

It's the springtime of my life

Seasons change with the scenery,

Weaving time in a tapestry

Won't you stop and remember me?

At any convenient time?

Funny how my memory skips while

Looking over manuscripts

Of unpublished rhyme

Drinking my vodka and lime

 

[Raf]

"Hazy Shade of Winter" by The Bangles.

[Raf]

And apparently by a couple other dudes too.

[Human without the bean]

3 hours ago, Raf said:

And apparently by a couple other dudes too.

The bangles covered it.  Most popularly known for it were Simon & Garfunkel!  Are you that young Raf that you don't remember that?  

 

W O W, and I don't mean world ofer da wordd.

Edited September 21, 2016 by Human without the bean

[Raf]

Sorry. I'm an 80s kid.

 

"He said 'In winter 1963, it felt like the world would freeze, with John F. Kennedy and the Beatles.'"

[WordWolf]

Dream Academy, "Life in a Northern Town." 

Working title for the song was "the Morning Lasted All Day."

 

 

[Raf]

Correct

[WordWolf]

"I saw you there, just standing there
And I thought, I was only dreaming yeah.
I kissed you then, then once again
You said you would come and dance with me.

Dance with me, across the sea
And we could feel the motion of a thousand dreams."

Edited September 29, 2016 by WordWolf
Dropped the initial word when posting.

[Raf]

Doctor Doctor

By the trio of nonsiblings known as the Thompson Twins.

[WordWolf]

20 hours ago, Raf said:

Doctor Doctor

By the trio of nonsiblings known as the Thompson Twins.

That's them.  For some reason, the 3 of them decided to name themselves after 2 characters from "Tintin."  I imagined the 3 members of the Pizzicato Five did much the same. However, they actually started as 5, whereas the Thompson Twins started as more than 2, and both were famous with 3 members.  Show business is strange.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_and_Thompson

[Raf]

"I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine."

[Human without the bean]

2 hours ago, Raf said:

"I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine."

Is this Ton Loc's "Funky Cold Medina".  

 

[Raf]

That is incorrect. But I find it hilarious that you think that.

Actually, technically, this is a showtune. But it got LOTS of mainstream airplay.

[Raf]

The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free 

You'll find a god in every golden cloister

And if you're lucky then the god's a she

 

[WordWolf]

Hey, if you've seen ONE crowded, polluted, stinking town.....

 

 

 

Murray Head's  "One Night in Bangkok."  Off the soundtrack to some chess movie. Was it "Knight Moves"?

[Human without the bean]

21 hours ago, WordWolf said:

Hey, if you've seen ONE crowded, polluted, stinking town.....

 

 

 

Murray Head's  "One Night in Bangkok."  Off the soundtrack to some chess movie. Was it "Knight Moves"?

I thought it may be that song too WordWolfie.  I couldn't get my head around cloister, instead all I heard was "the world's your oyster".  Good job.

[Raf]

From the Broadway musical "Chess."

 

You're up, WW

[WordWolf]

"I know there's a place you walked
Where love falls from the trees
My heart is like a broken cup
I only feel right on my knees

I spit out like a sewer hole
Yet still recieve your kiss
How can I measure up to anyone now
After such a love as this?"
 

[Human without the bean]

Who Are You?  That's not a question, that's the name of the song by The Who.

I'm going.

Whatever happened to all this season's

Loser's of the year

Every time I got to thinking

Where' d they disappear

Then I woke up Mom and Dad

All rollin' on the couch

Rollin' numbers rock and rolling

Got my Kiss records out