I Need Help Identifying Songs
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I Need Help Identifying Songs
I have a bunch of songs that I recorded off a distant college radio station back in the mid 80's through the early 90's and while I did try to get artists and song titles back then, I couldn't get all of them due to the fact it was the 80's and I was in my 20's ... I would love to find out the artists and song titles for these songs, i've been looking since 2001, I have gotten some but I still have many and this board has so many people with way more knowledge than me, i'm hoping someone might be able to give me some help. I have created videos with the audio in question, the audio quality is like listening to a distant radio station back in the 80's, lol. I figured if anyone could help me find these, this board could. I have nothing to lose, except my pride, so as I say I have nothing to lose by asking.
Here's the first one, please help a geezer out if you can
Here's the first one, please help a geezer out if you can
From what I see there's still a little hope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
Re: I Need Help Identifying Songs
I never heard this before.weller259 wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 8:20pmI have a bunch of songs that I recorded off a distant college radio station back in the mid 80's through the early 90's and while I did try to get artists and song titles back then, I couldn't get all of them due to the fact it was the 80's and I was in my 20's ... I would love to find out the artists and song titles for these songs, i've been looking since 2001, I have gotten some but I still have many and this board has so many people with way more knowledge than me, i'm hoping someone might be able to give me some help. I have created videos with the audio in question, the audio quality is like listening to a distant radio station back in the 80's, lol. I figured if anyone could help me find these, this board could. I have nothing to lose, except my pride, so as I say I have nothing to lose by asking.
Here's the first one, please help a geezer out if you can
What station was it? I used to be able to pull in a bunch of stations fro. The tri-state area and basically lived on the left side of thr dial.
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Re: I Need Help Identifying Songs
Damn, the voice is naggingly familiar, but it's not coming to me. Sounds American, early to mid-80s, drawing from early hip hop, so maybe the northeast?
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Hello,
The Waitresses? As Doc mentioned, the vocals seem familiar.
The Waitresses? As Doc mentioned, the vocals seem familiar.
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It was WFDU, Fairleigh-Dickinson University, from 8 PM to 6 AM every night they played new music, they introduced me to so many artists i'd never have heard otherwise.
From what I see there's still a little hope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
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I have one Waitresses album and its not on it, I am not sure that the Waitresses had soft vocals with bass-heavy melodies in their arsenal, but I will keep investigating them.
From what I see there's still a little hope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
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Yeah I definitely listened to them. I had a great tuner and antenna and could really get a lot of stations.
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That is a good thought there. With what I think are name drops of desmond dekker and chubby checker, I am hoping someone might know this, the other songs or snippets I have are going to be even more difficult I imagine. lolDr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 8:58pmDamn, the voice is naggingly familiar, but it's not coming to me. Sounds American, early to mid-80s, drawing from early hip hop, so maybe the northeast?
From what I see there's still a little hope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
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I had a good audio receiver and my antenna was a copper wire that I ran through my upstairs window outside a couple of inches. As you probably guessed from listening to this. lolrevbob wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 10:40pmYeah I definitely listened to them. I had a great tuner and antenna and could really get a lot of stations.
From what I see there's still a little hope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
That's if we don't hang from too much rope
Re: I Need Help Identifying Songs
I used to piss off friends because I would rather listen to something interesting/good with static than shit without static.weller259 wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 11:01pmI had a good audio receiver and my antenna was a copper wire that I ran through my upstairs window outside a couple of inches. As you probably guessed from listening to this. lolrevbob wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 10:40pmYeah I definitely listened to them. I had a great tuner and antenna and could really get a lot of stations.
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I head Spider-man and milkshake in the lyrics, too.weller259 wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 10:48pmThat is a good thought there. With what I think are name drops of desmond dekker and chubby checker, I am hoping someone might know this, the other songs or snippets I have are going to be even more difficult I imagine. lolDr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Aug 2022, 8:58pmDamn, the voice is naggingly familiar, but it's not coming to me. Sounds American, early to mid-80s, drawing from early hip hop, so maybe the northeast?
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Re: I Need Help Identifying Songs
We need Marky on the case.
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Another thought, if you're really dogged on the case, Emotional Response Records has put out five volumes of a great compilation called Typical Girls, which is loaded with obscurities like these by women artists. Shoot them an email to see if anyone recognizes it. As is, today I'll go thru my set on the off-chance that it's on there.
edit: Ooops, I was thinking more about the compilation Subnormal Girls. Typical Girls is more straight-forward punk. Either way, I zipped thru both but no dice.
edit: Ooops, I was thinking more about the compilation Subnormal Girls. Typical Girls is more straight-forward punk. Either way, I zipped thru both but no dice.
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With this kind of thing I usually find a lyric lookup will help, but I can't tell what the hell she's singing.
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I did that already with the words I picked out and it gave me nuthin'.
edit: Which, I guess, is a useful clue that this is, in fact, a really obscure song, perhaps the only thing the group managed to record, and it hasn't been rescued for digitization/streaming.
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