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Ever sing in a store to get the name of a song or what length have you gone through to find one?
I once went in search of a song I had no idea who sang it and there were no words. I described it to everyone, friends, store clerks and their mother with no luck until one night we were in south beach Miami and I heard a band playing the song. I ran, jumping over fountains and people and the roadie security guy could only tell me it was Santana.
Trouble was it was an instrumental so I couldn't sing it to find it. I ended up buying everything, and I do mean everything, Santana ever produced only to find it as the last song on the only double cd left I had yet to buy and the song was 'Europa' Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBDLQZgntYE.
When I played it all those people said, "OH yeah I know that song." Sure - after I bought everything they made suddenly everyone knows the song!
Who here has ever had to sing to a clerk in a store in order to find the song they wanted and didn't know the name of or artist and who was it? Or went to great lengths to find a song?
I can't say that I've gone to very great lengths. If I can't make out the words when I hear it, I'll record it on my cellphone and ask my room mate to take a listen. Most of the time she can identify, even if I can't. I don't usually keep up with the new music much, but every once in a while I will hear something I like on the store Muzak.
If I can make out words, I search the lyrics on the 'Net. Yes, ten or so years ago that would have been far more difficult to do. But without the Internet, I'd only hear the song when it was played over the radio. That's where I get most of my music now.
Me too Kramer. Before the internet I used to go to specialty record stores and found myself singing lyrics trying to find something. I remember quite clear one day singing "Me and you and a dog named boo" to the guy behind the counter. He shouted "LOBO" and walked me to the 45RPM record. I think I paid 99cents which was top dollar for a 45 in those days.
Me too Kramer. Before the internet I used to go to specialty record stores and found myself singing lyrics trying to find something. I remember quite clear one day singing "Me and you and a dog named boo" to the guy behind the counter. He shouted "LOBO" and walked me to the 45RPM record. I think I paid 99cents which was top dollar for a 45 in those days.
Oh how they were the good ol days.......
Yeah, I should have prefaced it by saying before the days of the net and cell phones.
I have a record store and I get people singing to me all the time! I can usually get the song from that, if not I ask when they first heard it, and if they have heard it on the radio, from there I can almost always place the song, unless it is very old or totally outside the types of music I listen to.
After guessing, I usually have to sing it back to them!. It's kind of fun
Well, like I said--before the Internet, I'd just take the chance I'd hear it again. If I didn't hear it again, then I didn't. But I was never big on buying albums or cassettes from an artist, I got my music from the radio. Money went for food and sometimes clothing when I grew up.
I remember sitting by the radio for hours to hear a favorite song played again to try to find out WHO the artist was, and the name of the song! So frustrating! (I can't sing, so that method would never have worked for me!)
Although the Internet helps, there are still songs I can't find; you know, the ones with generic lyrics! If I can only make out "Oh, baby...", well, how many songs feature that?!
Luckily, I've got a pretty good ear, and if it's a well-known artist I can usually tell. For instance, one night I heard a song and immediately said, "That's Pat Benatar!" Of course, she has a very distinctive voice, anyway, but it's still nice when that happens!
To the OP, I love "Europa", too. Gato Barbieri is the version I have, and I was astonished when I found that Santana had written it! Both are good.
I LOVE the sax version of Europa you posted Sandy. There was this unknown sax artist I bought an album from back in the day and there was the greatest song on it and it was the only album they didn't put on a regular CD or have available on line so I put my feelers out requesting anyone if they had this song. Well, lo and behold the artist himself found my request and sent it to me out of his own catalog and the biggest irony was he was the band playing the song Europa in Miami when I ran and jumped over all those people to find out who or what the song was 10 years earlier. Small world.
My problem is that I still have yet to identify a song I've been searching for...and my search is going on 15 years now.
There was a repeat program on local Seattle television of a firefighter memorial (several were lost, RIP) that I had taped. At the end of the service, there was a video montage of the procession through the streets of downtown Seattle, all set to a beautiful instrumental piece. It began with piano, then built up to a crescendo with the symphony. It, along with the visual, brought me to tears.
I have emailed the local networks for years, asking them to identify the music, which was never credited in the program. They have never replied. I'm at a disadvantage, as the VHS tape has locked up and cannot be played (nor can the music be uploaded).
boy, you're only hope would be the tv station that produced it or the vhs tape to play to someone. I'd find out the exact names of the producer and reporter who put together the segment and talk directly to him/her. If you just call or write and talk to anyone blindly they'd blow it off. TV stations will not make copies of anything for you, but you can request to go in and view it and when it gets to the song find the person who did it and ask. A lot of music used in background videos is purchased in bulk like clip art used to be (no artists ever got credit) and even if they had it they may not even know who recorded it. You might try going to the tv station's website and doing a search for the segment there to at least help find the producer or reporter.
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Ever sing in a store to get the name of a song or what length have you gone through to find one?
Sure - after I bought everything they made suddenly everyone knows the song!
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