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Is there a song you've always liked but you only recently found out who sang it?


One of mine - -

"Spill the Wine"   WAR

Posted - March 31, 2018

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  • 23576
    I've never heard this song --  I, too, think he and Presley sound similar. I like the song.
    :)

    (I never saw this movie, either.)
      April 1, 2018 5:32 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I think Super tramp ripped Terry Stafford's cover off.

      April 1, 2018 5:40 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    I never thought of that, Sharonna! Ha! 
    If I remember right, this image is from a poster for the movie "American Graffiti." I don't knowe what came first, though, regardless!
    Yeah, I looked- - the entire video is all related to the movie.
    :)
    Either way, both images are indeed similar for sure!
    :)
      April 1, 2018 5:56 PM MDT
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  • I find it harder to compare apples and oranges than you do, I guess.
      April 1, 2018 6:13 PM MDT
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  • 1633
    Great question Welby.  Well, for almost two decades, there was a song I neither knew any lyrics to nor who sang it.  For some reason I always thought it was part of Janis Ian's At Seventeen but I could never find said segment by searching any version of At Seventeen or any such song by Ian.  I had all but given up when, last year, I was listening to AOL Radio's 70's Channel and almost flipped over backwards when I heard the song and checked to find out it was Helen Reddy's Peaceful all along!  Listen and enjoy...


    This post was edited by bevo at April 1, 2018 5:33 PM MDT
      March 31, 2018 1:59 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    Thanks for the 'thumbs up' for my question, bevo! This is a lovely song --  I've never heard it. It's a lovely image of Reddy someone chose for the video, too.
      April 1, 2018 5:35 PM MDT
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  • 1633
    It is indeed a lovely song Welby which explains why I've held the tune in my head these 20 years.  I am SOOOO glad I found it again!!!
      April 1, 2018 6:18 PM MDT
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  • 1633
    I also heard this delightful tune broadcasting from the airwaves back in the early 90s but only learned maybe 3 or 4 years ago that it is titled Out Side Your Door (Talk To Me) and is sang by Me'Shell Ndegeocello.


      March 31, 2018 2:11 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    With a name spelled like that, no wonder you didn't know who sang it.
    :)

    I assume that "Me-shell" is a spelling of 'Michelle' and the singer is a woman but she sounds like a man to me, too. Either way, a sexy voice to me!

    I've not heard of this song before. Nice groove to it! Very smooth!

      April 1, 2018 5:41 PM MDT
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  • 1633
    LOL... yes, her unusual last name and also the fact that she never seemed to cross over to success in mainstream popular music.  I first heard this song on an independent fusion jazz radio station back in 1993.
      April 1, 2018 6:21 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    :)

    It's an excellent song to my ears!
      April 1, 2018 6:25 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    Another huge one from me ~

    "What's Up"  by 4 Non Blondes

    I was dumbfounded when I found out this song was from 1992 by this group! If there ever were a Revolution song from the 1960's, this is it!! I still think it sounds straight from the 60's!

    What a kick a** great song!

    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at April 1, 2018 6:14 PM MDT
      April 1, 2018 5:45 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    So many.....I hear little snips of them in films and and get my phone to listen.....if the tv doesn't have the remote nearby it's often impossible to find what I was listening to......

    Arron Neville's Crazy Love was the last one I found yesterday......I miss more than I find....:(  
      April 1, 2018 5:54 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    I can relate, Nice Jugs!
    :)
      April 1, 2018 5:57 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    It's such a wind up and so frustrating when you hear them.....
    i watched and taped two films on night...both were really good films with John Travolta in....Phenomenon and Michael....   One I knew had a song by Bonnie Raitt that was so moving...for years I thought it was in Phenomenon and watched it many times listening for it.....One night I fell asleep watching it again and was awoken when the second film came on and got nearly to the end and that very song was playing... 

    Subconsciously the music woke me up so I could find it again.....lol 
      April 1, 2018 7:03 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Have you ever heard of the Pentatonix's ......they play music with their mouths while singing as well.....:)
      April 1, 2018 5:59 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    I've only heard a few of theirs - - but I really like them!!
    :)
      April 1, 2018 6:00 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    They sound good and harmonize perfectly I think....:)  
      April 1, 2018 7:12 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    They remind me of Petra Haden -- a group of female singers. I lvoe their rendition of the theme from Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Psycho." (Bernard Herrmann's original score is, for me, the best score to any movie I've heard.)

    Anyway, even if you're unfamiliar with the music, it's a great listen and under three minutes.

    PLOT SPOILER!!! "PSYCHO"!!!!!
    However, if you haven't seen the movie, close your eyes and just listen because this video has HUGE --  and I mean HUUUGE plot spoilers to the movie.
    Except maybe watch the very first little snippet of a scene here before the music starts -- it's my favorite scene in the movie -- and Anthony Perkins is awfully handsome here!





    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at April 1, 2018 7:04 PM MDT
      April 1, 2018 6:06 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I've seen the film twice I think....and I don't know why I watched it again...I don't like violent films ....Films that depict graturitious violence just to shock are not for me....I hate images like that in my head...

    Im more It's A Wonderful Life person.....I did like Saying Private Ryan though.....it had some beautiful parts in that film....it showed the horrors of war as we'll..

     
      April 1, 2018 7:10 PM MDT
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  • 23576
    My favorite part of "Saving Private Ryan" was at almost the very beginning- -  a black gov't car is pulling up to a farmhouse drive to tell the family that some of their sons were killed in the war - -  and we see the scene, the car driving up, strangely enough, through the mother's feet/lower legs as she walks out onto the porch. I loved that scene for some reason. Very moving for some reason, too. 
      April 1, 2018 7:30 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    That scene and the one just after the American sniper shoots the German sniper through his telescopic scope..."an impossible shot by the way" ...it's the little girl that gets given to the GI's to look after.....when Tom Hanks hands  her back the little girl slaps her dads face....both so moving ,both bad me in tears...

    You loved it as as your emotions show that you are human and not evil... :) 
      April 1, 2018 8:05 PM MDT
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