by Toomas Losin » Sun Nov 10, 2013 7:52 pm
Thank you! And thanks to everyone who took a listen but couldn't ID it. I believe this was the last unidentified song fragment on the tapes I recorded from CFUN back in the late 70's.
This song must have almost disappeared from public memory because I mostly did hear the correct lyrics but a Google search did not find them. Even today, trying again, there is no luck.
There must be different edits of this song as the one on YouTube is missing the intro on my tape which I really like! Those opening licks might be similar to another song, because I was expecting one that was familiar to me from lots of airplay in the 70's and 80's rather than something I don't remember at all.
A listen to the whole song suggests to me that things must not have come together well during its creation. The music and lyrics in my fragment of the intro suggest something dark and mournful with a hint of hope but the rest of the song loses that direction with its bursts of happiness and doesn't deliver on the expectation that I had built up. I believe there's a good hit song there if the music could be reworked to deliver on that intro and be consistent in style throughout.
Sorry, underwater, I'm no help with the song you're looking for.