KMCQ 104.5

[ker]

hello,
i realize this is not a new subject, however, i just came across this website today while trying to find this radio station on the web.
they played a song i have been waiting to hear for the last 20 years, hoping i'd find out the artist and song title.
it is driving me crazy that i can't even find a phone # for this radio station. i can only find references that it's a high school
station?! and an address in enumclaw? please does anyone have contact information so i don't have to wait another
20 some odd years to find out who this artist & song is?!!!
thanks

 

[Grindlfan]

hello,
i realize this is not a new subject, however, i just came across this website today while trying to find this radio station on the web.
they played a song i have been waiting to hear for the last 20 years, hoping i'd find out the artist and song title.
it is driving me crazy that i can't even find a phone # for this radio station. i can only find references that it's a high school
station?! and an address in enumclaw? please does anyone have contact information so i don't have to wait another
20 some odd years to find out who this artist & song is?!!!
thanks

Give us a few clues about the song and maybe we can help you out. Is it a ballad, a more uptempo song, a rocker? Lyrics would help. I love this kind of challenge.

 

[Lonely Summer]

I'm good at this - used to work at a record store, and lifelong musician. "I can name this song in 3 notes!"

 

[Grindlfan]

Former record store person here too! Used to love it when customers would come in with questions about songs and not know the artist or title. They would always be so thrilled when we could figure out what they were looking for.

 

[ker]

ok.... well it has the refrain 'lay down, lay down, lay it on down let the (white bird is what it sounds like).... something something... it sounds early to mid 70's sort of jefferson airplane era... and the singer sounds a bit like that guy who sounds like a girl when he sings 'hot child in city' exept this person is probably female and the voice is a little higher pitched.... how's that for 'can you find a book that was on your bargain table last year and it had a big yellow dot on black cover' kind of description. if any of you can figure it out then you deserve some sort of award... it was playing on 104.5 sometime between 2:30 pm and 3:00pm... i appreciate this!!!
k

 

[semoochie]

"Candles in the Rain" by Melanie

 

[Bongwater]

ok.... well it has the refrain 'lay down, lay down, lay it on down let the (white bird is what it sounds like).... something something... it sounds early to mid 70's sort of jefferson airplane era... and the singer sounds a bit like that guy who sounds like a girl when he sings 'hot child in city' exept this person is probably female and the voice is a little higher pitched.... how's that for 'can you find a book that was on your bargain table last year and it had a big yellow dot on black cover' kind of description. if any of you can figure it out then you deserve some sort of award... it was playing on 104.5 sometime between 2:30 pm and 3:00pm... i appreciate this!!!
k

I think you're referring to "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" Melanie.......

 

[placebo1969]

ok.... well it has the refrain 'lay down, lay down, lay it on down let the (white bird is what it sounds like).... something something... it sounds early to mid 70's sort of jefferson airplane era... and the singer sounds a bit like that guy who sounds like a girl when he sings 'hot child in city' exept this person is probably female and the voice is a little higher pitched.... how's that for 'can you find a book that was on your bargain table last year and it had a big yellow dot on black cover' kind of description. if any of you can figure it out then you deserve some sort of award... it was playing on 104.5 sometime between 2:30 pm and 3:00pm... i appreciate this!!!
k

I think you're referring to "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" Melanie.......

Missed by 58 seconds.

 

[Grindlfan]

Excellent my fellow audiophiles. You all beat me to the punch. btw Ker, Nick Gilder is the singer of Hot Child in The City in case you wanted to know that as well.

 

[SeattleObserver]

The number for the station is 360-802-4405 apparently. It's a cell prefix from what I understand.
The e-mail is [email protected] (which is Windoze Live...)

 

[ker]

you guys are awesome! thank you thank you thank you! that's the one!

 

[Lonely Summer]

I had a friend back in the day that was a huge Melanie fan. Bought every album of hers twice. Bought them once, then had the religious conversion "gotta through out all that evil rock and roll" thing and sold them all, then mellowed later on and bought them all again. BTW, that's the Edwin Hawkins Singers ("Oh Happy Day") backing up Melanie on "Lay Down". Best song she ever did.

 

[Bongwater]

I had a friend back in the day that was a huge Melanie fan. Bought every album of hers twice. Bought them once, then had the religious conversion "gotta through out all that evil rock and roll" thing and sold them all, then mellowed later on and bought them all again. BTW, that's the Edwin Hawkins Singers ("Oh Happy Day") backing up Melanie on "Lay Down". Best song she ever did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Safka

Here's more (the page automatically loads and plays the song)

http://mokpo-pride.tistory.com/entry/Melanie-Safka-Lay-DownCandles-In-The-Rain

Enjoy!

 

[Shark]

BTW, that's the Edwin Hawkins Singers ("Oh Happy Day") backing up Melanie on "Lay Down". Best song she ever did.

Well, it sure beats the hell out of "Brand New Key".

 

[Grindlfan]

BTW, that's the Edwin Hawkins Singers ("Oh Happy Day") backing up Melanie on "Lay Down". Best song she ever did.

Well, it sure beats the hell out of "Brand New Key".

I actually like Brand New Key, but it in no way compares to Lay Down. It is unfortunate that Key is the hit Melanie is mainly associated with when she had many better records. Sort of like Chuck Berry and that horrible My Ding-a-Ling. I hated that record when I was a little kid and I still hate it today. It is sinful that it was the biggest hit of his career.

 

[Lonely Summer]

I saw Chuck do "Ding-A-Ling" at the Tacoma Dome back in '84 and it was hilarious seeing this arena full of adults singing this 5th grade ditty, but it in no way compares with Chuck classics - "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven", "School Days", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Johnny B. Goode", "Memphis Tennessee", "Carol", "Little Queenie", "Nadine"...geez, there's so many of them! Chuck was THE songwriter of rock's early years.

 

[Bongwater]

BTW, that's the Edwin Hawkins Singers ("Oh Happy Day") backing up Melanie on "Lay Down". Best song she ever did.

Well, it sure beats the hell out of "Brand New Key".

I actually like Brand New Key, but it in no way compares to Lay Down. It is unfortunate that Key is the hit Melanie is mainly associated with when she had many better records. Sort of like Chuck Berry and that horrible My Ding-a-Ling. I hated that record when I was a little kid and I still hate it today. It is sinful that it was the biggest hit of his career.

For me, I always thought that "Brand New Key" sounded like what Janis Joplin would have sounded like if she had chewed bubble gum instead of drank Southern Comfort..........

 

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

I saw Chuck do "Ding-A-Ling" at the Tacoma Dome back in '84...

I remember that concert. I think it was the same one where C. Berry picked up the guitar <--> amp cord and it was about 6 or 8 feet long and he held it up to the audience with a WTF look!! Audience boo'ed and the stage hand who clearly didn't "get the gag" came out with a much longer cord so Berry could do the trademark "moves".

As I recall it was a "reunion" type show where O'Day was M.C. and they had a bunch of acts like the old days where each would come on and do a couple of hits and then next act would come on and do their one or two hits, etc.

 

[Lonely Summer]

I saw Chuck do "Ding-A-Ling" at the Tacoma Dome back in '84...

I remember that concert. I think it was the same one where C. Berry picked up the guitar <--> amp cord and it was about 6 or 8 feet long and he held it up to the audience with a WTF look!! Audience boo'ed and the stage hand who clearly didn't "get the gag" came out with a much longer cord so Berry could do the trademark "moves".

As I recall it was a "reunion" type show where O'Day was M.C. and they had a bunch of acts like the old days where each would come on and do a couple of hits and then next act would come on and do their one or two hits, etc.

Yep, lots of acts on that show, but the only ones I remember besides Chuck (who was far and away the best of the bunch, despite a weak backup band) were Jerry Lee Lewis and the Coasters. Jerry Lee was in a pissy mood. He played several of his country hits, and fans were yelling for "Whole Lotta Shakin" and "Great Balls", and Jerry Lee said "nobody tells the Killer what to play!" There was a steady procession towards the exits during his set.