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Looking for a song...

C

CrankyYankee

I received this e-mail from a fellow GI that was in Germany about the same time I was. He's looking for a song that he says was played on AFN Berlin in the early 70's.

The description he gives does not ring any bells with me, so I said I'd post it for help from y'all.
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There was a version of a song that was playing on the radio at the time you were there(West Berlin) (I arrived on 7/4/73, assigned to Co B, 4th / 6th - McNair Barracks).

The song was done by Roberta Flack and was titled, "Killing Me Softly"...only, through the chorus, there was a guy singing in the background, "There was a girl, a very pretty girl. Oh, but she was lonely, lonely. I can see her now...I can hear her cry...I can feel her reaching out, wishing there was someone by her side."

I've never heard this version of the song anywhere but in Berlin during this time. As a member of AFN, you surely remember the song...???

I'm looking for someone who had the good sense to run off a copy while it was available. Thinking that DJ's would be the ones most likely to do such a thing to add to their collection, I am hoping against hope that I have knocked on the magic door in contacting you, or perhaps you could steer me to someone

I have contacted the AFN archives, posted on military.com, and even contacted Roberta Flack, herself with no luck. She has never heard this version, either. It's beginning to seem that I'm the only one who has heard it. I promised Ms Flack that I'd send her a copy if I ever found one.

I hope you can help.
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Rather than print his e-mail address and have him spammed into next year,
I will monitor this post for any info and report back to him.

Thanks in advance for all your help!
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Hmmmm, not sure why this guy didn't just go to Google, but anyway, the song he is referring to was done by ray Conniff. It was on an album called "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" which was released on the Columbia label in 1973. the singers on that particular version are jackie Ward and Jerry Whitman. It can be purchased on CD now as a reissue along with his 1975 release "Laughter In the rain."
 
Hmmmm...I'm the guy who "didn't just go to Google".

You post implies that the answer to my question was "common knowledge", making me appear to be an idiot.

Your interest in life was obviously focused on music - which would make it "common knowledge" for you. Perhaps you were even a DJ at some radio station. You may even have built a music archives that would make even SuperStations tremble in fear. It's unlikely that you ever recorded anything, however - the only label I've ever seen "MGD" on was a bottle of beer.

I, on the other hand, was relying totally on a memory of something that happened more than 30 years ago. I was stationed in Berlin for less than a year. Considering the "off-duty" time when I would have been able to even listen to a radio, and considering the number of other songs on the playlist, and considering the randomness of one particular song to play during an equal randomness amount of time when the radio was even on, how often do you suppose I had to obtain such information as "who" or "what album"? At the time, it was just one of many songs and held no particular interest for me. It wasn't until much later that my interest in that particular song piqued, and without the benefit of having your "common knowledge" I had to start from the beginning of nowhere.

All the same, I'm not ungrateful for your information, either.

I thank you.



> Hmmmm, not sure why this guy didn't just go to Google, but
> anyway, the song he is referring to was done by ray Conniff.
> It was on an album called "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life"
> which was released on the Columbia label in 1973. the
> singers on that particular version are jackie Ward and Jerry
> Whitman. It can be purchased on CD now as a reissue along
> with his 1975 release "Laughter In the rain."
>
 
Hi Starmerchant. My intent was certainly not to try to make you seem like an idiot. Honestly it wasn't. The reason why I mentioned Google at all is because that's how i found the answer to your question. I simply typed in some of the lyrics that you mentioned in your post, and learned that the song was called "there Was a Girl, Killing Me Softly." Armed with that information, I did another google search by that song title and found several on-line sites that are selling the Ray Conniff CD in question. I guess I could have worded my post better. What I meant was that with all of the hard work and tenacity that you put into locating this recording, the answer was available through a Google search all along. I really only wanted to help. Can we shake hands?
 
Buy me a cup of coffee and you've got a deal. :eek:)




> Hi Starmerchant. My intent was certainly not to try to make
> you seem like an idiot. Honestly it wasn't. The reason why
> I mentioned Google at all is because that's how i found the
> answer to your question. I simply typed in some of the
> lyrics that you mentioned in your post, and learned that the
> song was called "there Was a Girl, Killing Me Softly."
> Armed with that information, I did another google search by
> that song title and found several on-line sites that are
> selling the Ray Conniff CD in question. I guess I could
> have worded my post better. What I meant was that with all
> of the hard work and tenacity that you put into locating
> this recording, the answer was available through a Google
> search all along. I really only wanted to help. Can we
> shake hands?
>
 
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