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Need Help Identifying A Song. I'd Know It If I Heard The Title...

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Bill Myers

Wonder if I can employ the help of all you music experts --
There's a website that Harv Moore and Robert W. Taylor host.

It's called www.taylorandmoore.com

Click on the Audio portion. Then scroll down to the bottom to
the Buffalo Radio Roots section. Click on cut #11. 3 minutes into the
aircheck, Grabowski is backselling I'm Not Lisa - Jessie Colter.
Then does a weather check over a song with a big piano intro.
Would anyone know the name of that song? It sounds so familiar
and I probably haven't heard it in 30 years - just can't place the name of it.
Can someone give it a listen and see if you can identify the song please?
I know the audio isn't all that great plus 'that guy on the radio is talking all over the intro!!' - and it's only, like 8 seconds, but if you
could give a listen and tell me what the song is you can give my brain a rest now - cuz it's naggin' me what the song is. Thanks so much.

Unfortunately, I don't have a prize to give away except for maybe a sticker on an album that says Twin Fair $2.49. Or a Super Saver sticker on a New Christy Minstrels album I got at Cavages where records and tapes are sold. :) I think I might even have a 3-pack of
Certron cassette tapes I got at Two Guys.

Seriously, thanks for giving it a listen.

Bill
 
I don't have the answer to your question, but oh gosh, what a find this website is! I'd been unaware of it 'til tonite.

It's 1045PM and I know I'll be here 'til the wee small hours, because I've just started listening. The Buffalo Radio Roots page on taylorandmoore.com is a breathtaking whirlwind of memory flashes of a zillion ephemeral, yet vivid like yesterday snippets of all the reasons why we're infatuated beyond reason with radio. A moment past the open on Clip #1, we hear the legendary Debaser intro-ing Jim Pastrick, then Pastrick smokin' the intro of Dance to the Music. Later in, it's the Magic Christian, Shane Brother Shane, Bob McRae, Jackson......whew! And a bunch o' pop tops, too.

I'm not one to long for the past. But after hearing these airchecks, I wanna jump in the wayback machine and savor a nice, slow 60s 70s 80s Buffalo bandscan. Radio in the Queen City was major league. Back then, I really didn't appreciate the beautiful magic of that style of radio. It slipped away while we weren't paying attention.

Nick Seneca
 
Having not heard the audio, i am aware that Barry Manilow had a song on the charts around the same time with a long piano intro called "Could it be Magic"!
 
I'll be back to this site as well. Stumped on the piano on cut 13...however I just picked out a second-and-a-half of "Last Kiss" by Wednesday on cut 1.

Speaking of the obscure: Anybody catch "Run Joey Run" on this week's "Glee"? I about fell out of my chair. Did ANYONE continue playing that one after its chart run?
 
chas108 said:
I'll be back to this site as well. Stumped on the piano on cut 13...however I just picked out a second-and-a-half of "Last Kiss" by Wednesday on cut 1.

Speaking of the obscure: Anybody catch "Run Joey Run" on this week's "Glee"? I about fell out of my chair. Did ANYONE continue playing that one after its chart run?
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The infamous "Run Joey Run". I remember Jon Summers (sp?) describing it on KB as the worst song he'd ever heard. There used to be a video for the song on Youtube before the record company had it taken down. What harm having that video on Youtube is beyond me but it was as cheesy as the song. Sorry, now back to THIS thread... ;)
 
Bill Myers said:
Wonder if I can employ the help of all you music experts --
There's a website that Harv Moore and Robert W. Taylor host.

It's called www.taylorandmoore.com

Click on the Audio portion. Then scroll down to the bottom to
the Buffalo Radio Roots section. Click on cut #11. 3 minutes into the
aircheck, Grabowski is backselling I'm Not Lisa - Jessie Colter.
Then does a weather check over a song with a big piano intro.
Would anyone know the name of that song? It sounds so familiar
and I probably haven't heard it in 30 years - just can't place the name of it.
Can someone give it a listen and see if you can identify the song please?
I know the audio isn't all that great plus 'that guy on the radio is talking all over the intro!!' - and it's only, like 8 seconds, but if you
could give a listen and tell me what the song is you can give my brain a rest now - cuz it's naggin' me what the song is. Thanks so much.

Unfortunately, I don't have a prize to give away except for maybe a sticker on an album that says Twin Fair $2.49. Or a Super Saver sticker on a New Christy Minstrels album I got at Cavages where records and tapes are sold. :) I think I might even have a 3-pack of
Certron cassette tapes I got at Two Guys.

Seriously, thanks for giving it a listen.

Bill
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It would help if we could download it and play that portion again and again.
That aircheck is sooooo 1975. I did hear the album version intro for "Wildfire" near the start, which is a nice tinkly piano intro. THAT song itself, IMHO, is up there with "seasons in the sun" and "I've never been to me."

But what's it mean when some of your favorite songs show up on this list?:http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/WORST.html
 
But what's it mean when some of your favorite songs show up on this list?:
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It means you ignore the list, find a different list, or make up your own list. ;D
 
I'm surprised "Run Joey Run" didn't make the list, then again that could be its obscurity due to its having never made it to recurrent in most markets, and David Geddes' follow up "The Last Game Of The Season" (A Blind Man In The Bleachers) peaked at #18 before both he and his music disappeared forever.

Most of these selections I can see on this list, even the ones I like (yeah there are a few). Only 2-3 have me shaking my head: "Let Her Cry" and "The Logical Song".
 
No it's not Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy. Although a good guess considering the magnificient piano intro - but that's not it. I checked it on Youtube thinking maybe it was an extended version of the song - but that's not it.

Thanks for helping atombaum.
If anyone else has an idea drop in. I hate it when a song bugs ya and ya can't get it out of your head. This instance - I know the song but can't place the song title and the last time I heard it was probably a good 35 years ago. I wonder if Grabowski is lingering around if he has an idea since he spun it.. (Just kiddin'). :)

Thanks again.
 
Yes, it is indeed Wildfire, by Michael Martin Murphey

Not often you get to hear the piano intro, but it is definitely Wildfire. I recognized it right away. Try the Michael Martin Murphey official website. The piano greets you at the site. I did not consider it prudent to put my CD on here. Here is his website:

http://www.michaelmartinmurphey.com/
 
With all due respect to all involved...that piano in that clip has more of a old-timey, ragtime feel than "Wildfire". It's not "Wildfire".

Having visited the Michael Martin Murphey site, I must vent...but with the understanding that many record contracts are written so as to make it advantageous for an artist to re-record their classics:

The "Wildfire" that greets you on the MMM site is not the original recording. Listen to the slower tempo, emphasized by the "ritards" in-between each phrase which is played "a tempo". So many artists from Gallery to Crispian St. Peters to Badfinger to Eddie Rabbitt have re-recorded their classic hits. I'll always feel like it's drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa.
 
I'm stumped. From the first time I heard this clip I thought "Ferrante and Teischer" or Henry Mancini. It really does almost have that majestic sort of movie soundtrack feel to it. From the way I hear it, the piano is almost baby grandish as opposed to barroom/raggy.The clip appears to date from the spring/summer of 75, and I can find nothing in the Top 40 at that time that seems even close to this -- of course it could have been an oldie for the housewives, and it certainly has an MOR feel to it, to my way of thinking. Barry M? Nope. Neil Sedaka? Nada. Definitely not Wildfire. I'm aching to know, but I'm out of bullets on this.
 
We do hear Wildfire in the aircheck, but it's not the clip he needs help identifying. The piano intro is towards the end, and the jock is talking over it.
 
Bill asked me if I could figure this out. I too worked it through. It didn't sound like Wildfire (and I played both versions, the one with the elegant piano intro and the edited version which begins just afterward.) Grabowski visited this board a year or so ago to let folks here know he's doing well and IIRC, working AC at a suburban DC station, perhaps Fredericksburg, Va. He's not using the name Grabowski, but if you can locate that thread or get in touch with Harv Moore, I think the puzzle is officially and indisputably solved. Bon chance!
 
It's the intro to Wildfire, by Michael Martin Murphy. It is also the outro. So, you have the in and out of it all.
 
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