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

Nope...not it. (Wildfire) Another set of ears heard from. And our next contestant....... ;D
 
Maybe your local oldies station will play Wildfire for you in its entirety if you ask.

In the alternative maybe it's Cross Eyed Mary, by Jethro Tull. ;D
 
JimPastrick said:
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!
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Hey Jim,

Yeah, I contacted the PD at WHTT. Spoke with him and he couldn't indentify the clip either. I asked him about Harv Moore and he does have an email address for Harv but was not willing to lend it out which I completely understand. So the PD offered me to email him and he would forward it to Harv and I haven't heard anything back. But I did try the 'HTT/Harv Moore route.

I can't believe that Wildfire keeps coming up. (sigh). I know it was sooooo popular at the time and unless people are listening to another aircheck cut or if they are listening to cut #11 then they're not going up to the point after Grabowski plays 'I'm Not Lisa'.

Yeah, if 'Grabowski' comes back to the board - I'd love his input but I'm certainly not gonna hold him or anyone for that matter to a tune they spun, what? 35 years ago? But would like to find the answer if we can bat this thread around some more.

I feel bad - but with respect to my fellow DJ's - It is not Wildfire. No way shape or form.

I started thinking - it wouldn't happen to be a regional song like the one 'GR used to play for the Sabres - We're Gonna Win That Cup. Or some other local novelty song and I don't think it was a 'spot'. Just grabbin' straws here but I do believe it was a regular song. Just can't believe it's not coming up in any list for the top tunes of '75, '74, '73, etc. I don't think 'YSL would have played a song that was like below the Top 100 or something.



Thanks everyone. Still searchin'.
 
oldschooler1 said:
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.
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OK, the one he wants to identify is farther into the recording. More Rag-Time and Honky-Tonk, as he said. I heard it, but have no idea what it is.
 
Okay, I have it. I don't know the answer. Maybe it's Billy Joel.
 
I was on the Billy Joel trail also...just couldn't place it. (what other mainstream artist at the time would have a piano intro like that?)
 
heydaybegone said:
I was on the Billy Joel trail also...just couldn't place it. (what other mainstream artist at the time would have a piano intro like that?)
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Being a fan, I was on the Billy Joel bus too heyday, thinking "Scenes..." or "Root Beer Rag." It doesn't connect. And who'd play "Root Beer Rag," a Billy deep-cut-B-Side unless it was... Hmmm. Still don't think so.
 
Could it be an Elton John album cut? My Elton John collection's a little sparse, so I'm unable to undertake the necessary investigation.
 
Didn't have the Elton Ivories sound.
But I didn't say it isn't.
 
I don't believe it's Elton or Billy. It has to be something obscure, like an old Johnny Rivers follow up to "Rockin' Pneumonia" or a Leo Sayer "B" side.
 
Silkie...
Nice...but only maybe. the intro on the radio play version is too short.. but the front end has the right timbre and keyboard tone.
So...I don't think so, but you're like me...can't sleep till ya get it.
 
I'm thinking midway through the song. The old west saloon piano. You, me and half the disc jockeys in the country. LOL
 
Silkie...nice digging
I think you've got the piano idea..but that release has too much vocal in the into, and throughout...that makes it a no.

Son of a .... But we'll keep trying!!

HDBG
 
Hi Everybody,

Just though I'd recycle this thread asking for this song identification. I know i had this thread out here a few months ago, but I figured it's been a little while and maybe news eyes and fresh minds, if ya'll don't mind, I thought I'd post this again and bounce it around a little bit.

Originally, I posted that this song clip came from an aircheck posted on taylorandmoore.com website. Cut #11 at the bottom of the audio
page. Someone graciously condensed this down to an 8 second clip which is here:

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzev2wfb/NameThatTune.mp3

Again, fresh minds, ears, new ears? Any ideas?

Thank you for your help:

BTW, the song is circa 1975 - early '76.

I posted the original thread and people's responses.

Bill
 
What?! You didn't drive us crazy enough the first time out? It's 10:47. Sounds like Grabber is going into a stopset. (Remember when Top 40s stopped down at 06/18/35/48?) Could be staging music or the tail-out of a commercial bed which he used for a live read, in which case all bets are off. Sounds like the music goes out "cold" and he hits the timecheck and info right on the money! Sign of a good jock and great on-air production. If it's a song, maybe John Culliton Mahoney?
 
JimPastrick said:
What?! You didn't drive us crazy enough the first time out? It's 10:47. Sounds like Grabber is going into a stopset. (Remember when Top 40s stopped down at 06/18/35/48?) Could be staging music or the tail-out of a commercial bed which he used for a live read, in which case all bets are off. Sounds like the music goes out "cold" and he hits the timecheck and info right on the money! Sign of a good jock and great on-air production. If it's a song, maybe John Culliton Mahoney?
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Had to pile on.

Jim, your explanation sounds more plausible than anything else I can imagine. You'd think with all the great minds contributing to this board someone would've figured out by now what it was.

It most definitely, most assuredly, is NOT "Wildfire" by Michael (Martin) Murphey...a song I've played in at least three formats. It has that "old ragtime" feel which was popularized by Tony Orlando & Dawn's "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" but had run out of gas by late 74's "Steppin' Out" (Goona Boogie Tonight). 1975 saw Dawn come back to a more conventional sound with "Look In My Eyes Pretty Woman" and their remake of Sam Cooke's "He Don't Love You" (Like I Love You).
The even more obvious connection would be to Marvin Hamlisch's "The Entertainer" from Spring '74. A one-hit wonder that gained traction thanks to a hit movie and Dawn having had three ragtime-styled hits paving the way.

Good production libraries often feature cuts mimicking the popular hits of the day. Now having heard the clip in light of Jim's comments...calling it a production bed makes the most sense to me. Anybody have some old WYSL airchecks from this period? That'd be a good way to verify...
 
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