I'm listening to a song from the 1980s but I don't have a clue what it is - not the song title, performing artist or anything. Is anyone here quite good with songs from that era? I tried playing it on song recognition software but they drew a blank. I also tried the input of whole chunks of the lyrics but that drew a blank, also. It's not the best song ever but it's bugging me because I don't know what it is. I recorded it on to a cassette myself in the 1980s, possibly the sound from a VHS video of hits. I've never really been into fringe artists so I'd expect it to be a reasonably mainstream artist.

What the best way of presenting the track here? Can I upload an mp3 file, or perhaps I could upload a "video" with sound only to vimeo. Or use dropbox? What's the best way?

Quote from: Gav Iscon on November 26, 2014, 08:51 PM
Type some of the lyrics into google. That sometimes comes back with the answer.

Gav - thanks for the suggestion but, as I said above, I already tried and, for once, it failed.

Quote from: livo on November 27, 2014, 05:09 AM
Type some here and maybe someone can help.

yeah
got me interested too

Thank you for your interest and offers of help everyone. The people here are great. Last night I sent Gav Iscon the sound file and he found it within seconds! As he said:

"You didn't try hard enough George.

I got it googling 'All I am is loving you baby'"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1snPffX9do

I googled that phrase and several other lines of lyrics about 2 years ago, when I first converted my cassette into digital format. I can't understand how gooogle came up with the result for Gav Iscon, but not for me! It only reached no 58 in the chart in 1985 but I think it's quite catchy.

Has anyone here heard it before, and would you have known it, without searching for lyrics?

Quote from: livo on November 27, 2014, 08:12 PM
I would not have been able to help. Never heard it before.

It was very good of you and others to offer to help - much appreciated.

As Gav (Stew) pointed out, the version I captured is a different mix, and I think it sounds better than the youtube version.

Here's another song I really rate - Take a Chance With Me by Roxy Music. Whoever wrote and arranged this track (Ferry?) is a genius. I think it's their best song. Typically I like just 3 or 4 songs from each artist. Anyway, here is Bryan Ferry live at Glastonbury in 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLUVcmDVDoM

I'm not sure if the screen will appear or just a link. If not, how do you get the screen to appear?