What was this song? 80s or early 90s, female singer. Mainstream pop.

[Argent Towers]

OK, finally a song identification that's not for some obscure song. This one is totally mainstream, like, I hear it in supermarkets and when holding for customer service on the phone.

It sounds like it's from the 80s or early 90s with a female singer. It has a Janet Jackson-esque production sound, very heavy on the synthesized drums and other totally synthesized instrumentals. Sort of Amy Grant sounding too. The beat is a shuffle, like "My Baby Takes The Morning Train." or a slower version of "Lido Shuffle" just to name two other well known songs with shuffle beats.

I can't remember any specific lyrics other than part of the chorus which sounds like "Oooh oooh, baby I love you." Yeah I know how generic those lyrics are...but I actually don't think those are it, since a search did not bring up the song I'm thinking of. At any rate it's something that rhymes with "oooh, oooh" and then "baby, I..." and then two more syllables.

If I could just play the melody that goes with those lyrics (which are probably all wrong) you would recognize it quickly. It's a totally cloying, mainstream corporate '80s pop song that most people would probably change the radio station to avoid.

[Ponch8]

"Head to Toe" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam?

http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=head%20to%20toe%20cult%20jam&tnr=21&vid=285414981998&l=305&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D285414981998%26id%3D0735a513dd0c1e d98430e427a00f9a94%26bid%3DPuf1tpX%252bbxiGIA%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.co m%252fwatch%253fv%253dRgeuVjeOadA&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRgeuVjeOadA&sigr=11adokujp&newfp=1&tit=Lisa+Lisa+%26+the+Cult+Jam+Head+2+Toe

[It's Not Rocket Surgery!]

Is it Amy Grant, with "Baby Baby" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXuuYnoRdI)?

[needscoffee]

Use this website (http://www.melodycatcher.com/) to play the melody and it will tell you the song.

[Hippy Hollow]

From your description I would hazard a guess of Jane Child's "Don't Wanna Fall In Love": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWd__w5UWVc

[Poysyn]

Hold me now - One 2 One?

[Fear the Turtle]

Sheila E. - Glamorous Life?

[Argent Towers]

Use this website (http://www.melodycatcher.com/) to play the melody and it will tell you the song.

It couldn't identify it, but if anyone wants to hear the melody I mean, paste this into the notes bar on that website: D3 C3 A2 C3 D3 D3 C3 .

[Argent Towers]

I said in the OP that it was a shuffle beat...very distinctive kind of beat. None of the other songs that have been suggested are shuffles.

A song with a beat very similar to the one in the song I am trying to find: My Baby Takes The Morning Train. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9YwyfX33LU)

[fargingbastige]

I Touch Myself by the Divinyls

[tripthicket]

Let's try Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Y6-C-tKe8)

[Argent Towers]

That song is not a shuffle. Thanks anyway.

[Argent Towers]

You want to know what the instrumental and beat of the song sounds like? Listen to the first ten seconds of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXco4bhuaks), which is not the song in question, but has a very, very similar musical feel. You just need to listen to the first ten seconds, not the whole song.

This is nearly identical to the rhythm and sound of the song that I am trying to find. This should help narrow it down.

[needscoffee]

It couldn't identify it, but if anyone wants to hear the melody I mean, paste this into the notes bar on that website: D3 C3 A2 C3 D3 D3 C3 .??? It pulled up this: http://www.free-ringtones.uk.com/tones/ArethaFranklin_Pink_Cadillac_mono.mid

Can you play into that any other melody line from your song? Keep trying any snippets you can remember. It will find it if you have any correct melody lines.

[needscoffee]

This page gives more ways to find a missing melody, including humming it into your computer's microphone.

[pulykamell]

Shuffle, female, late 80s/early 90s... all I could think of is Alannah Myles Black Velvet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS870zCCAwM). I don't quite think it's the song given the rest of the description, but worth a shot.

[GuanoLad]

I guess it's not Amy Grant The Things We Do For Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8-wdNDiYxg), a remake of the 10cc song.

[Trion]

Rio by Duran Duran?

[needscoffee]

This page gives more ways to find a missing melody, including humming it into your computer's microphone.Oops, I forgot the link (http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Songs-Using-Melody).

[Argent Towers]

Thanks for the attempts, people, I do appreciate it. And I'm glad that people are starting to understand the shuffle part of it. Unfortunately nobody's nailed it yet.

I ask again that you listen to just the first 10 seconds of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXco4bhuaks) song, which has almost exactly the same rhythm, tempo, instrumental feel (highly synthesized, overproduced and cheesy), and maybe it'll come to you.

The song I'm thinking of was very popular and is still heard in supermarkets, waiting music for customer service numbers, etc....I bet as soon as someone figures it out (which they will, sooner or later) people will be astonished that they didn't think of it first.

[pulykamell]

OK, I'm sure this can't be it, but it fits your description other than the female vocals:

The Way You Make Me Feel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzZ_urpj4As) by Michael Jackson?

I'm sorry for insulting your intelligence, but every other bit of your description fits pretty much.

[Argent Towers]

Haha I almost wrote "it sounds the same as The Way You Make Me Feel in the last post, but I figured one song for comparison was enough.

Good ear. Keep thinking along those lines, people.

[GuanoLad]

Even if this isn't it, it's worth linking to. Duffy, Mercy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ZEVA5dy-Y).

[pulykamell]

OK...I'm hoping this is it:

True Blue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntIrUwR6F_E) by Madonna? The chorus even ends "True blue, baby I love you." This has got to be it, no?

[Argent Towers]

Yeah, that's it. Thanks. I knew someone would get it sooner or later.

[Ike Witt]

After all that, it is Ma freakin' donna?

No mind, there are some reminders of good old songs in the thread. And thanks to Poysyn, I remember that song, Hold Me Now but couldn't remember the name of the group that sang it.

[SeaDragonTattoo]

Ugh. I was so sure it was going to be "I'm Your Baby Tonight" by Whitney Houston!

[pulykamell]

Yeah, that's it. Thanks. I knew someone would get it sooner or later.

Woo hoo! "Cherish" was my initial Madonna guess, but the lyrics didn't quite fit, so I went down the catalog to see if I could find another popular shuffle by her. Lots of hit shuffles in the 80s, it seems.

[multimediac17]

'True Blue' trivia! The song is about her then-husband Sean Penn, and since they divorced Madonna has refused to perform it live or include it on any greatest hits compilations, despite it being a number one hit.

[tripthicket]

And thanks to Poysyn, I remember that song, Hold Me Now but couldn't remember the name of the group that sang it.See, now this is what I like to stumble across when reading threads like this 'un. I was thinking of Hold Me Now, same name but totally different song, done by The Thompson Twins, and was pleasantly surprised, as I'd never heard this one before. Yay!