# 80s Song Identification Help Desired **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001 "2009-01-26T02:19:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FrustratedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@FrustratedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrustratedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/1 "2009-01-26T02:19:31Z")
I Googled first, but didn’t find anything. I heard a song on the radio the other day that I remember hearing as a child. I think the song was released in the 80s. The lyrics (as I remember them) are roughly: “If I don’t find my (great place?)” repeated several times Can anyone identify this song? ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/2 "2009-01-26T02:36:40Z")
Under The Cherry Moon by Prince ---
**Author:** ![FrustratedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@FrustratedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrustratedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/3 "2009-01-26T03:30:54Z")
> [@fifty-six](#): > > Under The Cherry Moon > > by Prince Definitely not that song. It’s nothing edgy; it’s something you might hear when an Adult Contemporary station decides to mix in 80s music. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/4 "2009-01-26T03:33:29Z")
Rio, by Duran Duran? (first in!) ---
**Author:** ![FrustratedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@FrustratedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrustratedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/5 "2009-01-26T03:36:30Z")
> [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](#): > > Rio, by Duran Duran? > > (first in!) Not that song either. I’ve always liked that song, though! ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/6 "2009-01-26T03:59:49Z")
Lost in Your Eyes, by Debbie Gibson? Lyrics aren’t exactly the same but maybe…? ---
**Author:** ![FrustratedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@FrustratedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrustratedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/7 "2009-01-26T04:01:53Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > Lost in Your Eyes, by Debbie Gibson? Lyrics aren’t exactly the same but maybe..? No, the song I’m thinking of has a male singer doing the chorus. His voice sounds something like Howard Jones’s voice in “Everlasting Love,” I think. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/8 "2009-01-26T04:05:03Z")
Any more details? Maybe the gender of the singer might help? ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/9 "2009-01-26T04:11:12Z")
Precious and Few by Climax Blues Band? or older than you thought…and Sunburn by Fuel…? No idea what these sound like, going only by the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![FrustratedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@FrustratedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrustratedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/10 "2009-01-26T04:13:54Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > Precious and Few by Climax Blues Band? > or older than you thought..and Sunburn by Fuel..? > No idea what these sound like, going only by the lyrics. No, not those. I have Google "if I don’t find my . . . " to no success. I’m thinking it’s a mondegreen and the (male) singer is actually singing something else. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/11 "2009-01-26T04:17:01Z")
> [@FrustratedIdiot](#): > > No, not those. I have Google "if I don’t find my . . . " to no success. I’m thinking it’s a mondegreen and the (male) singer is actually singing something else. I was thinking something similar. That’s why I was searching for “if I can’t find my home” and got some hits. No clue where to go from here though. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/12 "2009-01-26T04:21:33Z")
> [@FrustratedIdiot](#): > > No, the song I’m thinking of has a male singer doing the chorus. His voice sounds something like Howard Jones’s voice in “Everlasting Love,” I think. You’re not thinking of [If You Leave](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJfKyHR5-1M) by OMD, are you? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/13 "2009-01-26T04:24:03Z")
Does the radio station have a website? If you remember approximately at what time you heard the song, many stations have their playlist for the last several days up. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/14 "2009-01-26T06:16:18Z")
Do you have an approx 80s date. Like first, middel or end of the 80s? You said it was a man, do you have another singer who closely resembles the style? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/15 "2009-01-26T07:48:50Z")
This thread inspired me to look upon google once again, and I have struck pay dirt in the form of music that I had no idea who sang it , or even the correct title. The problem has become that iTunes does not carry the music so I am curious what other music download sites are there, of the legal variety. Song number one that had me stumped was a response to Oran Juice Jones, the rain. It turns out that the song was called thunder and lightning , but the artist is in doubt. Its either Chocolate Milk mama, or Cadi , or Candi Shannon. Youtube has the artist as Miss Thang ,but what ever. The second song was called Roses are red , by the Mac Band which came out in 88, iTunes has only a karoke version and the actual band ,but only in video. Whats napster like now a days , legit as far as giving them money ? The software okay as far as no malware and the like ? Anything else I may have missed. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/16 "2009-01-26T07:51:29Z")
> [@FrustratedIdiot](#): > > I Googled first, but didn’t find anything. > > I heard a song on the radio the other day that I remember hearing as a child. I think the song was released in the 80s. > > The lyrics (as I remember them) are roughly: > > “If I don’t find my (great place?)” repeated several times > > Can anyone identify this song? This might sound kinda far out , but do you remember who the president was ,when you first heard that song. Sometimes I miss decade the songs , either being late seventies or early nineties and think they were 80s. Declan ---
**Author:** ![FrustratedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@FrustratedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrustratedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/17 "2009-01-26T17:43:10Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > You’re not thinking of [If You Leave](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJfKyHR5-1M) by OMD, are you? No, the song’s more upbeat than that. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/18 "2009-01-26T17:50:41Z")
[My Brave Face](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3oa6dWL320), Paul McCartney? Start at 1:50-ish. ---
**Author:** ![FrustratedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@FrustratedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrustratedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/19 "2009-01-26T17:55:20Z")
> [@Susie\_Derkins](#): > > [My Brave Face](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3oa6dWL320), Paul McCartney? Start at 1:50-ish. That’s it, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-song-identification-help-desired/483001/20 "2009-01-26T18:00:31Z")
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