Boomers! Remember this song? ca 1973...

Factual Questions
1

Google is of no help on this one, so maybe you nice folks can help me out.

I can remember only a few of the lyrics (and the melody, but can’t transpose music).
Anyway:
It’s all over but the glitter and gleam (spelling?)
and the good old rock and roll…

Help?

This has been bugging me off and on for 10+ years now, and I’d really like to settle it.

Thanks!

2

“Glitter and Gleam”, obviously enough - Tommy Roe. Better known for “Dizzy”.

If you must:

3

If you really remember the melody and can’t find the words, try one of the searches noted at 3 Ways to Identify Songs Using Melody - wikiHow

Lacking an instrument or recording device, go to the searches at number 3, then select one of the sites (such as musipedia.org) using (Parsons) code, where you need only enter whether each successive note is higher or lower than or the same as the preceding one.

4

yabob - Thanks! Even with a search argument of:
“glitter and gleam” lyrics -bangles -diamonds -buffett -temptations
STILL can’t find the lyrics! I must be the only one twisted enough to want to remember the bubblegum…
And: I prefer “Crimson and Clover” as his greatest (if the term can be used)

tomndebb - Fascinating, will have to play with that when I have a month to kill.

Thanks!

5

“Crimson and Clover” was Tommy James and the Shondells, not Tommy Roe.

6

oops - am losing it fast…

7

Yeah, Tommy Roe’s big hit was Sheila. Probably around 1960 or so.

8

Oh man! For years I’ve wanted to be able to search by tune. Thanks for pointing these out!

9

Actually you’re not. Googling various permutations of the lyrics turned up a Straight Dope thread from 2002 where a previous poster was asking about the very same song:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2035698&postcount=457

10

As I said, I’ve been looking for its name for 10+ years.
yabob - why didn’t you answer in 2002? Fun times, and you missed it…

'bye now, folks

11

Tommy Roe did do a cover of “Crimson and Clover”, because I remember it being on my mom’s 8-track of Tommy Roe’s Greatest Hits, along with “Sweet Little Sheila” and “Dizzy”.

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Hmm. Well, OK, but it doesn’t count unless he faded out singing the refrain through a tremolo.

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*Transposing *music is not necessary for your search. What you would like, but cannot do, is to *transcribe *music. FYI - *transcribing *music is setting music to paper; transposing is moving it from one key to another.