# Boomers! Remember this song? ca 1973... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 23, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127 "2010-08-23T02:12:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lastsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@lastsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lastsong)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/1 "2010-08-23T02:12:27Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/2 "2010-08-23T02:54:27Z")
“Glitter and Gleam”, obviously enough - Tommy Roe. Better known for “Dizzy”. If you must: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjCNMYoDNk8) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/3 "2010-08-23T03:04:27Z")
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](http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Songs-Using-Melody) Lacking an instrument or recording device, go to the searches at number 3, then select one of the sites (such as [musipedia.org](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![lastsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@lastsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lastsong)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/4 "2010-08-23T04:03:53Z")
**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! ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/5 "2010-08-23T04:36:15Z")
“Crimson and Clover” was Tommy James and the Shondells, not Tommy Roe. ---
**Author:** ![lastsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@lastsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lastsong)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/6 "2010-08-23T04:47:44Z")
> [@yabob](#): > > “Crimson and Clover” was Tommy James and the Shondells, not Tommy Roe. oops - am losing it fast… ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/7 "2010-08-23T05:55:10Z")
> [@yabob](#): > > “Crimson and Clover” was Tommy James and the Shondells, not Tommy Roe. Yeah, Tommy Roe’s big hit was _ **Sheila** _. Probably around 1960 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/8 "2010-08-23T10:30:41Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > 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](http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Songs-Using-Melody) > > Lacking an instrument or recording device, go to the searches at number 3, then select one of the sites (such as [musipedia.org](http://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. Oh man! For years I’ve wanted to be able to search by tune. Thanks for pointing these out! ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/9 "2010-08-23T13:18:47Z")
> [@lastsong](#): > > **yabob** I must be the only one twisted enough to want to remember the bubblegum… 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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2035698&postcount=457) ---
**Author:** ![lastsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@lastsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lastsong)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/10 "2010-08-24T04:15:12Z")
> [@Santos\_L\_Halper](#): > > > [@lastsong](#): > > > > **yabob** I must be the only one twisted enough to want to remember the bubblegum… > > 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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2035698&postcount=457) 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 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/11 "2010-08-24T17:45:01Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/12 "2010-08-24T18:18:13Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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”. Hmm. Well, OK, but it doesn’t count unless he faded out singing the refrain through a tremolo. ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boomers-remember-this-song-ca-1973/551127/13 "2010-08-24T19:03:44Z")
> [@lastsong](#): > > …I can remember only a few of the lyrics (and the melody, but can’t transpose music)… \*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.