# Half forgotten old songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 13, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840 "2024-06-13T17:24:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/161 "2024-06-21T20:43:54Z")
Loved Macy’s unique voice. According to the sidebar on the video, she’s currently touring. Her and Fantasia should do a squeaky voiced duet. ---
**Author:** ![sb1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@sb1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sb1953)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/162 "2024-06-21T20:46:00Z")
LOve that song! Have not heard it sine 1975! Thank you ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/163 "2024-06-21T20:50:15Z")
before his voice went out for almost a decade people forget that lionel ritchie was starting to build a nice country career here’s one of them > **[Deep River Woman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_River_Woman)** > > "Deep River Woman" is a song written by American R&B artist Lionel Richie and recorded by Richie with American country music band Alabama. It was released in November 1986 as the fourth single from Richie's album Dancing on the Ceiling as double A-side with "Ballerina Girl". The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number 71 on the Hot 100. > On Richie's 2012 duets album, Tuskegee, he re-recorded the song with Little Big Town. It charted on the Hot Country Songs ... there was more he was going to do but voice problems intervened ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/164 "2024-06-21T22:04:17Z")
I’ll see your **Deep River Woman** and raise you a **Sweet City Woman** …and macaroons. [The Stampeders - Sweet City Woman (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRjl3SWC2U) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/165 "2024-06-21T23:27:38Z")
Mama Told Me Not To Come. I Think I Love You. Dizzy. ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/166 "2024-06-21T23:45:41Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/89eEa3RvCF4/maxresdefault.jpg "The Spiral Starecase - More Today Than Yesterday (Official Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89eEa3RvCF4) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/167 "2024-06-22T02:52:03Z")
The band’s name, Double, was pronounced doo-blay. I think they were Swiss or Austrian. I also liked the song enough, I purchased the album on cassette. “Captain Of Her Heart,” one other okay song, and the rest was filler. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/168 "2024-06-22T03:02:55Z")
I bought the album before “Don’t Bring Me Down” was released as a single. I knew the first time I heard it that it would be a big hit. My own personal favorite ELO song is “Do Ya.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/169 "2024-06-22T03:17:44Z")
And now the 00s, because it’s been 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/170 "2024-06-22T15:51:46Z")
Someone posted on my FB timeline. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yr-vZKBMx-o/maxresdefault.jpg "Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Hope That We Can Be Together Soon (Official Soul Train Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr-vZKBMx-o) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/171 "2024-06-22T15:56:23Z")
This video is remarkable for several reasons. Firstly, it seems as if the vocals are actually live. Soul Train was notorious for terrible lip syncing. Secondly, look at Teddy Pendergrass upright and young! Thirdly, that 70’s flip on Sharon Paige puts Donna Pescow’s flip to shame. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/172 "2024-06-22T18:26:04Z")
I was thinking Farrah had a lot to answer for. That reminds me of this song [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LNi7oFaoyJM/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHeA4AC6AKKAgwIABABGGUgVihKMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAjaXwF254COJQxjeL4t-6EpTXO7A "The Spinners Games People Play") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNi7oFaoyJM) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/173 "2024-06-22T18:40:32Z")
This is one of my favorite songs of all time and is never far from my playlist. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/174 "2024-06-23T00:00:34Z")
Since I was driving today and listened to sizeable chunk of my collection all day, I nominate these gems: Dead Skunk Junk Food Junkie Chevy Van Alone Again naturally ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/175 "2024-06-23T01:39:37Z")
I started a thread about this a while back. I’m probably not the only one. > [@Rediscovering obscure old songs from your youth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234): > > Isn’t it fun when you do that? I’m thinking about that because several days ago, I stumbled onto this wonderful song that I used to hear late at night on the AOR station as a tween in the late 1970s; they would play what we now call “deep tracks”, and there were some songs that I never found out who did them or what they were called. This particular one is “Fountains” by the Midwestern prog band Starcastle. I knew they had released two albums (and owned them at one time or another) but not th… ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/176 "2024-06-23T18:20:11Z")
Heh, one that I was reminded of by someone having a similar guitar tone. Jorgen Ingmann (and his tape echo) - Echo Boogie. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/44J7lQR3z9s/maxresdefault.jpg "Jörgen Ingmann - Echo Boogie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44J7lQR3z9s) ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/177 "2024-06-23T19:54:08Z")
We were driving along today and to our great surprise one of our three local Classic Rock stations played “Dolly Dagger” by Jimi Hendrix. It was a track from his 1971 posthumous album “Rainbow Bridge.” In 53 years I don’t believe I have ever heard that on the radio. There’s only a handful of Hendrix tunes that get occasional play, and we all know what they are: “Purple Haze,” “Hey Joe,” “Foxy Lady,” “All Along the Watchtower” and perhaps “The Wind Cries Mary” and “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return).” “Dolly Dagger” is never among those. The station is automated on weekends, so it wasn’t like there was a jock veering off the playlist. Needless to say, we were delighted! ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/178 "2024-06-23T20:23:44Z")
This is about a song that was half-forgotten by Mr. brown, not me. I was driving by myself and a local nonprofit station played a song that I had never heard before. The singer was instantly identifiable as Mick Jagger, and it had a cool slide guitar intro. I asked Mr. brown about it, who couldn’t think of what it might be, but after I Googled a line or two of the lyrics, I identified it as _Memo From Turner_. It wasn’t a Rolling Stones song, but a Mick Jagger and Ry Cooder song from a movie called _Performance_, dated 1970. Mr. brown vaguely remembered hearing it way back when, but had pretty much forgotten all about it. He immediately brought it up on youtube and was delighted to hear it again. It’s a pretty cool song. It reminds me a lot of _Sympathy For The Devil_. [Here it is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pItzBEzzBm0). ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/179 "2024-06-23T20:29:24Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > I identified it as _Memo From Turner_. It wasn’t a Rolling Stones song, but a Mick Jagger and Ry Cooder song from a movie called _Performance_, dated 1970. Yeah, that’s a real rarity I would never expect to hear on the radio. It’s on the Stones’ singles collection “The London Years”, a three CD box set that came out in the late eighties IIRC (great collection btw.), but doesn’t appear anywhere else in the Stones catalog. Cool song, the movie not so much. I saw it some time in the eighties, and it was a rather boring arthouse movie, typical of its time. Jagger and Anita Pallenberg were the lead actors, Anita being Brian Jones’ former and Keith Richards’ current girlfriend and soon to be wife, but Mick and Anita having sex scenes in the movie seemingly caused some, let’s say, irritation between Keith and Mick. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840/180 "2024-06-23T20:35:11Z")
I’ll occasionally hear “Fire” from the Hendrix catalog on our local classic rock station. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-forgotten-old-songs/1002840.md?page=10)