Help Identifying Two Songs Please

Cafe Society
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I apologize in advance for my complete and utter lack of understanding music, and for my inability to adequately describe it. Please bear with me. Feel free to use this virtual keyboard if it helps. Here we go…

The first song I’m trying to identify is soft rock, probably from the late 70’s ~ early 80’s, and I think it might possibly be Steely Dan. All I can remember is three notes, and they sound something like this:

1st Note: E1
2nd Note: E1
3rd Note: A chord with D#, G, D#1.

So this: E1-E1-Chord

One or more male voices are singing, and it sounds vaguely like “Now I know” or “Now and then.” But I could be totally wrong.

The next song is instrumental, and it’s a silly elevator-music-ish tune. It’s played frequently as background music during clips of people doing stupid things. If I were to upload a Youtube video of teh kittehs romping about, I might put it in the background.

Imagine short notes from a wind instrument (I think it might be a clarinet or an oboe), something like this:

C-E-F#-A [beat] A-G-F#-D [and then a sequence of ten notes that I won’t even begin to try to replicate]

Are these ringing bells (heh) for anyone?

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Utilizing my one BUMP.

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OK, I will take a wild assed guess at the first one: How about “Don’t Take Me Alive” by Steely Dan?

If I am completely wrong, please accept my free bump. :smiley:

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Steely Dan’s **Peg **has a groove that sort of fits your description.

I don’t think it’s an E chord but it follows a Chord 1, Chord 1—Chord 2 progression as the main groove.

You’ll have to wait until after the intro. Also the lyrics don’t match what you’re talking about but it’s very easy to misremember these things.

Peg

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Okay, here’s my wild-ass stab in the dark… not instrumental, but it’s got some of the same elements you’re describing…

Edited to say that I’m trying for the second song you mentioned… and that I have no idea why there’d be a connection between this song and video clips of people doing strange things, but… it’s a shot.

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I tried it on the keyboard and ‘Peg’ was my first thought as well.
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Definitely not Peg. and definitely not that Rolling Stones tune. Thanks for the guesses, guys.

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Here is my guess at the second song, based on your description rather than the actual notes so again, I may be way off.

Merry Ocarina

I saw this song mentioned in another thread here and for some reason after I played the sample it got saved to my music library and it comes up every once in a while when I am in shuffle mode.

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Not the song I asked about, but that was fun to listen to! Thanks for that. :cool:

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The second song described in the OP is in this clip, at 26:06

http://www.trutv.com/tveverywhere/index.html#!/49784/840426

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Which video is it? The link is taking me to a whole page of “World’s Dumbest” video links.

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Probably way off, but the classic music for people doing stupid things is Yakety Sax, AKA the “Benny Hill” music. But, I can’t read music, so there’s that problem.

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Now I can’t get “Peg” out of my head. Sorry that I don’t know what you are looking for, but thanks for the neat link to the virtual keyboard.

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Oh Sorry. I thought it went directly to the appropriate video. World’s Dumbest Motorheads 2

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Confirmed to be Diamond Girl by Seals & Crofts, thanks to a friend at church racking his brain last night and then pulling up Youtube on his iPhone. So I had the band wrong, the words wrong, and I was off by a decade. Perhaps a musicologist can confirm for me whether or not I got the notes remotely right?