# Help me find a song

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-song/753676>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 2, 2016, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-song/753676 "2016-05-02T09:59:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-song/753676/1 "2016-05-02T09:59:02Z")

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In 1978 I found out the guy I’d been dating had just asked another woman to marry him. I was… distraught.

I decided to take a drive. I got stuff ready, you know, snacks, a few cassette tapes.

The car was packed and I was leaving in the morning. Ok, it was going to be a looong drive.

I went out with some friends, dinner, drinks the night before. In the middle of one of those drinks, a very pretty man walked up to me and said, “I can’t stop staring at you.” I, having never heard this line before, said, “Why, is there something between my teeth?”

He was great, but I had a drive to make. I left the next morning in better spirits than I’d been in for a long time.

On one of the road tapes, I’d recorded the song _On and On_ by Steven Bishop. There’s the problem. It wasn’t being sung by Steven Bishop.

This all happened in Kansas City MO. The artist was probably a local talent. I know it was September, because They closed Yellowstone behind me because the first winter storm of the season was following me.

Google failed me. Only you can help.

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**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-song/753676/2 "2016-05-02T10:20:28Z")

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Here is a list of some of the performers who have recorded covers of that song:

AIRLINES  
ASWAD  
BISHOP S  
BISHOPSTEPHEN  
CHACKSFIELD F  
CHUCK LOEB  
COLBY M  
FOX JOHN  
GRISMAN D  
HARLEY BROS  
HO ONU A  
JEFF HAMILTON TRIO  
JOHN FOX  
JOHNSON S  
LAINE C  
LOEB C  
MAGNETRONICS  
RANKIN K  
REDSTON D  
SEEBURG  
STEPHEN BISHOP

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-song/753676/3 "2016-05-02T13:26:06Z")

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The Electric Light Orchestra also had “Take Me On and On,” which was on their 1983 _Secret Messages_ album: [Electric Light Orchestra - Take Me On And On (Audio) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1mVencp4Zo)

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**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:** [May 2, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-song/753676/4 "2016-05-02T14:07:27Z")

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I assume you checked Wikipedia where it lists [this version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlmTWF79gqE).

I only know the Stephen Bishop version.

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-song/753676/5 "2016-05-02T21:09:30Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> I assume you checked Wikipedia where it lists [this version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlmTWF79gqE).  
> I only know the Stephen Bishop version.

& Alley Dweller  
That was it! Thank you both!

I should have just looked through my vinyl.