# I found it! I found it! (a song...) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707 "2010-03-16T23:38:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 16, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707/1 "2010-03-16T23:38:47Z")
Since 1978, there has been a musical mystery in my life. That year was the last time I heard a certain song that I really like. It was on the radio, on my mom’s clock radio. It was called something like “Shoes” and had kind of a Russian feel to it. I remembered it all these years (I have a good memory for music). Today, for some reason, I remembered it and decided to google around. A bit of [searching](http://www.google.ca/search?q=shoes+name+of+song+1970s+title&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:eo:official&client=firefox-a) led me to [this blog](http://toeslayer.blogspot.com/2010/03/hot-shoe-schuffle-hit-songs-with-shoes.html). Songs named “Shoes”? I scrolled down. Well, what about this one? Another search. [Links and mentions](http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Shoes%22+Reparata&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:eo:official&client=firefox-a) popped up. It was the correct song! [“Shoes” by Reparata](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_%28Reparata_song%29). It’s on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYXX_QeRj-o). After all these years, I found it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707/2 "2010-03-17T00:10:50Z")
I love it when this happens! For ages, every time I heard the song [Whatsername](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms3rBdWzNYY) by Green Day, I thought the melody reminded me of something else I’d heard on the radio when I was younger. But just humming the melody to people wasn’t enough to get them to guess the correct song. Finally I happened to hear it again on the radio last year, take note of some lyrics, and stick them in Google. Turned out it was the Wallflowers’ [One Headlight](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzyfcys1aLM), and by chance my parents happened to own the album. Some time recently I was linked to a YouTube video that I found really interesting because of the artist’s use of a sampler and a violin - he recorded loops live and played them on top of each other. I remembered that he was covering a song by a pop singer, but I got the name of the pop singer mixed up, and went around asking people if they had seen a video of a young male artist playing Madonna’s “Open Your Heart” with a violin and sampler. Last night some friends and I were discussing famous men we found attractive, and one friend mentioned Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy. Who used a violin and a sampler [to cover Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O_yyEA72HE). ---
**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:** [March 17, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707/3 "2010-03-17T01:08:30Z")
That’s an interesting version of “Fantasy”. Kinda reminds me of Birdy Nam Nam’s [Abbesses](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYMC6atRoE), not in style, but in construction. Here’s a version of “Shoes” with [better sound quality](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJkko-VJpPA). ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707/4 "2010-03-17T01:17:45Z")
The opening stanza of the song reminded me of my wedding. My groomsmen managed to steal my dress shoes, and get them to me at just the very last minute. The ceremony started, and all went well until we had to kneel in front of everyone. I heard a laugh go through the church. It turns out they had put “HELP ME” in big white letters on the bottom of my black soled shoes. And the song sounded similar to something I had heard before - another song. A little digging turned up [“Those Were The Days”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsamSaAOnuY) by the Hermes House Band. Weird stuff, memory is… ---
**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:** [March 17, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707/5 "2010-03-17T01:27:43Z")
> [@RalfCoder](#): > > The opening stanza of the song reminded me of my wedding. My groomsmen managed to steal my dress shoes, and get them to me at just the very last minute. The ceremony started, and all went well until we had to kneel in front of everyone. I heard a laugh go through the church. It turns out they had put “HELP ME” in big white letters on the bottom of my black soled shoes. Cool! > [@RalfCoder](#): > > And the song sounded similar to something I had heard before - another song. A little digging turned up [“Those Were The Days”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsamSaAOnuY) by the Hermes House Band. Weird stuff, memory is… I like that. I’m a but puzzled by the Korean newsreels in the video, though… ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707/6 "2010-03-17T01:29:45Z")
Thanks, Sunspace! This thread inspired me to do a google search for “musical set in Antioch” which lead me to the name of a play I’ve been tryign to remember since I was a child: [Philemon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philemon_%28musical%29). Now if I can just track down an album … ---
**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:** [March 17, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707/7 "2010-03-17T02:16:48Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Now if I can just track down an album … Now you’ve got me thinking of another one. When I was at Sheridan College, my English teacher played an experimental album by Chilliwack, that was not part of their regular repertoire. This was in 1984ish. Anyone know the album I mean? Googling doesn’t seem to find it. And I’m also looking for _Les Cinq Saisons_ by Harmonium. But at least I know what that one’s called… ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707/8 "2010-03-17T02:39:18Z")
Years ago, I heard a song I really liked on the radio. I only heard it once. Many years later, i thought about it, and wondered if I could find it. All I remembered was it had the lyrics “so afraid of the Russians” in it. So, I used AltaVista (no Google at that time) and sure enough, it popped right up, and I was even able to download an MP3. The Internet is an amazing thing. [So Afraid of the Russians, by Made for TV.](http://hallwayofmemory.blogspot.com/2008/05/made-for-t.html) ---
**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:** [March 17, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-it-i-found-it-a-song/532707/9 "2010-03-17T03:01:03Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > [So Afraid of the Russians, by Made for TV.](http://hallwayofmemory.blogspot.com/2008/05/made-for-t.html) [It’s on YouTube.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR3HamkekSU) 🙂 Now you’ve reminded me of [Live on TV](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYz-Th7Jxy4) by The Box…