We’re all familiar with the “radio stations” groceries, drugstores, and other retailers play throughout business hours. It’s not Muzak – it’s the original version of hit songs from the past few decades or so. Adult contemporary and light rock are popular choices.
Anyway, I’ve heard two songs in recent weeks that I cannot identify, even after Googling snatches of the lyrics. Let describe them here and see if the house has better luck:
Lyrics: “I know / We are / Two of / A kind …”. A breezy, breathy female voice over very herky-jerky music. The music seems to have loads of brief, half-note pauses all throughout it (the slashes in the lyrics above are pauses). The music has an “island” feel as in “Carribean island” – but is not reggae-like at all. No steel drums, nothing like that. It’s the pacing and “feel” of the piece that is “island”, not the instrumentation or genre. The woman’s singing, to me, sounds kind of throwback, like a 1950s singer singing something contemporary.
Lyrics: “It’s two in the mornin’ / two in the mornin’”, “sweet thaaaang …”. Twangy country song. Male singer with a higher voice than someone like Toby Keith. Singer is very reminiscent of the guy from The Georgia Satellites. Sounds like post '80s country, not like something from a previous generation. Song has a faster pace than most country songs I’m familiar with … probably a popular country-dancing hit.
Well, thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer!
Well, shit…if we can’t find that song, I’ll just write around the chorus I hear in my head and sell it as a romcom end theme. I’ll give the OP cowriter credit.
I had something like this about a year ago. I had the app and tried to use it in the store. It didn’t have it. I asked on here, I googled, nothing.
My wife actually emailed someone at the corporate office and they gave her the playlist. Apparently this happens quite often. I was able to find the song that way.
Is it Sue Thompson, “Two of a Kind”? I guess if not then the lyrics were heard incorrectly, which prevents from IDing this song.
Nothing I find fits the description for the second song.
Since we have established that the lyrics may not be entirely accurate I am just gonna throw this out there because it fits your description of the music:
OK, this one ID’d now that I checked it out carefully on YouTube - it is, in fact, Basia’s “Baby You’re Mine”.
Googling the lyrics led me to that song early on, but when I played it on YouTube initially, I only listened to the first 30 seconds or so and dismissed it. The part that stuck in my ear is about 1:15 into the song.
