# Identify a 60s/70s songs - Help me Obi Dope Kenobi! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [February 7, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261 "2024-02-07T19:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/1 "2024-02-07T19:55:49Z")
My dad use to listen to this psychedelic group (perhaps space rock) group. I think it started with a C, but I could be very wrong. Also, I think they were British based on my recollection of the accents, but not certain. The most memorable song I can recall has an ongoing rising drone pitch like going on a trip. One of the lines is like “Through stardust, and ‘something’ again”. The album cover for that song was yellow and oranges, and psychedelic in style. Can you identify this group/band, and/or the song? (if you identify the song I can find the band, and if you identify the band I can find the song) Oh and they had somebody that played flute. Because my dad wanted me to learn that song. It was not Jethro Tull. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/2 "2024-02-07T20:06:15Z")
[Woodstock.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2iHoMo08Cc) ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/3 "2024-02-07T20:06:41Z")
It is the Moody Blues!!! Be it sight, sound, smell, or touch There’s something Inside that we need so much The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound Or the strength of an oak with roots deep in the ground The wonder of flowers to be covered and then to burst up Thru tarmac, to the sun again Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing To lie in a meadow and hear the grass sing To have all these things in our memories hoard And to use them To help us To find (tarmac not stardust) I found it using ChatGPT. It guessed Pink Floyd, then Jethro Tull, and then the Moody Blues. Pretty cool! ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/4 "2024-02-07T20:10:19Z")
Yep. Opening cut on _In Search of the Lost Chord_ ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/5 "2024-02-07T20:11:05Z")
On Edit: Never mind. Better Google Fu above. The song ‘Woodstock’ by Crosby, Stills and Nash has the line, We are stardust We are golden And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden Then there’s ‘Stardust’ by Hoagy Carmichael, made more famous by Willie Nelson. and a band called “Neon Dreams” has a song called “Stardust”. That’s all I could find. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/6 "2024-02-07T20:12:42Z")
Did you know it from my weak description? If so, that’s impressive! 🙂 Oh man, I’m so happy listening to this again. Major nostalgia. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/7 "2024-02-07T20:14:50Z")
I was a big Moody Blues fan back in the day. That one’s etched deep enough in my brain that I knew it instantly. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/8 "2024-02-07T20:16:14Z")
Wow. Incredible! Thanks a lot, because you would have solved it, and I really need to listen to this right now. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/9 "2024-02-07T20:30:44Z")
Now I’ve got _Ride My See Saw_ as an ear worm … ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/10 "2024-02-07T21:10:24Z")
The album cover must be shown, becasue its cool as hell thats why. [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91jl+ATemNL._SL1500_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91jl+ATemNL._SL1500_.jpg) And no, that is not Gerald Ford! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/11 "2024-02-07T23:03:46Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The song ‘Woodstock’ by Crosby, Stills and Nash has the line, By Joni Mitchell. I always thought Bad Company stole the intro for their song “Bad Company”. ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/12 "2024-02-07T23:04:44Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The song ‘Woodstock’ by Crosby, Stills and Nash has the line, Credit where due. The song was actually written by Joni Mitchell. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/13 "2024-02-07T23:14:56Z")
Good point. All credit to Joni. The CS&Y one is probably the one everyone knows, though. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/14 "2024-02-07T23:36:33Z")
While we’re in the neighborhood, Wooden Ships co-written by Paul Kantner was also released by the Jefferson Airplane. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/15 "2024-02-08T01:56:33Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Did you know it from my weak description? FWIW, your description was good enough that it would have been my first guess. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/16 "2024-02-08T03:17:27Z")
That’s amazing! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-60s-70s-songs-help-me-obi-dope-kenobi/997261/17 "2024-02-08T03:40:19Z")
Although, the OP’s description of the album cover (“yellow and oranges, and psychedelic in style”) made me think of XTC’s _Oranges and Lemons_ album. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/Orangesandlemons.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/Orangesandlemons.jpg)