# Identifying a 60s song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 11, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-60s-song/631176 "2012-08-11T07:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-60s-song/631176/1 "2012-08-11T07:18:00Z")

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There is a song by a group like The Platters or Smokey Robinson that I am trying to find…it was used years ago in a Yellow Pages commercial. All I can remember is the words “searching”, and “Go find her,” and piano trills at the end of some lines.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-60s-song/631176/2 "2012-08-11T10:19:47Z")

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Lets get an obvious one out of the way. I don’t suppose it’s [Sweet Talking Woman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY7BWZhmNM8)by ELO, is it?

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-60s-song/631176/3 "2012-08-11T13:17:39Z")

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[_Searchin’_'](http://youtu.be/WR2FvrU-NIM)by The Coasters?

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-60s-song/631176/4 "2012-08-11T16:55:38Z")

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Thanx 🙂

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**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-60s-song/631176/5 "2012-08-11T17:18:40Z")

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That song (from Lieber and Stroller, 1957) has a strong resemblance to [Elvira](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdFghZmdwXk) written in 1966 by Dallas Frazier.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-60s-song/631176/6 "2012-08-11T18:09:51Z")

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I\* thought\* so! 😃

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**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identifying-a-60s-song/631176/7 "2012-08-13T15:44:06Z")

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> [@Baal\_Houtham](#):
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> That song (from Lieber and Stroller, 1957) has a strong resemblance to [Elvira](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdFghZmdwXk) written in 1966 by Dallas Frazier.

Not to mention [“She’s About a Mover”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XboE3_7KZ3Y) by the Sir Douglas Quintet.

(Nitpick: Lieber and Stoller, not Stroller)