When I lived in England in 1976–77, I used to fall asleep at night listening to Radio Luxembourg. Every night before signoff, they would play what I assume was the Luxembourg national anthem (a very inspirational tune) and a piece of pop music I would swear was by Gladys Knight and the Pips (but probably wasn’t). I’ve tried to find this song on line, but have never been successful.
The lyrics, insofar as I remember them, went
The world is a [something] of [something, something] people,
Think of the pain of those long, lonely years…
That’s all I remember, though I can hum the melody all the way through to the end. Does anybody else out there know what I’m talking about? Can you identify the song and/or the group? Or did I dream the whole thing?
