Worst part of working with words is song lyrics. Finding them is impossible, even if you’ve heard the song a billion times. For example:
Upbeat '50s tune:
Baby, baby, you got me moving
Honey, honey, we’re in the(or there) grooving
Filling up my expectations (excitations)
Loving you is my confirmation (consolation?)
So I need to know the song title. I’ve heard this at least 1,000 times. Searching the lyrics gives me “Good Vibrations” over and over and over and it’s not even close to Beach Boys.
How the hell would you find the song title on the lovely, freaking Internet?
Seriously, it brings me to tears when I have to search for anything like this.
I don’t usually have a problem finding song lyrics. If you have the words correct and put that snippet in quotes then Google should find just about any song. I can only assume the words aren’t what you think they are.
Our end credits don’t have any songs listed. Probably because only 6 lines of it plays. Already googled songs used in summer of rockets/soundtrack, nada.
Trust me, end credits are godsends in this job. Just not today!
Haven’t watched the clip, but it is possible that it’s some stock music or something just made up for the show? If it’s only a short clip they might just do that to avoid licensing fees. In that case, you aren’t going to find it.
I don’t watch the show, but I’ve found the episode – I just don’t see the part you’re talking about. At the 50-54 minute marks, I see a bunch of people on the ground, acting/pretending to be dead or something? A voice says “under no circumstances is anyone to look up until the signal.” Marching men. And then a scene in a room with a bunch of easels with black-and-white photographs pinned to it. Don’t see a car scene around here. I watched for about five minutes. Is this the right episode?
It’s almost as if someone recruits a non-native English speaker on Mechanical Turk to listen to the song and transcribe it for 5 cents and publishes it on their web site. Then ALL of the other web sites copy the lyrics from the first web site (or readers of user-sourced web sites submit the trash lyrics). Then the awful transcription becomes the canonical internet version. So even if you know the correct lyrics, you might not be able to find them by googling.
Take any lyrics you find on the web with a big grain of salt. Don’t assume you’ve misunderstood the song.
One example that really kills me is Lady by Lucy Neville. It’s a beautiful song and the lyrics are not hard to understand. But a non-native speaker wouldn’t know the idiom “sweep it under the rug,” so every internet lyrics site has “I’ll just sleep here under the rug” instead of “I’ll just sweep it under the rug.” That’s just one example.
To assure all of you, it is a song heard and performed every time we see a Time Life Motown collection. That’s why I’m going apeshit on this. Like George Costanza with “IT MAKES ME SO MAD!”
And the time code is probably different on our video than on the broadcast or streaming version. I’ll back time it when I get home.
