# What song is this?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 28, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/397846 "2007-03-28T15:59:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![aluminumdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@aluminumdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aluminumdisc)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/397846/1 "2007-03-28T15:59:34Z")

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This is something I’m good at as a rule but my google-fu is off today I guess.  
I was in a store today and they had music pumped in, they played a pop tune I haven’t heard in years. It’s from the late 60s or early 70s I think and it has a bit of a vaudeville feel to it, like “When I’m 64”

Some of the lyrics were:  
…Baby I know  
…Baby I’m so  
…in love with you  
…And if only I could make you say I do.

I remember it from AM radio in the early 70s when I was a pup.

I hope this is enough to go on.

Thanks dopers.

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**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/397846/2 "2007-03-28T16:03:09Z")

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[QUOTE=aluminumdisc]

I hope this is enough to go on.

Thanks dopers.  
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It was! That’s “Oh Babe, What Would You Say” by Hurricane Smith, who, incidentally is Norman Smith, who engineered The Beatles’ records until 1966.

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**Author:** ![aluminumdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@aluminumdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aluminumdisc)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-this/397846/3 "2007-03-28T16:13:51Z")

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[QUOTE=fishbicycle]  
It was! That’s “Oh Babe, What Would You Say” by Hurricane Smith, who, incidentally is Norman Smith, who engineered The Beatles’ records until 1966.  
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Wow that was quick, Thanks you nailed it. His voice reminds me of Big Al from NRBQ. I would have thought he was a yank.

thanks again.