Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” has a long guitar/piano intro. Late 1970s, male singer
Rush, Subdivisions?
A couple of years early, but “Year Of The Cat” by Al Stewart has an intro of over a minute that fits.
All wonderful efforts, but no.
May be a longshot, but I thought VH’s Right Now intro was a dead ringer for it.
Thanks for playing.
The main theme to the classic Italian horror film,“Deep Red”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP7IpPEUy5o
Could it just have been a different Van Halen song that sounds similar and you thought it was a different band or something, don’t they have a couple of songs with similar beginnings?
Honestly, I can’t think of another VH song that has that sort of beginning, especially given the timeframe (which was well before VH started incorporating piano into their sound.)
“Sirius” was the Chicago Bulls theme for many years, and may still be, and has been featured as background music in many places.
Otherwise, I can’t solve the issue.
I just thought of something. Does the school still exist? If so, they may have a copy of the playbill in their archives. Could you contact them and ask?
See if you can find a Top 40 list for the era.
Thanks for all the responses. I’m thinking it wasn’t a top-40 song because I’ve scoured the charts and YT. Lots of great suggestions here, but just not the one.
Song was on an LP and before MTV. Pretty sure in the classic rock genre. The school play was not anything formal, so no playbills or other records.
Gotta run for a few days. Thanks again.
I’ve been racking my brain for the past few days, and the only candidates I could think of that sort of match are “Sirius” and “Faithfully” mentioned before (but all are off of the description. The first doesn’t have piano. The second it’s only a short intro.) How certain are you of the instrument and length? The only other song with a long keyboard intro that comes to mind is Boston’s “Foreplay/Longtime,” but that’s organ and it’s uptempo. I’ll throw a link out there just in case, but it can’t be the song given your description.
Ooo…that’s a good one. Never heard this before, but it does fit the description, more or less.
Eddie Van Halen did the score for a 1984 movie The Wild Life, and one of the songs was an early instrumental version of Right Now. The only version I can find is here, and it unfortunately has annoying dialogue over it. Given the time, lack of a vocalist, and obscurity, this isn’t your song. But still interesting trivia.
I does fit even though it came out in 1976, and that highlights a problem with the premise of this thread. Why 1979-1981? How does an elementary school kid know if a song is new? Pretty much every song is new to them.
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding? The description could apply to a few parts, but my guess would be the bit starting at 3:16.