# What's that song I am thinking of?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 2, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757 "2000-09-02T05:16:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beetle99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Beetle99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beetle99)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/1 "2000-09-02T05:16:50Z")
Help me out here! What is the name of that song, you know the one that goes da de da de da da daaaa ddaddaa (that’s like the beat not the lyrics!) It starts kind of slow and then builds to a massive crescendo climax thingy that really rocks… Ok. If you can’t read my mind, also feel free to post your favorite cheesy songs (80’s and 70’s are cool!) which build up to really cool passionate frenzied singing and music. You know songs as brilliant as Staying Alive and I Will Survive. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/2 "2000-09-02T05:55:10Z")
I’m usually pretty good at this but ya got to give more! Starts slow then builds to crescendo is too big too even be a category. Give us at least 2 words. (though I can’t get that ‘deda dee da de’ out of my head now) ---
**Author:** ![Beetle99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Beetle99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beetle99)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/3 "2000-09-02T16:27:51Z")
It gets really really really fast! Kind of like Proud Mary by Ike and Tina Turner… I once thought it was by Meatloaf but I have checked through some of his stuff and I have’nt found it… I am pretty sure “love” is one of the words in the lyrics… ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/4 "2000-09-02T19:50:48Z")
How about Music - John Miles Music was my first love,and it will be my last, Music of the future and music of the past To live without my music woud be impossible to do etc… Goes on to a tremendous finish. If not at least give us an approximate year, nationality, type of music. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/5 "2000-09-02T19:59:28Z")
I remember it! It was the one by that singer, who wore that shirt. Remember? (Methinks Beetle is having a bit of fun with you guys.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/6 "2000-09-02T20:15:10Z")
Thoughts: it doesn’t start out with it, but Hey Jude has something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Beetle99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Beetle99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beetle99)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/7 "2000-09-03T02:33:54Z")
Ok ok I am really thinking of a song…but for the life of me I can hardly remember a thing about it…except what I said. I know it is sort of silly to ask you to think of it based upon this flimsy evidence… But I welcome any suggestions of cool songs like that because I love em. Hey Jude is cool. I gotta check out that John Miles one mentioned. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![iksova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/59ef9b/32.png) [@iksova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iksova)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/8 "2000-09-03T02:40:53Z")
Everyones fave, (and every guitarists first song!) Stairway to Heaven?? It starts off slow, and gets really cresendo-ey t’ords the end…? ---
**Author:** ![cheezit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@cheezit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheezit)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/9 "2000-09-03T03:20:59Z")
If it was a song with lyrics, I have no idea. But if it was an instrumental, could it have been “Dualing banjo’s”? ---
**Author:** ![JBENZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@JBENZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBENZ)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/10 "2000-09-03T03:46:00Z")
Sounds like Ravel’s “Bolero”. It was playing in the scene where Dudley Moore and Bo Derek get it on in the move “10”. ---
**Author:** ![Beetle99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Beetle99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beetle99)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/11 "2000-09-03T03:55:30Z")
You are mentioning all of my favorite songs…Haven’t heard of the bolero…gonna go look for that now. Also no sign of the John Miles “Music” song on scour… ---
**Author:** ![Beetle99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Beetle99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beetle99)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/12 "2000-09-03T04:05:49Z")
Hey man Bolero is classical music! Will people be able to handle “I will Survive” and Bolero in the same music list? Anyways I like that too so I am downloading the full 14 mb version. Keep em coming I love it when I hear about one I don’t know or have! Maybe we will even stumble upon the song. Ok here is more vague description: It is rock and rollish. and it gets really fast and passionate…i think it is a high pitched voice woman or man dunno. If I had to guess an era it would be 70’s, maybe 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/13 "2000-09-03T04:09:02Z")
Any chance it could be Hawkwind’s “Silver Machine”? ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/14 "2000-09-03T06:48:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beetle99 \* > \*\*You are mentioning all of my favorite songs…Haven’t heard of the bolero…gonna go look for that now. Also no sign of the John Miles “Music” song on scour… \*\* –John Miles was a guest vocalist with the Alan Parsons Project. According to Whitburn’s Pop Singles, “Music” made it’s debut on April 15, 1976 and lasted three weeks on the Billboard charts peaking at 88. Alan Parsons produced it. If it helps the # is London 20086 ---
**Author:** ![iksova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/59ef9b/32.png) [@iksova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iksova)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/15 "2000-09-03T15:22:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beetle99 \* > \*\* > > OIt is rock and rollish. and it gets really fast and passionate…i think it is a high pitched voice woman or man dunno. If I had to guess an era it would be 70’s, maybe 80’s. \*\* Are you sure its not Meatloaf? Paradise by the Dashboard Light? ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/16 "2000-09-03T15:27:17Z")
Western Union maybe? Altho it doesn’t build to a crescendo it does have de de de de init. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/17 "2000-09-03T18:28:38Z")
More I think about it the more it does sound like the one I mentioned.It does have a slightly Ike & Tina like riff wich cuts in after the intro vocals.It has several big key changes when the pace of the song changes, it must be about 8 or 9 minutes long, it chucks in absolutely everything toward the finish, including an orchestra a full tilt. Song was a big hit over here and got played to death on the classic rock circuit but it seems to have dropped out of sight. It was on Decca F 13672 It was put onto a whole load of compilations of the soft rock variety. I’d contact Decca if I were you. Its similar in pace and construction to Macarthur park. Another similar one is All by myself - Eric Carmen but this ends in a slow, rather self-pitying vein. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/18 "2000-09-03T18:53:54Z")
Oooh Oooh, Let me guess. If you consider songs like Staying Alive and I Will Survive brilliant, that maybe the song you’re thinking of is **Total Eclipse of the Heart** by Bonnie Tyler: “Turn around bright eyes…” “Once upon a time I was falling in love, Now I’m only falling apart. Nothing I can say Total eclipse of the heart” Pete ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/19 "2000-09-03T22:32:12Z")
A lot of people are wondering about The Who song ‘Baba O’Riley’ now that it’s been getting a lot of play thanks to ‘American Beauty’ (the trailer, at least) and for some atuo commercial. I have no idea if this is the song you’re talking about but it certainly builds to a kind of frenzied crescendo. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![MattTheCroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MattTheCroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MattTheCroc)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/20 "2000-09-04T10:53:12Z")
Carmina Burana? IIRC, it’s by Wagner and is used in tonnes of ads, movie trailers etc. Could be the one. Someone asked about it here a while, I think, so maybe you could check that thread. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757.md?page=2)