# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/21 "2000-09-04T11:00:55Z")
What have the Carmina Burana got to do with Wagner? There is a perfecly good bit of confusion happening here already. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/22 "2000-09-04T18:00:24Z")
_Carmina Burana_ is by \*\*Carl Orff{/b]. And it’s fanastic. ---
**Author:** ![jcgmoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/23 "2000-09-04T19:11:50Z")
**Beetle99** : Find a copy of _River Deep Mountain High_. Music and lyrics by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector, who invented the massive crescendo climax thingy. Insist on the original, Tina Turner backed by Ike and the Ikettes. Other renditions exist–Supremes and Four Tops (OK), Deep Purple (OK) and Celine Dion (you guess). You’ll find the rhythmic intro to each verse ‘matches’ the beat you describe. This may not be what you’re thinking of, but the sound of Tina wailing and Ike rocking can change your life. We should all have someone declaring their love for us like this. Then again, it is definitely not Staying Alive or I Will Survive. You will excuse me while I repress a shudder. Here are the lyrics. When you were a young girl Did you want a rag doll The only doll you’ve ever owned Now I’ll love you just the way you loved that rag doll Only now my love has grown It gets stronger as the river flows Deeper baby, heaven knows Higher, as it goes Do I love you, my oh my River Deep, Mountain High, yeah, yeah, yeah Do I love you, would I cry Oh I love you baby, how I love you baby When you were a young girl Did you have a puppy That always followed you around Well I’m gonna be as faithful as that puppy No I’ll never never let you down Cos it gets stronger as the river flows It gets deeper baby, heaven knows It gets higher, so much higher, as it goes Do I love you, my oh my River Deep, Mountain High, yeah, yeah, yeah Do I love you, would I cry Oh I love you baby, how I love you baby I love you baby like a flower loves a spring I love you baby like a wrong man likes to sin I love you baby like a schoolboy likes his pie And oh I love you baby, River deep, Mountain high Do I love you, my oh my River Deep, Mountain High, yeah, yeah, yeah Do I love you, would I cry Oh I love you baby, how I love you baby 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:** ![MattTheCroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MattTheCroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MattTheCroc)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/24 "2000-09-05T07:53:36Z")
Hmm… I suppose my information is wrong then… Looks like another piece of ignorance has been eliminated 🙂 Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/25 "2000-09-06T00:55:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beetle99 \* > \*\*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… > \*\* I think you are thinking of Gypsy Woman by Crystal waters “She gets up early in the morning just to do her hair yall because she care yall” should be one of the lines ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757/26 "2000-09-07T02:18:50Z")
> [@](#): > > 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… I’m kinda late to the party here, but could it be Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath”? it starts off fairly slow, and then builds to a great climax. And the opening riff is similar to the rhythm you mention. > [@](#): > > In the shuffling madness > of the locomotive breath, > runs the all-time loser, > headlong to his death. > He feels the piston scraping – > steam breaking on his brow – > old Charlie stole the handle and > the train won´t stop going – > no way to slow down. Ugly [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-i-am-thinking-of/31757.md?page=1)