What's that song I am thinking of?!

Factual Questions
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What have the Carmina Burana got to do with Wagner? There is a perfecly good bit of confusion happening here already.

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Carmina Burana is by **Carl Orff{/b]. And it’s fanastic.

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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.
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Hmm… I suppose my information is wrong then… Looks like another piece of ignorance has been eliminated :slight_smile: Thanks!

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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

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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.

Ugly