# Yet another "ID this song" thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-id-this-song-thread/790547>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 5, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-id-this-song-thread/790547 "2017-07-05T15:38:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-id-this-song-thread/790547/1 "2017-07-05T15:38:27Z")

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I believe this song was a minor hit in the late 1980s (maybe 1988?). It reminded me a lot of Aretha Franklin’s and George Michael’s duet “[I Knew You were Waiting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBCWLhlJV0Y)” from about the same period. I believe the song in question was a duet as well, but maybe it was just a solo female singer. One line went something like “through the days…through the nights…” in a monotone voice. Another part went something like “if we keep it alive…if we keep it alive…” with “keep” being sung at a higher pitch than the other words. Near the end of the chorus, there’s a series of “doo doo…doo doo doo doos,” falling in pitch from the first “doo” to the last. A Google search for the lyrics does not give me the results, telling me I probably have the lyrics wrong.

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**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-id-this-song-thread/790547/2 "2017-07-05T16:57:33Z")

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“[Through the Storm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nppn6DErVDc),” a duet by Aretha Franklin and Elton John in 1989.

[I’m on fire today!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20324797&postcount=5)

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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-id-this-song-thread/790547/3 "2017-07-05T17:57:19Z")

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Holy crap, that’s it! You are on fire!

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-id-this-song-thread/790547/4 "2017-07-05T18:00:24Z")

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> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#):
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> “[Through the Storm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nppn6DErVDc),” a duet by Aretha Franklin and Elton John in 1989.
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> [I’m on fire today!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20324797&postcount=5)

All right, man, now for the trifecta [here’s the last one in Cafe Society](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=830296). I have faith!

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**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-id-this-song-thread/790547/5 "2017-07-05T18:32:05Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> All right, man, now for the trifecta [here’s the last one in Cafe Society](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=830296). I have faith!

[Done and done.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20325320&postcount=2) Couldn’t have done it, though, without your support.