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Posted: Sep. 18 2010, 15:32

I've got a quiz for all of you: listen to the clip I'm linking below here, taken from an Eighties CD, e-mail me privately and tell me who do you think the singer is. Hint: he's not Mike Oldfield (of course! :D) and he's not the guy he most obviously resembles. I kept the clip deliberately short, so you haven't much of a chance of Googling the lyrics - and even if you do, you could have a surprise. :)

The prize for whoever is first in e-mailing me the correct reply (which shall be posted here) is, of course, a rare Oldfield track.

Mystery clip


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Posted: Sep. 19 2010, 08:52

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I've got a quiz for all of you: listen to the clip I'm linking below here, taken from an Eighties CD, e-mail me privately and tell me who do you think the singer is. Hint: he's not Mike Oldfield (of course! :D) and he's not the guy he most obviously resembles. I kept the clip deliberately short, so you haven't much of a chance of Googling the lyrics - and even if you do, you could have a surprise. :)

The prize for whoever is first in e-mailing me the correct reply (which shall be posted here) is, of course, a rare Oldfield track.

Mystery clip

The link don't work for me.
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Posted: Sep. 19 2010, 10:44

I've read of several people here having trouble with 4shared. Try downloading the clip from here.

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Posted: Sep. 19 2010, 19:54

I didn't have trouble with it. But I have no idea who it might be.
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Posted: Sep. 20 2010, 06:42

Ugo I'll just borrow your thread to test you (And other music gurus) tell me who this is.
Mystery Song :D
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Posted: Sep. 20 2010, 18:05

@ Milamber: you should've posted a shorter portion of the sung part, this way it's too easy. :D Paul McCartney singing "Temporary Secretary" from his McCartney II album. What did I win? :laugh:

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Posted: Sep. 20 2010, 20:58

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@ Milamber: you should've posted a shorter portion of the sung part, this way it's too easy. :D Paul McCartney singing "Temporary Secretary" from his McCartney II album. What did I win? :laugh:

That's McCartney?? Yecchh... how the great do fall! I thought it was Plastic Bertrand, or the mob who did "Twist a St Tropez".
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Posted: Sep. 21 2010, 05:30

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What did I win? :laugh:

Ugo -If you Google'd an answer then not much, but if you drew your answer from vast musical knowledge then a diamond studded cat collar for Vicki is in the post  :D
I would be very surprised if I had something of Mikes you didn't already have in your collection.
Either way well done :)
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Posted: Sep. 21 2010, 06:04

@ milamber: I was sure it was Macca because that nonsense synth could only be him. So I looked for the phrase "All I need is  help for a little while, we can take dictation..." in a big book of McCartney lyrics I have (because I was too lazy to pull my expanded edition McCartney II CD off the shelf! :D) and I found the song.

@ nightspore: the whole McCartney II album is meant as nonsense and whimsical. It's almost a "Fireman" project ante-litteram. Macca did lots of stuff like that. :)


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Posted: Sep. 21 2010, 11:01

No, this is not definately McCartney. I really doubt this is an enough famous singer to cause surprise although, at the beginning, I thought it could be Eric Woolfson, of The Alan Parsons Project fame.


Might as well be David Bowie, but no way...


Now I know who he is (or who they are), thanks to Google. But never heard of them before.


Delfín>>


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Posted: Sep. 21 2010, 14:32

@ Delfín: milamber's song linked above was definitely by Macca, the one I linked is most definitely not. And it's not David Bowie, although it sounds like him. The singer in question did become famous, although only as a one-hit-wonder, because he had one hit - taken from the same source as my mystery clip. :)

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Posted: Sep. 21 2010, 14:49

Ok!! Loads of information. And 'your' link got me amazed by the simple and raw sincerity of the words. Have to listen to Macca tho'. 'No More Lonely Nights' is for me more than a song. I consider it the best track ever made by an ex-Beatle.

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Posted: Sep. 22 2010, 03:27

Pretty sure I got it right, I have PM'd Ugo the answer  :D
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Posted: Sep. 23 2010, 06:33

One last mystery song I think this will test even Ugo.
Mystery Song 2
Very easy for Nightspore or Michael Hilton but thats the only clue I will give.
And sorry no prize available but if you like it I can send the whole song.
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Posted: Sep. 23 2010, 06:51

Quote (milamber @ Sep. 23 2010, 06:33)
One last mystery song I think this will test even Ugo.
Mystery Song 2
Very easy for Nightspore or Michael Hilton but thats the only clue I will give.
And sorry no prize available but if you like it I can send the whole song.

Yes, it is easy. But then we both have the album :)
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Posted: Sep. 23 2010, 08:26

@ milamber: "On the Wings of an Eagle", by I don't know who.  :zzz:

LATER EDIT: is it this guy? Well, if so, many thanks to Wikipedia. :D


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Posted: Sep. 23 2010, 08:43

Did you run that through a program like Tune Up or are you really that good :laugh:  :D
And yes thats Aussie legend Russel Morris.
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Posted: Sep. 23 2010, 09:10

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Did you run that through a program like Tune Up or are you really that good :laugh:  :D
And yes thats Aussie legend Russel Morris.

He deserved to be more successful than he was. This, I think, is his best song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGnn7_7Rxwk
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Posted: Sep. 23 2010, 23:44

Yes its one of his best.
But I get the feeling it pulls a nostalgic emotional chord in you NS.
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Posted: Sep. 23 2010, 23:48

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Yes its one of his best.
But I get the feeling it pulls a nostalgic emotional chord in you NS.

No, not really. I chanced on Russell Morris long after he'd had his heyday. (I think his last hit in Australia was "Let's Do It", in 1975). "Rachel" is unusual in that it manages to sound fatalistic and uplifting at the same time, as though saying "that's it, world; I've had enough" is at the same time a liberating and transcending move. I think the clip, with its background of black and white slowly-opening flowers is very effective in capturing this mood.
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