I remember a snippet of a song from years and years ago, but have no idea who sang it, what song it was, or even what “genre” of music or era. Can I dig it up with Google or some other tool? The phrase was “wrapped up like a deuce”, I think.
This is a splendid job for Google, actually, particularly its ability to search for phrases rather than just collections of words. Let’s just jump in and search for the phrase you list, but make sure that we surround it with quotes:
Unlike most people with tenuous memories of songs, you remembered the lyrics right, congratulations! The first match is from the site Am I Right?, where they state that this particular lyric from Manfred Mann’s song “Blinded by the Light” is commonly misheard (or misremembered) as “wrapped up like a douche”. There’s also some confusion about whether it’s “wrapped up” or “revved up”. Since a “deuce” is slang for a particular kind of hot rod (remember the Beach Boys “little deuce coupe”?) the latter makes a bit more sense to me…
We’ve already found your match, though, the song is Blinded by the Light and it’s by Manfred Mann. A bit more digging and you’ll find that it was originally written by a far more successful [and talented, but that’s just my opinion] musician, Bruce Springsteen, in the early 70’s and Manfried Mann recorded their cover version in the mid 70’s.
One great place to dig around for music and song information, by the way, is Gracenote.com, where you can find that there are a surprising 350 matches in the database to “blinded by the light” and where I confirmed that indeed “Manfred Mann” was also known as “Manfred Mann’s Earth Band”. I thought so. 🙂
Go back and look at those Google results, though. There’s an upload on YouTube of Manfred and his gang playing the song from back in 1976. It’s not pretty, but here it is:
The second match back at our original Google search is also quite interesting, it’s an article from Cecil Adams for his splendid The Straight Dope column on the lyrics to this very song. In his short piece Cecil explains that Springsteen’s original lyrics were “cut loose like a deuce” and that Mann changed it to “wrapped up like a deuce”, then he bails and admits he has no idea what any of it means. Uh, okay, Cecil. We’ll let you slide on this one.
Finally, if you really can’t live without the song, you can Google something like “blinded by the light” free mp3 download and try your luck with the various sites listed. More likely than not, the copy you’d get would be illegal, but then again, if I hadn’t done that Google search myself I wouldn’t have learned that Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) did a cover of the song too…
Now, for practice, try to figure out which song the lyric “you put the lime in the coconut” comes from, the singer/band, when it was first recorded, how many people have recorded this particular song and, as a bonus, find a link to it as a video on YouTube (and double-bonus if it’s a muppet singing the song). Now hold on, don’t scroll down to read the answers from other readers first: that’s cheating!
Too easy? Here’s a tougher one: who was the first woman to record a song with the lyrics “nice work if you can get it”, and which of the many recordings by female singers was the most successful by sales or based purely on the popularity of the singer?
Looking for a friend, whose grandmother used to sing this to him:
There’s a shiny little island and its people love it well
A place that nature gifted with its most endearing smell
Like an emerald set in sapphire with diamonds here and there
It gleams across the water with charm beyond compare
That is such a catchy jingle…. I love it…. I first heard that song on Hopalong Cassidy show called…North of the Rio Grande…… you can find it on You tube… Strange how something so good can’t be found on the internet…. The Wearing of the Green is what they call it on in the Hopalong movie…. but on line when you look up The Wearing of the Green…there are completely different lyrics… At least you can listen to the song again and try to catch the words as they sing them….
I am looking for a song for my husband. He keeps singing these lyrics.
no doubt about it , you are the cutest thing, no doubt about it, you are a breath of spring, no doubt about it i will give you a ring
Can You help. I have looked all over
I’m looking for an old song “Nevertheless Thy Will Be Done”
Looking for the title of a song played on WAPE, Jacksonville Fla in 1962 or 63. Some of the lyrics: When the leaves turn and fall to the ground, our love will still be around. Winter has past but our love will last.
Thanks for any help!
today at the gym i heard a song and told myself im gonna remember the lyrics so i will be able to find it on google then i come home and i cant exactly remember the songs lyrics all i remember is that a girl was singing about how beautiful is the morning sky and that no one should watch the morning sky alone
How about this song, Sima: http://www.metrolyrics.com/morning-sky-lyrics-george-baker.html
I have been hearing this song in my head the last couple of months! Can you help?
I am just a dreamer – I am all alone
I am just a dreamer – Far away from home
I am just a dreamer – Every night and day
I am just a dreamer – Dreaming my life away
I’ve tried everything I can think of and no luck.
John
There’s a song which was probably out about 3ish years ago. A lot of the lines begin ‘when the’. It is a male singer and I’ve got this feeling it was used on the ITV talent shows, but whether it was just popular to be used at that time I’m not sure. I thought it might be someone like Ollie Murs but it doesn’t seem to be. When I hear the song, I cannot make out the lyrics, so cannot do a typical search. I know that the word ‘snow’ comes up and the phrase ‘never gonna’. This is driving me nuts – any help or ideas appreciated.
Demons? By imagine dragons?
I am trying to find a song with the lyrics Give me the reason to stay by your side, it must have been meant to be. I want to stay with you.
trying to find out the name of the song and name of the blues guitar male lead vocal to the following lyrics.
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I’m awake every morning
I see the sunrise everyday
I’m awake every morning
I see the sunrise everyday
You know I never get no sleep at night
Not till the moonlight fades away
A Little love from you honey,
That’s all I ever really need
A Little love from you honey,
That’s all I ever really need
Just some peace and understanding
Will put my poor heart at ease
If you ask me to jump
You know that I would fly
If you ask me to jump
You know that I would fly
If you ask me to shoot myself woman
You know that I would surely die
I sit around all night
I drink away, I drink away my blues
I sit around all night
I drink away, I drink away my blues
There ain’t enough whisky baby
To drink away my love for you
Can you help me identify the song title that includes the following lyrics:
“I can’t take it, I just can’t take it, now I’m leaving and I ain’t coming back, before you grooving, I’ll be packing and moving and you’ll come home finding me gone.”
It may have been a 70’s slow R&B song.
Thank you for any leads!
If you ever find it, let me know. I was looking for it tonight, and I can’t find it anywhere either. (28 Mar 2020)
inbcfrank [at] gmail
Odia Coates, “You Come and You Go”
Help trying to find a song by lyrics but not very successful, I’ve tried everything. Heard the lyrics I think goes “You’re not the first and you won’t be the last” on HBO’s Real Sex. It’s not a current song, I think it’s more of an oldies and it’s by a male vocalist. Would appreciate your help, Thank You.
I hope you can help this old lady. I’m looking for an online video I saw 2 or 3 years ago of 3 or 4 young men wandering around Austin and singing something like, “When you’re in Austin, what can you do, you can eat tacos and barbecue.” I think the video was connected to the annual Austin Festival called SXSW. Many, many thanks.
I hope you know this song: I think it’s connected with the Austin festival SWSX. It’s a video of a small group of guys wandering around Austin and singing about what you can do in Austin. Some of the lyrics are like – “When you’re in Austin, what can you do, you can eat tacos and barbeque.” I’m 70 years old, please help an old lady out.
What is the name of that song that goes like:
Seven years, with blood like ice, your body burns me, turns me to your grave?
Sounds like it might be the song “Poison” by Alice Cooper, though it’s not q perfect match with your lyrics.
Hear a song at the gym, female vocalist, steady bsse drum beat, the only words I can make our are “Tell me I’m in love with you, oh oh..” in the chorus.
It must be fairly recent they don’t play very old songs
A shot in the dark for this one, Art: https://genius.com/Jessica-simpson-i-think-im-in-love-with-you-lyrics
Hope you can help!
Am looking for the singer of a song I listened to in the seventies. She was American and I think the song was just called “Livin’ Alone”. Some of the words are as follows:
Gott’n used to livin’ alone
With nobody’s taste to consider but my own
I can watch any television programme I choose
I don’t have to settle for football or news.
Used to sleepin all by myself
I don’t fight for the covers with anybody else.
I can eat crackers in bed if I please
I can eat onion and limburger cheese
Livin’ alone..
Can find nothing by googling. Thank you.
I’m looking for the artist and song title for a song I think is from the 80’s. The partial lyrics are: So here we are, trying to….. (These lyrics after the comma are debatable) It sounds like a rock ballad, but I can’t be sure. The style of the singing sounds a lot like Boston. I’ve tried a google search but can’t find the song. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Hmm… how about this one by Darin? https://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/d/darin/what_if_i_kissed_you_now.html
Hi Dave.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that is not the one. I think the line “So, here we are,….” is in the chorus. The style is almost like Chicago’s style of music. It sounds like a 3-4 man band from the 70’s or 80’s. The word “So” is sung as two syllables, as in: So-o, here we are…..
I finally found the song. It is called “Here we are” by the band “Face to Face”
This has been bugging me for years. A song by a band mid 60s, odd harmonies, the chorus goes ‘are you drowning in a sea of faces’ and there’s something about ‘reach out and touch a man’ anyone any ideas?
Sounds like a religious song, actually. Is it this, John? https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858499819/
Can you recall a song from the 50s with these lyrics? “You’ve been kissed I know in the very last row of the movie show.
An alternative rock song from the early 1990s: “and I care about trust, and I care about you, and I care about us.” Any one?
Markus, I think that’s Michael Been solo album ‘On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown’. The first track “Us” has that as the refrain…
Was listening to a song 7-2-2018; the only lyrics i seem to recall were at the end of the song that i believe sounded like this: “baby don’t ever let….(this word incomprehensible) get to you”. It sounded like a male singer with some band or instrumental type of music in the background. I heard the song on WGH 1310 AM around 8pmish. Any input on this would be nice. Thank you
Have you tried contacting the radio station? They will likely know what they were playing.
Song with phrase, “ it doesnt always havent to be. .”
Was on Criminal Minds Tuesday, July 3, rerun show.
Trying to help a neighbor that asked if I could find an old gospel song by Tennessee Ernie Ford, ending song lyrics “I leave a little bit of me behind”
Can you help?
its no secret stars are falling from the sky its no secret nights will soon be washed but i know that is alright with me – Bing
Sometimes at night I think of lovers I’ve know
stand up get up and get ready to ride holy damn its on again im here to win get in the zone if you think you got game then bring it on this song was on mlb top 100 2 years ago and I cant find the song
I’m trying to find the songartist for Flying On the Wings of Change, I saw in a Show Choir performance by Buffalo Grove 2014
Here are the lyrics as I hear them. …”going through life on the ?s, don’t know who i am chuckin my vices and flying round the land
With the past behind me, and the future out ahead, don’t know what I need but I’m goin where I’m led. Got sins too tight, I don’t care any more. I don’t know if I am right but I gotta see more
So I’m flyin on the wings of Change… Gettin high on the wings of change, doin things I never dreamed I could and things I said I would, I’m flyin on the wings of change.”
Thanks for any help
There was a song at the end of one of the very early NCIS shows. In the lyrics was the phrase “There is a black stream outside my window” and the song itself is very old, probable an old African American song, I thought it might be an old gospel or that type of song. It is very sad, like the end of a life or similar. I looked and looked on the NCIS song website but found nothing…maybe I didn’t know how…can you help ??
Thanks so much!