Yes! Finally A Decades Long Search For a Song ID Is Over!!!

[Disco Funk]

I can't believe it! I just found a drum break (and song) that I had been looking for forever!! I posted a song ID twice in the other message board for song IDs, and both times came up empty handed. I was about to start a new one and hoped that the newer members of the board would be able to ID it. Here's the second thread (the first one was a year earlier in 2005):

Please ID

The link to my original piece of sample is long gone, but essentially it was a piece of drum break with nice percussion that was used on an episode of Mel's Rockpile on SCTV. I spent decades trying to figure out who did it. I have so many records I bought that had the word 'jungle' in the title, thinking that might be where to look. I think at one point I thought it might have been another Barry Manilow track because the percussion kind of reminded me of breaks in Copacabana.

Then recently I discovered some Canadian artists I hadn't checked out before, one of whom had producers connected to Kat Mandu's albums. Ironically, I think some of the suggestions for song IDs in that old thread were Kat Mandu's songs.

Anyway, I decided to buy the LP the artist, and checked out one side and thought 'hmmm, this is really good disco'. Then on the B side the first song jumped out at me - it was a piece of sample of music from the same episode of Mel's Rockpile on SCTV, but I hadn't asked the ID for it yet. I thought 'Damn, am I now on the right trail for that break?!'.

And sure enough, it was on the last song on Side B, a track called KIC 'Keep It Coming', and the artist is Hydro. Funnily, I actually listened to some of KIC on Youtube, but didn't listen to the whole thing because I thought it sound good from the first minute to just get the LP.

Enough of my rambling. What moments of 'Eureka' have you had when a piece of music you had given up looking for suddenly turns up?

Here's the track with the jungle break at around 3:30.



Disco Funk

[PierreConstantin]

Nice break indeed.
And good for you that the search is over It's always an excellent moment when these long searchs are over!

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Originally Posted by Disco Funk

What moments of 'Eureka' have you had when a piece of music you had given up looking for suddenly turns up?

Around 1990(ish), my soon-to-be Production partner, Rick Nelson and I discovered that we both were fascinated by a song that plays at the final scene of an early 80's porn flick titled "A Matter Of Size". We both were crazy for this track, but neither of us had ever heard, nor seen a copy of it. All we knew was that it was a rockin' Italo-groove, that had ad-lib vocals at the end, where the guy says "Get down on (or, to) love. Come on now!" (Along with a lot of other, nonsensical crap. But, obviously, "Get Down On (or, To) Love" was, in some way related to the title.)

We even did our first production, titled "Try It On For Size", based on the keyboard hook of this track. "Try It On For Size" never got past the sequencer stage of developement, along with some dubby vocals we recorded. We scrapped the idea, and went-on to produce "Hold On To My Love", for Vicki Shepard, within the next year.

Anyway... I searched and searched eBay, DJ collections that were for sale, and used record shops, for about 15+ years for this song that I knew nothing about. Except that it had something to do with "Get Down On (or To) Love". And that it was definitely an Italian recording.

Around 2002(ish), I was browsing the Disco pages of eBay, when I saw a listing for "Get Down (On Love)" by S.P. Clan, from 1983, on some obscure Italian label. The listing had a sound clip and sure enough... OMG! It was THAT keyboard riff!!! I bid some rediculous amount (so no one would out-bid me for it), and when it arrived I played the instrumental side and experienced that RUSH that only absolute Vinyl-Addicts can understand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4AVTBsz7JI
This is the vocal version, which is so-so, okay. (Actually, it's borderline mediocre.) It's the instrumental remix, which starts-out with just the bare synth-line, that blows me away! It sounds like a lost Patrick Cowley track.

I've been a serious record-collector since I was a kid. So, it's rare for me to have that happen, anymore. But it's better than sex, when it does!

More recently, it happened with Dino Solera & The Munich Machine's "Classically Elise". Last year, I found a copy of "The Sound Of Munich" L.P., which had the original LP version of it. And I was not ready for the night-and-day difference between the original version and the US mixes! Then, within weeks, I came across a yellow-gold vinyl, Mexican 12" single of the original extended version. And yet again, weeks later, I came across a copy of the original LP!!! All of which I'd been hungering for, since the damn thing was released on Hidden Sign Records, in the US, in 1977!

[Disco Funk]

Thanks guys. The song itself I find a little weak, but the drum break is nice on it's own.

Glad to hear you've had your Eureka moments too, Stephen! It's such a nice feeling to cross a mysterious song off the hunting list.

Disco Funk