This is weird - Does It Happen To You?

**QUINNY** · August 19th, 2003, 06:11 PM

O.K. I'll have to own up to being someone who hums tunes all day long and has snatches of things bouncing around in my head most times of the day. These are usually tunes that I really like and may have just heard again or ones that I'm currently working on. There's normally a perfectly valid reason why I'd be humming or thinking of them.

However, about 5 minutes ago, for only the second time in a year, a tune that I've never previously thought about, suddenly presented itself to my feeble brain. Why this came to me I'll never know, but the really weird thing is that it's a record that I played one hell of a lot back in the day, but either never owned or one that has been lost or ruined. Now, this is a blessing in one way, as I don't have to start tearing the place up looking for it, but of course that is ultimately frustrating 'cos I can't give it a blast, feel warm inside and move on until I physically own a copy. That could take forever (like in the case of Billy Frazier's - Billy Who, which took a year) or be relatively painless. You never know until you go looking.

In this particular case, the record has little collectability factor and so I've picked one up relatively cheaply. Even so, I'll be that much happier to have a copy (even though I may not listen to it that often).
The record in question?
Steve Jerome - If You Walk Out That Door played an awful lot in Southampton and maybe nowhere else.

Do you have these sudden, inexplicable recalls of long forgotten records and do you have to have one, once you've identified it?

**K-Bee** · August 20th, 2003, 01:30 AM

:lol: that happens to me all the time. But the thing is I almost never hum choruses. It's mostly odd basslines or guitar riffs and that makes it even more annoying and way more difficult if i ever am to actually ID the tunes.

**Forrrce** · August 20th, 2003, 07:57 AM

Happens to me all the bloody time. Still trying to work out a tune with 'love power' sung in a baritone voice that I used to hear on the radio in the very early '80s...still thinking I may have it, too!

**markydefad** · August 20th, 2003, 01:50 PM

Originally Written by Forrrce

Happens to me all the bloody time. Still trying to work out a tune with 'love power' sung in a baritone voice that I used to hear on the radio in the very early '80s...still thinking I may have it, too!

Willie Hutch did a "Love Power" and Jeffrey Osborne did a duet with Dionne Warwick with that title also. Remember Roberta Kelly's "Love Power" was covered by Luther Vandross in a medley--but that was in the early 1990s.

Could it be any of these...or are they too obvious? :roll:

**Forrrce** · August 20th, 2003, 02:13 PM

[quote="markydefad
Willie Hutch did a "Love Power" and Jeffrey Osborne did a duet with Dionne Warwick with that title also. Remember Roberta Kelly's "Love Power" was covered by Luther Vandross in a medley--but that was in the early 1990s.

Could it be any of these...or are they too obvious? :roll:[/quote]

Not so obvious at all. Thinking of it now, the 'love power' (which was every four bars in the chorus, in conjunction with some sort of chant) sounded more like a slowed-down voice, somewhere past James Earl Jones. The track itself was quite speedy and cheap, in a Brit-Funk kinda way. I know this is the wrong part of the forum, but...

**jazz_pilgrim** · August 21st, 2003, 01:28 AM

I am always hummin' tunes in my head all day long as well. But I tend to hum the same tunes. The only time I might hum a long forgotten one is when I've heard it on the radio, or when a tune gets mentioned on the Message Board.

For instance when it is raining I will always hum to myself either Dee Dee Bridgewater's Sweet Rain or the Dramatics In The Rain. Having bought a Barry White CD recently, I can probably add Walking In The Rain With The One I Love to my list of rainy day tunes!

One thing that really annoys me is, when I am just stepping out of the door to go to work, and I hear a crap record on the radio, and I find that I am humming that tune all day! However hard I try, I just can't get it out of my head! :-?

In answer to the second part of your question, I have looked for a long time for Sweet Rain but have yet to find it. Mind you, I have only been looking at second-hand vinyl. It is probably out there on CD .. Yes, I would like to have a copy of that!

And you will be delighted to hear that the Steve Jerome record you mentioned made it as far North as the Tonbridge/Tunbridge Wells area, as I remember my friends in Tonbridge were pretty hot on that record!! :)

**efunk_adelic** · August 21st, 2003, 02:16 AM

Quinny, I hum tunes all day long in my head... The only time it drives me nuts is when I listen to the radio, or the traffic jam mix (radio)... and I can't figure out what song it is... makes me f***cking crazy... :evil:

**NickNack** · August 21st, 2003, 08:44 PM

Happens all the time. Sometimes within minutes after waking up there's a song in my head I can't get rid of. This week, thanks to cable showing the remake of "King Kong" with Jeff Bridges, the song in my head is "Are You In There" by Andy Williams. The funny thing about this is that I've been looking for this song for more than 20 years, but searching under the title, "Theme from King Kong". No hits for Andy with this title. I was beginning to think I imagined it. Then, when I heard the music to the end credits the other day, the right title popped in my head. That's all I've been humming for days: Are you in there.... :roll:

I think this 7" might be hard to get hold of. It had two versions, the ballad on side one and the 'disco' version on side 2. Side 2 was a nice little jam, sans Andy if memory serves but I could be mistaken. I see two copies on GEMM but the one in mint condition is CBS Italy, not Columbia USA. Don't know if there the same. Anyway, that's my head trauma for the week and I will find this baby. :D

**SandraDee** · August 22nd, 2003, 11:06 AM

I get really irritated if I'm out & about & hear a current dance record that samples an old track that is familiar to me but I just can't place it. :x

**QUINNY** · August 23rd, 2003, 01:51 PM

My copy of Jerome - If You Walk Out That Door arrived yesterday.
I'd forgotten just how good this Richard Hewson produced record was. Forget the Rah Band and others that Hewson was involved with, this was far better. It was a little different in that it didn't have a percussion break (unlike almost every other disco record ever made) relying on one and a half seperate sax breaks instead. Bet the guy playing those was some old twisted British jazzer, eh? Wonder who?

Another weird thing: When this record came into my brain, I saw a picture of an Eagle (Falcon) on the record label, so obviously in my brain the Hewson connection was there, but long forgotten, 'cos the Eagle is on the Rah Band's Falcon as far as I can remember.

**originalbigm** · August 23rd, 2003, 02:16 PM

Hey Steely Dan,
My sentiments exactly.My kids are big into rap (my biggest failure as a parent) and I'll constantly hear samples that set of of extreme Deja vu.And I'll be humming that sample for hours on end trying to place it.Age and time really f***s up the old synapses.They aren't firing like they use to.