I Hear a Melody...

[markydefad]

This song snippet is playing on a constant loop in my damn head and I can't figure out what it is. :evil:

I'm hearing a male vocal, someone like Smokey Robinson singing...

"I hear a melody each time you speak to me (or smile at me)..la la la la-- la laaaaaa"

This is like the bridge of the song and having done a title search at AMG, it doesn't appear to be the title.....

What is this from? :o :o :o :o :o

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :oops:

[Bernie]

Reminds me of "Melodies" by Made in USA.
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/2683_0_2_0_C/

[markydefad]

Ah, Bernie. That could be it. I bought that recently. Thanks!!!! :D :D :D

[Giovanni]

Hey Marky,

how is it possible you can't recall MELODIES, one of the pillars of the disco sound! :lol:

Merry Xmas

[markydefad]

I never had this record before. I probably had heard it--but it still slips my mind even after I bought it!!!! :oops:

I actually know much less than I pretend to know.

Oh, and Merry Christmas to you too, Dr. Giovanni in Florence, Italy!!! :D :D :D

[markydefad]

Hold on....It's not "Melodies"..even though that record does have all the criteria I specified.

I can hear this melody so clearly in my head. It's most likely not disco. It might be old Motown....or a Quiet Storm type tune. (Seventies-Eighties, I'd guess.)

It's got a musicbox/chime quality in the arrangement... (it's tinkly!!!)

I hear a melody...(going up the scale)

each time you smile at (look at) me (going down the scale)

la la
la la
la, laaaaaaaaaa

then three chords, daaaa--daaa--daaaa

Repeat .

It must be something I played recently...Teena Marie, maybe...can't recall if it's a male or female vocal...it seems like it should be very obvious.

Any help appreciated. It's driving me nuts!!!! :cry:

[DISCODISK]

MARKY you couldnt mean MR MELODY NATILIE COLE on capitil from the mid 70s?... hey mis-ter melo-dee.....

[markydefad]

Hey DD,

No, it's not Natalie Cole. The lyric is exactly as I wrote. I can hear it so clearly in my head. YIKES!!!! :roll:

[markydefad]

I have the feeling that this snippet I'm trying to recall is not the actual chorus of the song...but maybe a bridge between the verse and the chorus??? It has that kind of sound..something connecting, something leading to the chorus.... And then again, I may be wrong about that.

[markydefad]

Mystery solved. I figured it's gotta be something I've been listening to...so I pulled out Nicky Siano's The Gallery CD. Track 5 comes on..... BINGO!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D

It's "We're Getting Stronger" by Miss Loleatta Holloway. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

The melody that's haunting me is in the opening "la la la la's"

Then there is a bridge she sings only once:

"I hear a melody each time you're next to me
La la la la la laaaaaaa
I hear a melody now that you're close to me
La la la la la laaaaaaa."

God bless the chile that answers his own. :P

Thank gawd that's over.

[Boodikka]

When Made In USA played at Syracuse University (Feb. '78, roughly), all of their equipment had "Crown Heights Affair" written all over it. Was Made In USA a Crown Heights spin-off like Unlimited Touch was later on?

[markydefad]

Hey Boodi,

Well both Made in USA & CHA recorded for De-Lite. The LP I just bought was a De-Lite mixed affair with the full verision of "Melodies" and lotsa CHA, Kay Gee's, etc..

I think it was cleverly titled "Saturday Night Disco" or something like that!!!

[Forrrce]

A few members were later The Strikers.