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Help find a song
Anybody fancy a challenge? This is going to be really difficult, because I've tried Musipedia and can't work out how to play back the tune I amateurishly keyed in. HERE. The results bear no resemblance whatsoever to the notes I keyed in.
It's a female singer with a song that probably dates back to the late 1990s and I suppose it's what you might call a powerful torch ballad (not rock in any way). It's not music I would normally listen to but the tune intrigues me and it's bugging me that I can't find what it is. I seem to remember somebody suggesting it might be a Celine Dion song, but I've suffered listening to all the ones that tend to come up on YouTube and her voice sounds far too lightweight and whiny for it to be her. It's definitely an MOR classic though, as I often hear it when walking round a huge clothes store I sometimes visit. If I click on the speaker symbol on the web page, it downloads a .mid file to my computer, but it just plays silence in Windows Media Player. |
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If it's any further help, I'm sure it would have been an American singer and I think it had an orchestral backing, or at least with no drums or electric guitars. It must have been a huge song in the 1990s, but I only ever heard daytime radio when at work and had no interest in Celine Dion and Mariah Carey-type singers. It was a haunting yet very powerful song, with a dramatic, sweeping chorus (no backing singers). It must be a huge song amongst those who normally go for that kind of thing.
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Do you remember any lyrics?
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This is gonna annoy me and I can't listen to that link you've provided. I was a huge fan of big female singers in the 90's too. Lyrics would be a help
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That would obviously make it a lot easier, but I always seem to hear it from a distance.
![]() I'll see if I can find a site where I can share the tune I hammered out. p.s. Musipedia's rubbish isn't it? |
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Mustn't have left that much of an impression if you can't even remember a single lyric
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Mustn't have left that much of an impression if you can't even remember a single lyric
![]() For any musos out there, it seems to me to go: Bb A G A Bb G Bb G# G G ... although that second line might possibly be G# G# G G I'm not sure what the lowercase b is supposed to represent (a sharp maybe?) Try it here: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/reso...2/music/piano/ |
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Billie Myers - Kiss the rain?
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Billie Myers - Kiss the rain?
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Bonnie Tyler?
Toni Braxton? |
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I can't get your link to load so i'm guessing here.
Toni Braxton, Breathe Again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRFEz2MjZgg Sophie B Hawkins, Damm I wish I was Your Lover? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6r-k9Bk6o |
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I can't get your link to load so i'm guessing here.
Toni Braxton, Breathe Again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRFEz2MjZgg Sophie B Hawkins, Damm I wish I was Your Lover? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6r-k9Bk6o |
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Donna Lewis - I love you always forever
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Donna Lewis - I love you always forever
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Donna Lewis - I love you always forever
I'm sure the song was sung by a true megastar and that when I eventually find out who it is, it will be somebody who I will be thoroughly embarrassed to admit even listening to. |
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Beverley Craven - Promise Me?
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Beverley Craven - Promise Me?
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Not a musician so the chords don't help but as another guess how about this
Get Here Oleta Adams? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-yUQS70Kc |
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Not a musician so the chords don't help but as another guess how about this
Get Here Oleta Adams? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-yUQS70Kc |
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I feel certain there's no black influence in the song whatsoever. You don't need to be a musician, just open up that virtual keyboard (where the notes are marked for you) and simply click on the keys in the sequence I provided. It's difficult to click on them too quickly, so you should find that you're doing it at approximately the correct speed. It will help if you open the keyboard in a separate window, so that you can read the note sequence at the same time.
Also (not that you might know) where you put A, is that in A minor, or A major? |
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Have you tried the SoundHound app? You can hum a tune into there (don't need to know the lyrics) and it usually comes back with the answer you are after
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Also (not that you might know) where you put A, is that in A minor, or A major?
![]() Just to clarify, that note sequence is the memorable (to me) hook line in the chorus. It's perhaps all sung as one line, but there is just a very slight pause between the two parts, perhaps where you would insert a comma if it was text. I tried to insert a couple of spaces between them, but the forum software closed them up again. |
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Jewel - "Foolish Games" perhaps, or something along those lines?
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Jewel - "Foolish Games" perhaps, or something along those lines?
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I'm afraid not, but at least the style is quite similar and I think the release date must be in the region. I seem to remember another song being on the radio during the same period, which was so awful that it was really quite funny. I think it was either screeching Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston, singing a song, possibly a cover version, with hysterical vocal gymnastics. If I can find out what that one was I might be able to find playlists from the same period.
When I have time I'll try to go through all the likely suspects between about 1995 and 2000. http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1997.shtml |
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