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"Spotted" - forgotten tunes

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JPSmit

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OK BCFers, over on the Spridget board we have been having a favourite car tunes conversation - this is a variation and it was suggested I post it here.

To recap. I typically listen to oldies (in my case 70's & 80's) music streamed while I work. Every once in awhile I hear a song I loved back in the day but had completely forgotten about. I will post one such song at the end of this post.

Here is what I propose - Much like the "spotted" section - I am inviting you to post the same type of songs. BUT you can't go looking! These are only songs that come on the radio or the interweb or even I suppose a CD - but, come uninvited and make you say "Oh yeah, I had forgotten about this song.

Hope that makes sense.

So, to get us rolling - this was played yesterday, I love the song, haven't heard it in years and had forgotten it existed - like bumping into an old friend.

Does this make sense? (and remember you aren't allowed to search - it has to come to you!)

 
I have a huge, eclectic collection of music on my HD player (over 7500 tunes at last count). I have everything from Alternative to Blues, to Old Time Swing, Big Bands, Rock, Heavy Metal, Country, Soul, Classical, you name it. About the only type of music I don't have is RAP (Well, I have a little).

Not too long ago I heard a song on Sirius XM that I had forgotten about, but that I liked and I didn't have (not many of those). But this was a cover of the original song and I liked the cover better! Problem was, I didn't catch the group who was doing the cover of of this song.

The song in question is "Give a Little Bit", originally by Supertramp. It took a bit of internet sleuthing to find the band I had heard do the cover that day, but I finally solved it. The group was "The Goo Goo Dolls". I now have their album that has this song on it. Here is the Goo Goo Dolls cover of "Give a Little Bit"

 
I am partial to "Pink Cadillac" that may have something to do with owning a Cadillac though.

 
For Randy and SD (and anyone else interested in posting YouTube vids here)

 
With the passing of Merle Haggard, here is one I just heard that I had forgotten about. Always kinda liked this tune.


And...

 
Gak - when I work at the air museum or at Sturbridge Village - there's no background music!.

But - here's one I first heard years ago, and recently played by a group visiting Sturbridge:

 
Couple I heard today, both long versions:

Grand Funk - "I'm Your Captain":


Fleetwood Mac (very early) - "Oh Well, Parts 1 & 2":

 
As an 80's kid, here's one of my favorite forgotten tunes: Call To the Heart by Giuffria:

 
Not exactly forgotten - but, heard this twice in a week - and not at all in about the last 20 years:


When I was a child I took ski lessons at Batawa ski hill. (Batawa BTW was a company town (In the German tradition) built for employees of Bata shoes - hence the ski hill) Anyway, they had one tape to play on the hill all day every day - I still can't bear to hear the Loco-Motion by GFR or Monday Morning Choo Choo (stampeders)
 
When I was in Junior High School, my first "real" job (i.e., with a real paycheck) was as a Dishwasher at an I-70 Motel on the outskirts East of Denver. In the bar they had a video that would play with different scantily-clad woman who would dance to different tunes. It worked like a juke box. You pay your quarter and pick a tune, and a dancer would be dancing to the tune on a TV screen. The same Dancer would be dancing to the same tune. I guess one of the favorite dancers was the one dancing to this tune, because I can remember hearing this tune coming out of the bar almost constantly:

 
I'm not really into oldies, but this came on at the right time.
 
One I just heard - absolutely haunting voice one can't forget:

 
So, a couple of forgotten tunes. First of all, I normally listen to a jazz station in the car and the garage - the other day, I heard possible the worst cover version of a song ever - Joe Jackson - Stepping Out (which I had forgotten about)


I have always been a huge Joe Jackson fan - and loved it when he moved to big band stuff - Not my favourite version of Tuxedo Junction but still pretty good


and starting at 2:36 what I think is the prettiest horn riff of all time (again not necessarily this version of it but still)
 
One I haven't heard in ages and then twice in a week.

 
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