UNKNOWN SONG - EXPERTS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

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Hi - Been trying to find this song for nearly 30 years!!! Anyway... here goes.... Its about 1978ish and I'm with my dad in the Ferry pub in Cookham. A bloke puts something on the jukebox and it sounds incredible. The verse is spoken word in a sort of farmer/yokel accent and then the chorus goes all kind of psychedelic with a load of aaah kind of vocals. I know this is a tad sketchy but I was only 6 at the time. I never asked the guy what the track was cos it was so fantasic I assumed I'd hear it all the time ...... never heard it again. Might be a b-side. Any ideas? Would really appreciate any help - I've bought so many records trying to find this. Thanks Ray

― ray kovacs, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Is it over 6 minutes long? Length?

Compare its sound to any another band.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sorry i can't help but you might actually be better off never finding out. a similar thing happened tome as a kid and in my head i had made this song the most awesome thing ever created. when i finally heard it again after 25 odd years it actually sounded nothing like i remembered and was a massive antil climax.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

There's an episode of Pete and Pete where this happens.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

I heard this beautiful rocksteady/roots reggae song on a pirate radio station in London at 4 in the morning. It had female vocals and may have been called "Morning Child" and it sounded wonderful. To this day, I have not been able to find out what it was.

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

haha

Track ID:"Morning Child"

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Was it American or British/Irish? The only thing I can think of similar to that is Porter Wagoner's incredible "The Rubber Room," which fits the description pretty well. Though now that I think about it, so would "Johnny Remember Me" by John Leyton (a Joe Meek production) - they're pretty similar. The Leyton song was a big UK hit, but nada in America.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I googled it and my original ILX question came up!

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

From the description above I'm going to guess it's the Incredible String Band.

― everything, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hi - thanks for the help - dont know if it was american or english but the thing I really remember was the weird farmer vocal in the verse.

― ray kovacs, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

going by the description it's probably not 'bedazzled' by dudley moore and peter cook, or peter wyngarde's 'rape', but it would be neat if it was

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

sure would. its not ivor cutler either.........

― ray kovacs, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

isn't there a song on the nuggets box like this?

― richard wood johnson, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

Was it "Oi Am A Zoider Drinker" by The Wurzels?

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

'neville thumbcatch' by the attack?

― john p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

this happened to me (for about a 6-or-7 year searching time) with Jefferson Starship's "With Your Love". never thought to check Starship...! wasn't disappointed, but am bemused

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

"uncle albert" by wings

― corey c (shock of daylight), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

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