Help me ID this Yacht Rock-sounding song

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So I walked into a Dollar Tree and heard the last 20 seconds of a late '70s/early '80s midtempo Yacht Rock-sounding tune. It had switched into pretty much an instrumental at that point, with a Peter Cetera-sounding voice chiming in with (I think) the vocal "ninety-nine" and nothing else. (It was not "99 Red Balloons.") There might have been some funky slap bass thing going on.
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<br>This song must have been a minor hit back in the '70s or '80s... because that was the last time I heard it.
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<br>Any ideas?

simplecarnival, Sunday, 19 July 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsw-uQ5C7zo

Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Sunday, 19 July 2009 05:05 (fifteen years ago)

That's it! Thank you :)

simplecarnival, Sunday, 19 July 2009 13:31 (fifteen years ago)

This sounds like something they would play at Dollar Tree! Are these guys for real? I like the idea of wearing all white, it should come back in style. Even the glasses are white!

Department of Energy Department (u s steel), Sunday, 19 July 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

You guys suck. This song won't leave my head now.

http://tinyurl.com/zom720 (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 18:52 (fifteen years ago)

Will this help?

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago)

Kinda scary to think that there's been a thin piece of brain tissue behind my skull that's been sitting dormant for 20 years, just waiting for you to come along and wake it up.

Soon as I saw that chalk outline start dancing, I was all "Just watch, he's gonna do a backflip."

http://tinyurl.com/zom720 (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

Such was the ridiculous state of my 13 year old mind that when said song was a hit -- which was right around the time Dune came out, which they of course did the soundtrack for -- I figured this song was their way of telling the story of the film in a pop song equivalent. Must have been the "Young girls say he's Jesus" line.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

Will this help?

― Ned Raggett,

You know, I'd forgotten this, especially the Ultravox "Sleepwalk" sequencer.

Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:12 (fifteen years ago)


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