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Name That (other) Tune

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 02:07am on 2009-07-16

[info] realinterrobang and I (since she phoned me to see whether I knew the answer) are being driven crazy by a familar riff in a song neither us us previously knew. Worse, it's such a familiar riff that we know it's from a song that was fairly popular, and we are both remembering the same instrumentation coming out of the bridge, but can't quite get all the way there though it feels like the answer is in front of us.

as ABC this would be |^F2^F2zBc^c2zcB2^G2^F2^F2|

So ... who recognizes the riff used as the foundation for this clip (.ogg format)?

[Edit: [livejournal.com profile] maugorn has identified the source as "Cherry Cherry" by Neil Diamond. [livejournal.com profile] realinterrobang agrees. I think the song I had in mind was "What I Like About You" by The Romantics, which I'm more familiar with than "Cherry Cherry", but The Romantics clearly got it from Diamond, so Maug is still right. I haven't found the version of either that matches the instrumentation in my head, but it's the right lick.]

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posted by [personal profile] thespian at 06:35am on 2009-07-16
Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. It's very similar; scope this early version out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IyoUte727A (later versions prettied it up some).
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posted by [personal profile] thespian at 06:39am on 2009-07-16
actually, it's even clearer in Britney Spears humming the riff here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF2l_rWdvDs
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 06:40am on 2009-07-16
Nope, it's definitely not that. (We already went there, and I said so in my entry.) I'm thinking it's pre-1969 by a goodly number of years, as well. It's also not "Cool Jerk" by The Capitols, although that's even more similar.
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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 06:45am on 2009-07-16
We're pretty sure it's not that, but it's close enough that once i get "Satisfaction" in my head I need to go listen to the clip again to play this riff on guitar without just falling back into "Satisfaction".

We're pretty sure it's from the bridge of a song, and that it starts off as parallel piano chords for two repetitions then gets other instruments (including brass) layered in over the next few repetitions before the vocals come back in ... and it's pretty clear that she and I are both thinking of the same song. (I'm thinking of something from roughly the same period and feeling as "Dancing in the Streets", but I'm not sure, and that's later than [livejournal.com profile] realinterrobang is thinking.)
Edited Date: 2009-07-16 06:47 am (UTC)
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posted by [personal profile] thespian at 07:21am on 2009-07-16
well, Satisfaction is, in fact, from just less than a year after Dancing in the Streets, and thus years before 1969. The chord procession is almost identical, though lower (http://www.guitarchordsmagic.com/images/guitar-song-chords/satisfaction-guitar-tabs.gif). Keith Richards was actually afraid it sounded *too* much like Dancing.



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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 02:57pm on 2009-07-16
Yeah, I got the year of "Dancing in the Streets" way off, probably because I'd heard one of the many covers of it before I ever heard the original.

[livejournal.com profile] maugorn came up with "Cherry Cherry", by Neil Diamond.
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