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06/10/2005 11:05:16 PM · #26

Could it be '65 Love Affair by Paul Davis - year 1982

I was a car hop
You were into be-bop
You sang do wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
All of them changes you put me through

If I could go back again
Well I know I'd never let you go
Back with some of my friends
To that wonderful
refrain:

'65 Love Affair, We wasn't gettin' nowhere
But we didn't care It was a crazy
'65 Love Affair
Rock 'n' roll was simple and clear
Oh, I still can hear I can hear it baby
Well I asked you like a dum-dum
You were bad with your pom-poms
You said ooh wah go team ooh wah go
Ooh-ee baby I want you to know

If I could go back in time
Well, I know somehow you'd still be mine
I wouldn't be so blind
To that wonderful

'65 Love Affair
When rock 'n' roll was simple and clear
Oh, I still can hear
I can hear it baby

Well, I tried to make you give in
One night at the drive-in
You said oh no baby, oh no woo
All of them changes you put me through

If I could go back in time
Well, I know somehow you'd still be mine
I wouldn't be so blind
To that wonderful

refrain

We sang doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo
Doo wop diddy wop diddy wop doo (repeat 5 times)

Edit: A shot in the dark!!!

Message edited by author 2005-06-10 23:06:10.

RayEthier

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

06/10/2005 11:36:37 PM · #27

Perhaps its this oldie called: Why do fools fall in love...
Ooh wah ooh wah ooh wah

Why do fools fall in love
Why do birds sing so gay
Love is awake at the break of day
Why do they fall in love

Ray

RayEthier

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

06/10/2005 11:38:24 PM · #28

Oh great.........I hope you're happy now...Now ya got me humming all kinds of doo wap... oooo wap thingies

pidge

Canon EOS-7D Mark II

06/10/2005 11:52:53 PM · #29

Maybe some other tv shows or movies you thought the song was in? You said it wasn't in the movies you thought it was in, but what were they?

C_Steve_G

Apple iPhone 12

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-135mm f/3.5-4.5

06/11/2005 12:21:41 AM · #30

This is it:

Boy From New York City

(Edit) released by the Ad-Libs in 1965.

Listen Here
This link goes to Amazon.com & opens up Windows Media Player...(I hope)

Message edited by author 2005-06-11 00:28:38.

Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

06/11/2005 01:21:12 PM · #31

Nope still none of the above :(
#
I thought it was in Platoon, Good Morning Vietnam, Stand by Me, Apocalypse Now, or full metal jacket - but none of the above,

I am not even sure it had any words to it, all I can remember is the tune. When I sing it for my girlfriend she said she has no idea what i am on about.

I am starting to doubt the do-wah but. It's a fast 'dowah' than the songs suggested above.

Message edited by author 2005-06-11 13:21:33.

Kavey

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

06/11/2005 01:29:09 PM · #32

Can you record a soundbite of you singing it and upload it somewhere?

PaulMdx

Canon EOS-1D

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

06/11/2005 01:31:19 PM · #33

There's a service in the UK (can't remember what it's called) where you dial 2580 on your mobile and hold it up to a speaker and it will text you the track. If you hear it again, Jon, or have a similar prob, try that.

Incidentally, singing into it doesn't work. :-)

06/11/2005 01:37:17 PM · #34

Ok I have made a midi of the main riff. Again probably way off but this is what it sounds like in my head.

Maybe this is also the beginning, not sure, but it is in the main riff / chorus

Again I think circa late 1960's or early 19790's -also probably from an American band..?

I have a feeling when i do get it, people will say 'what were you on about do-wah do-wah, oh baby, blah blah blah )

So this pretty much fits in with the tune - replace blahs with midi beats.
do-wah do-wah :: oh baby :: blah blah blah :: Blah blah :: blah blah blah

Christ i am losing the polt :D

My midi file here:
Midi File

Message edited by author 2005-06-11 13:37:54.

06/11/2005 01:38:37 PM · #35

Sounds like Louie Louie to me... the Troggs, I believe.

midi file here to compare... ;)

Message edited by author 2005-06-11 13:42:43.

06/11/2005 01:42:56 PM · #36

Originally posted by laurielblack:

Sounds like Louie Louie to me... the Troggs, I believe.

Whoooooooooo that's it! That is it! Ahhh I love you :D
Haven't heard if it's the troggs version yet as that isn't on iTunes, but heard a cover from a 'party mix' and that is definitely the tune!

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

06/11/2005 01:44:07 PM · #37

It is the Troggs version too!!

Do-wah do-wah -> Louie Louie easy :D

PaulMdx

Canon EOS-1D

06/11/2005 01:45:08 PM · #38

Originally posted by jonpink:

Christ i am losing the polt :D

Hahaha. You'll be going into HMV soon asking some random adolescent sales assistant if he knows of a song that 'goes a bit like this..........'.

06/11/2005 01:48:16 PM · #39

Originally posted by jonpink:

Whoooooooooo that's it! That is it! Ahhh I love you :D

Glad I could help...I hate having something like that stuck in my head until I can figure it out...it drives me batty!! :o)

06/11/2005 02:02:28 PM · #40

:D

I think it was the Kingsmen's Louie Louie - can't find what film it was from now hehe

06/11/2005 02:09:12 PM · #41

Kingsmen...yeah, that's it. Troggs popped into my head but then again, they were before my time. ;)

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Pentax

06/11/2005 02:09:36 PM · #42

Manfred Mann ???? 1964? It's a faster pace and popular during that era.

Artyste

Sony Ericsson W810i

06/11/2005 02:11:46 PM · #43

Originally posted by RayEthier:

Perhaps its this oldie called: Why do fools fall in love...
Ooh wah ooh wah ooh wah

Why do fools fall in love
Why do birds sing so gay
Love is awake at the break of day
Why do they fall in love

Ray

That was the one I was going to suggest too.. (the one that kept popping in my head when I was thinking about it).. ah well.

Laurie.. man.. how did you get "A-louiah-loo-wah!" out of "doo-wah doo-wah"? LOL

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Pentax

06/11/2005 02:12:39 PM · #44

Originally posted by Artyste:

Laurie.. man.. how did you get "A-louiah-loo-wah!" out of "doo-wah doo-wah"? LOL

His midi version gave it away. ;)

Artyste

Sony Ericsson W810i

06/11/2005 02:14:42 PM · #45

Originally posted by laurielblack:

Originally posted by Artyste:
Laurie.. man.. how did you get "A-louiah-loo-wah!" out of "doo-wah doo-wah"? LOL

His midi version gave it away. ;)

I just listened to the midi, and I have to tell you.. I still would have been stumped. lol

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

06/11/2005 02:20:56 PM · #46

um.... That is the worst midi I've ever heard.

;) Stick to photography Jonpink!

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

06/11/2005 02:31:39 PM · #47

I agree! But it worked!

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

06/11/2005 02:34:50 PM · #48

:) It was a great idea to post the tune in his head.
Computers are amazing...arent they!

wewillexplore

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

06/11/2005 02:40:07 PM · #49

This post proves my long standing point that DPCers know EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING. lol