Song identification - pretty please

[paul russell999]

I thought this song identification problem was a thing of the past - you listen to the lyrics, go home and type it into Google and... but no...

I heard a song the other day - quite pleasant, quite familiar from a long time ago - I can imagine it being on a 1970s compilation LP with "If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)" by The Staple Singers and "Harvest for the World" by the Isley Brothers, maybe a bit more disco-ey than that

I thought the lyrics were

"If your love's contagious... Something something something"

Googling brings up Tarrus Riley or Taja Sevelle - definitely not them, so maybe I have misheard the word "contagious". Not a lot to go on, I know..

 

[danny la rouge]

Can you hum it?

 

[paul russell999]

Yes

 

[editor]

I thought this song identification problem was a thing of the past - you listen to the lyrics, go home and type it into Google and... but no...

I heard a song the other day - quite pleasant, quite familiar from a long time ago - I can imagine it being on a 1970s compilation LP with "If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)" by The Staple Singers and "Harvest for the World" by the Isley Brothers, maybe a bit more disco-ey than that

I thought the lyrics were

"If your love's contagious... Something something something"

Googling brings up Tarrus Riley or Taja Sevelle - definitely not them, so maybe I have misheard the word "contagious". Not a lot to go on, I know..

Any other clues about what the lyric might be?

 

[paul russell999]

Sorry - the tune was familiar but it was playing quite quietly (downstairs in Neros on St Martins Lane in that London, if anyone wants to go and check ) - I could just make out the words in the chorus "If your love's contagious" and thought - well that will be easy to identify - 1970s, very early 1980s, I'll look that up when I get home. But no.

 

[Athos]

 

[Athos]

 

[Athos]

 

[paul russell999]

Thanks - it wasn't as disco-ey as those first two.

I'm thinking that "contagious" must have been "can save us" or something else, so I'm sunk really, unless I hear it again. It was familiar.

 

[quimcunx]

Yes

Try humming it into this and see.

Vocaroo | Online voice recorder

 

[Sprocket.]

Isley Brothers : Between the Sheets??

 

[paul russell999]

This sort of 1970s disco - New York City - I'm Doing Fine Girl

 

[Fez909]

 

[paul russell999]

Isley Brothers : Between the Sheets??

Thanks - less souly - more MOR disco like - New York City - I'm doing fine girl.

 

[paul russell999]

Oh - I didn't say - pretty sure it was a male vocalist - quite a high voice

 

[paul russell999]

Try humming it into this and see.

Vocaroo | Online voice recorder

Heh - there's a lot of hiss on that. I'll hum it into my phone and play it here somehow tomorrow!

 

[paul russell999]

Thanks everyone...

 

[Fez909]

 

[paul russell999]

Isley Brothers : Between the Sheets??

No, not that...

 

[paul russell999]

No, not that. Bit more Motown/Northern Soul-y, bit less disco-ey

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[Saul Goodman]

 

[Treacle Toes]

Read the op

 

[paul russell999]

The best way to describe the sound - I can imagine it on a compilation LP with these

Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free (1976)

The Staple Singers - If You're Ready (Come Go with Me) (1973)

The Isley Brothers - Harvest For The World (1976)

 

[Saul Goodman]

Read the op

I did. That's why I posted it

 

[Treacle Toes]

I did. That's why I posted it

From the OP...

Googling brings up Tarrus Riley or Taja Sevelle - definitely not them, so maybe I have misheard the word "contagious". Not a lot to go on, I know..

Maybe you just wanted to hear that song...no bother I have my moments with it too.

 

[Saul Goodman]

From the OP...



Maybe you just wanted to hear that song...no bother I have my moments with it too.

I read it. I just like the song

 

[paul russell999]

Nice - a bit more MOR disco-ey than that though.

 

[paul russell999]

NO! Been a while since I've heard that!

 

[Sprocket.]

Eddie Campbell : Contagious Love?