ok, i need to fix my signal-to-trollkiller ratio a bit here. i've
been transferring these old 7" r2r tapes for a client -- he made them
while in the service somewhere from '65 -'75 near as i can tell. very
eclectic taste in music, and i must say, it's kinda cool to listen to
all this stuff while transferring them. but one song in particular
caught me attention for the arrangement and production (i actually
think the songs a bit hokey, some sort of lost puppy dog love thing. .
..)

here's the chorus:


you can say you're leading me on
but it's just what i want you to do
don't you know just how hoplessly i'm lost
that's why i'm following you

anyone recognize this? i can provide an mp3 snippet if anyone thinks
they might know.

thanks,
chris deckard
saint louis mo

"mr c deckard" wrote in message
om...
ok, i need to fix my signal-to-trollkiller ratio a bit here. i've
been transferring these old 7" r2r tapes for a client -- he made them
while in the service somewhere from '65 -'75 near as i can tell. very
eclectic taste in music, and i must say, it's kinda cool to listen to
all this stuff while transferring them. but one song in particular
caught me attention for the arrangement and production (i actually
think the songs a bit hokey, some sort of lost puppy dog love thing. .
.)

here's the chorus:


you can say you're leading me on
but it's just what i want you to do
don't you know just how hoplessly i'm lost
that's why i'm following you

anyone recognize this?

Ta-Daaaaaa...!

http://www.theromantic.com/lovesongs/misty.htm

No, I didn't recognize it specifically, but if you Google a line at a time,
in quotes with the word 'lyrics' preceding it, you can find most anything -
even if the contractions aren't exact in either version. Took me two lines
to get the match as the first hit at the topof the page.
--


Neil Henderson
Saqqara Records
http://www.saqqararecords.com

mr c deckard wrote:
anyone recognize this? i can provide an mp3 snippet if anyone thinks
they might know.

Google normally answers these kinds of questions:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22it...t+you+to+do%22

The song is called "Misty", written by Errol Garner & Johnny
Burke, recorded by Errol Garner in 1954, Johnny Mathis in 1959
and Ray Stevens in 1975.

Timo

Timo Haanpää wrote:

mr c deckard wrote:
anyone recognize this? i can provide an mp3 snippet if anyone thinks
they might know.

Google normally answers these kinds of questions:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22it...t+you+to+do%22

The song is called "Misty", written by Errol Garner & Johnny
Burke, recorded by Errol Garner in 1954, Johnny Mathis in 1959
and Ray Stevens in 1975.

Timo


And if it sounds hokey, it's probably the Ray Stevens version.

The song itself has become somewhat of a jazz standard (usually as an
instrumental, like most jazz standards), but you'd never guess it from
Ray's version. It was also featured in an old Clint Eastwood movie "Play
Misty for Me".

Yup, Misty it is, the first song I really studied and dissected; introduced
me to minor 7 flat 5 chords.

Hey Mr. C,

Hokey or not, it's a *giant* standard, a must on all pro lounge gigs.

I would expect the composers/publishers of this song have received
mechanical and performance royalties in the millions of dollars over the
decades.

It has been covered by hundreds of vocalists, instrumentalists and
orchestras and is a mainstay in the world of 'muzak,' still heard in many
elevators and doctors offices world-wide.

I expect it still generates a good hundred thou a year or more for the
composers.

You have not cited the chorus, you have cited the *bridge*. Misty does not
have a chorus.

-bg-
--
www.thelittlecanadaheadphoneband.ca


"mr c deckard" wrote in message
om...
ok, i need to fix my signal-to-trollkiller ratio a bit here. i've
been transferring these old 7" r2r tapes for a client -- he made them
while in the service somewhere from '65 -'75 near as i can tell. very
eclectic taste in music, and i must say, it's kinda cool to listen to
all this stuff while transferring them. but one song in particular
caught me attention for the arrangement and production (i actually
think the songs a bit hokey, some sort of lost puppy dog love thing. .
.)

here's the chorus:


you can say you're leading me on
but it's just what i want you to do
don't you know just how hoplessly i'm lost
that's why i'm following you

anyone recognize this? i can provide an mp3 snippet if anyone thinks
they might know.

thanks,
chris deckard
saint louis mo

in article J%HLc.77194$Mr4.57311@pd7tw1no, **bg** at
wrote on 7/21/04 10:11 PM:

It has been covered by hundreds of vocalists, instrumentalists and
orchestras and is a mainstay in the world of 'muzak,' still heard in many
elevators and doctors offices world-wide.


Listen to the version by Ray Stevens. Although he is known for his clownish
country comedy songs, his version of Misty is a killer. You'd never guess
this was Muzak material listening to it.

Carlos