I've got a song going round my head - how can I find out what it is

[policywonk]

... from the melody/hook alone? Didn't catch the lyrics. Are there any websites for this?

Ta.

he has just come in from the kitchen glaring to see what the feck im doing with all the tapping and singing

no idea on the track but could it be something by the Temptations with Eddie Kendricks the falsettoish voice?

Boy. But falsetto. Quite possibly Smokey Robinson.

It's not a really obvious Motown, IYKWIM - hasn't been used on a Levis advert or anything like that.

Hmm, Temptations... maybe. Will have to work through the iTunes previews...

hope you find it - oh and shame on you for being distracted by a nice cardie.

shoes now, I could understand.

hmm..song tapper has just given me smokey robinson being with you??
though that aint so up tempo

im lol im tapping away to a song i dont know based on a dododododerderder by someone else

Thanks harpo and harley.

Songtapper tried to tell me that it was U2, and various other things...

Maybe I'll give it another go.

impressed at your tapping harleyd. My tapping is clearly rubbish even on songs I thought I knew cos it keeps giving me different answers!

Oh goodness me. Apparenly it's Dexy's OR Tupac OR Jethro Tull OR Bob Dylan

Can only conclude it's not in their database yet!

Thank you for your help ladies.

my tapping rocks apparently, its got all my songs right sofar (well, my songs been in a list of several )..im signing off now before i look at the clock and realise ive been tapping for 4 hours...

nightshift commodores?

Do you know anyone with an iphone?
DP has just got one and it has a function where you sing to it and it tells you the song name/artist.
It also has a virtual zippo lighter to wave at gigs, and can be used as a light sabre toy. Haven't actually seen him make any calls on it yet though but I'm sure it does that too...

No, not that one UMM

Supergirl; don't know anyone with an iPhone, but will keep an eye out!

It's not the Temptations or Smokey Robinson - at least, nothing that's on iTunes.

It's sort of funky - late sixties, I'd guess. Sounds a bit like Charles Wright and the Watts.

this

No SEA, but thanks for trying...

only read op..do you have any idea who sings it? didn't you hear any of the words?

No, no words at all Darkpunk...

I might have to resort to ringing the shop and asking what's on their in-house CDs.

yep.. pretty impossible to work out the song without more info.

good luck.

is it def old song?

Erm, I think so. It sounded old.

hang on a sec, didn't you start a thread before about identifying a tune they were playing in Gap? Or was that someone else? Anyway, whatever, we clearly need a subsection of the Music topic to deal with this problem

No, not me guv. I did ask about something I heard in Starbucks, and OMDB (I think) identified it as Nina Simone.

I'm off to see whether it's the Meteors...

I meant the Meters. Anyway it wasn't them.

do you know what it is yet

is it a song from the film The Commitments,
i loved that film and those songs.