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.

No. Sigh.

But isn't this thread fun!

Ah - dunno (re Commitments) - will have another bash at iTunes

Is it that cover of an old soul/motown song that was in the charts recently (racks brains to remember name)

That's almost as rubbish as my info, TDWP

Is it this?

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TnsvMNp3q28

If not, there re a few others I'm thinking of, but must get my lazy bum away from mumsnet and prepare for a dinner party tonight (eek)

hmmph! that was me policywonk! Nina Simone... I remember it now

Oops - sorry! I've been looking on OMDB benignly for the last couple of months - entirely erroneously! I'll have to be slightly unpleasant to her now to make up for it.

Go back to Gap and ASK them!

yes, you make sure you do that! all that misplaced gratitude....

I will Flight - but can't get to that branch for a couple of weeks, so in the meantime I'm annoying you all with impossible questions.

If you tell me where I will ring them and annoy them tomorrow. I love doing stuff like that

Really??

It's Gap at Kew Retail Park in west London/Middlesex. It was a compilation CD (the track after the one I liked was something indie-ish - guitars anyway).

I hate doing things like that!

Yes really! If I remember. Ds starts new school tomorrow, plumbers are coming, and I have to wash my hair

Ah, now with the excuses...

Don't worry if you don't get around to it. Although you would be putting an awful lot of people out of their misery.

Oh, good luck to your DS on his first day

Thanks!!

Just listened to your link TDWP - not that one, but thanks!

(If you fancy participating further in this farce, the song I'm after is in a major key - if that helps at all .)

Was it a modern recording, just in a Motown stylee? Someone like David Jordan perhaps? He's quite Smokey-ish.

Ok.

They thought it was hilarious and told me it sounded like this

But I am not convinced

They said ring head office and ask what's on the tape...will report back!!

I used to work at Gap. Every store gets sent a new CD each month of music - same CD to every store. We also got a printed list of songs and artists.

Why don't you call a store on the phone? Chances are the person who answers the phone will know it. I found that by about the 3rd of the month I would have the bloody CD memorised!!

Ps they asked me to sing it, and I couldn't as I don't understand your notation

so ring them and sing down the phone if it isn't that one!! 0208 876 8684

oh hurry up and ring..i wanna know what it is

oh hurry up and ring..i wanna know what it is

I've tried head office twice and nobody answering...I think PW needs to ring kew and sing to them. They were most eager to help! I said she was my friend. So she needs to say she is mine