Millions LOVE This 80s Song But NOBODY Knows What it’s CALLED or WHO Sings it!

Millions LOVE This 80s Song But NOBODY Knows What it’s CALLED or WHO Sings it! | Professor of Rock

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Alright, you’re never going to believe this one. Coming up on today’s episode, we’ve got a song that has no name, no artist, and no date as to when it was recorded. Most believe it was composed in the early to mid-80s. But really, everything about this song has been lost to history… Not even Google can figure this one out. And forget Shazam and ChatGPT. The only evidence we have that this song ever existed is an obscure cassette recording off the radio. First uploaded to the Internet in 2004, for the past 20 years, a grassroots community has been trying to identify this track. In more recent years this song has gone viral across the Internet… with users on Reddit, KZfaq, and Discord piecing together clues about its origins… and debunking some imposter bands in the process. Today we’re pitching in and doing our part to get this crazy story out there… It’s the tale of the track that many are calling “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet”… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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"The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" actually goes by a few different names, including ‘Like the Wind,’ ‘Blind the Wind,’ and ‘Check It In, Check It Out,’ among others. … nicknames given to a cassette recording of an unidentified song, most likely composed in the early to mid-80s. So usually as we kick things, I like to give you a heads-up about the band and the song that we’re covering for the episode. Well, today I can’t do that… because today, like everyone else on the Internet, I have no idea…no clue who wrote this song. And I have no idea what it’s called. You will start to understand why in a moment in what is one of the most interesting stories in the rich history of rock… So for starters, I’m going to refer to this track as Mystereo…a combination of a cool Spiderman villain and stereo… many just call it “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet.”
What do you think? Do you get any post-punk or New Wave vibe from this track? Does the voice sound familiar? Can you even understand what he is singing?
In addition to calling it The Most Mysterious Song, some have named it ‘Like the Wind,’ ‘Blind the Wind,’ ‘Check It In Check It Out,’ and a few other titles… each of these is taken from the song’s perceived lyrics. I’ll keep playing it throughout the episode so that you can work on unraveling the mystery as we go. So the story of ‘The Mysterious Song’ starts, not with an up-and-coming indie band, at least not for us… but rather with a teen music aficionado who goes by the name of Darius S. Darius reportedly hails from the town of Wilhelmshaven Northern Germany.] As was standard practice for every 80s kid, Darius would record his favorite songs from the radio onto mixtape cassettes. Sometime in the early to mid-80s, Darius recorded this song in its entirety onto one of the tapes in his

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@ProfessorofRock Ай бұрын

Poll: What is your pick for the STRANGEST song of the Rock Era?

@catherine6653 Ай бұрын

This is Ponderous by 2NU

@peterd.9978 Ай бұрын

Living on Video - Trans X

@bobdavis4848 Ай бұрын

"Ach Golgotha (Maldoror Is Dead)" by Current 93; if it even counts as a "song"!

@christineml1476 Ай бұрын

The Ramones “Every Time I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think Of You”

@vehicle22 Ай бұрын

D.O.A. by Bloodrock

@TheDunestrider Ай бұрын

Someone else posted, on another video concerning this song is: "The fastest way to find out who created this song is to use it in an advertisement and wait to see who sues you."

@flash001USA Ай бұрын

Lol but the idea would probably work.

@buzzlight2nd1 Ай бұрын

Probably why only a 2-second sampling (some of us might be able to identify that song, if enough of it was streamed on YT).

@jamesfowley4114 29 күн бұрын

If they're still alive.

@MattStryker 29 күн бұрын

THIS WAS NEARLY EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO POST!

@TheRealRedRooster 29 күн бұрын

After 40 years????

@danstone8783 Ай бұрын

One thing we know for sure is that Don Henley was not involved with this song as there have been no lawsuits filed for playing parts of this song.

@JohnHoganN8 Ай бұрын

😂😂

@catherine6653 Ай бұрын

So true 😊

@RBS_ Ай бұрын

...ha-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! ....Knowing 'The Henley', this is SO TRUE!!

@fredbriggs2225 Ай бұрын

Or, on the same note, Tom Sholz.

@ProfessorofRock Ай бұрын

Ha!

@lostmymind2010 28 күн бұрын

One of my thoughts to this whole thing is it’s possibly part of someone’s demo tape. Back in the 70’s and 80’s a lot of people had opportunities to send their demo tapes to record labels to see if they could become a singer. Sometimes these demo tapes would be played on the radios to see what kind of a reaction listeners would get. I know I tried sending in a demo to a person years ago, obviously I didn’t go anywhere lol. But that’s what this could also be. The person that originally wrote/made the song might not even remember what the song is or was because they never got contacted and just dumped everything and moved on. The listener just happened to get lucky enough to record it and later tried to find the artist. No telling.

@katycanino1566 28 күн бұрын

This is exactly what I think.

@dameonnelson3543 25 күн бұрын

Tried that to nope it seems to of been 84 and it was random recorded but there's a German type

@stevegraham3817 22 күн бұрын

You're the Voice by John Farnham was like that. His manager took the song to a dozen stations and some flat out refused to play it without listening to it. One station manager, music programmer, or whatever she was, was at least polite enough to listen to it in front of him, and didn't even get half a dozen lines into the song, rewound it, and made the DJ interrupt the schedule to play it. Yeah, random people with random songs at least had a random chance from time to time to hit a random audience. No chance of doing that in this day and age, unfortunately for us lucky enough to be raised on real musical talent.

@amberconner32 18 күн бұрын

That was my first thought too.

@JamesJBurt 14 күн бұрын

Here is some research someone can do: If you listen to the song in its entirety, you will notice that the ENGLISH lyrics do not always fit the music. It is extremely noticeable in some parts. This is an important clue! I am aware of this phenomenon because I subtitle German songs into English a little bit, and often find that the translation to English does not fit the music. In this song, the phrases "Check it In, Check it Out" seem to not match the music, and the singer has to rush the words to try to force it to fit. This is because when he translated from the original language to English, he ended up with a phrase that had MORE syllables than the original. Now compare that bit to the phrase "Take the consequence of living" which seems to match the music perfectly. We can conclude that when translated from the original language, this phrase had exactly the same number of syllables. More than that, it is likely that each word in the phrase had the same number of syllables. So, we can make a list of phrase translations that seem natural perfect matches, and translations that did NOT match (in number of syllables) and try to find the original language by comparing these. Phrases that seem to be translations because they do not match the music (wrong number of syllables, and the singer has to speed up to make it fit): -- "Check it in, Check it out" -- "It's the summer (of) blues" Phrases that seem "off" because the entire sentence has the same number of syllables, but the individual words do not: -- "And there's no Sorrow" -- The singer had to rush "and there's" and then stretch out "Sorrow". This tells us that in the original language, "Sorrow" is a longer word (possibly three syllables), while "and there's" is a shorter word (possibly a single syllable). Phrases that are simply bad translations these can be hints also. Look for literal translations that are non-sensical or very uncommon expressions in English: -- "Let a smile be your companion" Have some talented musicians from eastern European countries translate the English lyrics BACK to their native language and find out which translation seems to fit the music best. If a native speaker translates the lyrics back to his own language, and we find that the original words fit the music better, we may have discovered the native tongue of the song's composer.

@paulstewart3665 13 күн бұрын

Awesome comment!

@phylissleask849 9 күн бұрын

Genius 🎉

@stephengagne2723 3 күн бұрын

Seems to have some of the feel of "Surrender" by Cheap Truck

@th3d33pc4 Күн бұрын

@@stephengagne2723 My goodness, thank you for saying this. I was going insane trying to remember what song it was on Guitar Hero where I had heard that little melody before. It is almost, if not exactly, the melody from Surrender. Which made me wonder about it possibly being discarded/hidden because the DJ realized how similar it was to Surrender and wanted to separate from potential liability. Now that you have confirmed to me that I'm not suffering a personal auditory hallucination, I think noticing that melody is rare and the possible line of inquiry should be brought to the attention of The Professor or those more able to follow up what can be gleaned from this info.

@DaveNHJ Ай бұрын

There is some dude in his mid to late 60's living in Europe who avoids the internet and social media sitting in a coffee shop right now having no idea the world is listening to the song he wrote in 1984 about his ex-wfe.

@NotHereToBeNice Ай бұрын

About his skateboard. Not wife--skateboard.

@milanuzelac9980 Ай бұрын

Hey ! That's me !!!

@BismarckMandanBlog Ай бұрын

This song needs plenty of big market radio airplay. Obviously the internet isn’t where the answer lies.

@jeremyrowe743 Ай бұрын

I know the artist and the name of the song. Estonion band Beat Boy (Sven Lohmas) made it and its called "Bravely" I'll take my prize after you confirm

@OlliGarch Ай бұрын

@@jeremyrowe743I guess we will see if you are right when the video ends I hope.

@dbf1dware Ай бұрын

I am gobsmacked that someone out there found the background frequency linking the recording to the radio station, and that people out there could identify what synth was used. People are truly amazing.

@Neevie-Styx Ай бұрын

If only people were as amazing as dogs. 😝🐶

@strummercash5601 Ай бұрын

@Neevie-Styx Honeybear (at left) and I both agree with you. Your comment has our total and complete endorsement.

@daryldixon5280 Ай бұрын

Welcome to America

@daryldixon5280 Ай бұрын

Welcome to America 🇺🇸!!!!!!!!!!!!!(w/o the UNITED STATES)

@CamoShirt Ай бұрын

@@Neevie-Styx no dogs have entered this chat because they have no concept of internet/youtube/texting etc

@chrisorsten 17 күн бұрын

I really think its one of 2 scenarios- 1 - All or most of the key members have died. 2 - They have moved on in life and do not want the attention.

@gutsdozer 15 күн бұрын

We can't assume everyone is extremely online all day, every day. Some kids probably recorded a demo decades ago and sent it to some radio stations, but they're in their 60s/70s now and so they have no idea there's a "mystery" - more likely they're oblivious, not actively avoiding it or dead.

@24get24give 5 күн бұрын

@@gutsdozer that is so true, I am online daily [mostly KZfaq and Amazon] and I had no idea until this showed IP in my feed

@user-ct4sk8mh2k 9 күн бұрын

*** Mystery Solved *** 1982 The Strangers - Blind the Wind *** You have to read the comments if you ask viewers to send in information!

@wikster6630 4 күн бұрын

How did you find it? I paused this video, looked it up, and you seem to be correct . Cheers

@leavingitblank9363 4 күн бұрын

I'll want a reputable source to verify that before I'll accept "mystery solved". Someone claiming he found it on a Russian web site, with no attributions, and "verified" album photo that's obviously not the band is a sketchy start.

@patriciawhite6820 14 сағат бұрын

I searched KZfaq with your information, it sure seems like the song being played on this episode.

@ralphkjb Ай бұрын

Somebody should remake this song without permission. Maybe then, this mystery artist will finally emerge and say “that’s MY song!”. I’m sure solving this mystery would be worth paying the royalty money.

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound Ай бұрын

I already did… kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcuDp5SB17yriY0.htmlsi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound Ай бұрын

I already did… kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcuDp5SB17yriY0.htmlsi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

@EannaButler Ай бұрын

Crowdfund the lawsuit

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound Ай бұрын

Already did... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcuDp5SB17yriY0.htmlsi=d5FMLwn_AmAQ5wV0

@user-zi7rk6fi3b Ай бұрын

That's actually a good idea! 😅

@deanaldridge4277 Ай бұрын

Just release the song as your own, and make it a hit. Then sit back, and wait to see who sue's you in court. Problem solved.

@MannyBrum Ай бұрын

Won't necessarily work. Tons of people released their own version of Ulterior Motives and the artist had no idea about any of it until the people searching for the song figured out who it was and contacted them. Now because the way the streaming services work, in order to get the song released officially they have to get the covers taken down or the official version will be flagged for takedown. They reached out to the people who covered it and were told to go F themselves.

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound Ай бұрын

I already did. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcuDp5SB17yriY0.htmlsi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound Ай бұрын

I already did… kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcuDp5SB17yriY0.htmlsi=YBvoEq239CQ_Yf_f

@dougjenkins8749 Ай бұрын

Sad but true

@TheDeadEndFriendsSound Ай бұрын

Already did... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcuDp5SB17yriY0.htmlsi=d5FMLwn_AmAQ5wV0

@KC-xr2tm 19 күн бұрын

When I was a kid, McDonald's didn't serve anything for breakfast.

@NDR-hn3ue 13 күн бұрын

You remember that too

@KC-xr2tm 13 күн бұрын

@@NDR-hn3ue Yes, I do.

@johndelconte9915 12 күн бұрын

I don’t think anyone would want it back then.

@christheghostwriter 12 күн бұрын

When were you a kid? McDonald's started selling the Egg McMuffin in the early 1970s. I'm 57, born in '66, and I remember the Egg McMuffin from childhood

@johndelconte9915 12 күн бұрын

@@christheghostwriter what’s your point?

@robertcarter3895 24 күн бұрын

Has anyone tried ENF analysis? Yes, there is a technology known as Electric Network Frequency (ENF) analysis that uses the frequency variations of the power grid's alternating current (AC) to determine the time and sometimes the location of a recording. ENF analysis leverages the small fluctuations in the power grid's frequency, which typically hovers around a nominal value (like 50 Hz or 60 Hz depending on the region). These fluctuations are unique over time and can be recorded incidentally in audio and video recordings as background noise. When a recording is made, the ENF signal can be extracted from it. By comparing the extracted ENF signal with a database of ENF signals collected from the power grid, it is possible to determine the exact time (and sometimes the location) when the recording was made. This method is used in forensic analysis to verify the authenticity of audio and video recordings.

@XtianApi 18 күн бұрын

Are you freaking serious? That's amazing,

@davidlane256 18 күн бұрын

Would those signals degrade from recording a re-recording of a copy of a recording? If it was recorded at 50 hz, And archived at 60hz, would that change the ENF signal?

@bryanrobertson2207 15 күн бұрын

That's pretty cool.

@JamesJBurt 14 күн бұрын

This will likely only give us the location that the bootleg tape was made, and we already know that. It was made in the living room of the guy who recorded it from the radio.

@tincanbanditgunsmithing5720 14 күн бұрын

The meters that record that level of accuracy didn't exist much in the 1980s, even if they did, not likely that data was saved and is still retrievable.

@KevyNova Ай бұрын

There are thousands upon thousands of bands that create great songs but never get discovered and eventually break up and fade away from memory. I knew some GREAT bands in the ‘80s and ‘90s who had songs that would’ve been hits had they had the right connections but unless you lived in a small area of New England, you’ve never heard them. One more reason why it’s important to support LOCAL MUSIC!

@cynthiabujak2368 29 күн бұрын

Totally agree! Pay attention, and support local music! xx

@asinromeo37 29 күн бұрын

Absolutely agree 100%! So much great music, the rest of the world will never know of, sitting on cassettes bought at bar gigs in my local area. 😢

@Phoenix2312 28 күн бұрын

Very True.. and some even become Massive Stars without ever intending to or wanting to... I recall back in the late 1980's... There were Fairground Recording Booths, I believe they were mainly in the USA and Europe, You could record your own Music Track and Take it home... One chap did just that but left his Recording behind and someone picked it up and sent it to a Radio Station... It then got published and the hunt was on to find the Mysterious 'Steve "Silk" Hurley' The Song - JACK YOUR BODY - Became a Massive NUMBER1 HIT here in the UK... And trying to find him became a mission! In the end, Someone did... And he begged just to be left alone... He di not want to be Famous, He did not want a Music Career, It was just a bit of Fairground fun... I do hope after he was found he got at least some royalties - He deserved that at the very least even if he did not want the fame!

@crochetchica4559 28 күн бұрын

Sounds a little like Modern English 🤔

@davidpeck3912 26 күн бұрын

Read the book, Hitless Wonder

@Gambit-Lobo Ай бұрын

This is almost exactly what happened with my father and his band. They recorded a song, and then before the album ever got released, they broke up. The album got shelved, but decades later, an employee copied it to a tape which they shared copies of to friends, and it became an underground hit. It went unknown until the early 2000s when a man in a german record wanted answers. It was a wild experience shared with him that I still remember. I hope that this song gets the same answers. 🙏🏽

@LouisCasas Ай бұрын

What is the song which your father and his band recorded?

@asunachidory Ай бұрын

Yeah totally desperate to know now too 😂

@ShonCope Ай бұрын

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

@imkluu Ай бұрын

Seems sus you didn't mention the songs you are talking about.

@Cloxxki 28 күн бұрын

Receipts, please! Rodriguez recorded for a while and then disappeared from the music scene. In South Africa his music was interpreted differently and he became their Bob Dylan. Presumed looong dead. Fascinating and tragic story with some highlights when he was rediscovered as actually alive but mostly worn out from ultra hard labor in small demolotion jobs.

@noperopepope 28 күн бұрын

Would be hilarious if the "?" Was the actual name of the band.

@red.aries1444 25 күн бұрын

Funny coincidence: In November 1983 German New Wave artist "Nena", best known for her song "99 Luftballons/99 Red Ballons" released her single "?" and in January 1984 a whole album with the same name, just at the time the mysterious song has been recorded. English translation of the first lyrics of the ? song "Head full of things which one forgets too quickly Where do I start? When is the time? Nobody can tell me" 🙂

@treadtrick 25 күн бұрын

Edited The band _? and the Mysterians_ recorded the awesome song *96 Tears* in 1966. :)😃

@todddenio3200 29 күн бұрын

It would be easier to find someone who can identify it if more than 3 seconds was played

@trippinbawls88 28 күн бұрын

You have several hints as to where to find it on youtube without him getting in trouble for using it lmfao. The most mysterious song on the internet, blind the wind, like the wind.... try typing a few of these into your search bar. Effort seems to be lacking in the general population these days.

@trippinbawls88 28 күн бұрын

KZfaq channel is systemica. Took me 3 seconds to find it man.

@jeremiahdavis360 28 күн бұрын

@@trippinbawls88I think it's the knowledge that's lacking

@genostellar 28 күн бұрын

@@trippinbawls88 "You have several hints as to where to find it on youtube without him getting in trouble for using it lmfao." If he got in trouble for using it, then he'd find the maker of the song, wouldn't he?

@genostellar 28 күн бұрын

@@trippinbawls88 At least we'd know who did the song.

@alenfranjic3124 Ай бұрын

It was a magical time when on radio you could catch and record a totally unknown gems without knowing anything about the artist or the name of the song and just enjoy it ... fully

@reesaserik3759 Ай бұрын

You got that right! Did not have to worry about someone trying to sue you for copying the song on cassette. Also, back in the day, it did not make song artists starve (as it seems to do today). At least with me, I copied the song from the radio, then after listening to it several times, I would decide if I really liked it or if I got bored with it. If I liked it, I went to the store and actually bought the song, and often times it prompted me to buy other songs from that artist. So, if the artist was really good, the music was purchased as well as copied off the radio. Life was way simpler back in the day.

@Ravuun Ай бұрын

I have a whole case of mixed tapes, many have made up song names for this exact reason

@Romiman1 29 күн бұрын

Also have experienced it, but everytime hate it, having no chance to purchase it regularly (in decent audio quality). But about suing, yes I agree.

@jamesmangiarella7139 28 күн бұрын

13:52

@Cloxxki 28 күн бұрын

No bad music was made in Europe in the 80s. Good music coming out DJs' ears.

@georgeprice4212 Ай бұрын

Plot twist: it’s 38 Special backing Falco with Thomas Dolby on synths.

@marktait2371 Ай бұрын

thats a good one yesterday driving im driving singing along dolby i scare myself would be good one for p.o.r.

@aprilrich807 Ай бұрын

😂

@mikeparker3865 Ай бұрын

and if you play it backward you discover who killed Kennedy

@paradoxworkshop4659 Ай бұрын

@radzsing Ай бұрын

🤣

@timjones4850 22 сағат бұрын

Thank you so much for this one! Here in England, anyone really into pop music knows, or should know, about Tony Burrows. Indeed, when I saw the title of this I knew instantly it would be about Tony. You are absolutely correct, at the time it just didn't register that so many songs were being sung by the same guy - it was some years later that all this came to light, and there was a feeling that Tony was not given the recognition he deserved. "Love Grows" is such an amazing song, it just emanates joy right from the start more than any other song I can think of (although "If Paradise Is Half As Nice" by Amen Corner comes close!) and I'm sure it will stay strong down the years. A great video, and surely a well-deserved boost for Tony's reputation. Thanks again!

@adreabrooks11 11 күн бұрын

I recorded this. The track is called "Weiter suchen," by the band Ablenkungsmanöver. 😎

@shinyrubber Ай бұрын

play the FKing song then !!!!!!!

@izzpop781 29 күн бұрын

Could only like your comment once unfortunately! So....... 👍 x infinity 😄

@Lordvestage1313 29 күн бұрын

Because it would get copyrighted from the actual band.... So..🤔

@robertgilpin477 29 күн бұрын

I agree. This guy waste so much fun time talking about it never f****** tells us who it is. Jesus christ! Just spit it out already!

@TheRoadWarriorUSA 29 күн бұрын

@@robertgilpin477he would tell us who the band was if he knew. But nobody knows.

@MarkMay-cr6bv 29 күн бұрын

@@robertgilpin477 Take an anger-management class and then settle down, Beavis.

@duanedibbley5096 Ай бұрын

It's WYLD STALLYNS and THE song that's gonna save us all! Excellent!!! 🤟😛🤙

@javaskull Ай бұрын

I thought it was bbbff

@trucksr4gurls Ай бұрын

Most excellent, dude!

@certificateofvaccinationi.d.19 29 күн бұрын

We're not worthy

@ddre75 29 күн бұрын

😂

@daryelthomas9414 29 күн бұрын

Could have been on the movie soundtrack 😂 party on dudes

@pizzalordmarv07 28 күн бұрын

I’ve just started really watching this channel after having it recommended to me, and seeing you cover the topic of this song is so cool to me. I used to be so amazed and intrigued by this mystery, I’d ask everybody about it and try to hunt for the real artist as best as I could using my limited skills in doing things like this. I love these videos so much.

@danadoozer9990 17 күн бұрын

This sounds EXACTLY like some obscure record I would have blind bought in the late 80s- early 90s!

@buzzaard7036 7 күн бұрын

I bought a cassette tape called No Wave back in the early 80's and cannot find the songs on it.

@jonhoward437 Ай бұрын

Obviously, it's the lost Eddie and the Cruisers recording Season in Hell

@ProfessorofRock Ай бұрын

Ha ha!

@loboblanco4426 Ай бұрын

Spectacular!

@Fiona2254 Ай бұрын

Under rated comment!

@karlshuler1011 Ай бұрын

Eddie Lives

@theboyx323 Ай бұрын

EDDIE!!!EDDIE!!!EDDIE!!!EDDIE!!!

@thecellulontriptometer4166 27 күн бұрын

I spent whole evenings recording The King Biscuit Flour Hour, and Radio 1990. Such great memories.

@Edward-bd8iy 9 сағат бұрын

I watched Night Flight on USA at the time. We couldn't afford the tier cable service required to get USA Network, but they "generously" made USA Network available on Friday/Saturday night on an empty basic channel.

@wulfnesthead8788 27 күн бұрын

It's a strange thing to say on a video which is already excellent, but THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for using the correct pronunciation of "aforementioned." It pleases me immensely to know that Adam is most definitely a cut above the illiterate talking heads who go about putting the stress on the first syllable and changing the bloody vowel in a failing attempt to make their mispronunciation sound halfway euphonious. The Professor is even more awesome than I gave him credit for, and that's saying something. Thanks again. Seriously.

@Inmatesixdoublefive321 Ай бұрын

Have Fil on the Wings of Pegasus channel do a voice comparison between this and known voice samples. That would be interesting to see.

@jenniferdnoseworthy2348 Ай бұрын

Very good idea 😊

@friedemannkemm63 Ай бұрын

I had similar thoughts. With modern technology, there are many tools for analysis. And I like the way Fil uses them.

@leeyaferguson9019 Ай бұрын

YEAH!!!

@glasswingbutterfly Ай бұрын

Fil is awesome... Rock!

@jdaniels1313 Ай бұрын

Fil of Wings of Pegasus for the win!! He could totally do this. Just have to get him interested in doing the voice comparison to the "persons of interest".

@garibaldi54 Ай бұрын

Its a glitch in the matrix, this song was a huge hit in an alternative dimension.

@ProfessorofRock Ай бұрын

RIght!

@rickyjoeshippyful Ай бұрын

like the movie Yesterday...instead of being on a nostalgia tour with a bunch of new musicians he's out on a farm somewhere.

@dennis2966 Ай бұрын

It was in the Upside Down.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Ай бұрын

Indeed!

@Bahama3ay Ай бұрын

It was such a huge hit that it's notoriously dubbed as being *'The Most Well Known Song on the Internet'*

@zyante1 11 күн бұрын

I watched a movie in 2020 where there was a song that I liked. I couldn’t find it anywhere but I contacted someone involved with the movie and they sent me the sound cloud of the track. It’s the only place where it exists besides the movie, as the band didn’t make an album.

@TravfromTO 20 күн бұрын

Wow, Spirit of Radio CFNYfm. I haven't heard that name for a long time. That was the radio station of my youth. It's still on air as Edge102 here in Toronto. Good times😀🤘 Great video😍

@chadpescod-realtor3308 17 күн бұрын

Deadly Hedley!

@nairbvel Ай бұрын

I lived just outside of Brussels in the early 80s, returning to the US in August of 1984. I listened to a lot of local radio, and this mystery song sounds almost obscenely familiar. One of the problems was that local radio stations would periodically play "pirate" music from the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, as well as local one-shot bands that had a sad tendency to sound very much the same based upon genre. (I still have a 45rpm single literally handed to me by a total stranger on the street with the words, "Are you an American? I know you will love this, it's the first song from my band!" -- never heard of them before or since.) The possible sources of this particular track are legion... Maybe it's one of those things that we're simply never meant to know, just to keep life interesting. :-)

@dukecraig2402 Ай бұрын

I was in Germany and returned to the states in July of 84, that spring and early summer I heard a song a few times that to this day, even with the internet and KZfaq, I still can't come across it, I heard it played by a DJ in a local bar over there once or twice and then one time when me and my friends were walking down a road a kid on a bicycle with a boom box tied on his handlebars peddled past us listening to it, whether he had it on tape or it was on the radio I do not know, 40 years later I can still pretty much remember the music and the lyrics to part of it and no matter how many times I've entered the lyrics I remember along with things like "1984 European song..." I can't find hide nor hair of it, the lyrics went something like this; "...she's my type of belly dancer..." "...I'm her form of necromancer..." Although they may be in the other order, it has been a long time. Do you have any recollection of a song like that from that time?

@michs342 Ай бұрын

@@dukecraig2402 Temporary Secretary by Paul McCartney maybe? Not quite the lyrics but the closest I could find and remember my self that might be matching what you wrote.

@dukecraig2402 Ай бұрын

@@michs342 I'll check it out but I doubt it, I don't recall the singer sounding anything like him. But thanks one way or the other, I appreciate the response.

@HNScruffy Ай бұрын

@@dukecraig2402 Hey, just a wild guess, but try: The Twins - Ballet Dancer

@Hollylivengood Ай бұрын

I love that. I live in south Tennessee, which has the bible belt reputation I know, but also is the home of some of the most unique fusions of music ever. Anyway, there are all kinds of kids here who learned music from their grand dads on the back porch, got classically trained, and love jazz and funkadelic, and they continue the tradition of all getting together on someone's back porch to jam. It's amazing. So it happened to me, like it happened to you, while I was bicycling home from work, a kid walked out in the street with his fiddle in the crook of his elbow and handed me a CD, saying it's not like y'r thinkin'. And got back on the porch to keep jamming with psychedelic/rock/[unk/ soul/bluegrass band. And it really wasn't like I was thinking, it was really good! But you'd never hear any of it on a radio.

@sleepyhollow783 Ай бұрын

I wrote & played everything on it. Glad everyone likes it so much. Tune came to me while enjoying my skydiving hobby. It was a rush. Much love, -D. B. Cooper 😎

@ethelbailey3794 Ай бұрын

@sleepyhollow783 Haha! 2 mysteries solved at once 😂

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Ай бұрын

Haha!

@HoonAgain Ай бұрын

Thanks to DB!! How there isn’t a good movie about DB with THIS song in it is the real mystery!!

@mocat1 Ай бұрын

😂💀 Well played.

@user-mu9cw8xe4r Ай бұрын

Wait! Didn't you hook up with Kathryn Harold and ... Oh, nevermind ... wrong movie-matrix. Anyways, good to know you're safe😜

@terrylawrence4022 5 күн бұрын

Strawberry Alarm Clock I have a source who played in Iron Butterfly, and numerous other bands through the years. He`s a songwriter, guitarist and music engineer with a storied past. He recognised the recording. He was in England in 1982 and said Allen and Ian told him about the song. The master was supposedly grabbed by a guard when transiting out of Berlin. Cheers, Terry

@hex.osv.227.old-channel 17 күн бұрын

This sounds like a demo, I believe it's from a German band called Camouflage or their previous version Licensed Technology. The lead singers voice sounds similar.

@jeffnewbill8163 13 күн бұрын

I was going to say it sounds like Camouflage too.

@bcmtnbka 10 күн бұрын

That's what I am thinking

@richardmay42 5 күн бұрын

Hi folks. Sorry but I just do not think it's Camouflage. The mysterious song has vocals and DX7 keyboards like Camouflage does, but that's where they part ways. The mysterious song has natural real drums, and is very guitar based. Camouflage uses fakey synth drum sounds and no guitar.

@orbyfan Ай бұрын

One of the things that makes this puzzle so hard to solve is that the song sounds like so many other songs from the 1984-86 period.

@ms_prescott_regrets Ай бұрын

I was thinking of Depeche Mode and Human League althought I know it's not him but that's what the voice reminded me of when I hear it.

@tiffanymichaels2429 Ай бұрын

@@ms_prescott_regrets wow! Depeche Mode was who first popped into my mind. Like you said it's obviously not them. But definitely sound and vibe.

@ms_prescott_regrets Ай бұрын

@@tiffanymichaels2429 I wonder if we will ever find out who this singer was? It’s almost like a Twilight Zone episode

@user-mu9cw8xe4r Ай бұрын

@@tiffanymichaels2429 I thought of that Depeche Mode, 80's sound too. Also, remember The Cutting Crew?

@mikemulcahy52 Ай бұрын

Lords of the New Church?

@fstopPhotography Ай бұрын

This is possibly your most interesting video yet. The mystery behind this tune was fascinating. You painted a great picture on this for sure.

@EphemeralProductions 28 күн бұрын

This video is a departure from your usual thing. I love it!!! :)

@DistantKingdoms 24 күн бұрын

By the title of the video, I thought it was about The Akiba Tape (AKA Fly Away). Also AKA The Most Mysterious Song in Japan. Which is also from the 1980's or early 1990's and also from a mysterious cassete tape. Both stories share a bunch of similarities.

@ddw1272 Ай бұрын

It seems most likely that the German DJ's theory is correct. This was a song that was smuggled out from behind the Iron Curtain

@simonbone Ай бұрын

The countries behind the Iron Curtain are not mysteries. East Germany, for example, had a rock scene and plenty of established artists (Puhdys, City, Silly, Pankow, Karat, etc.), some of whom were even popular in the west. Most of the music has since been rereleased in digital formats. So far no-one from there has claimed the mysterious song. The use of the Yamaha DX7 means that if an East German artist did record it, it would have had to be someone with really good connections, as only a couple of top artists had one in 1984, and average East Germans had no chance of buying one.

@larslevinberget9558 Ай бұрын

@@simonbone yes, they had their own synths, and it don't have to be a DX7!

@TheStormpilgrim 28 күн бұрын

Someone risked life and limb to smuggle this band's demo to the free world and 40 years later, we can't even figure out who the band is. It's certainly plausible, but the irony of that is brutal.

@simonbone 27 күн бұрын

@@larslevinberget9558 Nope, it's a DX7 using the presets.

@simonbone 27 күн бұрын

@@TheStormpilgrim That's not how it worked.

@LaManteca76 Ай бұрын

"For every mystery there is someone out there who knows the truth. Perhaps someone watching tonight will come forward. Perhaps it's YOU..." Lol, I'm sorry I kept thinking of Unsolved Mysteries. 😅

@ProfessorofRock Ай бұрын

I love it!

@champdog76 Ай бұрын

Hopefully we'll get an....UPDATE! (I'll see myself out...)

@karlsenula9495 Ай бұрын

We need Mulder and Scully ... The truth is out there ...

@chrisrj9871 Ай бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock - next time you do an internet mystery song like this, maybe make an "If you remember..." mention of Unsolved Mysteries in the beginning of the video?!

@dennis2966 Ай бұрын

@@karlsenula9495 Dang, that's exactly what I was thinking!

@richardsaint2906 21 күн бұрын

I believe the song is called ''The Sun Will Never Shine'' from 1982 but not sure by whom.

@StargirlPlaysGames 24 күн бұрын

All I know is that it sure sounds like a great song AND I think all of us who have ever made a mix tape can give HUGE respect to the fact that at least one of the reasons it's been lost to time is because the person recording it was impeccable at making mix tapes without the dj interrupting 😆👌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@xennial80sxberner Күн бұрын

It's not impeccable it's annoying as fuck, I love DJs it's a time capsule, and even then I thought it gave mixtapes a cool vibe to at least leave in 10-15 seconds of the DJ commentary

@HenningUhle Ай бұрын

I grew up in the GDR back then. And I can confirm that everybody in the GDR who tried to speak or sing in English had such an accent. Also, the musical style might be the style of the Alternative Rock Scene of the GDR. So, for me the chances are high that this song has its origins in the GDR. I think of Bands like "Paranoia" or Sandow (Check out their song "Born In The GDR") and especially the Band "Die Art" (Check out their song "My History"). There are valid discussions on the internet that go like so: A band in the GDR recorded some music and could not place it on the GDR record label "AMIGA". A band member gave a relative from Western Germany a listen, and this relative took the cassette to Western Germany where she or he gave it to NDR. The rest is history. The problem: There is no proof for that. But the song is definitely recorded by a German band and because of the pronounciation chances are high that this song came from the eastside of the border.

@sarahmayer7026 Ай бұрын

I agree, the first time I heard this song, the accent stood out to me. It sounds like a German accent for sure. The NDR playing music from the GDR back then might explain why it sounds familiar, yet has not been identified for such a long time now. Whoever wrote and recorded this song might no longer be around or have reasons not to come forward. Well, there is hope, since it should still be hidden in the NDR archives, waiting to be found.

@Grichal1981 Ай бұрын

How likely is it that a Yamaha DX7 would have been available in the GDR during 1983/84 though?

@GizzyDillespee Ай бұрын

@@Grichal1981Maybe it was recorded later. They know it can't be earlier, because that's when the tape machime came out, that the kid used to record the mixtape. But, it could've been recorded a year or 2 later. There were 2 mixtapes with the song... the Prof should've posted both track listings. Over the next couple of years, Yamaha also put out other keyboards with FM, even arrangers and toy keyboards. Many were sold, but I wonder how quickly they made it to East Germany! Entertainment troupes travelled, and sports. I saw Japanese home keyboards in the background in Soviet videos and pics from some time in the 80s... maybe a couple of years later. I don't remember where, but if I see a keyboard, I usually try to ID it🤣. I haven't seen much East German footage.

@sarahmayer7026 Ай бұрын

@@Grichal1981 For as far as I know, it was available in the GDR. Even though it was expensive, professional bands were eager to have it.

@HenningUhle 29 күн бұрын

@@Grichal1981 Good point, but there were indeed bands in the GDR who worked with a DX7. As I said, there is no proof for what I wrote. It's only speculation I've captured.

@markwaldron8954 Ай бұрын

So this is basically the Voynich Manuscript of 80s rock.

@Gizathecat2 Ай бұрын

Good one!

@NotHereToBeNice Ай бұрын

Good anaology!

@martinjaramillo2429 Ай бұрын

Nice reference 🌺

@VikingMale Ай бұрын

Except you can understand what they are saying…

@mariamartinusz9699 29 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@jimburrill8149 21 күн бұрын

As someone a bit older than most of you , I made a couple cassette tape recordings from a rock radio station in the early to mid 1970s. There was one son I enjoyed on one such tape which I never could Identify. It was a rock instrumental version of an organ-based piece in a Baroque style. Probably an actual organ composition from the Baroque period. A few years later I had the tape in my college dorm room. The tab was broken to prevent it from being erased. When I was out a friend visited the room and wanted to use my portable cassette recorder to record his early rap efforts. He grabbed that tape of mine at random and somehow got the recorder to record over it. (He didn't use scotch tape, I think he just pressed record hard enough to force the machine to record.)

@ScottMichaels-hg3fc 19 күн бұрын

What a dipstick! A "friend" actually brute forced a cassette of yours, whose content you obviously were trying to save, in order to record his (c)rap? Anyone who recorded on cassette at that time was well aware that if the tab was broken out, it was to prevent recording over the tape. Sorry, that's not a friend.

@aliensporebomb 18 күн бұрын

Check all works of Emerson, Lake and Palmer or The Nice (Keith Emerson) and also the tune "Joy" by Apollo 100 (Tom Parker). Parker's "Joy" was a rock arrangement of a J.S. Bach piece and Emerson was famous for including classical motifs in his works.

@ottffssentet 10 күн бұрын

Sad!!

@progster28 8 күн бұрын

Might also be something by the British band "Sky".

@darkbeach72 29 күн бұрын

I stay up at night thinking about all the unrealized albums sitting on hard drives in e-waste recycling centers, or disintegrating ampex tapes. Most of my bands broke up with our best material waiting for an official release.

@doccolour Ай бұрын

There was a San Francisco area synth band in the early 1980's that put out a song I heard on the Quake radio station just a couple of times - and then never again. I didn’t recall the name of the song, but I remembered the unique name of the band, CHROME DINETTE. This mysterious song always stuck in my head. When the internet came along I did yearly searches for this song but to no avail… until, finally, someone uploaded the song to youtube in 2010! It’s called “Can’t Live Without You”. Hearing it again after 25+yrs was surreal and rewarding. I also heard their other single for the first time, “Robot Love” which I ended up liking even more.

@cnph7067 Ай бұрын

KQAK FM 99- best station in the Bay Area during its short run. Moving to KITS FM “Live 105” great time to be alive. Fav DJ- “Big Rick Stuart” also really enjoyed “Steve Masters” when he started on Live 105 Both stations played a lot of obscure new wave/modern bands on their late night and weekend programming. I sorta remember that band name.

@doccolour Ай бұрын

@@cnph7067 Yes!! You couldn't be more correct. A great time to be alive indeed:)

@dukecraig2402 Ай бұрын

There's a song in Cheech and Chongs Next Movie that Chong is listening to during the part where he's sitting on his Harley in the house running it with a fan on his face and the exhaust piped out the window where it's dumping black soot all over his neighbors prize yellow roses (something being a long time Harley rider that I thoroughly approve of), in the song are the lyrics "Hell On Wheels" that are prominent enough that it's logical that's the name of the song. Like many things before the age of the internet the song was always a complete mystery, I'm pretty sure it's not even in the credits, but it's a good jam and people have always wondered about it, about 10 years ago I finally found an article on the internet about the song, it was written by someone in the entertainment business that was friends with those guy's, they just happened to stop in his place one day and heard it and wanted to put it in the movie they were making at the time, or something like that but either way it was one of those songs that never got released or on an album and it wasn't on KZfaq. A few year's back I put a comment about the song in a KZfaq video and not long afterwards someone posted a message to me telling me to recheck KZfaq because apparently the creator of the song eventually posted it because of years of people talking about it and wanting to be able to listen to it, and don't you know when I entered "Cheech and Chong Hell on Wheels" here on KZfaq there it was, after years of having to put the DVD in just to be able to hear 15 seconds of it the whole song can finally be heard. The internet isn't all bad.

@msimon6808 Ай бұрын

@@cnph7067 I was Chief Engineer at WTAO - it is still on the air.

@msimon6808 Ай бұрын

@@dukecraig2402 I designed the IO Board that went into the World's First BBS. You are welcome.

@sethsmith8638 Ай бұрын

It was the DJs own piece. He played it on air trying to get some traction, but got in trouble instead. He never mentioned it to anyone else out of shame.

@jeffmather3916 28 күн бұрын

Great episode!

@TheSwamper 29 күн бұрын

I'm 60 years old, long-time rocker, and I've never heard this song before.

@BBulletin 27 күн бұрын

I am also 60, and I do not recognize the song at all. However, I could always claim to have written and recorded it if there is enough demand.

@MrJamezk 25 күн бұрын

59. Me neither, but that means nothing.

@johnmaynardable Ай бұрын

I've never heard this song before, and yet it sounds like songs I've listened to thousands of times. Wild!

@katarh Ай бұрын

Familiar chord progression, familiar instrumentation, and someone deliberately copying the styles of another singer = a doppelganger of a song that you've never heard before but yet still recognize instantly.

@reidboggs4344 29 күн бұрын

That’s the weirdest part about it to me. This song is good. It should have been a hit back in the day. Why did it disappear for 20 years?

@jamesfowley4114 29 күн бұрын

Thee are thousands of songs that could have been hits collecting dust on shelves. Rick Beato has cases of them, and has done stories on at least one.

@daryelthomas9414 29 күн бұрын

Reminds me of a movie soundtrack song

@meliward105 29 күн бұрын

SAME!!!!

@nocturnaldruid2191 Ай бұрын

As an early Gen X Old School Goth, this song hits all the right spots. The fact that it’s such a mystery just makes it all the better. Thanks for covering this song.

@ProfessorofRock Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Del-Lebo Ай бұрын

Yup, 57 years old Electronica/Goth/Industrial dude and intrigued!!!!

@Iridescence93 Ай бұрын

I know right? I'm just pleased that a good song in a style I enjoy became popular like 30 years later. Sounds like Danse Society or something.

@Del-Lebo Ай бұрын

@@Iridescence93 yup and Yes! 🥰💪👍

@myrrhavm Ай бұрын

GenX goth?

@katycanino1566 28 күн бұрын

Very interesting episode from your show. Oh man, I wish someone knows who performed the song for sure and can prove it. I love your t-shirt, by the way.

@stephenjohnsen1838 Ай бұрын

I listened to the full song today. Some observations: 1) It does not sound professionally recorded, meaning it sounds more like a demo tape, probably engineered by the guitarist because the mix is heavy on the guitar and it sounds like it got the most attention both in quality and volume. The tom toms are not mic'd very well, they drop out noticeably on a few of the fills. Also, the vocals are somewhat buried and muddy. 2) The drumming was likely done by someone who was not a professional/studio drummer, or someone who played the drums on the side or as a second, or third instrument (again, perhaps the guitarist :D ), and the drummer was heavily influenced by the current trend to use drum machines in all of their glorious repetitiveness (many similarities to "The More You Live, The More You Love" by Flock of Seagulls). Except for the human inaccuracies, the whole drum track is predictable and typical for '83-'85, and it could have easily been programmed into a Roland TR-707. Many of the drum fills are off tempo or just kind of sloppy, and give the feeling as though the drummer wasn't quite sure of what to do for each fill. The tempo also speeds up at the end as the song goes into a slow fade, aided by the drumming speeding up a bit after each drum fill. I am guessing that the song was recorded around '84 by a semi-professional garage-type band that had aspirations of breaking into the New Wave scene. The song in general sounds like it was heavily influenced by many different New Wave bands. And for a twist, it also sounds like the guitarist was somewhat influenced by some Australian bands, such as Australian Crawl, which were popular in the early 80s. However, I could be wrong. :) It is pretty clear that the song fits right into the '82-'85 date range, and the vocalist sounds like he is somewhere between the age of 18 and 35, which means that in 2024, he would be ~60-to-77 years old. It is not unreasonable to consider that he may no longer be with us, or any of the other musicians in the band, assuming that there was a band.

@fstopPhotography Ай бұрын

You've made some pretty impressive observations. I hope the right person/people find your information and apply it. I'm sure it will help.

@bettyparker3317 Ай бұрын

These are such interesting, and knowledgeable, comments. Thanks for sharing!👏🙏

@Muggashyte Ай бұрын

The sound issues could just as easily be attributed to the proliferation of Joy Division wannabe bands. The guitar riff sounds like someone really liked U2s “I Will Follow”, and went hard for that aesthetic. The singing has that: put the mic out here, and I’ll sing from in the motel bathroom/Bauhaus sound to it.

@mbsnyderc Ай бұрын

Non of that is helpful in identifying who made the track and it's quite speculative.

@sarahs5340 Ай бұрын

Amazing observation. I think you are right and we may never know what garage band put the song together.

@ObnoxiousNox Ай бұрын

Even Shazam calls it "The Most Mysterious Song On the Internet" by the Most Mysterious Band.

@AnthonySforza Күн бұрын

Hahaha, finally. I have been scrolling forever to see if anyone tried this. Sitting here like "No... I cant be THAT much smarter than everyone else, SOMEONE has had to try it"

@thirdcoastfirebird 27 күн бұрын

I just listened to the song, and it is interesting. It definitely has an 80s feel to it. What is interesting to me is that KZfaq fed me this mystery. I only focus on Historic Mysteries, but apparently, KZfaq thinks this falls into that category. I wish you guys the best. Now, this song is in my head.

@MomLAU 24 күн бұрын

I'm glad you covered this! I first heard it a few years ago and would _love_ to know what it is.

@jameswoodruff7182 Ай бұрын

Been following this for a couple of years now. I really like this song and enjoy the mystery surrounding it. Adds to the aura. Amazing all the work that has gone into identifying this song. Glad you covered it Professor. I have you too thank for opening my ears to all sorts of new music. If this community cannot get it, I do not know who is left.

@samanthareardon3330 Ай бұрын

I'm so glad people are keeping this track alive! I feel sad sometimes thinking about how much "lost media" is out there. Especially when it s lost through greed, it's amazing how many people just keep things like this (audio and video) because they are the only ones who can have it. If it doesn't get digitized it fades, then degrades into dust forever😢

@pauloalmeida2294 Ай бұрын

It happens to music, books and videogames

@Elle_55 Ай бұрын

Some New Wave music lover might know

@johnnycash578 Ай бұрын

yep we and everything that ever was and will be is always dust in the end, life is very strange and really hard

@samanthareardon3330 Ай бұрын

@@pauloalmeida2294 Yeah, I recently tried to find an old show I used to watch when I was a kid, so I could show my kid. My search wasn't super exhaustive, but I'm a little worried about it. Maybe I'll ask Reddit at some point.

@bellemorelock4924 16 күн бұрын

The best scene edited out of "Deutschland 1986" was when this band was on stage in a dance hall. Wish I still had the VHS.

@ZoomZoom-ng6sn 27 күн бұрын

Took me years to find out 'Tell the Truth' from Metal band Hawk. It had a real good drum beat but I've forgotten the melody and never knew the name of song and band. I really wanted to hear the song again but the Metal scene changed in the early 90's and no one would play the song on the radio. Then for the first time in over 20 years I heard it on KZfaq. What a relief. LOL.

@YochevedDesigns Ай бұрын

3 seconds in I immediately recognized this as German goth. It sounds so much like some CD's I picked up on my last trip to Munich. They were old school 80's compilations of bands that no one has ever heard of. I'll have to go through and see if I can find a match.

@bennettgirard1047 29 күн бұрын

Did you find it?

@danas3765 29 күн бұрын

How's the search going

@ChristinaLVT 29 күн бұрын

I thought the same thing!

@LewStewls 29 күн бұрын

@@Mindcrow Unlikely, but worth a try.

@UberTheRandom 28 күн бұрын

@@Mindcrow Considering that it was played on a German radio station and has a goth sound to it, he very likely may. Definitely more of a chance than you at least.

@jamesbullock9209 Ай бұрын

I think it was that obscure rock genius Adam Reader. He never released anything commercially, but in his secret recording studio, he would make great music and release it to unsuspecting radio stations, hoping to get noticed. Once the unnamed track gained notoriety, he decided it was the perfect time to make his own KZfaq channel and call it “Professor of Rock” so he could promote the song decades after it was recorded. His ploy worked and now comes this episode to show everyone he got us good! Well played, Adam!! Well played.

@thomasrounds3337 Ай бұрын

Time travellers. I need to know

@blaster-zy7xx Ай бұрын

Yeah, if only he could sing like that when he was minus 10 years old.

@katycanino1566 28 күн бұрын

😂

@perryc6053 22 күн бұрын

Omg I've heard that song before! I went through a phase in mid 80's and got into the New Wave genre. Vintage smokers jacket over tshirt, bluejeans or parachute pants and sneakers. I remember being at a club on cocoa beach/cape canaveral called Melodies somebody brought a demo cassette in and gave it to the d.j. The d.j. gave it a listen gave the guy a thumbs up. Throughout the night the d.j. would mix one of the demo songs in. I am 98% sure that was one of them. Wish I could remember more.

@cherrylattimore99 19 күн бұрын

stick it in an international commercial for something like coke that's sold all over the world and sit back; somebody out there's gonna want their money. Best way to draw somebody out of the shadows is to rob them of their rightful financial gains.

@Zillah82 Ай бұрын

I mean as an avid listener of goth rock as a teenager, it sounds like so many singers I've heard. I feel like the demo quality of it makes it hard to tell too.

@honoratagold Ай бұрын

Yeah, it's hard to identify the singer because so many singers were putting on this kind of fake deep voice in this era. This guy might not sound like this in other recordings.

@basetenrecords 26 күн бұрын

That era holds so many musical mysteries. For example, I have collected the singles reviews from the major pop magazines for every week in the mid eighties. Out of all the hundreds, there is one review of a single in 1985 and the band and track have never shown up anywhere. Even the reviewer himself could not remember it. It's going to haunt me forever probably.

@kannewatts 25 күн бұрын

My "mysterious song was Happy Ever After by Julia Fordham. I heard it when a figure skater used it in her routine. This was before home internet. Years went by and people started loading lyrics to the web. I entered the lyrics I could remember. I read through several entries comparing the poetry to the cadence of the song as it played in my head. I FOUND IT! As fast as humanly possible, I ordered the CD and played it non-stop for days. The relief was incredible!

@Edward-bd8iy 8 сағат бұрын

I had the same experience with "(Just Another) Nice Girl' by Eye to Eye. It was one of those summer vacation songs from July 1982 you heard for about three weeks...then a couple of times in August... and one last time on the night of Labor Day. It took me 40 years to find it again.

@michaelwhitewolf10 Ай бұрын

It is a German band out of berlin .I was stationed in Germany in the early 80s and I had copy of the vinyl I bought in Berlin at the open air market .I didn't bring back to the states because I only had so much baggage I could bring back so I gave it to a friend of mine named fritze. He said the album is called the wind.he say,s he still has it and it was played on dnr radio a few times in the mid 80s it had no other name only the wind.he said he will take picture of it and send it to me.

@ryanwalker8233 Ай бұрын

@0therv0ices 29 күн бұрын

@angushume2054 29 күн бұрын

@SatumangoTheGreat 29 күн бұрын

When you have the pictures, make sure to send it to this channel, please!

@charlee1150 29 күн бұрын

@jeffdeupree7232 Ай бұрын

Sometime in the 80s I encountered a silly song that tickled my teenage ears. I could have heard it as a one-off from a local DJ, or from the Dr. Demento show. It wasn’t something getting regular airplay on my radio stations and disappeared into obscurity. Its tune would resurface in my brain every so often just teasing me. It took 15 or 20 years but I finally ran it down as Kipadota’s Wet Dream. Not exactly a candidate for the best thing you’ve never heard, but at least I exorcised that demon.

@ohbebe Ай бұрын

That sort of thing can drive you mad until you figure out it, or forever if you don't.

@stephenkeever6029 Ай бұрын

Thanks for posting this! I always wondered who did this song.

@michaelhaines3451 Ай бұрын

I had a VERY similar experience. For 40 years snippets of an unknown song would flash through my head. Finally cleared it up last year. The song was Mimi on the Beach.

@theclearsounds3911 Ай бұрын

I love that song! Sooooooooo funny with all those fish references! I bought the album in the 80's. If you wouldn't have known, and just called it some silly song with all kinds of fish jokes, I could have told you in a heartbeat.

@jeffdeupree7232 Ай бұрын

@@michaelhaines3451 I’m looking it up.

@mrsary7868 29 күн бұрын

As a record seller I found a few test pressings that I could find no record of on the internet, but because they were labelled and by bands no one had heard of people weren't interested and they were not worth much. If one had had the label ripped of it could have been a sensation. Also I had a song on a mix tape when I was a kid that I liked from the 90s and it has been driving me mad for 20 years trying to find out who it was by.

@kevinsfinney 20 күн бұрын

I love that the song is long enough that it allows the video to tell the story, with no dialogue, but in a full, non-rushed kind of way. For instance the moment when Kate, as Peter, is seeing her father taken away, and he is signaling to Peter to go turn on the rainmaking machine. They take time to show Peter’s slow grasp of what his father wants, and the slow emotional embrace of giving it a try. Also, the first line of the song is brilliant… “I still dream of Orgonon.” Orgonon was the place - the home and laboratory of Wilhelm Reich, but it also refers to “orgone” energy - this bodily, frankly sexual, energy that flows in each of us, gets blocked, but, when flowing freely, provides our vital life force. Reich’s radical ideas about sex (there’s a reason orgone is similar to orgasm) were a big part of why he was arrested and persecuted. All of this is a long-winded way of saying that when Peter gets the cloudbusting machine to release the rain from the clouds, it is also a metaphor for the release of sexual energy, and for the natural processes that foster life.

@xD3adKl0wnx Ай бұрын

Wild! I never expected to see this song on your channel, thanks for helping to try and solve the mystery!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Ай бұрын

This was a pleasant surprise.

@ianTnai Ай бұрын

This is as close to time traveling back to the 80s as it gets! A bonafide 80s song straight from the radio that no one can place.

@Skeksi_Man 22 күн бұрын

I think the best thing at this point is just to get the song out there as much as possible - At the moment it’s still mostly confined to the internet, but we need to get it all over mainstream radio and TV - it would make a great Netflix Documentary.

@shaunna6673 27 күн бұрын

It would be easier to identify if we got to hear More of the song. The little clips are too elusive. Is there a link to the full song? I, for one, would love to hear it!!! Sounds so familiar, for some reason. It's Definitely a song I would love on a mixed tape!!!

@blebhan8213 Ай бұрын

It's that song that Al Bundy couldn't figure out. You know, the one that goes "hmm-hmm-him"...

@loginregional Ай бұрын

Not going to do it... argh! Go to _HIM_

@laurallewien2165 Ай бұрын

Anna!

@karlsenula9495 Ай бұрын

😂

@jasonrackawack9369 Ай бұрын

😂🤣😅😉👍

@bigal1863 Ай бұрын

LOL Al Bundy is my spirit animal

@aluminumfalcon552 Ай бұрын

This video just helped me remember and solve a mystery of my own. One time in the late 80’s I was recording songs off the radio, there were a few songs that I had long since figured out, like Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me, and Genesis - Abacab, Whitesnake - Still of the Night, but there was one that eluded me for the longest time, though I stopped looking a long time ago, I just googled it today and found my mystery song Sammy Hagar - Remember the Heroes. I hadn’t heard it EVER since then, but when I just found it, my memory of the song has held for 35 years, didn’t forget a note.

@michaelszewczyk9781 26 күн бұрын

I request that song on every national holiday. Now the station, WXRD, 103.9 (X-Rock) usually plays it without prompting.

@buzzbomb67 25 күн бұрын

Great song, from the album Three Lock Box, 1983!

@RadioTeal 26 күн бұрын

This is a real mystery. I am a bit of an obscure song fan. I love those songs that I heard, I can't remember this one song and I know it when I hear it, but I couldn't tell you the artist or title, though it got frequent plays on our local radio station (then KY-102) in Kansas CIty. This song sounds a bit like Depeche Mode to me, but that would not make too much sense. I am interested in learning what you find out! Great Video.

@FilipinaFreedom 2 күн бұрын

Whoever writes these shows deserves an award. Best channel on KZfaq. (I believe the enigmatic Ronny Rocket .)

@DanielDunn Ай бұрын

What an amazing story. Everything pretty much lines up with exactly what I was doing in the mid 80s, editing tapes to make playlists I likes, getting rid of DJs, and so forth. This is really awesome and cool stuff.

@jezmez68 Ай бұрын

I heard about this about 3 months ago and am enthralled! This was recorded on the radio while I lived in Germany, and that sound is the sound of the time. Pretty great.

@paulj0557tonehead 29 күн бұрын

Songs I had in my head for a few years from a thrift store unlabeled home made 8-track tape mix tape made in the early 70's by a super cool person is all can say. Dereck and the Dominos, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan's electric stuff...but one I just had no idea who they were. The band I heard several times on the tape. I was really taken by what turned out to be the band *Mountain* . The song and album title track- *Nantucket Sleighride* . Another time I heard Rush Working man blasting from the first house on the corner in our neighborhood- 'Colonial Lanes' neighborhood , right across from Hilliard High school in Hilliard, Ohio. It was in the 70's, but not '74 when Rush's debut album came down from Toronto. No, it was in the late 70's when I was 14 and just getting into music. This 19 year old guy that lived on the corner was waxing his car and blasting a song that just sounded tough! I really liked it. My sister told me what it was the next time I heard it and remembered the main chorus. To put the times in perspective, that 19 year old was renting a 3 bedroom ranch house and paying for a canary yellow Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird muscle car by working at the gas station! ( yeah times have changed)

@markcaldwell1245 28 күн бұрын

This is so 80’s underground. Recording from the radio via speaker to microphone and everyone passing cassettes around like Pokémon cards it is no wonder this is not easy to find.

@DavidRichards-lh2hw 28 күн бұрын

These were most likely done via a tuner feeding in to a cassette deck. (a similar method was used for all the audios of missing Doctor Who episodes - line feed from the TV audio amp). Mic to spkr recordings are very poor.

@richardvoogd705 27 күн бұрын

Sounds to me that it wasn't recorded by holding a mic up to the speaker.

@markcaldwell1245 27 күн бұрын

You both missed the point I was talking about me and my friends at school in the 70’s and 80’s not the specifics of this song. As a bunch of preteens yes we would record speaker to microphone so everyone could get a copy. Did it sound great no but it was good enough for us.

@crusherbmx Ай бұрын

Some one will pop up, realizing that his demo tape that went nowhere in 1984 is now something of a hit.

@raresaturn Ай бұрын

It's gotta be from an album.. all the other tracks played along side it are album tracks

@masterq2.033 28 күн бұрын

Rodriguez, was working construction while his Cold Fact recordings unknown to him were bigger than the Stones or the Beatles across the Atlantic.

@thomaslanghorst5738 Ай бұрын

This song always convinces me that there must be hours of great songs out there I had no idea even existed

@leinonibishop9480 Ай бұрын

or thousands of great songs that have never even been released. you hear b-sides and demos sometimes and you wonder what the producer or the band was thinking not including those on the album. one of my favorite singers wrote a bunch of songs for a movie soundtrack but the director decided the songs were too powerful so he couldn't use them. he thought they would pull the viewer out of the movie and into the music. so the singer returned all the songs to his notebook and vowed to never release them.

@RobertLuck-ij1yt Ай бұрын

@@leinonibishop9480 .. and I hope my cohorts and I wrote some of them .. Music makes the World go 'round !! ...Enjoy it all !!

@thomaslanghorst5738 Ай бұрын

@@leinonibishop9480 Just out of curiosity: who are you talking about?

@leinonibishop9480 Ай бұрын

@@thomaslanghorst5738 the movie was Out of the Furnace (great movie with Christian Bale) and the singer is Eddie Vedder.

@iluvj00 Ай бұрын

hours of great music lost to "producers" of the 80s sent on tape format with the word "demo" written on them...

@randygilson3254 7 күн бұрын

I have a 70s rock song stuck in my head which had a great beat to it and a fast paced and great sounding guitar riff through it. Tried to search online but whenever I type in the first words which I think were "take a free ride..." which is about all I remember, the results always come back as the Edgar Winter free ride song, which it is not. It was a popular song from a popular band, but I haven't heard it in years. I usually could tell from the sound of the song and instruments or singers voice which band it was, but this one stumps me. I tried sounding it out to Shazam and it had no results. I think the only way to figure it out is find some old rock and roller guitarist who played it at gigs and sound it out to them personally and with luck they might remember it based on the rhythm.

@sirdiealott 27 күн бұрын

80s bands with similar styles need to just start covering this. There is a reason it has become popular with the community and even if we never find out who this is, just getting it out there for people is a gift. Considering the potential source, the act of smuggling it might have cost the musicians their life and that is why we don't know.

@brigade911 27 күн бұрын

Cost the musicians their life? Boy you are taking it too far! Granted, there was oppresion, but they wouldn't kill a whole band over a smuggled demo tape...

@sirdiealott 27 күн бұрын

@@brigade911 dude they shot people for leaving. They put you in prison for saying the wrong thing. Imagine making a song in English?

@brigade911 26 күн бұрын

@@sirdiealott hahaha, bands from the communist block were making music in English many years before, one obvious example being Hungarian band Omega which released many english versions of their albums

@jasonschubert6828 Ай бұрын

I can remember fishing a chewed up cassette out of the bin (as you do) at a random house party in the late 80s and splicing it back together, only to find an awesome album on it that I could never identify. It was actually years later when I started going out with a girl who happened to be the sister of girl whose party it was! She did manage to identify the album (although she wasn't sure) and I did manage to find a single from it second hand. Further searches (through record stores at the time, I don't think I even had a computer!) did land me a copy of the LP, and I eventually even found a CD copy! It's funny though, every time I listen to it I can still hear in my mind the tape breaking up in the middle and the exact point where part of the song was missing on the original spliced together tape I had. The album: Body Language by De Mont

@carriehinkel-gill4164 Ай бұрын

Awesome share!

@andrewmorrow6982 Ай бұрын

So Easy was the single. I have the vinyl single of it somewhere.. You should see how Craig Morrison (the singer) has evolved now. Still in the industry.

@kali550 Ай бұрын

Professor, it’s been said many times but the amount of work and research you put into your videos is amazing!

@tasilovonheydebrandtundder6851 14 күн бұрын

There were a lot of obscure bands who released mixtapes that sometimes got played on the air. There were semi-obscure bands like the Atlantics, the A's, Jon Butcher Axis, Rick Berlin the Movie and others and sometimes they would record things for albums that, like you said, didn't make the cut. My bet is with that over a band that was unsigned, because the song is well mixed and mastered, and sounds "major label" to me.

@dmkays 16 күн бұрын

I don't know how things work today with a lot of stations using syndicated programming, and often don't have a local dj. In the 50s through the 90s, it was not uncommon for musicians or their agents to send newly recorded records, tapes, and later, CDs in to radio stations, hoping they would get some air plays to promote the song and generate record sales. A friend of mine was a DJ in the 70s through the 90s, and he told me that often they would receive one-off privately cut singles on a 45 rpm record, and the B-side would have bizarre stuff like the band practicing, and many times a song that they didn't intend to release, or it was a work in progress, that they havent finalized, and plan to release at a future date. He told me that often the wrong side would inadvertently be played, or when he received the record, he felt that the song on the B-side would be a really good song, and the song being promoted would be garbage. In-fact, there have been B side songs, played inadvertently, that people would call in, wanting to hear again, and would eventually top the charts, while the intended song never gained any traction. I'm not saying that this song was a B-side throwaway that accidentally received air play and gained a following, but your story about the mystery surrounding this song reminded me of what my friend once told me about B-side singles that accidentally got played on the air. For all we know, this may have been a song the band was playing around with, but some of the band members didn't like, and they never planned to release it. It is possible that the band only performed it one time for a public audience. When the band didn't have a gig at another venue, they may have become the de-facto house band for some local biker bar called the Crystal Caberet, a dive that they affectionately called 'The Gun and Knife Club', and they happened to record the performance, and their sound man, who had a day job writing inventory management software for a corporation that prints business forms, decided to put the recording on the B side, because the song spoke to him. Or some other bull yang along those lines. You never know.

@christineml1476 Ай бұрын

GREAT song! Can't believe I hadn't heard it before now. If the Cure and the Sisters of Mercy had a vinyl child, it'd sound like this.

@ProfessorofRock Ай бұрын

Good call!

@philpeterson7182 Ай бұрын

Sisters of Curecy

@Disciple_Of_Lerxst Ай бұрын

I was thinking SOM as well.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Ай бұрын

It sounds a lot like the Cure.

@marktait2371 Ай бұрын

odddest cure song i have is cult hero robert smith explains in liner notes my postman in club random pub mate im a cult hero hero

@TheSlowoldman Ай бұрын

A minute and a half in and I'm traumatized!!! The McDonalds hash browns were AWESOME, but my goodness the insides were hotter than the surface of the sun...... same with the apple pies!!!

@catherine6653 Ай бұрын

I am thinking about the first Happy Meal. 🍔🍟

@mournblade1066 Ай бұрын

Those apple pies are the stuff of legend: deep fried, it was like eating a scale model of an active volcano.

@anselpeneloperainblossom-s3489 Ай бұрын

@@mournblade1066I went to Australia in 2010. The best part of the trip? Deep fried McDonald’s cherry pie.

@juliao1255 Ай бұрын

Yes, especially the pies! I still have burn scars inside my mouth from eating those, but it didn't stop me! LOL

@jameslaidler2152 Ай бұрын

All about those hash browns myself.

@rsoubiea 26 күн бұрын

I love the Mysterious song, and the story around it. How intriguing. ❤

@kellyshea7716 28 күн бұрын

Icky memory unlocked: when you've got play/record/pause all RTG and you're SURE the DJ is finished yapping over the intro; you let up the pause button and STATION ID TIME ffs

@bendowson3124 Ай бұрын

My theory: Statues in Motion recorded a demo of the song in 1982 in a style more similar to the other songs on the album. Then, after the band broke up, Alvin Dean formed a new band and recorded the version we know. By this point, he’d lost contact with Billy Knight and Billy’s fussy memory has caused him to confuse the two recordings thinking they’re one and the same.

@stpaulimdog Ай бұрын

It would be that Billy was mistaken about the date. Maybe an out take from the next album rather than the 1982 album. I remember DX7s back then being new in 1986 and a friend showing his off. I was in college music school at the time.

@GtrMatt Ай бұрын

@@stpaulimdogDX7 was released in '83.

@TheronC2 Ай бұрын

I'm an historian. The laws of entropy guarantee that ultimately all knowledge will be lost. And frankly, most historical information is already lost. A small band that no body knows, and even the members don't care too much about any more because it was a brief moment decades ago - yeah, so easy to be lost. Did anybody involved write anything down? And if they did, did it survive? I'll just note that that no eye-witness accounts of Alexander of Macedon (or the Great, if you prefer) survive to the present. Kudos to the researcher who figures this out, but don't be surprised if there is no answer, ever.

@wingracer1614 Ай бұрын

Stick to history, physics isn't your bag. Look up conservation of information. Other than that, you're not wrong.

@TheronC2 Ай бұрын

@@wingracer1614 I don't understand your point. The laws of entropy guarantee that all information will be lost eventually. And we historians are used to working with the few scraps that survive.

@NeilAloha Ай бұрын

@@wingracer1614 "You should stop all this bruhaha about it. It's a classic song from INTEMPESTIVE TROLLS. The only reason you can't find the recordings is the contention on the copyrights. Ed Gerszon ( born and raised in East Germany) did the vocals and guitar. She claims he wrote the song solely. D.B. Lloyd ( bass, keyboards) has always sustained. She wrote the lyrics. Gary Bell (drums) owns the master tape, But on that ill faded trip to Sweden in winter time, back in 1984, allegedly driving to Paul studios where he would do the remaster. That's the reason The vocals are mixed, so detached from the bulk of the song. Gerszon publish the song at Editions Jannick, Dresden,, but Debbie Lloyd did the same elsewhere in the UK. as long as all band members are dead there's no future developments to this song and all this left of " The Doggy Laughed" and "Pasewalk Strut" our recordings on friends hands." - User GraachAhim

@wingracer1614 Ай бұрын

@@NeilAloha None of that has anything to do with the laws of physics.

@over-educated-sp Ай бұрын

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is. - William Poundstone