Wednesday, February 11, 2009

someone and the someones

I know of a song that I really want to download, but I don't know the name of the band. I also don't know the name of the song. I ALSO can't remember how the song goes, but I know I like it. Thinking about how much I don't know or remember about this song makes me question my strange draw towards it. I know I heard it on Kool 108 and I thought it sounded like CCR, but my dad said it was...Someone and the Someone's. That's where I apparently blacked out. The song starts with one guitar, playing something simple in a minor key and it sounds like it's gonna be a pretty slow, but then the rest of the band kicks in and it's reminiscent of Spirit in the Sky with a sprinkling of CCR. I always thought it was on the Remember the Titans soundtrack so I thought this search would end quickly. It was not on the Remember the Titans Soundtrack. I also thought I had heard it on a Gatorade commercial. The one talking about how Gatorade was formed for the Florida Gators (naturally they called it Gator-ade). It is not on any of the Gatorade commercials...yes I did check.
During that search I realized that those G commercials with Lil Wayne are Gatorade commercials. I wouldn't have known this unless I looked it up. Since I didn't even look it up on purpose, I wondered how effective of a commercial it was and if anyone had looked up "G commercial" to find out what it was for. My roommate looked it up because another roommate thought it was for Guess Jeans. Roommate #1 thought it would be a little too disconnected if Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, Danica Patrick and other athletic figures got together for a jeans commercial. Roommate #2 was so wrong.
Back to the search for Blank by the Someone and the Someone's. I went to the Kool 108 website to search their play list to see if any songs/band names struck a chord (literally) with my memory. I was looking for any band that was a guy and his band. I wrote down; Gary Puckett and the Union Group, Jay and the Americans, Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds, Seals & Croft (when I remembered they sing Summer Breeze, I thought about crossing them off the list, but these are not normal circumstances! They stay), Jr. Walker and the All-Stars and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. When I came across Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, my office mate said she read an article in the NY Times about how an average house costs $7,500 and if anyone moves there a high percentage moves out of state within a year. It also said the city might have to declare bankruptcy. I didn't know a city could do that.
SO moral of the story, listen to someone when they're saying the name of a band that sings a song you would like to download, and if you know what song I'm talking about leave a comment.

Speaking of Lil Wayne, spell check knows it's wrong, but has no suggestion to correct it. I feel the same way, spell check, I feel the same way.

Back to work.

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