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Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:	The UK Music Conference
Notice:	Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:	RDGENG::CROOK

Created:	Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1381
Total number of notes:	39269

465.0. "A buzzing tune in my brain....." by EGAV01::OSHAUGHNESSY () Thu Jul 27 1989 17:56

    I woke up last Saturday morning with a slight 'payback' (as James Brown
    would say) and two lines from a song I heard about three months ago.
      
    The lines are (they are as close as I can remember, I heard it in 
    The Warwick Hotel, Galway, presume the worst):
     
     ".......Why did you do it
      Why did you do that thing to me..."  (????)
     
    I originally thought it was Lou Reed and searched through his albums,
    but, to no avail, then somebody said Ry Cooder, nope I don't think so.
    
    Can anybody help me shut down this musical brain cell. It's begining
    to lose me friends.                              
    
    I looked through the notes file to find a topic on this area, and
    I couldn't find one. If there is one, mea culpa.
    
     thanks from a distressed soul
    
        Richard O'Shaughnessy

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
465.1	Could be Stretch?	AYOU30::PAULC	walk through the midnight shadow	`Thu Jul 27 1989 18:12`	8
	There was a song out a good few years back called "Why Did You Do It" by a group named Stretch - it was their only hit. But from what I can remember (not much) it didn't sound like what I'd expect either Lou Reed or Ry Cooder to sound like. Could it be this? �Paul�
465.2	R.P. Rules	EXIT26::C_COLLIAS		`Thu Jul 27 1989 21:44`	14
	Sounds like a couple of lines from a Robert Palmer tune "Dicipline of Love". I can't recall off hand what album it is off of. Either the last one, "Heavy Nova" or the one before that,"Riptide". The chorus goes something like this.... "Why did you do it Why did you go and spoil the fun Why did you do it You need a dicipline of love" Its a rockin' tune. Good luck! ---Chaz
465.3	Cover Version	WOTVAX::MOOREP	PM	`Fri Jul 28 1989 10:32`	7
	A cover version of this was released in 1987 by The Groove Train which was a one-off release by Steve White/Nick Heyward and produced by Martyn Ware of Heaven 17. It featured a female singer called Gloria, so the version you mention is probably the original. This cover version was a flop. I'll read the small print tonight to find out who the original is by. Stretch does sound familiar though.
465.4	Stretch it is!	WELMTS::GREENB	Love tent	`Fri Jul 28 1989 15:09`	8
	Yep, it is Stretch, whose lead singer was Elmer Gantry. Back in 1975, when this was a hit, the band I was in at the time supported them. They were totally awful, apart from this one song. "Why did you do it" was an acceptable bit of white funk (not a million miles away from stuff like the AWB) but the rest of their set was this horrible grinding lacklustre macho rocky stuff. Bob
465.5	Brains cells and other influences	EGAV01::OSHAUGHNESSY		`Fri Jul 28 1989 15:30`	7
	As they say in Irish 'Sin e, maith an fear" Once the Average White Band were mentioned, the brain cell shut down ..... thanks...... Richard O'Shaughnessy