Name the song the line is from Part II

"So cry no more, on the shore a dream
Will take us out to sea "

That’s a very pretty one, Sue. It’s “We’re all alone” by Boz Scaggs.

I’ll stay in the mid-70s here:

Well I think it's time to get ready
To realize just what I have found
I have lived only half of what I am
It's all clear to me now

Cyndee, I think Boz Scaggs wrote it, but Rita Coolidge sang the version I hear on the radio.

I believe that Boz Scaggs wrote it and recorded it on his album (1976?) . Rita Coolidge recorded it - and had the hit - a while later. Since then it has been covered a few times.

Tonyrob

That last line did it for me. My Love Is Alive, by Gary Wright.



OK, this is also mid-70s. Let's see if maybe one line will do it:

It's the little things that make a house a home

Good one - John Denver - Back Home Again

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One of my all-time favourites - great open tuning guitar intro -

Well there's things I am, and there's things I'm not
I am a smuggler and I could get shot

Tonyrob

Phillipé, I think we just did that one on the previous page.

It's Done Too Soon, by Neil Diamond, right?


Sorry folks...that'll learn me. Can't just skip up to the last entry and fire away.
What are the odds that I picked that tune ?

Well, Phil, I sure am glad that I have never, ever made a mistake like that in my whole life.



(Thinkin' on your lyrics, Tony.)

Here's a line from the first verse -


I don't do business that don't make me smile

Tonyrob

Hi All,

Sue raises a point that I would like to address. The game is really just about naming the correct song, right? The reason I say this is “We’re all alone” by Boz Scaggs is the same song as “We’re all alone” by Rita Coolidge. I heard both versions on the radio but I knew Boz Scaggs wrote it. That’s the only reason I used his name. If they were different songs, then I’d see a problem. So I hope Sue doesn’t think I was disrespecting the hit that Rita Coolidge had with it, because it was very nicely done.

There are many cases in American popular music where the same title was used for two different hits. You may recall that the Beach Boys had a hit with “Do it again” long before Steely Dan released a completely different “Do it again”. The same can be said about “I’m Sorry”. The one done by Brenda Lee is nowhere near the same as the one done by John Denver, and I could go on, but I won’t.

What I like about the people here naming an artist that isn’t the one I was familiar with is that I sometimes look it up. I’ll even find it on YouTube once in a while and listen for myself. Sometimes I’ll like it just as well as the other version or more.
Anyway, the songs are what I try to name and the artists can be useful. But I don’t see any reason to debate who has done them. Or is it really important?

Now back to our regularly schedule program. Tony has presented:

Well there's things I am, and there's things I'm not
I am a smuggler and I could get shot

And:

Here's a line from the first verse -


I don't do business that don't make me smile

Sorry, Tony. I’m not familiar with it.