Name the song the line is from Part II

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Originally posted by: clcjim
Tony, the song’s four-syllable one-word title is basically gibberish, dreamed up to fit a track the artist had programmed into a drum machine.


Thanks for the extra clue - I think that I have it - Sussudio - Phil Collins.

I'll leave it open as I am heading out early Saturday and won't be back until Sunday afternoon.

Tonyrob




I hope that's a leisure trip and not a working one, Tony. See you Sunday!


Good morning, everyone.


I'm sure we've done this one before, but I heard it on the radio yesterday, and it was pretty, and, well, here goes...

A few artists enjoyed minor successes with solo versions of this song in the 80s, but it didn't really take off until it was done as a duet in 1989. The duet version went to #2 US (#1 Adult Contemporary), #2 UK, and #1 Canada.


So many questions still left unanswered
So much I've never broken through
And when I feel you near me, sometimes I see so clearly
The only truth I've ever known is me and you


Good one, Jim. I like how Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville sang together. It is a very pretty song indeed. It’s “I Don’t Know Much”.

Though this group was very popular for funky dance songs in the 1970s, they also had a few hits with romantic songs like this in the 1980s:

She picks me up when I'm feeling low
And that's why, baby
I've got to let you know.


That's Joanna, by Kool and the Gang.



Some 70s here:

L.A. fever made me feel alright
But I must admit it got the best of me
Getting down, so deep I could have drowned
Now I can't get back the way I used to be



Ah, Jim,

I heard that last week and was going to post it myself. But, I let slip my mind.
“Couldn’t get it right” is the song, but I don’t recall who did it.

Okay this is from 1988:

And I'd do anything to get it out of my mind
I need some insanity, that temporary kind

Edited for punctuation. Oops

That's Bring Me Some Water, by Melissa Etheridge. The wife and I were really blown away when we first heard that one and all the other great songs on her debut album back then.



This is from1980:

Ain't no risk, now
In lettin' my love rain down on you
So we could wash away the past
So that we may start anew


Is that from 1980? I thought it was older. I get some of the groups mixed up. Was it Player, or maybe Fire Fall? Anyway, the song is “You’re the biggest part of me”

One from 1982:
She says she would be lost without you,
She's half out of her head (out of her head)

"You're the Biggest Part of Me" was done by Ambrosia One of my favorites on the Oldies radio.

That group did "How Much I Feel" and "You're the Only Woman" too.

Rumor was that Jennifer Lopez was going to cover that song. With Kim Kardasian singing backup.
This song won the artist the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the year 1982, besting nominated performances by Laura Branigan, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton-John, and Linda Ronstadt. It was also her highest charting single at #5 on Billboards Hot 100. One of her other hits went to #6 in 1975 and was named for a dark color.

Some more lines:

I ain't tellin' tales, anybody else
Could repeat the things that I've heard
She's been talkin' sweet and it's on the street
How our girlfriend's spreadin' the word
I liked that one. It's Melissa Manchester, singing You Should Hear How She Talks About You.

That "dark color" song of hers (Midnight Blue, lol) is one of my all-time favorites.



OK, this one hit #3 in 1971:

You know a woman is sentimental, and so easy to upset




(Yeah Phil, with careful booty deployment, J.Lo and KK could cover several songs at once)

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