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    Posted: June 06 2020 at 21:03
Hi, never posted here before. A post on reddit has me going mad trying to figure out what this song is. Apparently it was recorded from a prog radio station in the 70s. Audio quality is poor, but the lyrics are able to be made out. The song is reminiscent of George Harrison/ELO/America songs. Please help! A lyric search yields nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7hlEF4UIQ
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I have no idea. I tried using my shazam app but nothing came up(probably because of the poor sound quality). My guess would be it's a song from between 71 and 74. I have no idea exactly who it might be though.

This kind of reminds me of my failed attempt to figure out a song from the late 80's(sounds like it anyway) or so with the lyrics "call for a revolution.....call for a holiday.....of love." I searched lyrics online asked on various websites and still nothing. If I ever find the cassette that had that on it I will try shazam with that too. 


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Thanks for the help anyway! Personally, I've never had luck with Shazam for any song! Lol
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I don't know. The voice sounds like R.E.M, but I've got an impression of Caravan in the last seconds. 
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I’ve got nothing. Sounds like the first 50 rock bands from the 70s
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Hi,

Hmmm ... would have liked to hear some more, but it could be BREAD.
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Sounds like Bread or Tom Powers or Andrew Gold ("Lonely Boy").
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It sounds familiar and along the lines of a thousand other songs I have heard from the 70s, but I am not familiar with it. I would like to hear more it, like Moshkito. Bread eventually worked very hard to get out of the soft rock niche that made them so successful, but with limited results.
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The voice at the end sounds very much like Harry Nilsson. Nilsson was friends with George Harrison who played slide guitar on at least one of Nilsson's songs that I recall. But I still can't place this exact song.

Definitely not Bread, even though it's a similar style. Not Looking Glass. 

It's obviously not anything related to progressive rock either. 
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It definitely is reminiscent of Nilsson! Judging by the lyrics alone (or what I can hear, anyway), I'd venture to guess that the song was called "Part of it All." That my best guess anyway.
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I would be very surprised if it weren't titled "Part of It All." There was an obscure early-70s group called Stylus who had an album and track by that name, but they were too jazzy for this to be them.
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I have no idea.
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I know this isn't it but I figured since Bread was mentioned and since this is a prog forum I'm wondering if anyone knows about this proggy track from David Gates(from Bread)? 
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I know this isn't it but I figured since Bread was mentioned and since this is a prog forum I'm wondering if anyone knows about this proggy track from David Gates(from Bread)? 





love that song...the album its on also has another great song, "Do you believe he's coming" with a pretty impressive guitar solo at the end that cleverly reprises the theme of "Suite Clouds and Rain".  Both got a LOT of airplay on the prog oriented station at the time
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dear God.. these threads have killed as many brain cells as repeated listens to Genesis albums...
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

dear God.. these threads have killed as many brain cells as repeated listens to Genesis albums...

Hi,

.... and woke you up?

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