Name That Tune, Nineties, Sixties

Name That Tune (September 10, 2023)

Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Boys and girls, do I have a treat for you today! That’s right! After strong-arming graciously inviting our friend Tom to write his own Name That Tune post, he eventually relented heartily agreed to join the ranks as a guest host!

Here are Tom’s five splendid clues for you to contemplate. Let’s see if you can determine the song in question and the artist(s) who performed it.

Ground Control to Major Tom: We have liftoff!  🚀

  1. A duo originally trilled today’s song quite a bit back in the day, with a few others. All they had to do was dream, wake up little Susie, and then say bye-bye love… a… the sorrow and pain. Time passes, but it isn’t the duo I’m actually referring to.
  2. Almost thirty years later, the trio in question covered the song, cover perhaps being the wrong choice of word here – ah – no brollies, thank you very much, boo hoo, they don’t conceal the emotion!
  3. Where they say the sun always shines on TV, stormy weather is more appropriate for this song – aha! Another weather related clue.
  4. Through the living daylights of Northern Europe, Scandinavia, and possibly the rest of the world, the trio performed many more times before splitting in 2010. They weren’t ‘not together’ for long, however, since they reformed in 2015.
  5. The song in question is one of many written by a female king. Hark! It’s practically been revealed now, the song, crying out through all these clues raining down. If you’ve worked it out, I’m gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun.

First time at bat and the rookie hits a grand slam homer! Well done, Tom!

What do you say, friends? Were you able to figure out Tom’s featured song and artists of the day? Well, scroll on down and see if you were right!

Yes!! If you said “Crying In The Rain” as performed by a-ha, you were right! Shall we have a listen?

What an great video that was; I’m really glad I found it I really enjoyed it! How about you?

Now for a little more fun. Here is Tom’s outline for creating his clues. This is as entertaining as the post and video:

The clues: 1) The duo who originally sang the song was the Everly Brothers. The clue gives a few of their songs. 2) It was covered by a-ha in 1990; ‘no brollies‘ indirectly pointing to crying in the rain. 3) ‘The sun always shines on TV‘ is an a-ha song. A-ha is also spelt out in clues 1, 2 and 3 (the extra ‘a’ in clue 1 isn’t a typo! 4) ‘The Living Daylights’ refers to a-ha’s James Bond movie theme, and Scandinavia refers to where they are from (Norway). 5) The song was written by Carole King; ‘Hark! It’s’ is a play on Morten Harket’s name (main vocals), and the last sentence is a line from the song.

Now I think it’s only appropriate that we give credit where credit is due and play the video by the duo which Tom mentioned in Clue #1. Here is “Crying In The Rain” as performed by The Everly Brothers:

Now here is an extra bonus. We’re gonna bring this baby home by going back to where it all began – to the composer herself, Carole King, singing her song “Crying In The Rain”:

How’d you like our guest post today, gang? I think Tom did an awesome job and he’s welcome back here anytime for another round of Name That Tune!

Tom is such a good sport, I know he’s the first one having a good laugh at the fun I had with my comments. Tom, you’re A-OK in my book, a pleasure to work with and I’ll be happy to do so again any time! Fantastic job today!

That’s a wrap, kids!

See you on the flip side.

I’m The Sicilian Storyteller

NAR © 2023

28 thoughts on “Name That Tune (September 10, 2023)”

  1. Aha! Hehehe! 😎🤣
    My ancestors are from Sussex, coincidentally, Misky, but I live slightly north to you. Well, very north, actually, in Cheshire. It’s much more comfortable here now! 😌

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  2. So I’m thinking must be Everly Brothers, yep, must be. I love their harmonic sound. Wait, what? Living Daylights – is it a Bond song? Can’t be Everly Brothers; didn’t do Bond. I’m feeling quite feckless today. I honestly don’t know, Tom. So I’ll drop down and read the answer! Oh Carol King, too! Aah ha, A-Ha.

    Tom, I have a feeling that we live not too far from one another. I’m in West Sussex. Heat. Yes. I think the jet stream is moving finally, and we’ll be cooling down tomorrow.

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      1. I guess that even the hot SSC&B kitchen can’t prepare us for Gaia’s warm temperament.🌡

        I always enjoyed the analytical dissection of your clues handling. But most of all, your sense of humor.

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        1. It’s not the heat per se, Nick… it’s the sudden ferocity that it’s thrust upon us. Still, shouldn’t really complain, I suppose… it’s all good.
          Thanks again. A lighthearted approach works wonders with the perpetually clueless! 🤣

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  7. Wow, those were well thought out clues. I got the band but not the song. I don’t remember it being played here in Oz, and I was a but who knows. It was the 80s 🤩

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