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joel Oporto

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Hi guys, congrats and good luck to Craig on the transfer of SSS!!

This is a bit off the usual order of business but I just wanted to ask where you guys go in search of older hard to find songs or composers. I was trying to search for a song entitled "When First we were Lovers" by a late 80's or early 90's band called PM (this was way before PM Dawn) and I believe the composer is a Peter Myer or Mayer. After a week, I couldn't find anything on him or this band at all. This is the guy who composed "Moonlight over paris" covered by Vanessa Williams which was a hit song. Even her sites did not acknowledge the composer, is that how it is nowadays, Artists just take the credit and leave the composers to the gloom and doom of ignominity!!

 

More power again to Craig, I came from the EQ forum and haven't been in for a while only to find he moved.

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Originally posted by joel Oporto

Man thats cool!! it took me a week with google and yahoo to grieve with zero results!!! I keep getting a different peter Mayer

 

I first entered Vanessa williams+ songtitel + lyrics,.... then I got the credits,... song is written by three people.... Then I entered those three people and boommmmm all the sites you needed showed up.

 

If you search try to limit your results by doing it like that.

 

Typing in Vanessa will give you 1000000000000s of sites Typing in Vaness Williams Moonlight over Paris Lyrics will give you a lot less results.

 

;)

 

 

Oah and by the way,.......dang I hate to say it onhere,.I used MSN search,..... {censored} now I get beaten by all the others :rolleyes:

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Don't worry if it works what the heck, If you have a hit song using a 4 track tape recorder doesn't mean you're just lucky, means your not afraid to use "off the beaten path" or in this case the detested one. hehehe

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Heh... I thought we were talking Hoagie Carmichael and Cole Porter...

 

 

Granted, the 80s seems like a long, long time ago.

 

And, frankly, so much of the music from that era seems so much more dated than classic tracks by Billie Holiday or Louis Armstrong...

 

 

The Romantics, anyone? How about Tommy Tutone? Stacy Q?

 

 

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PS... for information on bands, probably the single best source is All Music Guide. [ www.allmusic.com ] It has a huge range of artists from a wide variety of periods. And they allow user input, too, making them a little wiki-like, in their ability to adapt to new information.

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Originally posted by boosh



I first entered Vanessa williams+ songtitel + lyrics,.... then I got the credits,... song is written by three people.... Then I entered those three people and boommmmm all the sites you needed showed up.

 

But if you really want to know who made the song, you had to be at Greenstreet with Rod Hui, Hank and Bill.....

 

;)

 

-Peace, Love, and Brittanylips

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well boosh Im back to square 1 since it seems the PM album is out of print and all I could get was a streming clip of the song. But hey at least there the other ways to try out, thanx guys

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Originally posted by joel Oporto

well boosh Im back to square 1 since it seems the PM album is out of print and all I could get was a streming clip of the song. But hey at least there the other ways to try out, thanx guys

 

Want to ask Peter a question? Email your question to CJSutherland@Infax.com. PLEASE INCLUDE the phrase "Q&A" in the SUBJECT header of your message, or your email may get lost. :)

 

Ask Peter himself where to get it,..maybe he sends you a free promosingle or whatever....

 

;)

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When First We Were Lovers return to top

(Mayer / Guth / Mayer)

 

The day breaks

Feeling all the colors of our embrace

Oh oh sha la la la la lay

The summer sun

Shine a new light on everyone

Oh oh sha la la la la lay

 

But how can I explain

When I hear that song again

It helps me remember that day

 

When first we were lovers I can't explain...

When first we were lovers

 

The moonshine

Follow the shadows yours and mine

Oh oh sha la la la la lay

I knew you then

Like a familiar place I

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Originally posted by joel Oporto

cool dude where did you find that?

 

Man ,...is this your first week on internet? ;)

 

Just go to google,.. type in the name of the song,...the composer and the word lyrics and you'll get the sites that have the lyrics ;)

 

Ahh nevermind,.. for me it's easy I used to be an international spy working for the feds,interpol and Victoria's Secret :D

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