I was sitting in an office yesterday with music playing through the ceiling speakers when this very catchy pop song came on. I didn't hear the station ID, but if it's any help, they played a song earlier sung in German by a woman, so I presume the station must have an international track list format.
The song in question was sung by a male, bilingual singer with guitar, bass, and drums backup and the oft-repeated English lyrics went: "Take the test", and "Take the time to live your life" or something very similar.
Google and YouTube searches bring up nothing (No, it wasn't Rihanna or Green Day) I'll definitely know it when and if I ever hear it again.
Don't you hate it when you're out somewhere and later can't retrieve something you've heard that you like, particularly when on the other hand you quite often can't get some awful busker's earworm out of your head? Arrgh!
Kristian: I’m amazed - in fact, - “Fiberglasted”. I have often wanted to write you to ask if you knew anything about a building in Montreal named: "Fairy Land". I so well remember the day my uncle Norman walked me through that part of our city showing me all the old buildings. We stopped, almost reverently, and he said, “and that’s a building called Fairy Land”, and people won’t believe it, but you can tell them you actually saw the name right there on the building, which may not be there when you grow up". I always wondered if it still existed. How thrilling to see your photograph. Is it actually still there and do you know what the unusual name signifies? (I can’t believe this is happening. So many years ago. How interesting, and how thrilling). Thank you. Lauriate.
Article about James Fairie and "Fairy Land" at this link: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19560810&id=94ItAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c5kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5684,1675778&hl=en
Amazing! I never knew there was another Fairyland in Montreal except the Fairyland cinema in Griffintown. Actually it was on the north side of Notre Dame near the corner of Inspector. I wasted many a Sunday afternoon during the 1940s watching a lot of black and white movies from the late 30s and war years 40s. Fairyland actually tried to bring back Vaudville in the 1940s, it didn't work. I saw a few of those acts and they were long past their best before dates.
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What's that tune?
ReplyDeleteI was sitting in an office yesterday with music playing through the ceiling speakers when this very catchy pop song came on. I didn't hear the station ID, but if it's any help, they played a song earlier sung in German by a woman, so I presume the station must have an international track list format.
The song in question was sung by a male, bilingual singer with guitar, bass, and drums backup and the oft-repeated English lyrics went: "Take the test", and "Take the time to live your life" or something very similar.
Google and YouTube searches bring up nothing (No, it wasn't Rihanna or Green Day) I'll definitely know it when and if I ever hear it again.
Don't you hate it when you're out somewhere and later can't retrieve something you've heard that you like, particularly when on the other hand you quite often can't get some awful busker's earworm out of your head? Arrgh!
Surely someone should know this one?
There is an application called Shazam which will identify a song when played - it's too bad you did not have the opportunity to use it!
DeleteKristian:
ReplyDeleteI’m amazed - in fact, - “Fiberglasted”.
I have often wanted to write you to ask if you knew anything about a building in Montreal named: "Fairy Land".
I so well remember the day my uncle Norman walked me through that part of our city showing me all the old buildings. We stopped, almost reverently, and he said, “and that’s a building called Fairy Land”, and people won’t believe it, but you can tell them you actually saw the name right there on the building, which may not be there when you grow up".
I always wondered if it still existed.
How thrilling to see your photograph.
Is it actually still there and do you know what the unusual name signifies?
(I can’t believe this is happening. So many years ago. How interesting, and how thrilling). Thank you.
Lauriate.
Article about James Fairie and "Fairy Land" at this link:
ReplyDeletehttps://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19560810&id=94ItAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c5kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5684,1675778&hl=en
James Fairie owned the building and called it that for fun. That's da whole story!
ReplyDeleteDidn't know about Shazam. Too bad. :-(
ReplyDeleteThank you all dear fellow members, and Kristian, for the links to Fairy Land information.
ReplyDeleteAmazing! I never knew there was another Fairyland in Montreal except the Fairyland cinema in Griffintown. Actually it was on the north side of Notre Dame near the corner of Inspector. I wasted many a Sunday afternoon during the 1940s watching a lot of black and white movies from the late 30s and war years 40s. Fairyland actually tried to bring back Vaudville in the 1940s, it didn't work. I saw a few of those acts and they were long past their best before dates.
ReplyDeleteTerrence Flanagan
Halifax, NS