When You're Alone and Life is Making You Lonely

[Tuesday Afternoon]

http://www.youtube.com/v/FKCnHWas3HQ&hl=en&fs=1

When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go - downtown
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know - downtown
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?

The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown - no finer place, for sure
Downtown - everything's waiting for you

Don't hang around and let your problems surround you
There are movie shows - downtown
Maybe you know some little places to go to
Where they never close - downtown
Just listen to the rhythm of a gentle bossa nova
You'll be dancing with him too before the night is over
Happy again

The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown, where all the lights are bright
Downtown - waiting for you tonight
Downtown - you're gonna be all right now

And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to
Guide them along

So maybe I'll see you there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares
So go downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown - don't wait a minute for
Downtown - everything's waiting for you

Downtown, downtown, downtown, downtown ...

[darkstar]

1. An absolute favorite....a pop gem...

I've always loved this song...it was a hit when I was a kid...but I love it even more now that I've figured it out, chord-wise, on the piano. It has a real genius to it, especially the build from "The lights are much brighter there" to the chorus. Lovely!!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. perhaps you can help me...

I am trying to locate a song from that era and all I can remember is the chorus:

something like this:

bam
ba ba
bam.bam.bam.

bam
ba ba
bam.bam.bam.

:shrug:

help.

[darkstar]

3. Ah...would need more to go on... Is it that one

with, you know, some strings and a piano, and like several major sections, and one goes something like "I'm looking at myself/Reflections of my mind...."?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. heehee...

it had a soul vibe to it...it was a guy singing it...thinking it was a black guy.....Otis Redding type of thing.

[darkstar]

6. Okay...a stab...but I'm thinking this is it...it just hit me...

Lesser known, a vibe I can associate with Downtown, a soul sound...won't it be freaky if....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqJGnqjMTHQ

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. THAT IS IT

:yourock:

:bounce: :bounce:

fuckin A!!!!!


That is AWESOME

[darkstar]

10. Takes bow...cues up Major Lance's other hit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP865F7Xf9g

Cool. Glad it worked out.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. for the Monkey Time

I wish I had been just a little bit older back then...I was born about 7 years too latex(

move your feet
get on the beat
let your backbone slip

good dancing music:thumbsup:

[MilesColtrane]

5. Could it be the Joao Gilberto song "Bim Bom"?

Astrud sang it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RyCM0ao-0E

Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 also did a version that may have been on the radio around then.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. hey...thanks for that link. but sadly no...

BAM....ba...bah. BAM> BAM> BAM>

soul music


digging on that Astrid stuff:thumbsup:

[darkstar]

8. Good call...see above for my stab from the gut

Love the song you posted.

[MilesColtrane]

11. I seem to remember that Major Lance song from somewhere.

Definitely feel good music! I miss that stuff.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. absolutely...just plain old groovin' feel good music

sounds so innocent now

[MilesColtrane]

14. More 60's radio music...

The Fifth Dimension

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVe3AB8OY8


Another Petula Clark hit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6iz2Otd2M

[darkstar]

15. Nice stuff there!!!

Cheers!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. fun stuff

I could do this all night :D

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

16. I was about ten when that came out

and for some reason I loved that song (and most other Petula Clark tunes) with an utterly inexplicable passion. It sounded so glamorous, grownup and so purely English to a kid in the then exurbs of Minneapolis.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. it really did sound sophisticated didn't it...

and I was such a skinny, little geeky, bubble-gum popping kid. Impressionable and Impressed,
I was :thumbsup: