Expert: merrystar - 2/25/2008

Question
QUESTION: Hi I'm looking for an Ally McBeal Vonda Shepard song. I don't know the title. Here are some of the lyrics: "Your love is the only love I know" "you're the reason I want to live" "you're the reason I want to give". I can't find it on the CDs. Or on the Web. Can you help? Thanks

ANSWER: Hi Pen,

I'm not sure about an Ally McBeal song, but the lyrics you quote are the final part of the Mary J. Blige song "Beautiful".  I'm reasonably certain that was not used on Ally McBeal.

If you are certain it was Vonda Shepard, then perhaps you can remember something about the episode in which you heard the song?

cheers,
merrystar



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QUESTION: I'm sure it was an Ally McBeal song, I've still got it on video tape. Since my previos message I've found out : the song is from season 1 episode 13 "the blame game". the song is called "tell the world how I feel about 'cha baby" originally sung by Harold Melvin and the Blue notes. Now what I would like is to find a Vonda Shepard recording of the same song. Any leads? Thanks

Answer
Hi Pen,

I'm sorry I misunderstood your question; I thought you wanted to know what the song was, and obviously I couldn't even figure that out from just the lyrics!

However, even without knowing the song title I could have answered the part about finding a Vonda Shepard version.  There are basically almost no mp3's of Vonda Shepard singing the songs from Ally McBeal available on the web, outside of the soundtracks, and the two songs by Venice.  There is certainly not a big collection of them anywhere; the only one I ever knew of has been shut down.

I'm sorry I don't have a better answer.  Your best bet is either to copy it off your tape (if you can) or to get hold of the dvds for season 1 (there are imported Region 1 dvds on some independent sellers and ebay if you need that; other regions are fairly widely available).  

again, my apologies that I couldn't help,
merrystar