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Expert: Tim Knudson - 11/9/2008


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Hello- Im looking for a song title.  I believe the song is from the 70's or 80's and starts out with a car chase, screeching tires, police sirens, a car accident and gunshots, follows by a desperate dialogue between a man and woman (kind of like an old detective movie).

thanks in advance

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Hi,
The dialogue part throws me, so I'm not sure if I'm right or wrong.  Here are two possibilities:

"Lunatic Fringe" by Red Rider.  It starts with European siren and a crash.  No dialogue between a man and a woman, just a guy talking about how he "knows you're out there" and can find you.  Kinda creepy.

"The Metro" by Berlin.  This also has a European siren, but made with the keyboards, and does involve desperate lyrics from a woman to a man.

The only other thing I can offer you is "Leader of the Pack", by the Shangrilas, but it is a '60s Stax/Volt (like Motown) song, which starts with a Harley revving up, has a crash, etc., but again is the mournful-toned second-person tale of a girl who lost her "bad-boy" boyfriend.

But I'm shooting in the dark here.  Sorry.

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Tim Knudson

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I can answer quite a few questions on early US R & B, as well as psychedelic folk and rock and late '60s hard R & B and (what would become known as "heavy metal"). I can answer most questions about band line-ups and band record labels from the 1970s. From 1981 to 1990, I was heavily involved in the alternative radio and punk rock scenes and can identify bands with cities (called "scenes") and record labels.

Experience

My brother was an avid album-oriented rock fan in the mid to late '70s and early '80s, and I idolized him and his vast 8-track collection of bands like Sweet, Boston, Styx, Queen, Foghat, and Nazareth.
Later, I got into punk rock, especially hardcore, and worked at a college radio station doing punk rock and psychedelic radio shows from 1984-1989.

Education/Credentials
BA, History, specializing in modern American history, Washington State University, 1989. M.Ed. Education, University of Washington-Tacoma. Coursework in the history of rock 'n roll.

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National Board Certified teacher, Adolescent and Young Adult education/social studies and history

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