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Hi,
For a long time listening to classic rock stations on the road, there was always this one song that lately I haven't heard in ages, but I have no idea who it's by, or the name of the song...
Of what I can say about it, for the choruses of the song, there's a different singer, and he has a voice that sounds like David Lindley's in Jackson Browne's "Stay (Just A Little Bit Longer)", but a bit more nasally. It's a rock song, though no hard or crunching guitars or riffs...something similar to Yes, but not them, and from what I remember, the chorus seems like a coda to the rest of the song...the song doesn't sound like it could be any older than 1976, though I could be wrong, but sounds more like a product of the turn of the decade.
Does this song ring a bell?

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 My first instinct would be to think you are talking about  a song that Frankie Vallie of the
Four Seasons sang on.  
  The dude that sang the high part on Stay is a dead ringer for Frankie Vallie.  
 If you could remember any of the lyrics at all it is likely I would remember it.  
 Frankie Vallie sang in two voices, a midrangy gravely voice and a very high falsetto voice like on  Stay.    But if it is a Four Seasons or Frankie Valley song that would make it most likely early 60s to mid seventies.
 Another possibility is a song by The Hollies from when Graham Nash was their lead singer.

 Another possibility is something by Leo Sayer.

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I can answer general questions about rock era bands, record labels they were on, and names of songs. Often I can tell the name of the record company that released a song, as well as the name of the song, and the year of release based on some of the lyrics. I grew up during the rock era and I am a musician myself, and always read the album and 45 info for production credits as well as lineups. One of the chat rooms I go to is quite amused at my ability to name a song along with it`s year of release and record label. I was also a record collector for years.

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