Classic Rock/Trying to identify a classic rock song...
Expert: Skeeter - 7/31/2009
QuestionHi,
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?
Answer 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.