[solved] Pls ID this one: UK (?) wave-pop, c. '83

[daydreamer]

[EDIT 2009/08/24] lyrics fixes

This is getting a hilarious one; not from the way it sounds, but from the way I understand the lyrics!

Very moderately, 92-98 bpm

The "So many questions" part is sung in a very Bee-Gees like falsetto ...

[EDITED] see full (and hopefully correct) lyrics below

What could this be?
I also have a sample, but for copyright reasons I only prefer to do this if it's not possible to find the piece via the lyrics.

[Yachtingtype]

A sound sample could only help

[daydreamer]

OK found the link again, I had it in my bookmarks but I didn't know where i put it...so here you are...

http://www.zshare.net/audio/594710529f1ed342/

thanks i a

[SomebodySomewhere]

I think it's Rodway's "Don't Knock It Til You Try It" (off whatever album had the hit "Don't Stop Trying") but get a second opinion first.

[daydreamer]

FULL HOUSE !!!!

I go without the second opinion and say ... Yes that's the song! (Found it) Fantastic - thanks a billion! [:)]

[SomebodySomewhere]

You're welcome. That's why you should always post mp3 samples if you got them. Certainly, nobody was ever going to correctly ID that one from "The Look of Chevy Chase." (lol)

The album is called "Horizontal Hold" (Millennium/RCA, 1983) by the way. Not that I have my copy handy at the moment.

[daydreamer]

Well, to tell the truth the most intriguing problem was the way he pronounces "...try it". Phonetically, it sounded like "chay-yt" or as I wrote, "chase" to me. I eat my hat if this is not due to him hardly opening his mouth when singing. Because if I keep my mouth almost shut when singing this, it sounds the same! (just gave it a try for the heck
of it)

That aside, the song could also have been found by identifying it via the REST of the lyrics, couldn't it!? If someone really knows the song, he would not be required to rely on a chorus correctly spelled (IMHO)

[SomebodySomewhere]

Yep, Steve Rodway's enunciation is something else. He makes Joey Ramone sound like Karen Carpenter.

Corrections to other lines (if you really care):

Of the CAFE in the square

WOULDN'T EVEN take the time
Never mind A DATE

So many questions, NOT MANY ANSWERS
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY

YOU BETTER NOT KNOCK IT NOW
YOU BETTER NOT KNOCK IT, BABY
YOU BETTER NOT KNOCK IT NOW
YOU BETTER NOT KNOCK IT, OH NO

I think the first line in the second verse is "Walking on a knife's edge," but I can't really tell. I don't recall the LP coming with a lyric sheet. I have vague memories of trying to figure out the lyrics to "I Am Electric" while listening to the record years ago.

[daydreamer]

Yes I do care, thanks for all your concern!

Well, as we're here, I've put up the whole story now so we can bomb this into one of the various lyrics sites once and for all:

(Note I kept to a part of the lyrics in my initial post because you normally do not need the whole thing to identify the song, do you )
The "space vox" part (sounds like the Smurfs) definitely sounds like "You'd better not knock it AT ALL!". Yes, sure

(v.1)
The other night I saw you standin'
I saw you standin' there
Underneath the fading neon sign
of the café in the square
I called you there, I showed you love
I begged you to wait
Wouldn't even take the time
Nevermind a date!

(cho)
Don't knock it 'til you try it
Don't knock it,
Knock it 'til you try it

(v.2)
Walking on a knife's edge
Walking every day
Your life is just a crossword
The clues got in the way

So many questions, not many answers
Nobody knows
What you want to say
If you get the chance, grab it!
Take my love today!

(->cho 4x)

(bridge #1)
You'd better not knock it, now
You'd better not knock it, baby
You'd better not knock it, now
You'd better not knock it at all!

(interlude #1)(funky)

(bridge #2)
You'd better not knock it, oh-no
I told you so
You'd better not knock it, oh-no
No, no no no no!

(interlude #2)

(->cho)