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Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2014-11-10 19:16:05

One more thing that may help. I think on the same record there was the song Hazy Shade Of Winter by The Bangles Which implies it was a compilation record as I don't think they ever had a male singer

Azzizzi Since: Oct, 2009
2014-11-10 21:23:29

"hazy Shade of Winter" is on they sndtrack for the movie "Less than Zero." Maybe the song is on there?

eggplant Since: Jul, 2011
2014-11-11 15:53:25

Danzig's "You and Me (Less than Zero)"?

Bananaquit Since: Jan, 2001
2014-11-11 17:58:32

That song is credited as Glenn Danzig and the Power & Fury Orchestra. Anyway, the song at the end of the A-side of the Less Than Zero soundtrack is Slayer’s cover of “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida,” so it probably wasn’t the LTZ soundtrack after all.

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Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2014-11-11 22:26:55

I THINK one of the lines was something like "however hard I try" but Google turns up nothing

Daefaroth Since: Jan, 2014
2014-11-12 01:46:23

Dan Hill had a hit with "Can't We Try" also in 1987 if it was a best of the year type album.

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Duncan Since: Jan, 2001
2014-11-12 09:36:49

The Bangles' "Hazy Shade of Winter" was a cover of a Simon And Garfunkel song... maybe it was someone else's cover?

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2014-11-12 10:11:20

Dan Hill is not it sorry.

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2014-11-12 10:23:39

The song in question sounded somewhat similar to "Hazy Shade Of Winter" if I remember right. Pretty sure it was The Bangles version of that song.

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Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2014-11-12 14:17:56

I made a recording of me singing what little I remember of it. Not very good but might help a little. http://tindeck.com/listen/fywn

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Daefaroth Since: Jan, 2014
2014-11-13 01:07:59

Jason Donovan: I'm Doing Fine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSYZrsHnFCQ

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Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2014-11-15 12:15:09

One more thing that might help a little: I think the album cover had a black and white photo on it (doesn't narrow it down much I know)

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2014-11-18 11:03:54

update: after looking through records with my dad (he still keeps all of them), I am pretty sure it did not start with D or T as we checked all the ones in those sections and nothing was right. Also I don't think it was compilation as he only has one such record and it didn't fit. So what I still do know is: I heard it in 1990 or so, it had a male singer, it sounded somewhat similar to "Hazy Shade Of Winter" and the general meaning of the lyrics was something about how he can't do something.

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Daefaroth Since: Jan, 2014
2014-11-19 00:02:43

Okay, shot deep in the dark here. "Hazy Shade of Winter" by the Bangles is a cover. It is originally from the Simon and Garfunkle album Bookends.

Specifically look at the song "Overs".

And I'm habitually feelin' kind of blue. But each time I try on the thought of leaving you. I stop, I stop and think it over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uIrXfVtXbI

It also has a black and white photo on the cover.

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Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2014-11-19 08:16:04

That is not it sorry. The song had about the same tempo as Hazy Shade also.

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2017-01-23 23:16:13

Long time bump. The more I think about it the more I think maybe the album didn't have "Hazy Shade Of Winter" on it but I am misremembering it because the song I'm looking for sounded similar

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
2023-02-10 10:06:42

Update. Someone on another site thought it was The Grass Roots- Temptation Eyes. It sounded really familiar but not quite right. I looked through my dad's records and he had More Golden Grass (by the same album) which had Temptation Eyes and also I'd Wait A Million Years, and Im positive that's right as it fits everything

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