Guess The Song

[The Dead Cow 620]

13 minutes ago, time said:

From a US-UK supergroup, charted in the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100, just missed out on the UK Top 50.

Travelling Wilburys - End Of The Line?

[Bibliogryphon 9,573]

A very easy one:

 

First self-penned solo number one UK single by a female artist.

[time 8,599]

36 minutes ago, The Dead Cow said:

Travelling Wilburys - End Of The Line?

That is correct.

[Redrumours 861]

1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:

A very easy one:

 

First self-penned solo number one UK single by a female artist.

Kate Bush   Wuthering Heights.

[Handrejka 1,903]

4 hours ago, time said:

A Handful of Songs, Written By Lionel Bart & Mike Pratt, sung by Tommy Steele.

 

Edit: or was it Little White Bull? I'm leaning more towards this as its definitely more unlikable than the former suggestion.

 

 

 

Little White Bull it is. My next clue was going to be that I mentioned it in the songs you never want to hear again thread.

[Toast 16,137]

I'm not sure if it's the song itself that's so horrible, or just Tommy Steele's delivery of it.

 

Anyway

 

This 1980 song was a first ever UK chart entry for its female solo artist.

It was written by another female artist, lead singer of a band, and included on an album by them in the same year.

The B side was a cover of a Joy Division song.

[Handrejka 1,903]

5 minutes ago, Toast said:

I'm not sure if it's the song itself that's so horrible, or just Tommy Steele's delivery of it.

 

Anyway

 

This 1980 song was a first ever UK chart entry for its female solo artist.

It was written by another female artist, lead singer of a band, and included on an album by them in the same year.

The B side was a cover of a Joy Division song.

 

True enough, also those awful stage school brats singing along with him, it real nails down blackboard stuff.

[charon 4,943]

21 minutes ago, Toast said:

I'm not sure if it's the song itself that's so horrible, or just Tommy Steele's delivery of it.

 

Anyway

 

This 1980 song was a first ever UK chart entry for its female solo artist.

It was written by another female artist, lead singer of a band, and included on an album by them in the same year.

The B side was a cover of a Joy Division song.

 

 

 

Grace Jones did a Pretenders cover but I can't mind which Joy Division song was on the flip.

[Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,218]

10 minutes ago, charon said:

 

 

 

Grace Jones did a Pretenders cover but I can't mind which Joy Division song was on the flip.

I think you got it.

Private Life was the single and Pretenders album track.

[time 8,599]

1 hour ago, Handrejka said:

 

Little White Bull it is. My next clue was going to be that I mentioned it in the songs you never want to hear again thread.

It took a while for the penny to drop, but today I learned that Mike Pratt, actor, is also Michael Pratt, songwriter. 

[Toast 16,137]

36 minutes ago, charon said:

Grace Jones did a Pretenders cover but I can't mind which Joy Division song was on the flip.

 

24 minutes ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said:

I think you got it.

Private Life was the single and Pretenders album track.

 

Correct! 

'She's Lost Control' was the B side.

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,037]

Whose go is it?

 

I'm lost....

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

13 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Whose go is it?

 

I'm lost....

 

Nat King Cole?

 

 

 

[YoungWillz 21,037]

Been ages since I had my Nat King Cole...

[Deathray 2,940]

24 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Whose go is it?

 

I'm lost....

 

@charon

[Toast 16,137]

Or in the meantime anyone can have a go - keeps up the momentum of the game.

 

Be nice if people post a clip of the song when it's been guessed. 

(Apart from Little White Bull, of course)

[time 8,599]

OK here's one

It's one side of an album;

It's based on actual events;

it inspired a film of the same name.

[gcreptile 10,967]

2 hours ago, time said:

OK here's one

It's one side of an album;

It's based on actual events;

it inspired a film of the same name.

Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd?

[Bibliogryphon 9,573]

12 hours ago, redrumours said:

Kate Bush   Wuthering Heights.

Told you it was an easy one

[time 8,599]

6 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd?

No, a little earlier for the song, way earlier for the film, and both from the USA.

[The Dead Cow 620]

11 hours ago, time said:

OK here's one

It's one side of an album;

It's based on actual events;

it inspired a film of the same name.

Oh, it's not Alice's Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie is it? I was listening to that just yesterday. 

[charon 4,943]

23 hours ago, Cat O'Falk said:

 

Nellie the Elephant.  

 

I know it fails after the further clues, but it could've been the awful "Christmas Wrapping" by Tony Robinson and the quiet angels. He co wrote it.

[time 8,599]

7 hours ago, The Dead Cow said:

Oh, it's not Alice's Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie is it? I was listening to that just yesterday. 

It is. reward yourself with an 8x10 photo with circles and arrows!

 

Edited December 14, 2018 by time
Forgot to embed the tune.

[Toast 16,137]

This song was performed at Live Aid in 1985.

The same title was used for a song and album by an American artist a couple of years later.

[time 8,599]

16 hours ago, Toast said:

This song was performed at Live Aid in 1985.

The same title was used for a song and album by an American artist a couple of years later.

This involves a fairly loose definition of 'a couple of years', but possibly Human Touch as performed by Rick Springfield at Live Aid, then being the title track Bruce Springsteen's ninth studio album.