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25 Nov 97 - 07:47 PM (#16676) Subject: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au I am trying to locate the title of, and the original artist for the song that has the verse Yes operator, I'll hang up the phone// Yes, yes, I know my party is gone// But I'll always love him/her until I die// Thank you for calling, Goodby Thanks, Murray |
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25 Nov 97 - 07:52 PM (#16679) Subject: RE: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Is it "Operator" by Jim Croce? He's trying to call an old girlfriend who ran off with his best friend. |
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26 Nov 97 - 10:13 AM (#16701) Subject: RE: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: Jon W. I don't think its the Jim Croce song, that one ends before he even gives the phone number to the operator. The last line is "you can keep the dime." |
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26 Nov 97 - 11:45 PM (#16758) Subject: RE: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au It doesn't sound like the Jim Croche song. The earliest version I can remember was sung by a woman, but I think there was a man who did it. Thinking of the rythm, it might be a country/western song. Murray |
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05 Dec 97 - 10:34 PM (#17191) Subject: RE: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au I still haven't found this song. I wonder if anyone can point me to good databases for Country/Western and for popular songs of the 40/50s. Ones like the Trad that allow searches for keywords and which turn up lyrics and titles. Murray |
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05 Dec 97 - 11:20 PM (#17193) Subject: RE: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: Will Cowpie http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie/ is an archive of country and western songs. |
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06 Dec 97 - 02:49 PM (#17210) Subject: RE: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: Jerry Friedman The way I remember the Jim Croce song, he sings, "Thank you for your time/ You've been so much more than kind./ You can keep the dime." |
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09 Dec 97 - 04:47 AM (#17320) Subject: RE: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Will: I tried cowpie with no luck. I think I will have to tuck this one away and ask human databases next time I visit my family in the US. Murray |
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12 Dec 97 - 10:01 PM (#17473) Subject: RE: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: Will Hi, Murray. Yes, I tried cowpie, too, and couldn't find it. Garth Brooks kept coming up when I used the search program to look for the song, but I couldn't figure out why. |
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06 Jan 98 - 02:52 PM (#18784) Subject: RE: Request to identify song--(Yes Operator) From: wjmcl54the the turtle dove song starting with [itook my lady out last night to see my turtle dove tell me darling tell me true who is this man you little liza loves you]can you tell me the name of the author and where i can get a copy ? |
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19 Mar 08 - 11:48 PM (#2293267) Subject: Lyr Add: THANK YOU FOR CALLING (Cindy Walker) From: Jim Dixon Lyrics copied from LP Discography: THANK YOU FOR CALLING (Cindy Walker) « © '54 Blackwood Music, BMI / Oree Music, BMI » Who can it be? Hello, hello! Yes, this is me. Darling, oh, darling, What a surprise! It's been so long, why, there's tears in my eyes. When will you be here? What time will it be? Oh, you're not coming. I see. Oh, I see. Well, I hope you'll be happy. Well, thank you. I'll try. Thank you for calling. Goodbye. (When will you be here? What time will it be? Oh, you're not coming. I see. Oh, I see.) Yes, operator, I'll hang up the phone. Yes, yes, I know my party is gone, But I'll always love her, I guess, till I die. Thank you for calling. Goodbye. [Recorded by Billy Walker and by Jo Stafford.] |
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20 Mar 08 - 03:30 AM (#2293315) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Thank You for Calling (Cindy Walker) From: PoppaGator Here's Wikipedia on Cindy Walker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Walker I hadn't heard of her until she passed away in '06 and I heard her obit/tribute on NPR radio. She was one of the great Nashville lyricists. Coincidentally, I was teaching myself to play one of her most famous pieces at the time ~"You Don't Know Me" ~ without knowing anything about who had written it. She had co-written the song with Eddy Arnold, who sang on the first recording. I really only knew the song from a later cover version, one of the cuts on Ray Charles' "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music." |
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20 Mar 08 - 04:51 PM (#2293949) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Thank You for Calling (Cindy Walker) From: open mike Willie Nelson has released an album of her songs."You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker" (Lost Highway). here is an article about her: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002236561 |
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20 Mar 08 - 05:17 PM (#2293974) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Thank You for Calling (Cindy Walker) From: The Mole Catcher's Apprentice (inactive) The Byrds recorded her song Blue Canadian Rockies, on their Sweetheart of the Rodeo recording, and very nicely too. Charlotte (west of the Blue Canadian Rockies) |