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Ok, violating my usual rule about older songs. This song is not from the mid-80s or earlier.

I'll take the title OR the artist.

 

"There is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say.
You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain, baby.
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny.
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?"


 

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. didn't get mmBop. Nobody was going to get that song.

 

 come join the fun, this ain't no time to be staying home.

There's too much going on.

 Tonight is going to be a night like you've never known.

 We're going to have a good time the whole night long.

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You guys definitely have the right feeling. I could see all these songs on a party mixtape.

Does Leroy know this song? Sho'nuf!

 

When it feels like the world is on your shoulders

And all of the madness has got you going crazy

It's time to get out, step out into the street

Where all of the action is right there at your feet

I know a place where we can dance the whole night away underneath electric stars

Just come with me and we can chase the blues right away

You'll be doing fine once the music starts....

 

Oh!

 

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Hm. I have a copy of that movie on DVD, sitting on a shelf.   I'm waiting for the right mood to play it.   But just mentioning it puts me in the right time-frame.  We're talking an 80s flick here.

 

Ok, the song is "Rhythm of the Night."   The artist was a De Barge, so I'm going with El De Barge.

(The movie I meant was "the Last Dragon", featuring Taimok as "Bruce Leroy", and Sho Nuff, the self-appointed Shogun of Harlem.)

(I met Taimok once, when a friend was ruining a shoot of one of his movies.  I swear it's true.  I had 2 young brothers tagging along with me in lower Manhattan, and we were having trouble looking for the uptown entrance for a station.  We passed an alley, and saw a guy holding a tied woman, with her looking bruised, and him holding a gun to her head. I began to move us faster at the sight of the gun, and kept us moving when I saw the film camera rolling. I was thinking we might actually make the final cut since we were doing the obvious. One brother decided to stop and stand completely still, and ruined the shot. Darned if I know where the autograph went, but he signed one for each of us since I had paper. Taimok, not the kid.) ( I remember the line the gunman said, but to this day, I don't know if the movie was ever released. )

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"You'll come running back (said you would baby)
You'll come running back (I said so many times before)
You'll come running back to me."

 

""But just wait and see
You'll come running back (I won't have to worry no more)
You'll come running back (spend the rest of my life with you, baby)
You'll come running back to me
Go ahead, go ahead and light up the town."

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3 hours ago, WordWolf said:

Yes, that was it.  I don't know why the older posters missed it.

I thought it sounded familiar but the lyrics still don't stick.  I guess I'm getting them now.  

Am I an older poster WW?  I'm still in my (*cough*) 50's!

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2 hours ago, Human without the bean said:

I thought it sounded familiar but the lyrics still don't stick.  I guess I'm getting them now.  

Am I an older poster WW?  I'm still in my (*cough*) 50's!

You're older than me and Raf.  While some of the newer posters are younger than us, no regulars seem to be younger than us.  Of course, I could be wrong, as we're not that young, either.

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1 hour ago, WordWolf said:

You're older than me and Raf.  While some of the newer posters are younger than us, no regulars seem to be younger than us.  Of course, I could be wrong, as we're not that young, either.

I guess that makes me the old fogey (63).  I can live with that.  :mooner:

George

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This conversation about age becomes different in less than three months.

 

Anywhoo...

 

Lyrics:

I had to escape. The city was sticky and cruel.

Maybe I should have called you first, but I was dying to get to you.

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3 hours ago, Raf said:

This conversation about age becomes different in less than three months.

 

Anywhoo...

 

Lyrics:

I had to escape. The city was sticky and cruel.

Maybe I should have called you first, but I was dying to get to you.

I was going to say Kiss From a Rose but that was just up here a short time ago.  Don't know.

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I had to escape, the city was sticky and cruel
Maybe I should have called you first
But I was dying to get to you
I was dreaming while I drove
The long straight road ahead
Uh-huh, Yeah
Could taste your sweet kisses, your arms open wide
This fever for you was just burning me up inside
...
What in this world keeps us from falling apart?
No matter where I go
I hear the beating of our one heart
I think about you when the night is cold and dark
Uh-huh, yeah
No one can move me the way that you do
Nothing erases this feeling between me and you...
 
Three artists: One original, two remakes, all iconic performers. The first remake was released after its performer was dead. You'd be forgiven for thinking his was the original, but it was not.
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On 5/23/2019 at 11:21 AM, Raf said:
I had to escape, the city was sticky and cruel
Maybe I should have called you first
But I was dying to get to you
I was dreaming while I drove
The long straight road ahead
Uh-huh, Yeah
Could taste your sweet kisses, your arms open wide
This fever for you was just burning me up inside
...
What in this world keeps us from falling apart?
No matter where I go
I hear the beating of our one heart
I think about you when the night is cold and dark
Uh-huh, yeah
No one can move me the way that you do
Nothing erases this feeling between me and you...
 
Three artists: One original, two remakes, all iconic performers. The first remake was released after its performer was dead. You'd be forgiven for thinking his was the original, but it was not.

So were still going with this triple iconic one?  No guess.

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