This song reminds me of this song and why

The trifecta of ~ drugs'll kill ya.

That Smell - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Life in the Fast Lane - the Eagles {I can't find a full version of this song, unfortunately}

Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young


And a couple for the aftermath.

True Sadness - the Avett Brothers

Rehab - Amy Winehouse

Listening to the Bosporus Bridges 2 compilation for the first time (Turkish Funk and Jazz mostly from the 70s)

And this came up: Yali Yali bu Neşe Karaböcek


And all I can think is it must have been easy to blatantly lift riffs from christian rock operas when you live in a muslim country before the internet:

Heaven on their minds (from Jesus Christ Superstar) - Australian Cast version

This came up on random



Reminded me of almost every version of Barrett Strong's 'Money' I've ever heard. It was released in 1963 - same year as The Beatles version (3 years after the original by Strong) so I'm gonna say they're the inspiration.

I was listening to the soundtrack of Il Dolce Corpo Di Deborah for the first time and Molto Temp Fa came on and the melody was nagging at the back of my brain - and I think it sounds like Homburg by Procol Harum - be interested if anyone else can hear it. It well could be a rip off as it was was released in 1968 the year after Homburg (1967). Anyway, you be the judge

Hearing this Jennifer Lopez song for the first time on random - the intro piano refrain reminded me of something (maybe from some 90s chill compilation?)

Anyway turns out it was the theme from Midnight Cowboy


Oh, and this is the version I was thinking of (not on Youtube) but track 1 CD 3 of this https://www.discogs.com/release/3686618-Various-Greatest-Ever-Chillout

And You Smiled - Matt Monro pops up on random and I think - isn't that the theme for the original 70s series of Van Der Valk but with words?

I'm not wrong am I? Have yet to look up composition credits.

So the Van Der Valk theme was 'Eye Level' as performed by the Simon Park Orchestra.

Written by Jack Trombey

Jack Trombey was a pseudonym used by Jan Stoeckart (born on 3 November 1927, Amsterdam, Netherlands - died on 13 January 2017, Hilversum, Netherlands) a Dutch composer, arranger, conductor, radio producer, trombonist, bassist and pianist.

I'm assuming that the additional writing for 'And You Smiled' Melvyn Taggart is the lyricist.

Though I still have some confusion because in some places he gets a writing credit for Eye Level. Off to wikipedia then.

Annoyingly this is the extent of Wikiknowledge
The work was originally intended as library music,[2] and was loosely based on a German/Dutch nursery rhyme called Jan Hinnerk (in German)[3] or Catootje (in Dutch), which in its turn took the opening bars of Non più andrai from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. Dutch composer Jan Stoeckart adapted the original tune and wrote a new top line under the name of Jack Trombey, while Simon Park arranged it for his own orchestra and conducted the recording. The track was fully entitled "Eye Level (Theme from the TV series 'Van Der Valk')".[4] A song based on the music with lyrics added was called "And You Smiled", performed by Matt Monro.

So yes And You Smiled is based on Eye Level but no mention of Melvyn Taggart. Another job for my Wikipedia to do list.

This came up on random - first listen

Movements Of Jah - Barry Brown - recorded 1979


I was convinced it was some remix of Dawn Penn's Yout Don't Love Me (No, No, No) recorded 1993


I'm still trying to sort out the relationship between the songs -but I found out that Barry Brown released a single in 1967 with the A-side Movements and the B-Side was a track called Riddim which is just an antediluvian (and instantly recognisable) version of Penn's 1993 track. It just took us a long time to appreciate it - what a slow burn - 25 years.


Have not been able to find a video or stream of the 1967 A-Side Movements, but I'm going to guess it's largely the same as the B-side with different lyrics and melody and Barry Brown vocal. My brain hurts.