Jason

Heard a song at lunch today, and by the time I asked my friend what it was, it was over. Here is literally all the info I can provide:

1) It was playing at Jimmy Johns (not sure if they all play the same stuff, probably not)

2) it was in a mix of mostly 80's alternative stuff. The song right before it was Love Cats by the Cure. Most of what I heard was while there seemed didn't seem really obscure

3) it sounded something like this

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It was a bouncy, upbeat thing. Male singer with a deep voice, was in english, and the main cadence was very similar to this. Think there was a do-do-do, do-do, do-do-do-do vocals (female?) with it too. It was pretty noisy in there, so didn't pick up any definite lyrics.

That's all I got. I realize this is a really, REALLY long shot, but I've seen questions answered here before that seemed almost as obscure.

Pointyskull

I'm sure it's not Steve Martin's King Tut (1978) but the song the OP posted reminded me of it in a way:
https://screen.yahoo.com/king-tut-000000724.html

Jason

That's not it, but I'm glad someone at least had an idea about it.

Mondo Kane

My guess

Ky-Fi

This is a long shot, but:


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Groucho

Next time you hear it, Shazam it.

Jason

I do need to get that on my phone.

And the Bananarama song is kinda close, but no cigar.

It may be a newer pop song, but most of what I remember hearing was older alternative music.

Coral

Kinda sounds like The Human League's "Don't You Want Me"... the snap remix that's found on their Greatest Hits CD.

80's song... male singer has a deep voice... there are female vocals in the song... and the snap remix has them repeating "don't" like 10 times straight.

Otherwise, it's gonna be a tough one to find.

CRM114

Kooks?

GatorDeb

Call the Jimmy Johns you went to and ask which radio station they have on usually. Then search in their song history for the day and time.

printerati

Did the colored girls go do-do-do, do-do, do-do-do-do? If so, I might have a guess.

Groucho

Was it "colored girls" or "all the races"?

arminius

Only the Camptown races, doo dah doo dah.

DRG

Pixies "Debaser"?
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Norm de Plume

Ha ha, I have the old LP of this, which my uncle gave me (along with Ideal's self-titled 1980 album) when I was a little kid in the early-'80s. Some other good, funny songs on there.

emanon

Hokeyboy

Longshot but I'm thinking maybe "So Alive" by Love & Rockets, maybe?

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GatorDeb

Now I'm curious Tell me the address of the restaurant and the date and time and I'll find out for you

Jay G.

It's possible that if the restaurant is using some sort of music service , they may be able to check their playback history. So contacting the restaurant or store is one option.

Also, Soundhound is a music identifying app that you can sing or hum into and get a song ID for. So if you still remember the basic melody, you could try downloading Soundhound and humming into it.
http://www.soundhound.com/

Ash Ketchum

"The Mothra Song" from MOTHRA (1962).

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Perkinsun Dzees

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Pointyskull

Haysi Fantayzee's Shiny Shiny ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjsnkIP4ddo

Hokeyboy

^Man she was a piece.

marginal

Is the OP still even looking at this thread? Here's my guess:

"I Do the Rock" by Tim Curry

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Jason

Yeah, I finally made it back. It might have been the Love and Rockets song. It was really noisy so I may not have been hearing it quite right.

Some other interesting videos posted here too.