Ok, it's an instrumental, so this is going to be difficult. It's old. I think probably from the 70's. It's got light piano, then trumpets come in for the chorus, then light piano again, etc. It's one of the more well-known instrumentals and gets played on the radio from time to time. It's not Love is Blue, but often when I'm trying to think of the melody, I accidentally think of that song.

Any ideas?

If there are trumpets and it's from the '70s, I'd start looking at Herb Alpert (with or without The Tijuana Brass). He had several instrumental hits.

It would be amazingly sad if I actually knew this from your description, but maybe "Soulful Strut" by Young-Holt Unlimited? You can hear a clip at Amazon, under their Best of album...

That might be it!

I like the lyrical version too.

Are you sure its not by Britney Spears?

Sorry I do not know the song...but can you have a chorus in an instumental? Just curious because I am not sure....

I have another, it's a stupid rap song, but I need to know the name...

basically, it's people chanting
Hoe, she's a hoe (chanting in an low deep tone, kinda dark too)
then the rapper starts saying really stupid stuff, but one
line has him saying "hoecakes", just like the joke in Hollywood Shuffle.

Any idea?
Thanks

good luck, pop-pickers!

"It would be amazingly sad if I actually knew this from your description, but maybe "Soulful Strut" by Young-Holt Unlimited? You can hear a clip at Amazon, under their Best of album..."

LOL! That's it! Thanks, dude! You f-ing rock! Finally, I can listen to this song non-stop all day long...

Ludacris - "Ho"

Damn, dude, I can't believe you got it.