Name This Tune, Please...........

[moviebuff2]

Hi everyone:

I heard this song in foreign language; but I'm pretty sure that its original version is in English. Would someone please listen to the melody of its refrain (only 430KB and I made it myself from my keyboard) and let me know its original title and performer?

Thanks


http://20-248-a.onlinestoragesolution.com/ciaobellavn/public/What%20Song%20Is%20This.mp3

[gll99]

Sorry I tried but couldn't make it out.

With single notes it's often hard to do a song justice.

[träskmannen]

Perhaps if you give some more info about it - what kind of tune is it, what instruments, male or female singer... as gl99 said, it is difficult with single tones.

[moviebuff2]

Thank you, träskmannen and gll99.

Here's the full version (less than 1MB), sung entirely in Vietnamese. As I mentioned before, I don't think the song was originally written in Vietnamese. It just sounds too western, IMO.

The lyrics are of someone lamenting his lost love while watching the rain. It's not "Rythm of the Rain", I'm sure.

The recording was made in the early 70s before the VC took over the country. It is not a copy-righted material.


http://20-248-a.onlinestoragesolution.com/ciaobellavn/public/What%20Song%20Is%20This%20(full%20version).mp3

[Webster]

Here's the full version (less than 1MB), sung entirely in Vietnamese. As I mentioned before, I don't think the song was originally written in Vietnamese. It just sounds too western, IMO.

The lyrics are of someone lamenting his lost love while watching the rain. It's not "Rythm of the Rain", I'm sure.

The recording was made in the early 70s before the VC took over the country. It is not a copy-righted material.

from listening to the song (music rhythm/beat....check boom boom, check boom boom.....), it sound like any typical "khich dong nhac" aka vietnamese version of rock for dancing pre 1975 era. There were many songs written with the same beat during the era, I don't think it is a translation from any western song, IMO.

[lordsmurf]

It sounds western to me, but I have no information to go on.

[Webster]

It sounds western to me, but I have no information to go on.

there is a period during the early '60s to mid '70s, when the Vietnamese song writers were trying to emulated (immitated/copied) musics from the West (French in the early '60s -since the country was a former French colony. then the American in the late '60s and early '70s) Many of the love songs in the '60s were written based upon French songs (using the the beat of Rumba, Cha Cha, Tango etc....) So if you listen to the beat, it sound western. But the lyric of songs (and to some extend the "story" of the songs) are written by Vietnamese artists.

as an illustration, take the first four verse of this French kiddy song:

Frère Jacques,
Frère Jacques,
Dormez vous?
Dormez vous?

in Vietnamese, there is a song using the same tune, but tells a different story altogether. The French song is about a sleeping little boy, but the Vietnamese song is about a yellow butterfly.

Vietnamese kiddy song:

kia con buom vang ([look] there is a yellow butterfly) (loosely translated)
kia con buom vang
xoe doi canh (it opening a pair of wings)
xoe doi canh

[gll99]

There's definitely a western slant to it with the steel guitar and beat but the way it's sung it looks intended for a crossover pop crowd. He goes up in areas where a truly western artist would have flattened and pulled the note. There are parts that are reminiscent of common tunes of the era but not one specific that comes to mind.

[träskmannen]

Sorry - I haven't got a clue. Parts of it sound oddly familiar, but that's it. I think it is the original song you have there.

[moviebuff2]

Thank you for all the replies.

[gll99]

IMO, this was not done in a professional studio with a band. This particular rendering was done privately. Although the singer and guitar section sound pretty good, it's a multi track midi karaoke sequence. That's also what gives it some of that familiar sound. This would not have been original recording background tracks that people sometimes purchase for more realistic karaoke.

The music has an amateurish opening with midi church organ and the main background often uses the same instrument sometimes even as the beat keeper. This was done with a midi sequencer or is a computer generated midi. Just off the top, I would guess general midi instrument number 20. Some echo and reverb were added either during recording or afterwards in a sound editor to doctor the final track. These obvious background sounds and effects are very common with home midi karaoke tunes.
This could have at one time been recorded professionaly by someone else but with a different cadence, style and music. The original delivery could be different enough for us to recognise it as a popular country / pop tune.

In spite of this, if this is one of your buddies, the singer has a good voice and would sound really well with a real band.

The ID3 tags on the mp3 have been deleted so I can't tell you more about the source of the file itself.

btw) It's been a long time but I played a lot with midi and karaoke on computer when I was writing VB programs. it brings back fond memories.