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Thanks a million Jacquesm. Fname found the song. You rock, man :). I am going over to listen to Tony Banks. If it lasted two decades, it must something. Cheers,

jacquesm 17y ago
The three songs are 'From the undertow' from the album 'a curious feeling', and 'Jerry Jackson' and 'Portrait for Jerry Jackson' from the album 'a wicked lady'. There is a link between the first two (the instruments) and another between the last two (the theme). The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick. Once I'd found the second the third was easy because it is on the same record. Weirdest thing, memory. It's almost like an 'agent' got dispatched to match each and every 1 second fragment against every other long ago and suddenly a small match was found and reported. Tony banks is an interesting musician, he had a very prominent role in the creative direction that Genesis took. I've looked for an email for you so I can send you the mp3s (they're not perfect but good enough), save you some work in looking for them, but since you don't have an email address posted, mail me please (j@ww.com). Midomi is really great, but you'd have to have a sample first, I wonder now if you could make it work (or if it works already) on a whistled fragment, if that works then I could have found this a long time ago. I still have a few other songs that I'm looking for, but my memory of them is much more hazy than of this one so I doubt they'll ever surface.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  edit: that should have been 'of' not 'for' in Portrait of Jerry Jackson.
- rokhayakebe 17y ago
  My email is 1000app@gmail.com When I was a kid I remember hearing this song and it just stayed in my mind. Locked forever. I did not know its author, heck I did not even understand what the guy was talking about (I did not know any English then). I would constantly think of it. Several years passed, and one day I heard my uncle singing the melody. He told me the name once. Up until today that was one and only time I heard anyone say "Gerry Rafferty", and sure enough I never forgot. Now whenever I need to feel at peace and relaxed I fire up Gerry Rafferty Rown down the line. The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick. I love these very rare moments when the answer you have been looking for for a long time just comes to you. It is as if there is some magical force working for you, and the feeling is unbelievable. I guess after several years of waiting that must have been just fantastic. I am looking forward to those mp3s, let's hear that song that almost drove you crazy :).

jacquesm 17y ago

The three songs are 'From the undertow' from the album 'a curious feeling', and 'Jerry Jackson' and 'Portrait for Jerry Jackson' from the album 'a wicked lady'. There is a link between the first two (the instruments) and another between the last two (the theme). The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick. Once I'd found the second the third was easy because it is on the same record. Weirdest thing, memory. It's almost like an 'agent' got dispatched to match each and every 1 second fragment against every other long ago and suddenly a small match was found and reported. Tony banks is an interesting musician, he had a very prominent role in the creative direction that Genesis took. I've looked for an email for you so I can send you the mp3s (they're not perfect but good enough), save you some work in looking for them, but since you don't have an email address posted, mail me please (j@ww.com). Midomi is really great, but you'd have to have a sample first, I wonder now if you could make it work (or if it works already) on a whistled fragment, if that works then I could have found this a long time ago. I still have a few other songs that I'm looking for, but my memory of them is much more hazy than of this one so I doubt they'll ever surface.

jacquesm 17y ago
edit: that should have been 'of' not 'for' in Portrait of Jerry Jackson.
rokhayakebe 17y ago
My email is 1000app@gmail.com When I was a kid I remember hearing this song and it just stayed in my mind. Locked forever. I did not know its author, heck I did not even understand what the guy was talking about (I did not know any English then). I would constantly think of it. Several years passed, and one day I heard my uncle singing the melody. He told me the name once. Up until today that was one and only time I heard anyone say "Gerry Rafferty", and sure enough I never forgot. Now whenever I need to feel at peace and relaxed I fire up Gerry Rafferty Rown down the line. The weirdest thing about this whole affair is that I was literally doing nothing and the answer just jumped in to my head, that the instrumentation on the first song matched at least part of the second. It's that 'gong' like keyboard sound that did the trick. I love these very rare moments when the answer you have been looking for for a long time just comes to you. It is as if there is some magical force working for you, and the feeling is unbelievable. I guess after several years of waiting that must have been just fantastic. I am looking forward to those mp3s, let's hear that song that almost drove you crazy :).