Clue #3:

The band/group version aka the hit version (with the shorter intro) made it to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. This same band would have their first number one hit soon thereafter. It would be with a song written by the same guy that our mystery song's original songwriter/performer would "cover" an entire album's worth of his material. This, at around the same time the band/group was heading to #1 for the first time.

Clue #2:

The song was written and originally recorded by a man. The hit version was recorded by a group.

Clue #1:

Both the original and hit versions have intros that start with just an electric keyboard of some kind, not an acoustic piano.

to recap:

the original artist (solo performer, duo, trio, band, etc) who is a man plays the same minor chord twenty times before changing chords and sings the title on the 17th occurrence of that chord, and at a rate of slightly faster than one every half a second do those repeated chords get played.


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Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 08/11/23 01:27 PM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)