Long lost songs


This is a discussion on songs or versions we've heard maybe just once on the radio and spent years searching for. Anything you knew existed, but couldn't find.

For instance, about 1972 I was lying in bed listening to the local progressive rock station (WNEW) as I was falling asleep. On come a great R&B song with a line something like "Before I Die I want to be the kind of man you want me to be". The DJ never announced the title or artist that I could hear. Never heard it again. Years later I heard "She's Gone" by Hall and Oats and figured it was them. Nope. Continued to search on and off for decades, employing new technology as it became available.

Early this year, while searching for something totally different on SecondHandSongs I came across "When I Die" by Mother Lode. Bingo! Joy, joy, joy! Found the CD on Amazon, (only format available) Love It. Most of the rest of their songs are weird but "When I Die" is almost as good as my memory had made 'Before I Die'.

Another example is versions. There are some song that I love that have very different interpretations by various artists. "Hey Joe" and "Morning Dew" are two. I like to collect those versions. Long ago I heard a version of "Morning Dew" sung by a guy with a very unique voice. It had a mesmerizing rhythm guitar line that got into my brain. I never forgot it, because the girl I was with turned out to be a nymphomaniac. What a night!

Using   SecondHandSongs agin, I found Long John Baldry on his self-titled album on EMI. What a crystal clear LP! He's recorded several fine versions of the song, but this is THE one with that guitar line. Highly recommended.

I am sure many of you have similar tales and can relate to the elation I felt on finding something I'd been searching for for decades. Let's hear them.
2channel8
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That's it!!!!!! Or they are it. I swear I googled both those titles many times before. You guys must have magic!

Pleased to return the favor on the Crabby Appleton tune, 2channel8.  Note the different titles here,  I searched on "Don't Let Me Sleep Too Long" which happens to be the title of the version by The Myddle Class.  Info about the Blues Project connection (and different title) came from one of the comments (see that by Al Riggi) about the Myddle Class single.
Did you the Myddle Class was from Berkeley Heights, NJ? The dance I heard the song at was in New Providence, which is the next town over. Maybe my memory is wrong and it wasn't Grisby's Clan playing; but the Myddle Class themselves. 

2channel - No clue the Myddle Class were from NJ. The most I can claim about them is a vague recollection of seeing their name at some point. At least the spelling looks familiar - though I’m not sure where I would have seen it in print. Yeah, Y instead of I. Things were very HEAVY back then.  Seems to me, given the age of these guys, it would be entirely possible they were the band you remember at that dance.  Guess there's no "student council" to contact for info....
Ever listen to these guys out of Long Island?  

Not exactly lost, but long ago.  Kinda fits the spirit of this thread (I think).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJNQg3lh_Y8

They were still working until not that many years ago.