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Looking for love (recherche de l'amour)
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Another fun collab with Densyl (soundclick.com/densyl) providing the backing track, all the way from French-speaking Canada.
pop rock acoustic music jazz country electric swingjazza tim lowe
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Self-penned songs - rock, pop, country, electric and acoustic. Despite the name, the Footnotes is a one-man band with various named collaborations.
The Footnotes................. We're rock, we're pop or country. We're electric, acoustic or classical. We're anything else that might have been. We're also mostly a one man band. or try for my other band.
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Rock • Rock General
Charts
Peak #60
Peak in subgenre #13
Author
me/Densyl
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me/Densyl
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February 14, 2015
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MP3 7.1 MB • 160 kbps • 6:13
Story behind the song
Densyl sent me about 3 backing tracks and I picked this one out, and put some lyrics to it ..... took a few months to get it sounding right, by which time it had grown into quite a long song. I had hoped to write something together in French, but we got a few lines of the language into it, so that'll have to do. Recorded in 2014. Tim - lyrics/vocals/sax/tambourine. Densyl - everything else.
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she don't have no good luck charm and she's got no idea where she belong she's been here and there and on the road she's got .... attitude I knew her name was Eloise but when she spoke to me in French it was a total surprise she looked in my eyes, and then she said aidez-moi si vous pouvez, Je me sens down monsieur I'd had a smoke and I'd had a drink so I guess that's why I didn't stop to think I just said ok if you wanna hang around I know a place where freedoms found It wasn't only the two of us there were tens of thousands on that magic bus the Isle of Wight in sixty nine a summer of love with French wine J'adore recherche de l'amour recherche de l'amour recherche de l'amour Amsterdam the hippie trail Vondel park was the free hotel it's a marakesh of mish and mash and the optimum place to crash we were the new, the chosen ones we lived the life as we sang the songs and the gatherings were everywhere it was just something that was in the air all looking for love recherche de l'amour recherche de l'amour recherche de l'amour I don't remember when the change began but looking back it was coming to an end with the fading smoke and the empty cans and the far off sound of vietnam the fact we never said goodbye means we never will and it will never die the hippie dream of love not war what else are we looking for if we're not looking for love recherche de l'amour recherche de l'amour recherche de l'amour from Liverpool to New York city Blackpool by the sea San Francisco, Huddersfield Shangri-La and Shangra-Li from Marakesh to Bangladesh Amsterdam and Rome Canning town, washington and downtown Birmingham we need love yes we need love
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Dollar Bill and the Unmentionables
Feb 15, 2015
Another great collab (and another great video too) - this song feels like it's been around since way back when because it just feels so right. A true joy to listen to for the first or the eleventy-first time.
FusionFall Project
Feb 15, 2015
Love the production and structure of this song, it is very classy Rock in the tradition of 20th centuries finest, but fresh sounding, catchy, melodic, and moving lyrics. superb collaboration!!
Roger John
Nov 26, 2013
The footnotes are great!