Help me find a song...
 

Subscribe now and choose from over 30 free gifts worth up to £49 - Plus get £25 to spend in our shop

Help me find a song...The Swift

11 Posts
6 Users
6 Reactions
92 Views
Posts: 17171
Full Member
Topic starter
 

I'm pretty sure it was by Andy Partridge and he spoke facts about swifts over someone playing the drums. Would have been from about 82.
All searches just throw up Taylor bloody swift.


 
Posted : 05/05/2024 11:19 pm
Posts: 5745
Full Member
 

Closest I can find....

Andy Partridge. Talking over drums. 1980. Ornithology in the title. But no facts about swifts!


 
Posted : 06/05/2024 12:29 am
teenrat and teenrat reacted
Posts: 33523
Full Member
 

Every search I’ve tried just has endless references to Taylor Swift. I did remember someone called Merlin Sheldrake, whose written a book about fungi, which led me to his brother, Cosmo Sheldrake, who’s a musician, and who has put out an album called “Wake Up Calls”, which are recordings of bird songs and calls over a musical background, but swifts aren’t listed. 🤷🏼

https://www.cosmosheldrake.com

He has recorded a song called “Does The Swallow Dream Of Flying?”. But that’s as close as I can get, I’m afraid. Trying to filter out any references to Miss Swift seems to be impossible; I tried a sort of AI search, but to no avail. The internet seems to be crammed with petabytes of stuff posted up by Swifties…


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 1:42 am
Posts: 15212
Full Member
 

The swallow?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeg0VE2MwsE


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 1:56 am
Posts: 17171
Full Member
Topic starter
 

It might be about a swallow as one of the lines he mentions "it sleeps on the wing" and another " in a dive it can reach up to 200 mph".
I heard it on Annie Nightingale's Sunday evening show.


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 7:45 am
Posts: 7038
Full Member
 

You clever interneters not aware that you can use the "-Taylor" switch in your searches to remove her from the search?

Swallow or Swift is the question though!

Could put some beats under this 😀


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 11:23 am
Posts: 34462
Full Member
 

Can't you find it the the playlist online?


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 12:24 pm
Posts: 17171
Full Member
Topic starter
 

Can’t you find it the the playlist online?

The intraweb didn't exist when she played it!


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 12:48 pm
kelvin and kelvin reacted
Posts: 34462
Full Member
 

Ah I thought you'd heard it this weekend on a Annie Nightingale memorial programme or something!

D'oh!


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 12:55 pm
Posts: 17171
Full Member
Topic starter
 

Found!


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 5:32 pm
nickc and nickc reacted
Posts: 7038
Full Member
 

Thats the geezer from the Pretenders innit?

Hmm having listened, I think I prefer the Lolita fella’s one 😂


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 6:16 pm
Posts: 33523
Full Member
 

I’ll take a pass on that, thank you. 😝


 
Posted : 07/05/2024 11:45 pm