Find me the song please

[voodoopenguin]

Well known from many years ago and it had the word "nonchalant" in it, might even have had something rhyming with it.

Easy eh?

Paul

[Seacrest]

genre?
band or solo?
male or female?

[rgG]

"You're So Vain" by Carley Simon

Got it without Google, too.

Edit: Nope. I thought it was, but after looking at the lyrics, it wasn't.

[voodoopenguin]

Should have made it plainer, I don't know the song but a conversation chez penguin a few minutes ago had the word "nonchalant" crop up and some of us vaguely remembered that there was a song maybe 30 years ago that used the word and it was considered unusual at the time especially as, if we remember correctly, they got something to rhyme with it. Slightly annoying that we cannot name the song.

Then again we are all getting older and it might not be a song, or the word or anything remotely like it!

Paul

[rgG]

I was thinking "gavotte" was nonchalant, which they rhymed with "yacht".

IMHO, gavotte is even more unusual to hear in a song than nonchalant.

Lyrics to You're so Vain:

You walked into the party
Like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner, and

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

You had me several years ago
When I was still quite naive
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?



I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you're where you should be all the time
And when you're not, you're with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and

You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?



You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you

You're so vain (so vain)
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?

[voodoopenguin]

Dammit Rhonda, I even thought that but couldn't place the verse so looked up the lyrics and searched the page for nonchalant and it didn't come up so I thought I was mistaken.

Gone back to the lyrics page and it's still not there, must have the wrong lyrics! I'll try another page.

Paul

Just seen your second post, back to square one. You're right though about gavotte.

This could go on forever, just seen your third post! We can't keep meeting like this.

[rgG]

voodoopenguin wrote:
Dammit Rhonda, I even thought that but couldn't place the verse so looked up the lyrics and searched the page for nonchalant and it didn't come up so I thought I was mistaken.

Gone back to the lyrics page and it's still not there, must have the wrong lyrics! I'll try another page.

Paul

Nope, you are right, I was wrong. See my other post that must have crossed with yours.

[haikuman]

Well if it is from 30 years ago blooooz *(:>* should know.... "I was so much older then I am younger than that now" .........huge smile *(:>*

[voodoopenguin]

Bingo - found it. Over here it was a hit for The Searchers, "When you walk in the room"


I close my eyes for a second and pretend
Its me you want
Meanwhile I try to act so nonchalant
I see a summer night with a magic moon
Everytime that you walk in the room

I can sleep easy tonight.

Paul

[$tevie]

Doesn't trying to remember something like that make you nuts? How did we ever live before the internet???