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I'm trying to identify a country song title/artist. Song is on a cassette tape I made off the Garner State Park jukebox in 1983. This was not a hit on the charts, but nice to dance to. Male artist, most likely from the late '70's, early '80's and probably a Texas artist.

Lyrics I remember:

When I was young Mom and Dad would take us
to a place east of the Pecos
(can't remember.....)
I want to leave this city life
pack my guitar, my kids and my wife
Settle down in a house of stone
In a town west of San Antone

I'm trying to recreate the cassette tape for my i-pod. I've managed to find most of the songs, but this one is killing me. Regular search engines so far have turned up nothing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I can locate i-tunes of everything i'll burn a copy for anyone who can id.
Tass

Do you still have the tape? Do you have, or does anyone you know have an iPhone?

If so, you might try Shazam, an iPhone app that is amazingly good at identifying songs by "listening" to the audio. Even very obscure songs are in the database, and more are being added all the time.

http://www.shazam.com/music/web/pages/iphone.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I had heard about it, but hadn't put much stock in it. Then I saw two co-workers talking about it. One had it, and the other wanted to test it. The challenger pulled out his phone (not an iPhone), and played less than 15 seconds of one of his ringtones, which was an obscure heavy metal song by a band none of us except him had ever heard of. It was playing through that tinny ringtone speaker, too.

The iPhone user didn't have a 3G signal, so it took about 30-45 seconds to get a response, but Shazam got it exactly right.

Thanks. I do have the tape (the quality is getting poor, that's why I'm trying to re-create it) and I have 2 nieces who love their I-phone apps! I'm sure this challenge will appeal to them.

Tass

After staying up late into the night last night researching this for you , I was unable to come up with the answer .
Sorry .

Those lyrics read like George Straight.

They do sound like Dean Dillon or one of George's writers, but this was prior to his recording time.

Tass

Seems I remember a song written by Ande Rasmussen of Martindale and John Arthur Martinez, whose now living out toward Kingsland, done by JAM the year he came in second on the Nashville Star TV program. I''ll email Ande or if I can catch John Arthur, I'll ask. I think the name of the song was "House of Stone". We were all in the Austin Songwriters Group for years together.

Found it: http://www.songramp.com/mod/mps/viewtra ... ckid=34089
Doesn't look like what you were talking about.

Like the song, but no, it's not the one. Appreciate everyone taking an interest!

Tass

USA1 wrote:After staying up late into the night last night researching this for you , I was unable to come up with the answer .
Sorry .

Me too, I have been researching this thing over and over and over....results = nothing.

What is the world coming to when you cannot find something on google/internet!

Agreed...shouldn't everything be found on Google? If I didn't have the stupid song on tape (will try to write down all the lyrics this weekend) I'd just figure I imagined the whole thing.

Tass

I don't know how strong your google-fu is, but if you type:

+lyrics +"insert lyric phrase here"

(including the quotes around an exact quote from the lyrics), then if it's out there, that should find it.