Mystery Song Archives | Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

October 3, 2023

Here’s a challenge: Can you identify this song from the mid-90s from just a two-second sample?

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment

I love mysteries like this, but I hate it when I’m stumped. Ethan emailed me with this story about a mystery song: I have a bit of a mystery that I’m hoping you

Funny/Weird

UPDATE: A mystery song may have been identified.

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Alan Cross 2 Comments

I got this link from reader Scott who is hoping for some help with this mysterious song that seems to have gripped–of all places–Brazil. You would think with my long history with CFNY/102.1

Pat Loika, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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Here’s another mystery song from the past. Can you identify it? No one else can. Yet.

December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 Alan Cross 6 Comments

I love these mysteries. Let’s begin with the email that arrived from Marisa on Sunday. I am writing this email to you in hopes that you might have some knowledge regarding a peculiar

Music History

Can you identify this mystery song?

September 26, 2020September 26, 2020 Alan Cross 2 Comments

An email appeared from Natalie: I wonder if you can remember a song or more like a poem that came out in the 80s or maybe early 90s. The song/poem is a spoken

WTF?

Another mystery song: Can you identify it?

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments

From Reddit: “Mysterious cassette tape of probably (1970)s rock band album. No results from Shazam or online lyric searches. Found in charity shop without correct case or labels.” Any ideas? (Via Boing Boing)