song in the head... and I can't remember who sang it... just the refrain

[salin]

somewhere in the mid to late 1970s... I think...

I think the end of the chorus is "I've been hypnotized"

Lyrics - if I recall has the singer slinking around corners in some exotic locale conjouring up the image of humphrey bogart in a movie.

Does this ring a bell to anyone? Can anyone help me think of the song - and the artist - tried google with only that - and pulled up Hendrix and Striesand... neither are the artist of the song running in my head...

[Booberdawg]

1. Argh! Now I have that same line running through my head

and can't think of the song

[BurtWorm]

2. It's not Bette Davis Eyes, is it?

[Skittles]

3. or Laura Mars eyes?

LOVE THEME FROM EYES OF LAURA MARS
Barbra Streisand

I've never been alone
But you're the only one I'd trust
To show me the way
I always hear your voice
And in my dreams I hear you calling my name
What is it about you
Some kind of light shines from your face
And I can't turn away

I'm like a prisoner captured by your eyes
I've been taken, taken by surprise
I'm like a prisoner captured by your eyes
I've been taken, and I've been hypnotized

Your eyes say everything
You want to keep me here forever
I can't escape
One minute's so sincere
Then you completely turn against me
And I'm afraid
You don't have to say you love me
If you want me I'll stay
'Cause I can't turn away

I'm like a prisoner captured by your eyes
I've been taken, taken by surprise
I'm like a prisoner captured by your eyes
I've been taken and I've been hypnotized

[salin]

13. no... but I loved the Movie.

[Bertha Venation]

4. Possibly "The Year of the Cat" - Al Stewart?

[salin]

8. Al Stewart is running through my head - but it isn't Year of the Cat

though it has that same sorta spooky undertone...

[dbt]

5. Fleetwood Mac's "Hypnotized?"

As such by Bob Welch in the pre-Buckingham/Nicks era?

:shrug:
dbt

[salin]

11. You are right... btw what top forty hit did Welch have solo

and did he play with another high profile band for awhile?

[nostamj]

14. ???

SENTIMENTAL LADY
the SEVEN SOULS

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

17. I really like the "Bare Trees" version of that song better than the remake

Sentimental Lady...thought it sounded better more acoustic.

[salin]

18. I was wrong

just looked at his list of songs from the seventies - what I am looking for (now I can't remember that name either) is missing. Maybe what was kicking in the back of the mind was Ebony Eyes.

Generally my memory is pretty good in these areas - but I seem to missing the boat this afternoon.

[nostamj]

FWIW

http://www.bobwelch.com

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

21. That's Stevie Wonder

on edit: It was a male singer? Because Natalie Merchant had a line in the song Carnival...

have I been blind
have I been lost
inside myself and
my own mind
hypnotized
mesmerized
by what my eyes have seen?

but it was from the 90's

[nostamj]

22. are you thinking Ebony and Ivory?

Welch had EBONY EYES on his FRENCH KISS album pre-fleetwood

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

23. oops maybe :-)

[salin]

26. of Ooops... I was thinking of Joe Walsh

who did a stint with the Eagles.

[salin]

28. and the song that came to mind

was "Life's Been Good to Me". How I linked that to this thread... quite a trick - eh?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

30. Well it could have only been that or Rocky Mountain Way

It's not like he had a huge cache of hits!

So how did this song get stuck in your head?

[salin]

34. originally... on another thread

someone was quoting letterman as "Ive been hypnotized" or something along those lines... so thus was planted "Seemslikeadream"... the conversation on the thread stuck a few more tunes or more exactly that tip of the tongue - but stuck in the head syndrome of artists and songs.

[nostamj]

41. saw Joe Walsh on tour (MANY years ago)

had a female singer on the bill... Maggie Bell, I still have her album "Queen of the Night"


http://www.kneeling.co.uk/pages/stonethecrows/queen.asp

[nostamj]

6. the Fleetwood Mac song ???

HYPNOTIZED

It's the same kind of story
That seems to come down from long ago
Two friends having coffee together
When something flies by their window
It might be out on that lawn
Which is wide, at least half of a playing field
Because there's no explaining what your imagination
Can make you see and feel

Seems like a dream
(They) got me hypnotized

Now it's not a meaningless question
To ask if they've been and gone
I remember a talk about North
Carolina and a strange, strange pond

see the sides were like glass
In the thick of a forest without a road
And if any man's ever made that land
Then I think it would've showed

Seems like a dream
(They) got me hypnotized

They say there's a place down in Mexico
Where a man can fly over mountains and hills
And he don't need an airplane or some kind of engine
And he never will
Now you know it's a meaningless question
To ask if those stories are right
'Cause what matters most if the feeling
You get when you're hypnotized

Seems like a dream
(They) got me hypnotized

[salin]

10. BINGO! I had NO idea this was Fleetwood Mac

guess i am only familiar with them from just before the Rumours era.

The song sounds (at least in my memory) so much like Al Stewart. But this is the sont!

[Rooktoven]

16. The singer

(and I belleve writer) at the time was Bob Welch. That was post-Peter Green, pre Buckinham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac.

[seemslikeadream]

7. seemslikeadream

you've got me hypnotized? Fleetwood Mac

[salin]

12. now I get the significance of your nic

or is that just by chance?

[seemslikeadream]

15. That's where it came from

The song is haunting, isn't it?

[salin]

20. sorta sticks with you

only other song that has that same effect on my is Chris Issak's Wicked Game.

[seemslikeadream]

24. That Chris Issak CD is sitting out on my TV!

Genesis - Home By The Sea is also on my list.

[salin]

25. oh.... this is fun... another

several early solo songs of Peter Gabriel's also hit the haunting level.

[seemslikeadream]

33. Peter Gabriel and I were born 10 days apart

and now that you mentioned that rollerskate song my brain has frozen.

[salin]

35. lol! Sorry about that

:D Cool about the birthdays!

[seemslikeadream]

38. Games without Frontiers

War without tears. I've thought about that one alot lately and I also have to mention San Jacinto.

We will walk - on the land
We will breathe - of the air
We will drink - from the stream
We will live - hold the line

[teach1st]

9. Or Hendix, Gypsy Eyes? (Nah, wrong time frame)

From the Electric Ladyland album

Well I realize that I've been hypnotized, I love your gypsy eyes
I love your gypsy eyes
Alright!

Hey!
Gypsy.

Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire
Wond'rin' where in this world might you be
And knowin' all the time you're still roamin' in the country side
Do you still think about me?
Oh my gypsy.

Well I walked right on to your rebel roadside
The one that rambles on for a million miles
Yes I walk down this road searchin' for your love and ah my soul too
But when I find ya I ain't gonna let go.

I remember the first time I saw you
The tears in your eyes look like they're tryin' to say
Oh little boy you know I could love you
But first I must make my get away
Two strange men fightin' to the death over me today
I'll try to meet cha by the old highway.
Hey!

Well I realize that I've been hypnotized, I love your gypsy eyes
I love your gypsy eyes
I love your gypsy eyes
I love your gypsy eyes
Alright!

I've been searchin' so long my feet have made me lose the battle
Down against the road my weary knees they got me
Off to the side I fall but I hear a sweet call
My gypsy eyes is comin' and I've been saved.

Oh I've been saved
That's why I love you uh
Said I love you
Hey!
Love you uh
Lord I love you
Hey!

[HEyHEY]

19. No but that song rocks on th fleetwood mac one

[silverlib]

27. The only song that ever gets stuck in my head is

"bicycle built for two" and I don't want to know who wrote it or recorded it. It drives me crazy and of course "it's BACK."

Thanks!

[salin]

29. lol... but do you want a key

for a brand new pair of roller skates... in exchange for that bicycle?

[seemslikeadream]

31. Daisy Daisy Give me your answer too

I'm half crazy
over the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't aford a carriage
But you'll look sweet
Apon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two!

[silverlib]

36. Thanks!

you'd think that I would at least know the name of this thing in my head, but unfortunately this just hums and the only words that have materialized in my brain are "bicycle built for two."

[nostamj]

32. could be worse...

i had the ENTIRE SCORE of "How Now Dow Jones" stuck in my head for almost a month....

[silverlib]

37. you are absolutely correct -

I glad I don't know that tune.

[nostamj]

40. i will hum

the ENTIRE SCORE for you!

;-)

[never cry wolf]

39. Google is your friend!!

I burn alot of cd's for a friend, sometimes she only knows a few words of a lyric. All you have to do is put those words in quotation marks and follow with "lyrics." Et voila!!

ie: "I've been hypnotized" lyrics