Thursday, March 29, 2018

Can anyone help identify this song?


A friend who's looking for movie theme music asked me whether I could identify a song both of us remember from way back when.  Unfortunately, neither of us know its title or the singer.  Some of the lyrics go something like this:

1999
Will I be yours?
Will I be the one that you love?

The second line alternated between "Will you be mine?" and "Will I be yours?", and perhaps something else too.  The chorus went something like "It will be a strange world without you, love", repeated several times.

I think it was a hit in South Africa in the 1970's or early 1980's, but I can't be sure whether it was popular anywhere else.  It had a fairly hard-driving rock rhythm, electric guitars and drums, with a relatively slow beat.

Do you remember that song?  Can you identify it?  If so, please let us know in Comments.

Thanks!

Peter

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could it be "Eternity" by Brian Doerksen?

Ed_Mc

Phssthpok said...

I got nothing, but you might try expanding your search to TOMT:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

ASM826 said...

1999 by Freedom's Children, the song was covered by other groups like the Kalahari Surfers and the Brian Davidson Band.

ASM826 said...

https://youtu.be/NyQj80YbbB0

Anonymous said...

And I was thinking Mr. Rogers "will you.........

Peter said...

ASM826 has it! Thank you!

ASM826 said...

Never heard of it before. I did that with creative searching and the information in your post.