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   lugnut to ddddenholm@gmail.com   
   Re: Male vocalist song   
   06 Feb 10 17:04:33   
   
   a3c75568   
   From: lugnut@NOSPAMhotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 22:26:11 -0800 (PST), David Denholm   
    wrote:   
      
   >Trying to remember this song.  All I can remember is the artist is   
   >male, and it is a solo song from about 10 or 12 years ago.  And the   
   >refrain goes like " And I...................Never had a girl like   
   >you.  Or   "And I................never had a love like you.   What is   
   >so unique is that his voice is very lonesome and this is a slow love   
   >song type.  His voice is like a Duran Duran type.  It is kind of a   
   >haunting refrain that sticks in your mind.  Maybe he says "Oh   
   >I..................never had a l girl like you.  It is a very slow   
   >refrain, and his voice goes up quite high in the middle and then down   
   >low at the  end.  I want to picture a music video from this where you   
   >see heat waves rising up from the  ground in the hot desert sun and he   
   >is standing alone in some old gas station in the  hot sun singing this   
   >song.  Song is about  a past girl he loved and lost, and is a   
   >melanchoy song, haunting type of lyrics.   
      
   Sounds like "A Girl Like You" by Edwyn Collins, circa 1994 or   
   thereabouts.   
      
      
      
   -lugnut   
      
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