Somewhere In The Night

	ⓘ This lostwave is classified as unsolved.
	Somewhere In The Night
Alternative name(s)	Love's Gonna Find You
Genre	Pop Rock
Year	1980s
Original poster	funky_vinyls_records, gymforma
Search started	2020
	File:Somewhereinthenight.mp3

Somewhere In The Night is an unidentified pop rock song from a 2008 Dailymotion mix, circulated by the Lyon Funk music community and posted to WatZatSong in 2020.

Background and Search

"Somewhere In The Night" (SITN) is an unidentified pop rock song originally posted to WatZatSong by user gymforma on November 27th, 2020. On August 28, 2022, gymforma shared a slightly longer 33-second recording on MegaNZ, with filename "request 8.mp3". He shared that he got the song from a collector who we've now identified as NimzoAOR.

On June 13, 2024, a collection of 17 mix videos were found by Floptok, uploaded by a user "funky_vinyls_records" to DailyMotion. One of those mixes, uploaded on May 23, 2008, contains a longer ~47-second snippet of SITN starting at timestamp 6:13. In all, the 17 mixes contain 123 distinct song snippets, of which 120 are identified as of September 20, 2024. The official tracking spreadsheet for funky_vinyls_records' unknowns is here, and more information about the remaining unknowns is here.

After some research and outreach, we're largely confident in the following reconstructed timeline:

funky_vinyls_records uploads a 48-second snippet of SITN to DailyMotion on May 23, 2008, as part of a mix video.
A member of the Lyon Funk community, who we've identified, scrapes part of the snippet and shares it with other people, asking about the origin of the song. This is where the 33-second snippet comes from.
NimzoAOR gets the snippet, and shares it with gymforma
gymforma posts it to WatZatSong in 2020.

There has been ongoing confusion that NeonBlue, another member of the Lyon Funk community, is related to the original posting of SITN. This is now confirmed to be a misunderstanding; specifically NeonBlue is not funky_vinyls_records.

The search has gained popularity in 2023^[1], and is now one of the most sought songs in Lostwave.

Musical Analysis

A slowed sample of the beginning to Giorge Pettus's song "One Time Affair"^[2] featured at the end of the snippet, suggesting that the song was from a mix. This also indicated that Somewhere In The Night was pitch-edited, as confirmed by the fact that in the discovered mix, the track directly before SITN, Something by Lava, was sped up by 15 BPM and pitched F# major, instead of the original E♭ major key.^[3]

Leads

Possible

Alannah Myles: Suggested due to similar vocals and musical style.^[4]
Jan Parker Stevens: Suggested due to similar vocals and musical style.^[5]
Tom Harriman: Suggested due to similar vocals and music style.^[6]
Steve Kipner - Slide Back Lucy - A Demo Retrospective (1982-95): A compilation album of unreleased demos by rock musician Steve Kipner, investigated because three songs are sung by different singers, and one of the songs on this album, Don't Call It Love, was another lost song that was discovered by NeonBlue.^[7]^[8]

Debunked

Phyllis Rhodes: In June 2024, Phyllis Rhodes, former lead singer of the band Saint Tropez, was considered as the singer due to her similar voice.^[9] Reddit user AltariaBoy contacted Rhodes, who initially believed the song was created by AI using her voice.^[10] She did, however, suggest that it could be one of her demos that was never released due to legal or contractual issues,^[11] however it was not found and the lead was debunked.^[12]
Mark Scott: Suggested due to similar vocals and musical style, as well as the discovery of a collection of his unreleased demos on HardRockAORHeaven. Mark Scott confirmed that the song is not composed by him.
Billy Clift - Somewhere In The Night:^[13] Not the same song.^[14]
Cherry Cherry: Suggested in the WatZatSong thread, debunked by OP.^[1]
Paulo Gonzo - Somewhere In the Night:^[15] Not the same song.^[16]
Richard Kerr - Somewhere in the Night:^[15] Not the same song.^[17]
Statement - Somewhere In The Night:^[18] Not the same song.^[19]

Lyrics

Presumed Lyrics

You know I’ve seen that look before

Inside, you're all alone

Looking for the perfect one

Has left you on your own

You think you're running out of time

The time is on your side

Just when you think it's out of reach

It's right before your eyes

Somewhere in the night

Love's gonna find you

You won't have to cry another tear

You don't have to try so hard this time, girl

References

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/682223.html

[2] ttps://youtu.be/nZX5Ucz-ms0?t=5

[3] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1bqor6v/possible_somewhere_in_the_night_original_pitch/

[4] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Somewhereinthenight/comments/1cq7pcl/theory_alannah_myles_demo_unreleased_song/

[5] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sp878Yjsfk

[6] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbHiY-DvMg0

[7] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/DreamingNight/comments/1edphcd/has_anyone_looked_into_slide_back_lucy/

[8] ttps://picclick.com/Steve-Kipner-Demos-CD-RARE-Westcoast-AOR-Chicago-164675311942.html

[9] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1dan8g4/sitn_lead_phyllis_rhodes/

[10] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1daqw1g/phyllis_rhodes_sitn_solved_by_ualtariaboy/

[11] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1dar9l6/phyllis_rhodes_somewhere_in_the_night_most_likely/

[12] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1dar9l6/comment/l8xqjrw/

[13] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Somewhereinthenight/comments/1d13gsv/billy_clift_somewhere_in_the_night/

[14] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/Somewhereinthenight/comments/1d7xsrd/sorry_for_the_bad_quality/

[:1-15] 15.0 ^15.1 https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1e52xfy/some_possible_leads_for_somewhere_in_the_night/

[16] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jB4fNs6few

[17] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoO37IWnY48&t

[18] ttps://kissmar-2019.blogspot.com/2008/02/statement-love-bites-1995-aorhard_29.html

[19] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtcu-amQZ0

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