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A song called 'Crickets.'

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Sharron

Sharron Report 17 Mar 2015 23:26

In the early seventies I bought some ex-juke- box records.

One of them, and I loved it,was called ' Crickets' but I can't remember who it was by (for other ex-grammar school people, by whom it was recorded!).

The first line was 'When a tropical storm is passing and the jungle's steaming'.

It is not on YouTube and I can find no reference to it on the internet.

I didn't imagine it. I couldn't. It is far too difficult for my music free imagination.

Does anybody else remember it?

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 17 Mar 2015 23:52

Is it 'A Face Like That' by The Pet Shop Boys?

With a face (with a face)
With a face (with a face)
Only this morning
The thought I've been wanting
The tropical storm was passing through
And so were you
How come you're always crashing
Saw your eyes flashing
The tropical storm was passing through
And so were you
With a face like that
How couldn't I want you
With a face like that
Why wouldn't I fall in love with you
With a face like that
With a face like that, you could win a fortune
With a face like that, you could have the moon
With a face like that, you could look as your master
With a face like that
In a place like this
Why wouldn't I fall in love
With a face like that
Why wouldn't I fall in love

With a face like that
Follow a lighting
Touch your heels heightening
With it or hate it much more real
And a permission I bare
Standing so near me
You put the fear of God in me
Felt like the town was falling down
And there you are
With a face like that
How couldn't I want you
With a face like that
Why wouldn't I fall in love with you
With a face like that
With a face like that, you should be a law suit
With a face like that, can I bow down and point
With a face like that, all the girls want too
With a face like that
In a place like this
Why wouldn't I fall in love
With a face like that
Why wouldn't I fall in love
With a face like that

On Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUmRH8s0UM

on second thoughts - maybe not :-(

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 18 Mar 2015 00:06

I doubt they were born when I bought that record.

The first line is just as I have written it and just as I sing it to myself far too often.

But that I knew some more of the lines apart from the one that goes 'Cricky, cricky, cricky, cricky, crickets'.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 18 Mar 2015 00:25

Was it Reggae/Ska music?
Was it about the game, or the insect?

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Sharron

Sharron Report 18 Mar 2015 08:36

No, it would be before all that.

When a tropical storm is passing and the jungle's steaming,
In the elephant grass growing,
All of life is teeming, teeming.
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They're saying ' I love you ever' by rubbing their legs together.
Ask them what they're saying, ask them what they're saying, crickets.
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Moving words aren't they?!