Trying to identify this late 60s (?) track...

[dalanj]

Hello there.  I'm a new member, and it's good to be here.  Hope it's not out-of-order to start with a request for help.  I'm trying to identify a track from the late 60s / early 70s that was used occasionally on BBC Radio 1 in the early seventies as a jingle to introduce soul oldies.  Might have been on Dave Simmons or Mike Raven shows - I just can't remember for sure.

Great female vocal, lyrics start: "Memories, oh memories, they take me back..."

All the usual searches yield nothing but it does sound to me like a record rather than a custom-made radio jingle, though perhaps it was originally from a US soul station.

I have a very brief extract on tape and I've put a short loop here...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oufjg6venaync1y/Who is this%3F .mp3?dl=0

Great if anyone can help identify.

Thank you!

[Kenb]

50 minutes ago, dalanj said:

Hello there.  I'm a new member, and it's good to be here.  Hope it's not out-of-order to start with a request for help.  I'm trying to identify a track from the late 60s / early 70s that was used occasionally on BBC Radio 1 in the early seventies as a jingle to introduce soul oldies.  Might have been on Dave Simmons or Mike Raven shows - I just can't remember for sure.

Great female vocal, lyrics start: "Memories, oh memories, they take me back..."

All the usual searches yield nothing but it does sound to me like a record rather than a custom-made radio jingle, though perhaps it was originally from a US soul station.

I have a very brief extract on tape and I've put a short loop here...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oufjg6venaync1y/Who is this%3F .mp3?dl=0

Great if anyone can help identify.

Thank you!

there is a Canadian 45 on 45cat.com https://www.45cat.com/record/wrc32267, but no sound file.

[dalanj]

Thanks for the tip... sadly, this one is ruled out by its 1983 date.  The track I'm seeking was definitely being used on Radio One by late 1972 - it's easy to date this, as it appears very briefly in a cinema short about the radio station released in April 1973.  In the clip they used, the "Memories" clip was was preceded by the famous Jimmy Castor monologue from "Troglodyte" - "what we're going to do here is go back, way back, back into time."  The search continues!

[Steviehay]

i thought Mike Ravens theme was Soul Serenade Mike Cotton ??

[Johndelve]

It's "Top Of The Mountain" by The Staple Singers.....

[georgeblackwell]

 

[dalanj]

Very many thanks for solving this query, and for the Youtube link.  I'm really pleased to have found the song.

It might yet come to me which Radio 1 show used the short extract as part of an "oldies" jingle... might even have been Stuart Henry or Rosko.  It definitely wasn't a R1 theme tune... but it was great to be reminded of Mike Raven's "Soul Serenade" intro music.