Help Identify This Long-Lost Playhouse Disney Song [S]
Oct 2, 2020 8:46:07 GMT
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Post by sakimcgee on Oct 2, 2020 8:46:07 GMT
I have been trying to track down information about a specific song that aired as a bumper on Playhouse Disney for the better part of 15 years now, and I'm about at my wit's end. I am hoping and praying that this forum will finally be the place someone knows where to find it, or at least gets a conversation going.
tl;dr: A song from a bumper on Playhouse Disney has haunted me since I was in elementary school and I'm hoping someone can identify it based on the only deep-fried audio sample I have left of it.
Context: around 2005 or 2006, I first saw this bumper air during a commercial break in the early morning on the Disney channel, when it was still the Playhouse Disney block. It seemed to be some sort of showcase of songs in different languages, and it featured a man and woman playing guitar and singing to a group of children who soon joined in. I've never been able to identify the language or any of the words they're using. Phonetically, I've always sang it as 'ay-dili-dili-dili-oleyo'.
The first time I heard it, it immediately got stuck in my head. I eagerly watched TV every morning I wasn't in school from then on, hoping to hear the song again. Back then I didn't have internet at home, so there was no way for me to research this song even if I'd known what to try looking for. So, I waited. And then one morning, right as I was waking up for school, I heard it. I leapt out of bed, grabbed my phone, and recorded a chunk of the song in a voice memo. For a very long time, that voice memo was the only proof I had that the song ever existed at all.
But as the years went on, I lost that too. Obviously being so long ago, the phone it was recorded on is long gone. At one point I had emailed the file to myself for posterity, but that's gone now too.
The only piece of this song I have left is some absolutely terrible audio from a Youtube video that's almost as old as this entire story. I liked this song so much that I set the recording of it as my ringtone. One day, while at my friend's house, we recorded a silly random video and uploaded it to Youtube, as kids do. At one point during the video, my phone rang--thus capturing a brief snippet of the song in even worse quality than the original voice memo.
I've attached two snippets of audio: one raw sample from the video where the ringtone plays in the background while my friend and I talk over it, and one where I've done my best to remove our voices. It isn't a nice neat job at all, just the best I could do in Audacity with absolutely no audio engineering knowledge, but maybe it'll be enough to help some.
tl;dr: A song from a bumper on Playhouse Disney has haunted me since I was in elementary school and I'm hoping someone can identify it based on the only deep-fried audio sample I have left of it.
Context: around 2005 or 2006, I first saw this bumper air during a commercial break in the early morning on the Disney channel, when it was still the Playhouse Disney block. It seemed to be some sort of showcase of songs in different languages, and it featured a man and woman playing guitar and singing to a group of children who soon joined in. I've never been able to identify the language or any of the words they're using. Phonetically, I've always sang it as 'ay-dili-dili-dili-oleyo'.
The first time I heard it, it immediately got stuck in my head. I eagerly watched TV every morning I wasn't in school from then on, hoping to hear the song again. Back then I didn't have internet at home, so there was no way for me to research this song even if I'd known what to try looking for. So, I waited. And then one morning, right as I was waking up for school, I heard it. I leapt out of bed, grabbed my phone, and recorded a chunk of the song in a voice memo. For a very long time, that voice memo was the only proof I had that the song ever existed at all.
But as the years went on, I lost that too. Obviously being so long ago, the phone it was recorded on is long gone. At one point I had emailed the file to myself for posterity, but that's gone now too.
The only piece of this song I have left is some absolutely terrible audio from a Youtube video that's almost as old as this entire story. I liked this song so much that I set the recording of it as my ringtone. One day, while at my friend's house, we recorded a silly random video and uploaded it to Youtube, as kids do. At one point during the video, my phone rang--thus capturing a brief snippet of the song in even worse quality than the original voice memo.
I've attached two snippets of audio: one raw sample from the video where the ringtone plays in the background while my friend and I talk over it, and one where I've done my best to remove our voices. It isn't a nice neat job at all, just the best I could do in Audacity with absolutely no audio engineering knowledge, but maybe it'll be enough to help some.