Ok so there's a male vocalist that I can't remember the name of. Trouble is I'm drawing a total blank on his songs, too. Please list possibilities in this thread. He's got probably two popular songs, late 90s early 2000s probably. Sort of a semi-falsetto high range I think. I have this feeling that his first or last name starts with E or an E figures prominently in there or something.

I really wish I had more to go on, but that's all I've got. Well, it's definitely pop music, too. Not hard edge, kind of easy, lyrical style. HELP PLEASE I'M GOING CRAZY.

Alizee?

focus please

Do you know what he looks like physically? Like race?

Sort of. Pretty sure longish brown hair w/beard and mustache. White dude.

lolwhat? a dude with a beard and mustache that does pop?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Sisqo_unleash_the_dragon.jpg

help me fofc you're my only hope

This may help. I was trying to think of a song he might have song and I thought I had one. I snapped and started singing "Fifteen there's still time for you" so I looked that up and nope, not even close. But that is *maybe?* the kind of music we are talking about. Not even 100% sure of that statement, but maybe it will get you started in the right direction. Halfway between that song and that Time of Your Life song by Green Day. If that makes any sense at all.

Beck?

Eric Neis?

Justin Timberlake?

no to both :(

no to justin timberlake

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Five for Fighting?

No that song wasn't by this guy like I originally thought. This is definitely one guy and not a group.

Enrique Iglesias was the only "E" other than Elton John in the late 90's with a #1 pop song but the longish hair, beard, and mustache doesn't match up. And I'm guessing Eminem isn't the answer either.

I also finally found a list of the year end Hot 100's (http://www.musicoutfitters.com/top-100-songs.htm) and didn't see anything that seemed like a match from 97 through 02 either. So if they were hits, they weren't to that stature.

I also checked a list of one-hit wonders from that era and didn't see anything there either.

Maybe MJ4H is drunk.

Mark Cohn?

I'm not positive of the E thing it's just a feeling. I also get a little bit of a "Mc-" feeling. McDuffy or something (not mcduffy, just an example). I really am giving you everything I can think of.

Walking in Memphis

Mark Cohn?

http://www.theagencygroup.com/artistphotos/MarcCohn.jpg

Hmm ... might work

Not drunk. This guy just has one or two songs that I've always sort of liked and every time I've come across his name I've thought, ah ok, I'll need to remember that later and look him up and buy something of his, but I never remember his name or the songs when I'm somewhere that I can do something about it. I'm sitting here with the internet in front of me and I want to track the guy down and I'm TOTALLY blank. It's driving me up the wall. Every time I try to remember one of the songs, the stupid "Let Me Be Myself" Geico commercial comes on the TV again or something and all attempts at remembering obscure pop songs are hopeless.

please note: the geico commercial song is not related to the mystery guy at all, just an example of how hopeless this search is for me right now.

No, and no. Nothing yet. I'm pretty positive I would insta-recognize the name.

he had 2 hits too.

Okay, let's see if we can narrow it down a little more.

Where did you hear the song? I'm thinking radio station here, trying to pin down the format. From your description of the song style, I can't say whether it's a Top 40 thing or an AC thing or Rockish thing or even a crossover country thing. That might at least start narrowing the field a little.

edit to add: Oops, you definitely said "pop" earlier but even that can be skewed; i.e. dance-leaning, AC-leaning, kid-pop leaning, whatever

I'd say this is a pop/top 40 type radio station song.

edit: I can vaguely remember hearing the song on a tv ad for some compilation, too.

Maybe this list will help - Category:American pop singers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_pop_singers)

Btw, thank you guys for at least trying to help. Thought it might be sort of fun for some of you, too, so I thought I might have a little chance trying this.

Maybe this list will help - Category:American pop singers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_pop_singers)

excellent, looked for something like that earlier. scanning now.

Jeff Buckley?

no

edwin something maybe?

boom edwin mccain

Edwin Mccain?

cool!

Have no idea what triggered that but it just shot back to me. Interesting to see the things I was right about (the E and Mc) and the things I was off on (I don't hear a lot of falsetto-ish stuff now).

Have no idea what triggered that but it just shot back to me. Interesting to see the things I was right about (the E and Mc) and the things I was off on (I don't hear a lot of falsetto-ish stuff now).

Squared?

this thread just went into the pop music shithole.

who?

ur mom

I would never have gotten there with him. He's not someone I associate with "pop" at all, more of an AC or even light alt-rock guy

no, ur mom!

NO U

I would never have gotten there with him. He's not someone I associate with "pop" at all, more of an AC or even light alt-rock guy

yep right on. It is a tremendous frustration trying to come up with someone when you can't remember a single definitely accurate thing about them.

the youngsters have no idea, pre internet mundane stuff like this would take months or even years to figure out. I use to have long lists of things I would go to the Library and try to find.

I can empathize. I remembered bits and pieces of songs from when I was a kid that would just randomly lodge into my head during the day and I could not for the life of me figure it out. Without the intarwebs, I'd have never been able to figure out that "Eye in the Sky" was a song by The Alan Parsons Project, for example (something I heard a lot on radio play as a kid, but never bothered to track who sang it and by the time I was old enough to really care about it, the song and the band had receded into history so I never researched it).

There was a song I heard once as a kid on the radio for the first time that was already old when I heard it (although I didn't know that), and it sounded so weird to me, the main part was stuck in my head forever... and it would screw me up in things I was doing.

A few years later I hear it again, and see it was Need You Tonight by INXS. Geez.

Ok so there's a male vocalist that I can't remember the name of. Trouble is I'm drawing a total blank on his songs, too. Please list possibilities in this thread. He's got probably two popular songs, late 90s early 2000s probably. Sort of a semi-falsetto high range I think. I have this feeling that his first or last name starts with E or an E figures prominently in there or something.

I really wish I had more to go on, but that's all I've got. Well, it's definitely pop music, too. Not hard edge, kind of easy, lyrical style. HELP PLEASE I'M GOING CRAZY.

Oh, considering this info, I would have to say you are thinking of Edwin McCain, he sings I'll be and I could not ask for more.

I bet MJ4H is happy marching band camp is ready to begin.

I can empathize. I remembered bits and pieces of songs from when I was a kid that would just randomly lodge into my head during the day and I could not for the life of me figure it out. Without the intarwebs, I'd have never been able to figure out that "Eye in the Sky" was a song by The Alan Parsons Project, for example (something I heard a lot on radio play as a kid, but never bothered to track who sang it and by the time I was old enough to really care about it, the song and the band had receded into history so I never researched it).

Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson Airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson Starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft.

gavin degraw