Help naming song: 60s pop, sounds like it's performed by a middle school band

Solved thanks to @etherphon! Tears of a Clown by Smokey Robinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMEz0lB6hBI

I tried a browser search but results were all over the place. It's a pretty common tune and I was curious about its background.

EDIT: I should have put middle school orchestra in the title, sorry about that.

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 6 pts · 151d (3 replies)

ya got any info whatsoever... lyrics? years, anything?

2piradians@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 151d (2 replies)

I forgot to mention orchestra, oof! I think it's an instrumental but not certain. All my brain will spit out is the intro/chorus and verse tunes.

Here's a lame attempt at the melody:

Doo, ^doo^, ^^doo^^, (rest), da-da-^dat^ dat dat doo

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 151d (1 reply)

You better whistle or hum the melody into Vocaroo, because otherwise this is woefully little info to go off. There was a lot of orchestral pop music in the sixties.

2piradians@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 151d

Hey thanks, didn't know about that site. Here we go:

Melody

shutz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 151d (1 reply)

Is it "My pal foot foot" by The Shaggs?

2piradians@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 151d

No, it's an orchestra

etherphon@piefed.world · 2 pts · 151d (1 reply)
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2piradians@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 151d

THAT'S it! Thank you. Pretty sure I've never heard the lyrics before now.

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d (1 reply)

Maybe something Jackson 5?

2piradians@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 151d

No, definitely not

Space_Duck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d

The Archies - Sugar, sugar ?

onemancult@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 151d (1 reply)

First thought was Louie, Louie by the kingsmen

2piradians@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 151d

No, though I think it's another one hit wonder