The Unknown Song ( FOUND! Hobo - The Jester (1976) )

UPDATE - AFTER 48 YEARS - THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED!!!!!
Hi, guys!!! My Dad has been trying to find the name of this song for over 40 years! I am posting this with the hope of being able to find it for him. No song recognition app can recognize this song. This is everything he knows about it:
He recorded the following audio on a cassette tape in 1975/1976 on WMMS during the Import Hour with Larry Bole, which most likely means it is not an American band. He believes the song is from 1972-1975- possibly a Progressive Rock/New Age/Krautrock band? It is NOT Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream or any popular/well known bands.
The song seems to have an electric viola, flute, brass, and some type of electronic bass.
This is the unknown song... do YOU know what it is??? Please listen & share in hopes of finding the name of this song!! Thank you!
Direct Links to The Unknown Song MP3 on Google Drive in 2 parts:
Part 1: drive.google.com/file/d/1Mz0C...
Part 2: drive.google.com/file/d/1DS7T...

[@smutly7069]

I hope this helps, the track you are looking for is The Jester by Hobo kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopY

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

……….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH. MY. GOSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!????!?!?! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 WE ARE ALL DANCING AND SCREAMING OVER HERE!!!!!! You have NO IDEA what this means to my Dad and to me!!!!!! He has been looking for this song for 48 YEARS!!!!!!! I’ve been trying to help him find it now for the last 5 years!!! I can’t believe this!!! THIS IS THE SONG!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Seriously!!!! there is truly no way that I could ever thank you enough to show you how truly grateful I am for your help!!!! THANK YOU! 😭🙏🏼

[@smutly7069]

No worries, I am just happy I could help 😃

[@user-g]

Smutly, big thanks to you! It have been finally found! Congrats, Lauren. We made it… finally made it… So beautiful song.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

@@user-g I am still in shock!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@user-g]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusicnow we need to see your father’s reaction xd

[@christosnikiforos4103]

Larry Bole says in an interview that he worked at the Music Grotto where he had access to the imports there: "We had old German krautrock and al the British stuff." So whilst maybe not limited to, he mentions German and British, but even then the lists are endless: "Working at WMMS was a real musical education. Before I started there, I had been working at the Cleveland State station, which became the farm team for WMMS. We knew immediately Leo was a star. I mean, what college student goes walking around campus with a silk jockey cap and long hair and a beard and calls himself "Kid Leo"? It's so amazing, I was a part-timer and I could program my own show. That's unheard of on a major station. There were some guidelines that John Gorman gave us. He told us things like "don't play two instrumentals together." But those were just guidelines. I had an import hour show. I worked at the Music Grotto, so I had access to the imports there. We had old German Krautrock and all the British stuff. I have run into two people in the last month who have told me what avid listeners they were. Even after I left the station and started working for Warner Bros., I kept doing shows at WMMS under the name Beebop Kirby for the first couple of months in 1979."

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Wow!!!!??? Thank you!!!!!

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@amontgomery]

This is beautiful. We're all fortunate that this snippet was recorded even if we never find out who made it. Thank you and your dad for preserving this.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@amontgomery]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic LET'S GOOOO

[@lostwaveyoureyescomeback2me]

Hi I just want to tell you this I'm friends with Roger Davies he was the vocalist on the track open up and he whote the jester I know him from church and he runs a little shop in camelford called the grow center look it up if you want And I help him out on Thursdays for voluntary work and so yea I'm thrilled to be his friend I had no idea until this Thursday we talk about it and he was so happy you guys liked the song and he says thank you for taking a interest in his music and I'm happy to so thanks 👍

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

That is SO cool!!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!!!!

[@typo0746]

Maybe get in contact with him and see if you can get him to put the song on spotify, I think we’d all appreciate that 🔥

[@lostwaveyoureyescomeback2me]

​@@typo0746ok I'll ask him for you next time I see him 👍

[@lostwaveyoureyescomeback2me]

kzbin.info/aero/OLAK5uy_mTSb-TS2dxGhShIHeykPvBaRGzjUw-wpg&si=PU64UiZKdTocT5bb this is John Morris from hobo Roger Davis showed me this he doesn't know how to upload on Spotify but he will try at some point I hope you enjoy this ☺️

[@Mochibunno]

I keep returning to this video just to listen to this snippet again. It sounds hauntingly beautiful to me in an odd way, as if your dad somehow caught music from another distant, happy, far away universe that somehow ended up traveling all the way into ours way back 48 years ago.. But thankfully, the song exists in this universe and I'm glad to know who made it 😌🩷 Please keep the video, it's always fun to compare just how little we had with this old clip and just how much we were missing out on with the full song available on YT 🐰

[@malbrojay4740]

This kind of makes me sad. This beautiful song might be lost to time. This video needs more exposure so we can get closer to finding a link.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Thank you so much 😭😭 It honestly breaks my heart. It’s really been the one thing I’ve wanted to do for him for the last 10+ years

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@malbrojay4740]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic omg! That's amazing! How did you find it?

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

@@malbrojay4740 someone found it and commented it here on the video!!!!!! I couldn’t believe it!!!!

[@malbrojay4740]

Did you tell your dad yet?

[@lefthandedspanner]

it's a puzzler for sure - the instrumentation sounds like Pulsar, the musical style is very similar to early Heldon, and both of them were French prog-electronic bands in the mid-70s, but it doesn't match either of those two bands' officially released works

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@zuh1g]

I found a collection of WMMS Import Hours with Larry Bole, and I'm pretty sure it's an unreleased demo of I Talk To The Wind by King Crimson. Beautiful song, and I hope I've been able to help your father's long search!

[@user-g]

Hi. Could you share the archives? I can help you with listening to songs from there and searching. To be honest, our snippet is slightly similar to King Crimson.

[@zuh1g]

@@user-g It's on Internet Archive, WMMS Archives, Import Hour

[@zuh1g]

@@user-gWMMS Archives on Internet Archive

[@user-g]

@@zuh1gis it the one was uploaded by therobz for next years: 1996, 1997, 1998? I can’t find anymore.

[@zuh1g]

@@user-g It's WMMS Archives uploaded by WMMS Archive on Internet Archive

[@WikipediaLogo]

Damn, This is really good! I wish there was a full version. But sadly it didn't got attention, and noone identify or found this song...

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

I hope someone can find it soon :(

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@loglad5394]

This sounds so familiar to a lot of 1970s japanese jazz / funk tracks. Edit: Mermaid by Alan Hawkshaw is a very similar track, but def not the exact one. Same thing with his song Mystique Voyage. Album also released in 1974.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@johnnyweiner4030]

I posted the link to this on the Facebook group for the Three of a Perfect Pair summer camp, which is ran by members of King Crimson. It may have people who could recognize something like this. I’ll let you know how it goes!

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

oh my gosh!!!!!!!!! Thank you SO much!!!!!

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@johnnyweiner4030]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic Amazing! I will listen to this, I love obscure prog!!

[@lefthandedspanner]

for what it's worth, the instrumentation sounds like the French band Pulsar, but the music itself is not like any of their published work

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@gtripmusic2906]

That trippy mixolydian line was probably played on an electric violin (in the vain of Fusion artists like Jean-Luc Ponty) 1:20 when it was lost I was speculating that.

[@softsunlightnaiad]

I wasted like 2 hours and found it but then I realised it was already found 😂😂 lovely song I'm playing it on repeat

[@user-g]

Well, I just completed the list of ~2.700 Krautrock songs including live performances, underground composers, rare and unknown footages and etc. And will start to listen all of them for the our one.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

OH MY GOD!!!?!?!?! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@thomasw7675]

No idea about the song, but for me sound really "Krautrock"

[@user-g]

A small update: I have already listened to about 1,500 songs. I singled out the most suitable authors in terms of sound / style and focused on them. So far, I... haven't found anything. I also collect and listen to New Age/Ambient Music. Stay tuned.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

@@user-g you’re an actual TREASURE 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@user-g]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic Lauren, hi! Can I ask you to upload a piece of music to any file sharing service convenient for you so that I can download it? I want to try not only to restore normal sound, but also to try neural network search. It would help me a lot in this. Thank you.

[@hunterhellfire848]

I really hope this gets found. I've tried to Shazam it and no result.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Thank you so much. I really hope so too :(

[@theofficialintruder]

Maybe it's because of the low quality which makes it unrecognisable to Shazam's AI

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@adus2821]

i know it's probably not, but something about the violin/fiddle makes me think its some kind of unreleased song or demo from the band kansas

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼 That was an incredible guess though!!!!!

[@JoeMbus]

beautiful

[@mifrs]

Omgggggggg I'm crying, finally

[@zigzagintrusion]

Such a beautiful song! I wish I could help, but I don’t even know where to start looking. Wishing you luck, and hopefully a comment will help give your post more attention! :)

[@user-g]

You can listen to any selections with music from New Age/Ambient Music/Krautrock/Progressive Rock. Perhaps they will contain the track we need. I've seen a lot of playlists on KZbin with hundreds of songs in this direction. I tried to listen to them all, but I might have missed something.…

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

thank you so much!!!!

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@zigzagintrusion]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic I can't believe I missed this notification!!! I came back to check and saw it had been found! I am so, so, SO happy for your dad!!!

[@zigzagintrusion]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic How did the song get found? How did your dad react when you found the song!?

[@MarvelKit]

I have been searching and I can say so far it's not Nektar and also not Can. But what are 'well-known bands'? Perhaps a list of what he has been able to cross off the list would be handy. Also, is this everything he was able to salvage? Not a whole song? And is it completely instrumental?

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Marcel Debets I will provide a list of bands we know for sure it isn’t as soon as I get home. thank you so much. Also yes this is everything :( He recorded it back in the 70’s off the radio and most of the song was over taped / didn’t come out right. It is completely instrumental though.

[@MarvelKit]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic It's a cool puzzle, so let's have the list as soon as you get it. :-)

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Marcel Debets so the bands he knows for sure it is not are: Agitation Free Tangerine Dream Pink Floyd it is definitely a band with an electric viola COULD possibly be Caravan from an unreleased live album??

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@brucekives2194]

It might be the Third Ear Band from Italy. Looking into it.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Bruce Kives thank you so much!!

[@brucekives2194]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic A friend of mine is trying to track down the exact song. I'll let you know if he finds it.

[@MarvelKit]

@@brucekives2194 Hey Bruce, I only know about Third Ear Band from the UK. And it's not them as far as I could find in their catalogue.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@christosnikiforos4103]

Anyone mentioned Popol Vuh yet?

[@AerisShenlin]

I was thinking that

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@lance_foxx]

Although I know that this is not the answer, I know of a song by Duran Duran that seems similar (to me, at least). I know the timeframe is the wrong decade, but check out the instrumental "Tiger Tiger," by Duran Duran (1983). Does anyone else hear the similar sound, theme, vibe, etc... ?

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼 That was a great guess though!!!! Thank you!!!!

[@xacavzbxmzmaksp]

wow

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@playingpianorocks1]

I'm going to ask Michel Banabila to see if he knows it. His track The Mandalin Tape from nearly a decade after does sound similar, though it has a bit too much of an edge and has somewhat the wrong instrumentation too, but I can always ask. Michel Banabila is Dutch, though, if I'm not mistaken.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

WOW Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@coreywhitfield3467]

If this hasn't been mentioned yet, this does sound like some early stuff from the band Camel. Listen to the song Supertwister and there is a small similarity.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Thank you!!!!! definitely similar!!!! ugh doesn’t seem to be it though :(

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@coreywhitfield3467]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic omg!!! You have no idea how much this made my day! Thank you for replying to me and letting me know! It is so beautiful.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

@@coreywhitfield3467 Thank YOU so much for commenting and helping!!!! I’m still in shock!!

[@user-g]

Did you try to create threads at Reddit / Lostwave / WatZatSong?

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@Indeed76]

it sounds a bit like something by the band "Gong"

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Thank you!!!! I will look into this!!

[@Indeed76]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic did you end up finding anything? :)

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@Indeed76]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic i saw!!! im so glad

[@UnjoyerPlays]

No new leads on this?

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@UnjoyerPlays]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic bruh! Thats insane!!! Unbelievable. Actually a good tune too! Many thanks to your dad for sparking this.

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

@@UnjoyerPlays I love it so much!!!!!! I can’t wait to buy him the vinyl for Father’s day!!!!!

[@gramiticallyuncorrectchann6416]

Maybe NUE it sounds like the album NUE

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

I believe this NUE album is from the 2000’s? the song in question is from the late 1970’s :(

[@gramiticallyuncorrectchann6416]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusicthere is a band called NEU* not nue which my my fault (oops) but they were 1972 with thier first album

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@memesandgasoline]

Sounds like some kind of muzak , perhaps music meant to be played in a store?

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@oliverromm5869]

sounds like KRAAN

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Crawyz we will look into them!

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@seancbowers]

Agitation Free?

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

Sean Bowers unfortunately we know it’s not them :((

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@veesharpgame]

Does anyone think this might be Boards Of Canada? It sounds similar to the unknown tracks that were on their recent "societas X tape", and those unknown tracks are rumored to be BOC's early works.

[@malbrojay4740]

I just checked them out and although, I couldn't find the song, I think this could be by them or a similar band.

[@F34OIFJ34OIFJ]

thought of BoC but it obviously isn't. It's too accoutsic, and this song was recorded 40 years ago

[@brunogarzaprez2449]

BoC are from the 90s, they were pioneers on the electronic scene. I don’t think they did this one tbh

[@LaurenAlvarezMusic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCYipp3pK2fopYsi=tlGlZ_8OBpB20WJp THE SONG HAS FINALLY BEEN FOUND!!!!! 😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@F34OIFJ34OIFJ]

@@LaurenAlvarezMusic stop the cap

[@alexanderhernandez2570]

Amazing video Lauren🔥Have you heard of Sessions? I think you will kill it there!