Anyone remember the song which came with Win95? goodtimes.avi??

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Hi all,

Remember this AVI file which came with Win95 in the goodies folder which was titled goodtimes? It's this lady wearing a red blouse and it's raining most of the time in the video. I still have yet to determine the artist who sang the song. Any ideas?

 

[Sugadaddy]

bah, the Weezer song was better.

 

[ugh]

<< bah, the Weezer song was better. >>


IN a way, but still, I liked the soothing tune of goodtimes. So? Any ideas?

 

[Pepsi90919]

good times, bad times, gimme some o dat

 

[CromNogger]

Hey, couldn't you just look up &quot;Good Times&quot; and find it?

Also, Buddy Holly by Weezer is far better.

 

[Pepsi90919]

&quot;Good Times&quot;
Edie Brickell

You don't even have to try
It comes easy for you
The way you move is so appealing
It could make me cry
Go out driving with my friends
In Bobby's big old beat up car
I'm with a lot of people then
I wonder where you are

Good times, bad times, give me some of that
Good times, bad times, give me some of that
Good times, bad times

I don't want to say goodbye
Don't want to walk you to the door
I spend a little time with you
I want a little more

Good times, bad times, give me some of that
Good times, bad times, give me some of that
Good times, bad times, give me some of that

 

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<< &quot;Good Times&quot; Edie Brickell >>


Yeay! Thanks for the info!

 

[Pepsi90919]

np

got it from this:



<< &quot;Good Times&quot; and Windows 95
This is not a story about a virus, although there is a virus hoax called &quot;Good Times&quot;.

The Windows 95 CD-ROM has a directory called &quot;funstuff&quot; and in that directory is a &quot;videos&quot; directory which contains MPG and AVI versions of a music video called &quot;Good Times&quot;. It?s a pleasant song, but the singer isn?t identified.

When a listener wrote with a question about the artist, I figured that I?d be able to find out in a few minutes who recorded the song. I remembered that there was a copyright notice at the end, so I played Good Times and found that the copyright notice was for Geffen Records.

I tried &quot;geffen.com&quot; and found myself at the Geffen/DGC homepage, so I knew I?d have an answer almost immediately. I found a &quot;Good Times&quot;, but the artist clearly wasn?t the artist on the Microsoft CD. I also found Lisa Loeb, Black Lab, Killah Priest, Izzy Stradlin, and some other artists ? most of whom I?d never heard of before.

The Geffen website offered no way to contact anyone at the company. No e-mail options, no street address, no phone or fax numbers, not even a city. I hate it when people design websites that way. But I knew I was in the right neighborhood. It?s strange. If I?d recorded a song that was featured on the Windows CD, I certainly would have made sure that my name and information would be on my label?s website.

I tried searching the Web and came up with lots of fake virus notices and a few pointers back to the Geffen site ? but that had already turned out to be a dead end.

The easy way to find an answer, I thought, would be to contact Microsoft?s public relations agency. So I sent a note to Waggener Edstrom, Inc., with my strange question ? &quot;Who?s the artist that sings ?Good Times? on the Windows 95 CD-ROM?&quot; There was no answer that day, or the next, or the day after that. No answer next week. Just silence.

Surely somebody at Microsoft knows who sang this song! I thought. That?s when I dropped a note to Karen Casman, Microsoft?s media relations person in the Great Lakes region. She didn?t know either, but agreed to see if she could find out.

To say the search was difficult would be a bit of an understatement. I don?t know how many people Karen talked to in tracking down the artist, but I do know that the search took several weeks and included at least one false trail.

Last week, I heard the song at 6:30 a.m. on the Muzak system in the Big Bear store on West Fifth Avenue and nearly ran up to the manager to demand a play-list. (Does Muzak provide users with a play-list? Probably not, but I never found out. I didn?t ask.)

Then ? on Wednesday ? I got a note from Karen. She?d identified the artist! But she won't tell me how she did it.

The singer is Edie Brickell and Good Times was recorded in 1994. Why Geffen Records fails even to mention Edie Brickell or the CD Picture Perfect Morning on its website is a mystery. >>



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[yellowperil]

It's one of those songs you swear you hate but can't stop singing

 

[EvanFerguson]

i think nfs4 had the same exact q a few months ago in april.......

 

[Russ]

Yes, NFS4 did ask this.

I still have that song on my hard drive. It's a great piece of work.

Russ, NCNE

 

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<< i think nfs4 had the same exact q a few months ago in april....... >>


Oops, me bad. Should have used the Search first