This seems to be the closest thing out there to a 'thread of record' for this song hunt, so I figured I'd share a summary of all of the leads generated by the recent spike in activity caused by the reddit posting. All of the ongoing reddit-related activity has consolidated into this smaller, more focused and less crazy thread.
http://redd.it/1mdr5q
I'd urge everyone to visit and read the ongoing discussion there. I'm going to cross post all of the leads currently under investigation there into this thread anyway just so nothing is lost or overlooked.
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First, I would urge everyone NOT to use the youtube video as the audio in this search. Youtube's encoding clearly degraded the quality. Use this original file instead.
http://www.dedinidevil.de/Stay_longer.ddd
You'll need to rename the .ddd to .mp3
Consensus seems to be that the audio is slowed down due to taping, you'll need to speed it up around 5%-7% to hear something closer to the original version of the track. This is simple to do with, for example, the time warp feature of the free audio editor Goldwave.
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The first (imo best) lead is that the singer is Frank Meyer-Thurn, a late singer-songwriter-producer from Germany who was active with a lot of one hit wonder projects in the 1980s. He was the lead singer for a band called Private Blue. This information comes from youtube commenter 'Salescounter' who recognized the vocals. There is a striking resemblance and a similar style in the music.
Frank's discogs page...
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Frank+Mey ... eyer-Thurn
Here are some of his early works...
Camilla Motor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOqeO6ae4c4 (no male vocals, similar style) (1982)
Rewind - Oriental Eyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4FFj_HDqI (1985)
Rewind - Rosalie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SAQhHEtnwM (1985)
Del Wayne #8206;-- Mama Can't You See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbuOKNCvYnY (1985) backing vocals
Amati - Are You In The Mood For Bach Tonight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBEBErstGwc (1986)
Private Blue - She's Love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-conArUUGiI (1986)
Private Blue - Help Me Tonight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M9YERNYfwo (1986)
Ethno League #8206;– Radio Arabesque:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHMO6qrYz4o (1988)
The sound most closely correlates to the Private Blue years. A lot of things line up with this lead - style, singer, location, timeline, and a producer involved in a lot of one hit wonder projects, most of which never coalesced into anything like a full EP/LP.
If this is a lost Private Blue demo, someone would need to get in touch with Westside Music to confirm.
http://www.discogs.com/label/Westside+Music
It may not be a Private Blue demo, but that doesn't rule out FMT as he was involved in a lot of projects. Camilla Hüther would be the next logical contact, as she is still alive (as far as we can tell) and was married to Frank in 1984. If it is Frank on the mystery track, this would have been recorded within the first 2-3 years after their wedding. If this was a demo for a never-realized project, she may be the only person who would know about it.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Camilla+H%C3%BCther
This blogpost contains some additional information.
http://theisleoffailedpopstars.blogspot ... -1992.html
See also the German wikipedia page for FMT.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Meyer-Thurn
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The second lead is a band called "The World" which was active in 1983 that also has a similar sound.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/World%2C+The
Two of their 1983 tracks...
Take Me To your Heart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsPMPrdn7KM
Shoo Shoo Wah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldpeWOv44Yo
Their only album 'Break The Silence' is to be found here.
http://www.woundedbird.com/world/291.htm
There appear to be no song title matches, so once again we'd be looking for a demo, cut from a never-released album, or a related project of some kind.
The people to contact would be Wayne Hammer and Jeff Slater. We've had no luck finding any contact details.
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There are some other suggestions in that reddit thread which is ongoing. None seem particularly concrete.
Some are curious as to where this name 'Stean Lemroy' comes from, as it appears to have been posted on the original thread *long* before becoming a youtube video hoax. If the name wasn't an invention of the hoax, then where did it come from?
The leads for 'Euphoria Reborn' and 'Delmar' appear to be hoaxes as there is no corroborating information available for them anywhere online, and the details appear highly suspect.
We did manage to track down a copy of that Romance At Eleven track that was much talked about earlier in this thread, if anyone wants to hear it for themselves.
http://www.weblagu.com/Romance-at-eleve ... Ric3I.html
Happy hunting.