"Spelling on the Stone" "Spelling on the Stone" is a single recorded by an
Elvis impersonator and released in 1988 by LS Records with no credited artist, which peaked at number 82 on the
Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The song is from the perspective of
Elvis Presley and alludes to speculation that he
faked his death. Music historians have speculated that Dan Willis, who recorded with LS Records, was the vocalist, but this is unconfirmed.
"On the Roof" "On the Roof" is a song by Swedish ex-musician Johan Lindell, under the name "Stay (The Second Time Around)". It remained unidentified until 2013 when a listener of Swedish radio show
PP3, played the song in hopes that others would recognize it. Lindell had since abandoned music to pursue a career in painting, and was unaware of the search.
"How Long (Will It Take)" "How Long (Will It Take)" is a song by Canadian musician Paula Toledo that was licensed for use in the TV film
Secret Lives and the series
15/Love. In December 2023, user the-arabara found the song after searching the database of
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. After Toledo learned of the search for her song, she uploaded it to Bandcamp and other streaming services, with the funds from the Bandcamp page being donated to the Music Heals Charitable Foundation. Soon after, fake versions of the song began to appear on streaming services, which she suspected to be streaming fraud.
"Ammunition" "Ammunition" is the third track from the 1994 album
Fetish Fetish by Canadian alternative rock band All Good Children. The song was recorded in 1993 from a Hamilton, Ontario radio broadcast by Robin and Erin Hanson, who compared the song to
U2. The song remained unidentified until late 2015, when it was identified after being broadcast on CBC Radio One to bring attention to the search.
"Ready 'n' Steady" "Ready 'n' Steady" is a song by American musicians Dennis Lucchesi and Jim Franks, credited as D.A, which was recorded in 1979. Despite never being publicly or commercially released, the song debuted on the ''Billboard's
Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart at number 106, rising to number 102 before disappearing from the chart. To date, the song is the only song without an official release to appear on a Billboard'' chart. The song's existence was in question for many years, but was confirmed to be real in 2016. It was aired on
KFAI in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, that same year, the only known instance of it being aired on radio.
"Subways of Your Mind" / "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" "Subways of Your Mind" was recorded by teenager Darius S. from a radio program that aired on the
West German public radio station
Norddeutscher Rundfunk. The song was recorded to a cassette tape, which also included other songs by the bands
XTC and
the Cure. To get a clean copy of the songs, the DJ chatter was removed, which is possibly why the song's exact airplay date was unknown. The song was first posted online between 2004 and 2007, but the search for it did not gain traction until 2019, when Brazilian teenager Gabriel da Silva Vieira learned of it from Nicolás Zúñiga of Spanish independent record label Dead Wax Records. He uploaded the excerpt of the song to
YouTube and several music-related
Reddit communities, eventually founding r/TheMysteriousSong. On 27 May 2019, Australian music news website Tone Deaf wrote the earliest article focusing on the song, with author Tyler Jenke discussing the preliminary stages of the search and noting its similarities to the 2013 search for a song eventually identified as "On the Roof" by Swedish musician Johan Lindell. He suspected, before the song was found to be by Fex, that it was a demo recording that was played once by an NDR presenter and then discarded. On 4 November 2024, Reddit user marijn1412 identified the song as "Subways of Your Mind" by the band Fex. An alternate recording of the song was attached. On November 7, 2024, three members of Fex performed an acoustic version on NDR.
D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L In 2016, a
4chan user asked for help identifying a
demo EP of
D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L by
Panchiko which he had found in an
Oxfam shop in Britain. Despite the band name, album name, and cover art being visible, the band members, Owain, Andy, Shaun, and John, were identified only by their first names, and there was no information about the band or its members online. In 2020, the band members were identified by using metadata from the price sticker to geolocate the charity shop to
Sherwood, Nottingham, and contacting Facebook users with the same first names in the Sherwood area. The band has since reunited and gone on multiple international tours, as well as having made a debut album.
"Ulterior Motives" / "Everyone Knows That" In 2021,
WatZatSong user carl92 uploaded a 17-second snippet of a song recorded between 1982 and 1999; he claimed to have found the recording amongst files in a DVD backup, and speculated that it was a leftover from when he was learning to record audio. He also claimed that the snippet was from 1999 and possibly from Spain, where he claimed to live. A
subreddit dedicated to finding the song was created, with two of its members being interviewed by French commercial TV network
TF1 on 7 January 2024. Theorized sources for the song included a 1990s
MTV broadcast,
production music, or a commercial
jingle. On 28 April 2024, the song was identified as "
Ulterior Motives" by
Christopher and Philip Booth, from the 1986
pornographic film Angels of Passion. == See also ==