Talk:Lookin' for Love

message: Could the person who wrote this most interesting article possibly elaborate on some points? 
What does the statement that Johnny Lee:  “discovered the song in a motel room in 1979…" mean?  He found the sheet music that one of the writers had inadvertently left there and Mr. Lee found a telephone number and contacted him or her?  Does it mean it had already been recorded and he heard it on a juke box?  If the latter, who originally recorded it?
What does:  “This iconic ‘love song’ was written by two school teachers, and was actually written about a classroom of second grade children.” mean?  What correlation is there between a love song (particularly in light of the lyrics of this love song!) and seven-year-olds?  Did Lee radically change the lyrics?  By the way, why are there three names (as opposed to two) listed in the article as the writers and why isn’t Lee’s name one of them if he wrote at least some of the music as the article seems to indicate?
What does:  “Record executive Irving Azoff offered Lee the chance to record 'Lookin' For Love,' a song that 20-plus artists had rejected.” mean? Does this indicate that Lee brought the finished song to Azoff and the latter finally agreed to let Lee sing it personally as his twenty-something choice?  Over twenty singers rejected a gold record that became number one on the country charts with tremendous crossover success?  There seems like there must be more to the story than that. 
If not, then there must not be any such thing as an expert when it comes to music!  Thay were all that wrong?
This is a potentially great article about a great country song with a seemingly fascinating back story.  However, there seems to be a lot of unanswered questions and possible inconsistencies within it that need clarifying.  I wish I could help as I always loved this song.  I hope someone else will.  Thanks.HistoryBuff14 (talk) 23:07, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: HistoryBuff14 -- Thanks for your comments. As you know, Wikipedia articles require reliable sources to back up statements made within any and all articles. While your questions are certainly legitimate and can lead to any number of conclusions, some of them statements which may have led to your questions are written the way they are based on available reliable sources found by the authors (note I said "authors" because more than one contributor has made edits to this article). It does not mean that reliable sources that would answer your questions about the songwriters' motivation in writing the song, why various other recording artists rejected the song, etc., are unavailable. But if they are not available, the article can still stand on the sourced statements. It also means we cannot speculate as to why the songwriters wrote the song for second graders, etc., because that could be original research. If you -- or any other author -- have answers to your questions that can be backed by reliable sources, by all means add them and source them. But if not, then the world will not come to an end; it just means that some things simply have no explanation. Thanks again for your interest in this article, and remember that Wikipedia invites all positive contributions and constructive criticism of its articles. [[Briguy52748 (talk) 23:34, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elaboration? 

message: I'm new to Wikipedia editing and am not sure how to flag things, but a first person account like this is not encyclopedic. Grundoon17 (talk) 16:54, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: First Person Style

message: The 1971 Grass Roots song "Sooner or Later" has a bridge that went "Looking for love; In all the wrong places; Looking for love; In all the wrong faces".  This was 9 years before the Johnny Lee song was released.  I'm guessing this was a case of "borrowing inspiration", but that's simply a guess.PhilOSophocle (talk) 01:13, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grass Roots rip-off/influence 

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