The network's most mysterious song

**"The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet"** (English " **The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet** ", also known as " **Like the Wind** ") is a song from the 1980s, sung by an unknown group today, in an incomprehensible language. The song was recorded between 1982 and 1984 during a music radio broadcast, presumably by the German radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

## Content

* oneGeneral information about the song
	+ 1.1Versions about the language of the song
	+ 1.2Lyrics options
* 2Searching for a song
	+ 2.1Early searches
	+ 2.2The start of an extensive search
	+ 2.3Publicity
	+ 2.4Main theories about the origin of the song

## General information about the song

The song was recorded on cassette between 1982 and 1988 by a German citizen, Darius, during a broadcast by host Paul Baskerville on the Norddeutscher Rundfunk radio. The performers of the song remain unknown today. In addition, the words of the song are unclear - during the search, different users heard English, French, German and even Serbian in it. There have been many attempts to paint the lyrics of the song, but today we can confidently say only about the first words of the chorus - "Check it in, check it out", which are heard as such by most seekers.

### Versions about the language of the song

As previously stated, the exact language has not been established, but there are the following assumptions:

* The song is written in English, due to the fact that the vast majority of users hear English words. In addition, many bands of that time, even from non-English speaking countries, sang their songs in English.
* The song is written in German, due to the fact that it was played on German radio. This argument, although not without foundation, still cannot serve as a reliable argument in the matter, due to the fact that the Norddeutscher Rundfunk radio played songs from completely different regions, whether to Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or not Europe at all.
* The song is written in French. This assumption was made by some users of the Reddit site, but there are no proper arguments for this opinion, and such a theory has not been supported.
* The song is sung in pseudo-English. Pseudo-English (or "pseudo-English") is the "language" used by some musicians during the trial recording of a song, when the melody is already there, but the lyrics have not yet been written. Pseudo-English is a rhyming gibberish that looks like English, but in reality is complete nonsense. Among Russian-speaking singers, "pseudo-English" was used, for example, in his trial recordings of songs by Pushnoy Alexander Borisovich, and the group "Korol i Shut" also used it when creating their music. This theory explains the problems with misunderstanding of the text of the song and its language, but the decision to put such a song on the radio by the performers themselves, and even more so by the radio management, remains incomprehensible.

### Lyrics options

You came here running
Take the consequence of leaving
There's no space
There's no tomorrow
There's no sent communications
Check it in, check it out
Or the sun will never shine
They're a long way away
In the subways of your mind
You're gonna suffer
Let a smile be your companion
There's no place
And there's no sorrow
Hear the young and restless dreaming
Check it in, check it out
It's the summer blues
Tear it in, tear it out
It's the real excuse

## Searching for a song

### Early searches

The song was first uploaded online on March 18, 2007 to The Spirit of Radio by a user named Bluuue. In the user's message, it was written that the recording was made between 1982 and 1984 from the air of German radio. Then this record did not give any special results, despite the answers of other users of the site.

Then, already in 2019, on the Reddit website, the song resurfaced in the entry of the user Gabgaskins (real name is Gabriel Viera). It said that the song is not perceived by various applications for recognizing songs, and there is no information about it on the network, and he himself has been looking for it for about thirteen years. At the end of the post, the user asked for help with the search. From the users of Reddit'a a certain circle of seekers of this song has gathered. First of all, the musical instruments of the song were dismantled - a drum, three guitars and a keyboard instrument. Thus it was established that there were five or six people in the group. Among other things, the main part of the seekers dubbed the song as "Like the wind", due to the fact that these were the words heard by the majority at the beginning of the recording.

### The start of an extensive search

Some time later, Gabgaskins made a new entry on Reddit, in which he collected and summarized all the exact data about the song.

1. The song was (probably) uploaded for the first time on March 18, 2007 in http://spiritofradio.ca/SongComments.asp?SongID=1737
2. The user is called "bluuue", and he says it was recorded from some German radio station between 1982-1984
3. The metadata of the archive says that the title of the song is "Check It In, Check It Out", but how the uploader said, it was recorded from a Radio Station, so it can't be confirmed.
4. The metadata dates the audio in 1984.
5. It's possible that the band is German, but we can't confirm it. The solved case of a unknown song in 2003-2013 (the song "On The Roof" by Johan Lindell) was taken from a German Radio Station too, and the artist is swedish, so that's another thing we'll need to consider, but 99% sure the artist is European.

Unfortunately there are no ways to find out the real name of the user "bluuue", otherwise we could get more information from that person, such as the full song and more information about what else was recorded on the tape, and also the name of the station from where this song was recorded.
If you know how to help us, please comment here or contact me. thank you!
1. The song was first uploaded on (probably) March 18, 2007 at http://spiritofradio.ca/SongComments.asp?SongID=1737
2. The user's name is "bluuue", and he says that this is a recording from some German radio station between 1982 and 1984.
3. Archive metadata indicates that the title of the song is "Check It In, Check It Out", but the uploader said it was recorded from a radio station, so this cannot be confirmed.
4. The metadata dates the entry to 1984.
5. Perhaps the group is German, but we cannot confirm this. For example another disclosed case of an unknown song from 2003-2013 (the song "On The Roof" by Johan Lindell) - was also taken from a German radio station, but the performer is Swedish, so this is another thing we need to consider, but 99% sure that the performer is European.

Unfortunately, there is no way to find out the real name of the bluuue user, otherwise we could get additional information from him, such as the full recording of the song and additions from what else was recorded on the cassette, as well as the name of the station from which it was recorded this song.
If you know how to help us, write here or contact me. Thank you!

After the user newacountz posted a post in which he talked about his search for data about the author of the original search post on the site The Spirit of Radio - about bluuue. Newacountz found recordings of bluuue on other forums, in which he also searched for the song "Like the wind" with some additions on the circumstances of obtaining the audio recording of the song - the user suggested that the audio most likely was a recording of the broadcast of NDR radio, which also prompted information about the existence of radio of a separate program for little-known performers - "Music for young people" (from the English. "Music for youth"). Based on this, the circle of seekers was able to find the host of that radio program - Paul Baskerville, who could approve the launch of the song on the air. User Gabgaskins wrote to Paul about the song on Facebook, but there was no immediate response due to

### Publicity

In the summer of 2019, the song was uploaded to YouTube. After that, it quickly gained popularity among the broad masses of English-speaking Internet users. With the advent of popularity on the network, publicity about the song reached the host of the NDR radio station, Paul Baskerville, who on July 10th wrote to searchers everything he knew about the song and how he could help.

Paul also gave contacts of other radio workers. From those, in turn, the seekers learned that the radio has a huge number of recordings of their broadcasts, but the seekers did not have the opportunity to spend so much time listening to them. After returning from vacation, Paul played a recording of the song on the radio during one of his broadcasts. At first, none of the listeners contacted the radio about the identification of the song, so the search continued. Posted on Reddit shortlyreferring to a song similar to "Like the Wind" with the suggestion that both melodies have the same songwriters. Both songs are similar in vocals and the sound of instruments, the performers of both songs are also unknown, which is why the conjecture expressed among the seekers received support, although it was suggested that all the similarities were just coincidences (later it turned out that the authors of the second song were the musicians of The Sinking Ships", denying any connection of the network's most mysterious song with them). At the same time, everything is also on the Reditt's website, it was suggested to contact the German organization GEMA , which makes all the songs played on the radio in special lists. However, the appeal did not help further searches.

In the fall of 2019, while discussing the search for the authors of the song on the air of the NDR radio station, one of the listeners turned to the studio and said that it was he who recorded this song on his tape recorder. The caller was a German citizen, Darius. Later, he, as well as his sister Lydia, contacted the seekers. As it turned out, the first person who applied for the identification of the name and authors of the song - the user Bluuue, was just Darius' sister. As evidence of this, she went to her old accounts on sites where she had previously written about the song. Darius and Lydia also shared a list of songs from the recorded broadcast that "Like the Wind" played. The desired song was between two others released in 1982, which gave grounds for conjecture about the release of the most mysterious song in this particular year, although such an opinion did not meet with much support among the seekers. In the same fall, Paul Baskerville said that all the songs played on the radio were recorded on vinyl records, and therefore, most likely, there may still be some editions of this song in the world.

In mid-2020, a Reddit user reported that he had at his disposal an archive of songs played on NDR radio from 1982 to 1984. It was received after long calls on the radio. Since the archive list was large, users decided to check only those songs that matched "Like the Wind" in length. After weeding out the unsuitable records, the searchers started listening to each one, but as a result, the song they were looking for was not among them. Also later, other lists for the same years fell into the hands of the searchers, but already associated with the broadcasts of other leading programs, but their analysis did not help the search.