According to the slogan "All good things come to those who wait"

This would aptly describe two. no three songs I have recently purchased through i-tunes.

Do you ever have those moments when you hear a piece of music on the radio that really grabs you but at the end of the song the DJ just goes into the next link or song and you never find out what it is called. Then no mater how much you try you can find no clue as to what it's name is?

The first song on my list is a Bob Dylan tune called "Like a rollin' stone". Generally I am not actually a great Dylan fan but as a teenager at sixth form college it caught my attention.

It was a Friday morning. I remember it was a sunny day so I like to remember it as early spring. It has always felt like a lifting of the gloom of winter, of a fresh start, time to try again. So this particular day I was in a downer due to not actually being clever enough to cope with my studies and i heard this tune on the radio. I must have, it was one of those songs that just sat in my head all day. Especially as I sat in two hours of Chemistry that i just didn't understand and i just had the words "How do you feel?" buzzing around my head.

It took many years and the purchase of a lot of dodgy records before i heard it again on the radio and finally found the real artist.

The second is a song I heard only twice before I bought it. I heard it, once again the radio, and the DJ didn't name it after it played. The tune sat in my mind for several years, a tantalizing grab of notes that I was unable to play again. That is until I listened to a morning radio show on the way into work. At 9 in the morning (yes I was running a little late for work!) this show provided a rather tenuous series of phonetic bumblings and linked a song from yesteryear to another. And guess what that day was this very song that I had heard just the once some 7 years previously. It was "Freakin' out" by Graham Coxon.

The last song has haunted me for nearly 13 years. In the late Nineties I commuted from my home in Southampton to work in west London on the train. It was cheaper to do that than actually move to London. The only problem was that it meant a fourteen hour day for me.

One Friday night i stepped off my train and crossed the station to the car park. When Istarted the car and my radio came on this piece was playing on Pete Tong's Friday night show. I was relieved to be nearly home. It was now the weekend. I would soon see my wife and young son and could unwind for a few days. The music just settled me into a mellow groove. By the end of the song i was all set for the weekend. IT was Friday night and everything was all right. But once again the I was let down by the DJ not telling me what it was. For the next 13 years the song was often played as incidental music on TV and i would have to watch the whole show so that Ii could check the credits in case the song was mentioned. But all for nought. I did not fret too much however as I knew from past experience that one day the title would announce itself and i would be re united once again.

And so it was that this year I spied an advert for a compilation album and there was a brief clip of my tune. All i ahd to do after that was play through all the tracks until i found the right one. and sure enough after 13 years of waiting I got my song

La Femme D'argent by AIR