How to find the name or title of a song by lyrics

Posted on September 25, 2007 at 3:07 pm

Most people listen to songs from bands they like and sometimes search for the lyrics of a song if they can’t quite make out what’s being sung. However, for those of us who happen to listen to the lyrics of a song and want to find out who sang it, there are some useful lyric search engines that do just that. Frankly, this happen to me all the time!

It’s amazing how many times I’ve jumped into my car and turned on the radio, really liked the song that was playing, but at the end of the song there was no announcement by the DJ of the artist or band! I understand the whole “back-to-back” song broadcasts on radios these days, but it would be really nice if there was a quick mention of the song name at the very end!

Anyway, so if you know some of the lyrics for the song you’re looking for, you can try out a few of these lyric search engines to try and find the band or song name. Actually, there are quite a few of them out there, but only a few really have large databases of song lyrics. So I put a couple to the test to try and find a fairly new song by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers called Californication with the query “the sun may rise in the east”.

These are the search engines that actually found the song:

1. Get Lyrical - You can also search by Artist, by Song, or by Album.

2. Search Lyrics - This site also has some non-English lyrics and you can translate any of the English lyrics to another language on the lyric pages. Get Lyrical finds an exact match for your lyrics whereas Search Lyrics searches for those words anywhere in a particular song and will return a result even if the words are all not together.

3. LyricsFly - Found my song also, but make sure you click on Lyrics first and then perform a search.

The other web sites that I tried did not find the test song lyrics and so I’m not going to mention them here if they can’t find a fairly new song from a fairly popular band. If you know of any other lyric search engines, post a comment!

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3 Responses to “How to find the name or title of a song by lyrics”

Madhur Kapoor said on : September 26th, 2007 at 10:37 am

Nice tools , never knew there were such things also

ka lung said on : May 17th, 2008 at 7:52 am

help me find lyrics to this please http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

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