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@laurenancona
Dec 5, 2023 • 43 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
just had the weirdest experience

was watching an X-files episode & there’s this country song playing in the background of the bar they’re in

& it’s so good it jars me out of my idle multitasking to Shazam it

except
Shazam can’t find it

so I look up the lyrics

& all I find from the lyrics are people talking about THIS episode of the X-files from 1998

wut
then I go search for the episode (S6E5 Dreamland II) & apparently I’m not the only one that was like “dang that’s a good song” because it’s mentioned on the IMDB page that nobody can find this silly song

what is happening screenshot from IMDB: Searching for the lost song The song that plays at the UFO bar where Mulder meets his body double. There is a song in the background. Lyrics-"have waited for what seems like a light-year Just to see your face once again, my dear Shining bright like moonlight Sunlight, starlight With big dark eyes that send me out of sight Now I'm staring at the stars... Wondering where you are... Wondering if I'll ever see your face again In my memory you are " Please help me find the song. Considered by all who watch it to be a hidden Gem.
for reference

[ video of a woman walking into a bar & sitting down, looking distressed, while the song referenced plays in the background ]
more!

given how on the nose some of the lyrics are, I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t thrown together as incidental music, but that hook is just so good idk idk

the changes first caught my ear because they smack of Queen circa Radio Ga Ga era

anybody know a Jeff Charbonneau


credits from the episode showing a Music Editir by the name of Jeff Charbonneau
he went on to Do Some Stuff, somebody must know him IMDB entry for Jeff Charbonneau, music editor, showing their work on X-files, Homeland, Love, Death, & Robots, Tulsa King, & others
I love imagining that this was accidentally-too-good incidental music 😂

There are people on Reddit saying they’ve been trying to find the song since this episode first aired in 1998 🤯
(that’s roughly a decade pre-Shazam) 🤓
I keep wondering why it is that so many people have looked for *this* song over the years?

It’s not so much country as it is a pop tune in country clothes.

Realized that it’s so up in the mix, & so poignant, that it’s like another character in that scene.
I should also credit the vocal performance of the mystery singer, too: plaintive perfection on top of those warm harmonies + slide guitar is really 🤌
[ I couldn’t find a music supervisor in the credits, so if anyone knows who that is….I only had the end credits to reference at the time - that’s why I included the music editor, perhaps they’d know who the supervisor was ]
I hope the folks that did this work know so many people liked it so much ☺️
UPDATE

👉 @MichelleStClare was right!

welp

but somebody found the cue sheet!!!

[ I may have just purchased this episode so I can pull timestamps to match up w/ durations. It’s a little fuzzy because the music is present in the distant background for some time, but I’m assuming this stuff is covered by a CBA somewhere thus erring on the side of pedantry ]
It’s one of the two last entries, most likely the penultimate

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Gonna share their socials in the next tweet

THANK YOU for making this happen & to everyone that contributed
🥹 I just want them to know how much & how many people have enjoyed their work these 25 years 🫶🏻

[ image from previous with alt text ] screenshot of text exchange: “Hii- a tweet went viral of people trying to find a song from x files and it appears you might have written it? https://x.com/laurenancona/status/ 1731903960162701763? s=46&t=zA46P13H6zPcTFzLJVePqg "Staring At The Stars" appears to be the name - not sure if you have any ownership of masters or anything but it seems like a lot of people really want a recording of it to purchase or listen to and I thought you should know :)!” “Thanks, I’m reading through it. Quite impressive. Looking for the song…I know it’s here somewhere”
🥹 less than 24 hours to get here, I love yous so much

🫶🏻

is this real life? how amazing is this? Thank you Dan & Glenn!

🥹🥹🥹

[ while we wait to see about a recording, I think ‘we need a country song that could be about people or aliens…in 4 hours’ might be my favorite prompt ever ]

[ also while we wait, that’s Glenn Jordan’s lovely voice you hear on the recording, & he’s on Spotify ]

apparently Word Has Gotten Around 🥰

(reposted image to add alt text)


Screenshot of a text exchange with Frank Spotnitz “This just in from Larold: It’s called Staring at the Stars, by my friends Glenn Jordan and Dan Marfisi I called Glenn & he was listening to it because Dan had just called him!!! Unbelievable.”
I promise you I am not good enough at life to have planned this

IT’S HAPPENING 🥹

[ this thread has become a news item, including some of you that participated 🤓 I’m tracking news clips over here ]

📢
TO-MOR-ROW, TO-MOR-ROW […]
it’s only a day away 🎉


👽👽👽 IT’S HERE 🛸🛸🛸

Staring at the Stars, complete!

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