Back in 1984 I was in my first year of University and was recording songs from CBC radio Night Lines and Brave New Waves from my dorm room on a cassette recorder. By the end of the semester I had filled a 90 minute tape. These two shows would play a lot of bands that were at that point not so well known such as Midnight Oil, icicle works, the alarm, wang chung etc. I wasn't always able to get the name of the artists on tape, some of them were unknown.
A few years later the tape was stolen from my car and as time went on the memory of some of it's content faded.
Fast forward to today 09/05/2025 and I'm doing some unrelated task and a song come to my head. I could only remember Shayla, so lonely without you,,,,, and the melody. I knew this was on my long lost tape. I couldn't get online fast enough to search and like you ran into the same obstacles as I was searching Sheila as in my mind the singer was just stylizing the name. With no success I searched Shayla and quickly Chayla appeared.
After 40 years I found the elusive tune. I'll sleep well tonight
Here is one for you.
Back in 1984 I was in my first year of University and was recording songs from CBC radio Night Lines and Brave New Waves from my dorm room on a cassette recorder. By the end of the semester I had filled a 90 minute tape. These two shows would play a lot of bands that were at that point not so well known such as Midnight Oil, icicle works, the alarm, wang chung etc. I wasn't always able to get the name of the artists on tape, some of them were unknown.
A few years later the tape was stolen from my car and as time went on the memory of some of it's content faded.
Fast forward to today 09/05/2025 and I'm doing some unrelated task and a song come to my head. I could only remember Shayla, so lonely without you,,,,, and the melody. I knew this was on my long lost tape. I couldn't get online fast enough to search and like you ran into the same obstacles as I was searching Sheila as in my mind the singer was just stylizing the name. With no success I searched Shayla and quickly Chayla appeared.
After 40 years I found the elusive tune. I'll sleep well tonight
Marc Savoie
Glad I was able to help someone else figure out what it was!
Ran into the same snag too. For years I was looking for "Shayla".
That was very thorough!
Thank You!