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This is the audio from the hit version by the group/band of our mystery song. On the very next beat/repeated chord, the singer sings the title. It as an acoustic piano, obviously. I said in clue one it was an electric piano cuz I accidentally auditioned a "live" version that played the intro with an electric keyboard. I sincerely hope my initial clue didn't steer anyone away from the correct answer!
This is the actual AUDIO of the intro to the original version by the original songwriter/performer. On the very next beat/repeat of chord he sings the title!
Note to Steve--I didn't want to be too clever, but the speaker being British is a red herring. "An elegant fit, being the first song... a CLEVER fit (it being the FIRST song) might have been said, as well...my experiment was more along the lines of simply using guided imagery instead of actual music/audio.
Talking about the piano bench is simply an attempt to organically work into the narrative that there's two different versions, a version by a group that became a hit that shortens the intro by half, and the original version with the longer intro. The piano bench makes the oldies performer realize he has to do "the long version" on this given night, so he can get seated before he has to be singing.
Clue #3:
The band/group version aka the hit version (with the shorter intro) made it to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. This same band would have their first number one hit soon thereafter. It would be with a song written by the same guy that our mystery song's original songwriter/performer would "cover" an entire album's worth of his material. This, at around the same time the band/group was heading to #1 for the first time.
Clue #2:
The song was written and originally recorded by a man. The hit version was recorded by a group.
Clue #1:
Both the original intro starts with just an electric keyboard of some kind, the hit version, an acoustic piano. Original version = electric keyboard, "hit version" by a group = acoustic piano intro
to recap:
the original artist,a man, plays the same minor chord twenty times before changing chords and sings the title on the 17th occurrence of that chord, and at a rate of slightly faster than one every half a second do those repeated chords get played.
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