Stay By My Side, is an unknown song originally uploaded in 2008 with potential origins in Greek disco

HISTORY

On 05 March 2008, user Jugge uploaded a 0:49 snippet of the song, without the intro, to the song identification website spiritofradio.ca. 

On 22 December 2008, WatZatSong user Konstantinos uploaded the song's intro, before sharing the full version the next day via the now-defunct file sharing service zshare. He claimed the song was too fast.

Konstantinos would go on to post links to his collection of lost songs, which included Stay By My Side, to the doyouremember forums. He claimed that the recordings were sourced from old compilation tapes of European disco music, purchased in Greece. He also posted these songs to several other song identification sites, including tapatalk and minimalwave, but these threads did not produce any leads.

In October 2020, Jugge was contacted and claimed that he got the song from someone else, but cannot remember who. It has been speculated that this could have been Konstantinos.

On 01 March 2021, after Calling was solved, Konstantinos returned after years of inactivity to thank the community for the search efforts. Due to his new found activity, FMM mod nonoseacrest inquired about Stay By My Side. The next day, on 02 March 2021, Konstantinos reuploaded the full version of the song. He explained that he bought the song on a cassette tape from a flea market between 1994 and 2004, and that he would specifically collect recordings from discotheques and pirate radio stations. He also revealed that he sold his entire record collection between 2010 and 2011, and no longer owns the original tape.

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