Who Sang This Song?
CHERYLMHVA
yrs. I don't know who sang it. It sounds like a man & woman singing & had words
to it about "White Bird In A Golden Cage". Hubby thinks it may be Ian & Sylvia
singing it. I wonder if he may be right. The DJ never announced the title.
That's the way they do these days esp with songs you don't know the title. LOL!
We're at the beach in NC this week & I heard it on the local oldies station
there. I listen to only oldies on the radio as I hate this new junk they got
out in Rock these days. Gimme folk anyday to that new stuff. Rocks last good
year was 1979. LOL! Thanks for refreshing our memories whoever knows this tune!
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chery...@aol.comNOSPAM2 says...
> Today I heard on the radio an old folk song from the 60's I hadn't heard in
> yrs. I don't know who sang it. It sounds like a man & woman singing & had words
> to it about "White Bird In A Golden Cage". Hubby thinks it may be Ian & Sylvia
> singing it. I wonder if he may be right. The DJ never announced the title.
> That's the way they do these days esp with songs you don't know the title. LOL!
> We're at the beach in NC this week & I heard it on the local oldies station
> there. I listen to only oldies on the radio as I hate this new junk they got
> out in Rock these days. Gimme folk anyday to that new stuff. Rocks last good
> year was 1979. LOL! Thanks for refreshing our memories whoever knows this tune!
>
White Bird in a Gilded Cage was a mid-seventies song by a group called
"It's A Beautiful Day." Real heavy on a minor key violin?
Good song.
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> Today I heard on the radio an old folk song from the 60's
> I hadn't heard in yrs. I don't know who sang it. It sounds
> like a man & woman singing & had words to it about "White
> Bird In A Golden Cage".
The song is "White Bird" by the group, It's a Beautiful Day, from the 1969
album of the same name. The principal (only?) members were former Utah
Symphony member David LaFlamme (who sang and wrote much of the material) and
his wife, Linda. "White Bird" is a classic from that era, right up there (in
my mind) with Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale."
Buffer.
John Fereira
>In article <20000608014334...@ng-cg1.aol.com>,
>chery...@aol.comNOSPAM2 says...
>> yrs. I don't know who sang it. It sounds like a man & woman singing & had
> words
> Sylvia
>> singing it. I wonder if he may be right. The DJ never announced the title.
>> That's the way they do these days esp with songs you don't know the title.
> LOL!
>> We're at the beach in NC this week & I heard it on the local oldies station
>> there. I listen to only oldies on the radio as I hate this new junk they got
>> out in Rock these days. Gimme folk anyday to that new stuff. Rocks last good
>> year was 1979. LOL! Thanks for refreshing our memories whoever knows this
> tune!
>>
>
>White Bird in a Gilded Cage was a mid-seventies song by a group called
>"It's A Beautiful Day." Real heavy on a minor key violin?
Actually, the entire album is quite good. "It's a Beautiful Day" has the
distinction of being the first band I ever saw in concert. They played at the
gymnasium of my high school. A few years after the album came out on vinyl
the first issue became a real collectors items and were fetching prices of
$75-$100. I owned (still do) a copy in very good condition. After 10 years
or so it was rereleased then released on CD (I have a copy on CD as well).
The second "It's a Beautiful Day" album was pretty unmemorable but David
LaFlame later released an album called "White Bird" which contained another
version of the song and the rest of the album wasn't bad either.
John Fereira
Ithaca, NY
ja...@cornell.edu
John Lupton
>Today I heard on the radio an old folk song from the 60's I hadn't heard in
>yrs. I don't know who sang it. It sounds like a man & woman singing & had words
>to it about "White Bird In A Golden Cage". Hubby thinks it may be Ian & Sylvia
>singing it. I wonder if he may be right. The DJ never announced the title.
>That's the way they do these days esp with songs you don't know the title. LOL!
>We're at the beach in NC this week & I heard it on the local oldies station
>there. I listen to only oldies on the radio as I hate this new junk they got
>out in Rock these days. Gimme folk anyday to that new stuff. Rocks last good
>year was 1979. LOL! Thanks for refreshing our memories whoever knows this tune!
"White Bird" was probably the signature song of the San Francisco-based rock
band It's A Beautiful Day, they were active in the late 60s and early 70s. I
saw them a couple of times in Austin, TX while I was in college there in those
years. Marvelous band. The song was from what I think was their first album,
self-titled, the cover of which is a painting of a young girl in Victorian
dress standing on a sun- and wind-swept promontory, gazing wistfully off into
the distance. There was also a live version of the song on their album "Live
At Carnegie Hall".
At the time of the original "White Bird", the driving force of the band was
fiddler and singer David LaFlamme, the lead female vocalist was Patti Santos.
The keyboard player was one Linda LaFlamme, but I forget whether she was
David's sister or wife. In any case, Linda left the band at some point in the
early 70s, then David left a year or two later. I think there were 4 albums
that David LaFlamme was part of (including the live one, but I might be
mis-remembering that). By 1974, Santos was leading the band, they did one
final album ("It's A Beautiful Day...Today"), then I think the band dissolved.
I've heard that David LaFlamme is still active in the music business, but I
haven't heard anything about either Patti Santos or Linda LaFlamme in many
years. I don't remember too many other names of band members - they had a
pretty decent guitarist named Billy Gregory, and I think a guy named Val
Fuentes played bass for at least some time. Other than that, I don't recall
much (without going home, digging out the LPs and checking, anyway).
At the time, the presence of a fiddle/violin notwithstanding, I don't think
anyone thought of It's A Beautiful Day as a "folk" band, but by today's
parameters, I can understand how you could think of "White Bird" as folk
music. There was a certain dichotomy about the band, though - on record, they
were relatively sweet and soft (compared to, say, other Bay Area bands like
Jefferson Airplane or the Grateful Dead), but on stage, in concert, they could
really crank up the full-tilt, pedal-to-the-metal boogie. Like I said, a great
band.
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John Lupton, "Rural Free Delivery"
WVUD-FM 91.3, Newark DE (www.sas.upenn.edu/~jlupton/rfd.html)
Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music/
Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
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Steven Rowe
>haven't heard anything about either Patti Santos or Linda LaFlamme in many
>years.
I recall reading Patti Santos obit (car accident??)
Steven Rowe
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John Lupton
>>I've heard that David LaFlamme is still active in the music business, but I
>>haven't heard anything about either Patti Santos or Linda LaFlamme in many
>>years.
>
>I recall reading Patti Santos obit (car accident??)
I'm sorry to hear that, if true. I thought she was a wonderful singer.
Thanks for the info.
CHERYLMHVA
the ones who sang that song. I've seen that album before along time ago.
Somehow the song sounded folk to me. :)
That oldies station in Nags Head, NC has been playing some rare stuff here you
you don't hear anymore. While at Nags Head for the week I've heard more Dylan &
Maria Muldaur & PP&M than I've heard in along time. It's nice hearing stuff I
haven't heard in yrs. We did however run into a young girl in a shop down here
that didn't know who DYLAN was & had never seen what he looked like before.
LOL! It made us feel so old! At lest they knew who Arlo Guthrie is. Again
thanks for the info!
Peace,
LanceU1943
people with their roots in folk music. The Jefferson Airplane lead guitarist,
Jorma Kaukonnen was a blues guitar singer (acoustic), Paul Kantner was a
guitarist, and Skip Spence was a guitarist who became a drummer because the
Airplane needed a drummer. Plastic Embryonic Journey was a favorite of Jorma's
to play on his guitar, with his long thin fingers making the 14 fret glissandos
and the harmonics that characterized his playing. He introduced to me Furry
Lewis and a number of Delta Blues players through his interpretations. Winin'
Boy, and Death don't have no Mercy in this land were his signature songs. Jerry
Garcia and the Grateful Dead also had their modest beginnings as Mother
McChree's Uptown Champions Jug Band in the SF Bay Area and we know where they
went with the Blues/Folk idiom.
Just thought that might help fill in some of the logic holes for you. It was a
magical time in music, and the Fillmore was a magical place with Bill Graham
running around and washtubs full of apples and pot smoke so thick, that you
could not see from the top of the Auditorium down.
John Lupton
>...We did however run into a young girl in a shop down here
>that didn't know who DYLAN was & had never seen what he looked like before.
>LOL! It made us feel so old!
"...and when you talk about Dylan, they think you're talkin' about Dylan
Thomas...whoever HE was" - P. Simon, ca. 1967 (maybe not an exact quote, but
pretty close)
<g>
aerie
Great song!
Ann
CHERYLMHVA wrote in message
<20000608014334...@ng-cg1.aol.com>...
>Today I heard on the radio an old folk song from the 60's I hadn't heard in
>yrs. I don't know who sang it. It sounds like a man & woman singing & had
words
>to it about "White Bird In A Golden Cage". Hubby thinks it may be Ian &
Sylvia
>singing it. I wonder if he may be right. The DJ never announced the title.
>That's the way they do these days esp with songs you don't know the title.
LOL!
>We're at the beach in NC this week & I heard it on the local oldies station
>there. I listen to only oldies on the radio as I hate this new junk they
got
>out in Rock these days. Gimme folk anyday to that new stuff. Rocks last
good
>year was 1979. LOL! Thanks for refreshing our memories whoever knows this
tune!
>
aerie
jwebb...@my-deja.com
rest of It's Beautiful Day....Problem is, the can't use the name
because of lawsuits from their former manager, Matthew Katz, but
sometime the band does it anyway, ha ha...Yes, that fine singer, Patty
Santos died in a car crash in Northern California in 1989.....For more
info please visit my site at
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/gramophone/873
Jeff
In article <8hovmv$7ci$2...@netnews.upenn.edu>,
th...@space.for.rent (John Lupton) wrote:
> In article <20000608160555...@ng-cu1.aol.com>,
srowe...@aol.comUNSPAM (Steven Rowe) wrote:
>
> >>I've heard that David LaFlamme is still active in the music
business, but I
> >>haven't heard anything about either Patti Santos or Linda LaFlamme
in many
> >>years.
> >
> >I recall reading Patti Santos obit (car accident??)
>
> I'm sorry to hear that, if true. I thought she was a wonderful singer.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
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> John Lupton, "Rural Free Delivery"
> WVUD-FM 91.3, Newark DE (www.sas.upenn.edu/~jlupton/rfd.html)
> Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music/
> Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
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