Thread: Songs About Birds - A Collection
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14th May 2009, 8:22 AM #1
Songs About Birds - A Collection
Recently I've been enjoying 'Band On The Run', Paul McCartney's quite-good album from the 70's. It occurred to me that McCartney has written a fair few songs about birds. There's Blackbird, Bluebird and Jenny Wren. Almost one a decade!
So in a similar vein, if there was to be an ultimate compilation on songs about birds what would it include? What songs with birds, or types of birds, or about birds are there?
NB - Simply saying 'Anything by Sheryl Crow' doesn't count!Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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14th May 2009, 8:26 AM #2
Can we chose all the songs by Wings or The Eagles then?
Oh OK. An obvious choice from my point of view is ABBA's Eagle. Great song, very atmospheric.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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14th May 2009, 8:57 AM #3
"Blackbird on the Wire" by Beautiful South.
Anything by the Doves?
"Little Bird" by Annie Lennox.
"Raven Dove" by Dolly Parton.
"The Birdie Song"!!
"I'm Like A Bird" by Nelly Furtado
"Why Am I Sitting Here Trying To Think Of Songs With Birds In Instead Of Looking For A Job" by Si Hunt.
Oh, and "Rockin' Robin" by Lolly.
Si.
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14th May 2009, 9:25 AM #4
And what about "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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14th May 2009, 4:18 PM #5
There's an almost forgotten hit from 1980 by French group Sweet People called And The Birds Were Singing. It's a sickly instrumental with birds twittering all through it, and spent ten weeks on the UK charts reaching #4.
Can we also mention the theme from Magpie by the Murgatroyd Band? They were actually The Spencer Davis Group with a few members of Traffic thrown in for good measure.
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14th May 2009, 4:29 PM #6
There's Glodfrapp's Little Bird too.
And of course, The Birdie Song!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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14th May 2009, 4:44 PM #7
We mustn't forget Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson's early Eurovision entry Sing Little Birdie. It's a classic.
This thread could run and run!
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14th May 2009, 5:47 PM #8
I was rather hoping it would take flight, Stephen!
Although none of the song title are about birds, they feature heavily in Kate Bush's Aerial album. There's that wonderful moment where she's singing along to a birdsong, then laughing like a loon!Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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14th May 2009, 8:33 PM #9
Albatross by Fleetwood Mac
The Rookie, Old Crow and Scattering Crows - all from an album Field of Crows by Fish
When a Nightingale Sang in Berkerly Square by some toff
Dodo Lurker by Genesis
Parakeet by REMBazinga !
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14th May 2009, 9:38 PM #10
Surfin' Bird?
Because the bird is the word.For every fail, there is an equal and opposite win.
...Oh, who am I kidding?
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15th May 2009, 12:41 AM #11
Disco outfit Silver Convention's 1975 dancefloor hit Fly Robin Fly.
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15th May 2009, 8:25 AM #12
Which reminds me of the hit song made popular by Michael Jackson - Rockin' Robin!
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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15th May 2009, 8:28 AM #13
Belle and Sebastians I'm A Cuckoo needs to be there.
Then there's more Beatles- Norweigan Wood (this bird has flown) and And Your Bird Can Sing.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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15th May 2009, 9:06 AM #14Pip Madeley Guest
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15th May 2009, 11:53 AM #15
Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep, Cheep by The Middle Of The Road
The First Time by ROBIN BeckI hope what I just wrote made sense, it did when I was thinking it.
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15th May 2009, 12:58 PM #16
Lene Lovich Bird Song
Stevie Wonder Love Light In Flight.
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15th May 2009, 2:44 PM #17
Feed the Birds, from Mary Poppins.
The First Time by ROBIN Beck
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15th May 2009, 6:52 PM #18
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15th May 2009, 11:27 PM #19
you gotta love three little birdies by bob marley. he was a god. song is an all time classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjtbhmQhsXg
damn think its a good time to break out me bob marley albums and turn up the volume
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16th May 2009, 12:04 AM #20
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16th May 2009, 12:08 AM #21
Dolly P also has a "Little Sparrow" and Kate B has "Night of the Swallow" on her "The Dreaming" album.
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16th May 2009, 2:07 PM #22Pip Madeley Guest
Patrick Wolf - Pigeon Song
Patrick Wolf - Blackbird
Patrick Wolf - Magpie (is he some sort of bird obsessive?)
Genesis - Pigeons
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16th May 2009, 2:51 PM #23
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16th May 2009, 3:43 PM #24
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Bluebird and Bluebird Is Dead, both by ELO.
Rockin' Duck by Grimms (true!).
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16th May 2009, 3:49 PM #25
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