It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird - 7/7/1970 - Tanglewood (Official)

[@barrysmith8193]

Back from brutal combat in Vietnam I was taken to another place by listening to them. Smoked a little hash, rolled a few tight doobies….. and I was taken away. They were my bridge over very troubled times back to what was my reality. Enriched my soul then and still do now.

[@Razoul-xf1wt]

Thank you🫡

[@CooManTunes]

What was the worst thing you saw in Vietnam?

[@timjc4344]

@CooManTunes Not to be rude, but I sincerely hope that @barrysmith8193 doesn’t answer you back, as in doing so will only bring him back painful reminders of the daily chaos & tragedy that he so fortunate managed to survive… which no doubt many of his brave & honorable “brothers in arms” (truly!) did not. I have known many war veterans, I know of none that ever wished to speak of the horrors that they witnessed during their time in service. I know some few have, perhaps for “posterity’s sake” & in the seemingly vain hope of educating us of the younger generations, but I’ve never known a veteran that was pleased to retell his/her tales about war…

[@CooManTunes]

​@@timjc4344 You're not seeing the bigger picture. He brought up his military service on a KZbin comments section. This, alone, means he wants people to hear about his experience. Unless he's a hypocrite.

[@Everythinghasasoul]

We’re glad you’re still here. Peace and love

[@nancymarafioti5856]

RIP, Linda. 2024 RIP, David. 2023. A much loved song of my youth. ❤Listening again and again at 71.☮️ Thank you❤

[@OohMyHead]

Yes, and yes.

[@hudsonhollow]

@@OohMyHead Wonderful memories!

[@DRF-rg5qy]

Saw them at Fillmore East sometime in 1970. It was one of the best and most beautiful performances I've ever heard.

[@billpurcell741]

same here at 73

[@wmanad8479]

For some reason, maybe because it's a beautiful day, I recall this song from years ago. So I look for it here on KZbin and of course, here it is! So now I'm listening, it's 2024,and my mind goes back over 50 years. So much has changed, and it's a beautiful day and birds are singing.

[@fredinct5275]

R.I.P. David LaFlamme

[@vmaldonado5442]

I’m an old hippie, 🌸 73 and still listening to the song! Love it ❤️

[@smesui1799]

You are not alone. ... ☮️✌️

[@pennylehrer1306]

Me, too! I remember when this song/album came out. So good!

[@stephenflintoshjr.2547]

@@vmaldonado5442 I am 72 myself. Went to the Fillmore every Saturday nighr

[@vmaldonado5442]

@@stephenflintoshjr.2547 I used to drive from LA to San Francisco in my new 69 VW with my sunroof open 🌸🤓 and then drive back on the same day.

[@vmaldonado5442]

Also, using a fake ID got into the Whiskey A Go Go in Hollywood to see the house band, THE DOORS! 😉

[@JackF99]

No auto-tune, no dancing show, just pure musical beauty.

[@rodneybudlong1545]

I actually was weeping with the joy of the memory. Tears on my face from being transported in time to a more innocent time, with it;s special magic. Music never to be duplicated again.

[@donheenan1571]

I agree

[@philmarasco7833]

Music.

[@philmarasco7833]

I wish this band played at woodstock n.y. in 1969 summer they are so grate..good hippie

[@donheenan1571]

And to have vinyl lps today would be a win!

[@jg6698]

More innocent time? Race riots, anti war protests. Body bags from Nam. Yeah, go ahead and weep. 🙄

[@elmono3939]

Hard to believe it happened 52 years ago.... One of the most under-rated songs of the Hippie era

[@pattyayers]

Not underrated at all

[@2cozmick25]

Underrated group. They really have alot of good stuff on all 5 lps and this one here i like girl with no eyes, yea i'm a old hippie

[@pennygaiser741]

You are so right

[@lewisc215]

it was never underrated, fool.

[@johnyards936]

I Love The Song from the start ( I'm from 1950 )

[@svensofficialpage7060]

They use to rehearse in my grandma's garage on Pennsylvania Ave on Potrero Hill in San Francisco in the mid 60's! My grandmother use to babysit Pattie Santos when she waa a child. My mom played this tune on regular rotation in our house growing up. Amazing band indeed!

[@claystablein9739]

That's nuts and cool nuts at that!

[@slingshotchicken4695]

Wow, cool story, Yer granny was a lucky lady.

[@GrandmaSmith-jn1uy]

I am delighted to hear your story. Thank you for sharing.

[@fredsands9220]

Thanks a lot for sharing! 😀

[@Razoul-xf1wt]

Amazing memories 😀

[@donnahalper9110]

Just read that Linda LaFlamme has passed (she died on October 23, but the obit was published yesterday). She will be missed. White Bird is one of the greatest classic rock songs ever. Still sounds wonderful even now. May she rest in peace.

[@bernhardferrari1471]

♥

[@grizzlybear4]

Oh no. R.I.P. Linda. ❤

[@charlesking5328]

First concert I ever seen they opened for Zappa , Lee Michael's also. Never forget it.

[@donnahalper9110]

@@charlesking5328 they were such a talented band. And that album still sounds good even today.

[@robbinjuliano9014]

Wow Thank You for showing me this I love music! I was born in the 60’s♥️

[@mark2952]

Thank God someone recorded and preserved these bands from the 60s and early 70s. The older I get, the more appreciate it.

[@charlesveg]

amen

[@edge845]

Isn't that the truth - I feel the same about so many of these treasures.

[@tsnyunt1]

So true. Cult favorite

[@williamhowerton8633]

Amen friend, wonderful.

[@kenrussell1093]

Mark the older I get, the more I appreciate that mini skirt, too! Fantastic video!

[@andrewmasset8751]

We are the lucky ones who lived back then..to this day I marvel at the love, wonder and hope of those times and songs. Peace brothers.

[@wendyschaumberg6850]

YOU SAID IT BEAUTIFULLY ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

[@tailgatecarpenter26]

Agreed. Nothing like being a teen in the 1970s in The San Francisco Bay Area! Little crime and BART gave us access before we could drive.

[@daveormand4977]

Being a teen in the 70’s was awesome everywhere. We enjoyed life, for the most part had good morals, and believed in something, worked hard, played harder, but we had respect and structure…good times!!!

[@cherylarquitt8516]

Could have said it better 😌✨✨✨✨🫶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@adc2327]

​@@tailgatecarpenter26The tunnel to San Francisco didn't open until 1974. Us East Bay kids were stuck until then. The Bay Area was a wonderful place to grow up. My parents were from Arkansas. I asked my father what made him choose the Bay Area. He gave me a long rambling story. Whatever the reason, I am glad he made the choice. I was born in Berkeley.

[@JamesClendenin-f4h]

Old hippies never die...their soul and spirit live on... The music lives on... Love, Peace,and Happiness will always be around no matter what!! ☮️💟

[@JessicaT-qp9uv]

Yup...groovy🎉

[@dougyoung221]

Nothing, no one, dies, especially the spirit of this music.

[@jlarrybrewer1149]

No autotune, no prerecorded backing tracks, no sequencers just talent and countless hours of practice perfecting it

[@skychristypresents4313]

Yesssa A nearly lost art ..

[@johnnyfoo8737]

They had a thing call talent

[@roberte.andrews4621]

Amen. We are held captive by the digital demons of dehumanization.

[@bonehead1170]

We also can love music from the past without whining about today's music.

[@bonehead1170]

@@pmbbmp My love for music always leads me searching for new and different, not just old and familiar.

[@pamelaferguson7766]

This band and song are a perfect representation of the late 60's, early 70's. Beautiful times, beautiful music, beautiful people.

[@thomasmazur6916]

And excellent in concert.

[@kentuckere1991]

Got that right...I saw these folks only once and that was in 1974. At that time there were two ladies in the band. One with dark, the one in this video and another lady who had long straight blonde hair and the two were remarkable. And the guy on the violin seems to be different. And I'd seen them at this super fashion place in Kansas City called "The Choosy Beggar" where if we had to ask the price od an item you didn't belong there. But I was a little "bit different" then

[@johnandrews2584]

@@kentuckere1991 the violin player is David LaFlamme, leader of the band. Im sure hes who you saw.

[@zampieritto]

Late 60s. By 1970 the music changed a lot

[@zampieritto]

@@kentuckere1991 but at 1974 they carried on playing psychedelic or they changed into folk?

[@nuwavedave]

Spent the Summer of 1971 with friends playing backgammon in our beach town north of Cape Cod, listening to It's A Beautiful Day, Jethro Tull, Santana, Moody Blues, and The Who - just groovin' on the Summer vibes. Such simpler times - far removed from the violent, hate-filled nonsense consuming so much of socety today. I wish I could transport you back to MY time.

[@ezmoney797]

I’ll be the first to buy a ticket beam me up Scotty

[@joekosobucki2141]

What about Aliota, Haynes,And Jeremiah? Lakeshore Drive is a great song too!

[@BLOVECU]

we did indeed live in the best of times. i spent many summers in marston's mills during the 60's and 70's. we didn't know how fortunate we were then, but we sure do now.

[@pauldavies1710]

I’m still living it - just ignoring the mad world that is around me.

[@GrandmaSmith-jn1uy]

Only if you did not watch the news or read the newspapers. That was the time of the struggle for civil rights for Blacks, the war in Viet Nam, and a huge generation gap along with liberals and conservatives ready to start a new civil war. Yes, we had the most incredible music and still mostly decent pot, but so much anger and hate!

[@ratski60]

In my 60s, a song from my past, but... I work with autistic teenagers, this song played one lunchtime, the most withdrawn non verbal kid handed me a note at end of lunch, 'I like your music it looks inside my head'. So happy that day.

[@Malkmusianful]

As an autistic person, this captures what's going on in my head That's the beauty of It's a Beautiful Day's self-titled album - it's so majestic and weird and beautiful

[@GayleKazanis]

Works for me to 😊

[@4faxache935]

I partake of mdma and it definitely works for me as well.

[@erikwesterberg7220]

Now you made me sob! It is all to beautiful and may we all be healed also in this dark times

[@JamesClendenin-f4h]

@@ratski60 That is such a cool thing..God Bless You and your work!! ☮️💟

[@danceswithwombats]

This song is sonic perfection performed by a band that never attained the popularity and success they deserved.

[@dragmyre]

+Doug Bottalico how many thumbs up can i give you?

[@ChuckDeFuque]

+Doug Bottalico The reason they never got the success and popularity(fame) they deserved was because they got embroiled in a legal battle over "It's A Beautiful Day" name! David and Linda LaFlamme left the group and tried to copyright the name so they could use it. The battle lasted years and the LaFlamme's lost, but by then their time had passed, and they never recaptured it! Shame though, You can't think of the San Francisco sound without thinking of them!

[@gs7305]

+ChuckDeFuque - Quite a few VERY good bands have lost due to poor agent management. What a shame!

[@ETandAssociates]

"Sonic perfection" for sure.

[@lordairgtar]

You are correct. I helped them load in after this happened in Marshall California at some road house there. Still awesome after all that. David did try a new name, Love Guns, but I don't think that went anywhere.

[@joelkaufman7176]

David LaFlamme - 1941- August 7, 2023. Rest in peace. A unique sound. One of my favorite albums. Thank you for the music.

[@paulmcilroy7508]

Sad to know this so late for me. Had no idea. Brilliant writing! R.I.P. David LaFlamme 🙄😇💝

[@dancotterman1267]

RIP David. Loved your music and voice and violin. So sad we have to leave this world but a better one is coming that lasts forever. Without sorrow or death. John 3-16, for God so loved this world that he gave his only Son, that “whosoever” believes on him should not perish but have eternal life. Please believe. You can go there too.

[@WhiteBirdMustFly2]

Yes, he was a very nice man, when I met him in Concert at what’s called Cal Poly Humboldt, today.

[@noelsalisbury7448]

❤

[@privateconfidential4775]

Is he the lead singer?

[@karhymanis9789]

those who LIVED at that time know. we can not describe it to those who did not.

[@robin2012ism]

Yeah, baby.

[@tomjanko8032]

you´re so right 👍

[@paulguzman1634]

I still try to explain what our lives were like to the young people I that I have met and worked with though the years. Many are fascinated by the stories of how we lived, loved and partied in the late 60's through the 70's and the marvelous 80's. But, the music I turn them onto is what they dig the most! Thank's for posting this Gem!

[@dougoverhoff7568]

It could never be described! You had to have lived it. What a trip, eh!

[@Pexster]

So true!

[@lairgriffin4129]

Saw this concert at Tanglewood. It’s a Beautiful Day opened the show, followed by Jethro Tull, (who played all of “Aqualung”) and finally the Who came on to perform all of “Tommy”. Now that was a great night!

[@nancymarafioti5856]

Wow! What a concert that had to be!

[@Intelife123]

WOW. Saw Jethro Tull at a place called the Cave I think in London..but Beautiful Day was a favorite

[@janniebee9501]

No shit!!

[@techguy3507]

Wow!

[@johnbauman4005]

Must have been a long one, too. That's a ton of music.

[@jabbermocky4520]

Pattie Santos had such a soulful voice. It's nearly impossible to find information about her. She passed away in 1989, quite young. Loved this song all my life. RIP Pattie.

[@jamesrussell7669]

Yes tried finding what I could on her not enough information about her soulful voice

[@warrenblum3104]

patti was training dogs in her new life and was coming back home at 120am and was dui. she lost control at high speed hit a tree, went airborn and hit another tree. doa. too young. mistakes happen to all of us.

[@tluns810]

I woke up one night with this song playing in my head while asleep.I had not heard it in years but I couldn’t get back to sleep until I got up and listened to it.

[@WakeUpBunny]

Born 16 November 1949 in San Francisco to Anthony and Maria (nee Yslas) Santos, Pattie died near Geyserville, CA in a solo car crash. Pattie spent the last several years of her life working as a bookkeeper for a chocolate company.

[@jabbermocky4520]

@@WakeUpBunny Thank you. Such a loss of a beautiful voice way too soon.

[@johnmoss8044]

This song is timeless. The vocal harmony incredible. Music from a lost time and not to be matched by anyone today.

[@stevemuhlberger]

It was music from a lost time back then, too.

[@Tuzilla]

One of the most undervalued of all the San Francisco Sound bands. tremendous talent throughout.

[@robertmaser2126]

Definitely they were probably the best band to come out of the San Francisco sound. That just happened a little too late.I will put them up with the grateful Dead or any other group that came out of San Francisco

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Not undervalued in the bay area

[@Tuzilla]

@@lastnamefirst4035 Yes. I wish that could be said elsewhere. They were amazing.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@TuzillaIABD still play in the bay area. David Laflemme is 80 yrs old

[@TheJanis972]

Magnifique groupe . Pour la petite provinciale que j'etais à 20 ans en 1998 quand j'ai découvert ce groupe. Les années 70 étaient ma référence et je les faisaient perdurer! C'est toujours aussi émouvant et e n'ai pas changé au fond. And you?😉

[@rickyblackburn-n9e]

Timeless. Beautiful. A stand-alone classic.

[@leedubno154]

Back when music was actually music.

[@SavingChicago]

It was (is) a beautiful song.

[@richardwhite8227]

I was 11 years old when this song came out , Im 63 now and it still gives me chills everytime I hear it.......

[@jamestiscareno4387]

Hey, me too. 63 now and 11 then.

[@ihatetomatoo]

63 years old man watching youtube.

[@Lynjupiter1]

A pretty remakable song and band.

[@phoneboxmag6575]

I was 17 ... older but not wiser now... start of the journey,

[@richardwhite8227]

​@@ihatetomatoo yes I share videos, I have a blog,

[@donreed]

11/11/24: Rest In Peace, Linda. Thank you for EVERYTHING.

[@sandrajohnson2489]

I remember the first time I heard this song. It was well over fifty years ago and I was sitting on the banks of the Flathead lake in Montana. No one around just me and a radio. I fell in love with this song and still love it. It's haunting. Many many MANY years later I was at work when my adult son and his then girlfriend brought the album to me. I nearly fainted.

[@kt9166]

David has flown with the White Bird today, 08/10/2023, at the age of 82. Thank you, David. I will love your music forever.

[@sarak8341]

I've listened to this song over and over for many, many years! It never gets old!

[@joeyhumphrey4536]

I was so young when I first heard this song and thought it was a really good song. 52 Years later, man what a classic. Thank you for preserving this classic. Way before their time.

[@blmrgtr]

Never gets old, but fuck sakes, this version ups the ante hugely!

[@blairsterling6141]

When will peace, love, brotherhood, freedom, tolerance and free love come back in style. All the things Christ preached.

[@MaureenKovatch-cl9jw]

As did the hippies. As did my generation.

[@vickietaylor2850]

It was sex, drugs, and rock n roll. Nothing more. Everybody was high and sleeping with everybody. I don’t see that as a high moral state.

[@blairsterling6141]

@vickietaylor2850 ..very dark negative view... peace, love, hope were being espoused vociferously. ... compare to these times where kids are shooting people down in schools, churches, stores, parks, synagogues, shopping centers.....ANYWHERE...kids are cutting people down with guns.....Back in the sixties, they were carrying flowers...flower power was the theme.

[@cherylwall9686]

I'm a boomer and can never forget this song.......ever... they don't make songs like this anymore!

[@janmar100]

I'm so glad I grew up in the 70's. There was so much creativity in art and music. There is no other comparison in the history of music when there was so much variety, new sounds, rhythm and poetry. So many songs touch all of us so deeply. I took it for granted in the 70's but now I look back at that time with awe and wonder.

[@SpicyRok7482]

Considering the times we are now witnessing and experiencing, what type of music do we listen to while tens of thousand have died, and continue to die, from a virus, while so many are subjected to racist terror by our "protectors" and the sound of breaking glass, the smell of tear gas and burning smoke are in the air we breathe?

[@ESmithStringSlinger]

I was growing up in the 70's. Age 15 in '79 and the youngest of the boys. All things Boomer. Music was created with talent and imagination. The lyrics in popular music were second to none. Some of the arrangements were not the greatest at times,but a few 70's bands will be remembered forever.Imagine if songs were recorded onto tape.

[@ernestnunez803]

Yes Real music..Real Talent

[@mizzury54]

Yeah back then we simply tried to take it all in. There were so many great bands in different genres that it was hard to hear it all.

[@jayfailing6714]

was a Renaissance

[@cptzptravasos1]

Gosh! I miss the late '60s and early '70s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@douglassharpe55]

We were lucky. But beauty, like youth, is ephemeral

[@MichaelJGayda]

I thank the Lord that the drugs and stuff did not kill me. Like someone else said, I 'd love to do it again. So many of the people I knew are gone and become just memories. And this is a great tune. Thank you.

[@debhunter5173]

Those were the days...indescribable to those who didn’t live them....magical and eternal to those who did. I never touched drugs and haven’t to this day...but the whole vibe of those 60’s times still lives in my heart. I will always be emotionally a product of those times and that music.

[@davewilliams874]

"Twas bliss to be alive / but to be young was very heaven."

[@ronaldadams7551]

Music from this era clearly had fundamental reason to resist.

[@angrytroll555]

This must be a difficult song to perform live, yet they knock it out of the park. Respect.

[@lewisc215]

you know nothing

[@flemingcourt]

It's only difficult for someone that does not understand the why.

[@reedbender1179]

@@lewisc215 better to know nothing,yet remain grateful, hey Lewis ? 🥱

[@libertyblueskyes2564]

We lived at the best time of the 20th century. This song reflects how much sweetness and hope we all had, and how much creativity we brought into the world.

[@davidmark345]

RIP Linda, such a beautiful soul. Send us down a message if you can. Linda stopped to pick up Greg Truesdale and me, when we were hitching one cold December day in 1973 and drove us from Salt Lake City to San Francisco. I never met anyone kinder or more caring. She contributed such beautiful music for eternity.

[@godzillasmother]

One of the finest pieces of music ever recorded

[@drprick7432]

RIP, David LaFlamme. Thanks for the music. 🥹😍

[@GrandmaSmith-jn1uy]

Pattie and David were a great combination. Their wonderful voices in harmony and his violin really did give me chills and still do.

[@BillGordon-v1n]

74 I Am. Blessed to have shared this era.

[@phildirt3]

One of the greatest songs ever

[@maryannsilva4160]

2020 needs more like this. Back from when music was real, the voices were real and the music was real!

[@jimshu245]

Had a brother in law who I loved dearly, who loved this song. It's beautiful harmonies remind me of him. He found Jesus before cancer took him. I'll see Bill again and it will be glorious. Miss you brother.

[@GrandmaSmith-jn1uy]

He looks out for you now.

[@muleface1066]

That's a master class of bass comping.

[@ChildOfThe1970s]

Beautiful song, both vocally and instrumentally. And Pattie Santos had a lovely voice, a lovely face, pretty hair, and great legs.

[@timjc4344]

Yes she did, on all 4 accounts! (& I bet she was even more beautiful on the “inside”!!!)

[@MobilDJ50]

you would think a live performance of this song would be disappointing given how intricate the music and vocals are. They nailed it.

[@robertallen6710]

...yeah, a little rushed tho'...

[@danielj1063]

They were starving musical students sitting around rainy Seattle These songs were piece of cake for classically trained musicians The rest is ...

[@1rainbowmoonchild]

The feedback was annoying. I thought the performance was great and the music is what I call psychedelic Rock. And I do remember White Bird on the radio, I didn't know the groups name.

[@cherylsmith2618]

Exactly what I thought...but fooled me too

[@cherylsmith2618]

It's a beautiful day mojo

[@jimrebr]

1st band I got to see Live, at my 1st concert for my 13th birthday, they opened for The Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly had middle billing, 1968, wow 🤩 Those were the days!!❤️

[@theresabrisbane-ingall2356]

Yes! Beautiful!

[@erniebornheimer]

They were also the 1st concert I ever went to

[@chrissupport]

WOW is right! I remember seeing Procol Harem and a couple other good bands for I think $6.50 floor seats in St. Louis in mid-70s. It was a little more to see the concert than to buy the album (or 8-track).

[@jorgeramirezcamarena4904]

"Those were the days my friend" (like the song). Lucky you, in México impossible to see bands like this. By the way i started tu buy and collect music since 1970 when I was 15 "years young" (Buddy Guy words). Greetings Jim ✌️

[@barneyronnie]

Did you do any acid before the concert? Those were the days, and how I miss them!!

[@cartopcamper7932]

Man I suck. To this day I thought this was a Jefferson Airplane song. I thought the name of the song was "White Bird It's a Beautiful Day". Seven decades on this planet and I'm still learning. I love all the people with whom I share this ride. Thank you for this beautiful song.

[@nugsymalone1247]

You wanna hear a band that sounds like the child of Jefferson Airplane and Creedence clearwater? Listen to "The hip death goddess" by "ultimate spinach" 60's band out of Boston. Thank me later

[@gordonwilke6282]

Good tunes forever

[@johnhricko8212]

me too. that girl can definitely give Gracie a run... (forgot about the violin..)

[@Swimmer47]

Live and learn...go forth and sin no more :)

[@billwells7443]

But you listen and you learned - cant lost that now

[@G31mR]

The harmony in this song is mesmerizing.

[@johnestep3796]

Listening to this, it’s easy to c how the music of that era had direct impact on who we became as a generation. A Lot of us r still there today in r perception of life.

[@ronbay5873]

I saw them play at the Diamond Head Crater Festival in Jul 1971, after I got back from Viet Nam!! What a great song !

[@kw2756]

Thank you for your service. So glad you made it back to enjoy this great music.

[@willis2626]

One vet to another, war was hell but the music back then was some of the best.

[@goldpanner9843]

thank you

[@StellarFella]

A horrible war! Thank you for putting up with the ordeal.

[@barneyronnie]

I was a Fire Support Base Mary Ann much of my 2nd tour; sadly, I'm getting dementia. Welcome Home, Pard!!

[@JoyceCopas-n8q]

Oh yes, made me cry also. What a masterpiece. Still brings on the gut and heart ripping area of my young teen life. This song saved me,,,as did the artist. I feel all of this, always and forever.❤❤❤❤

[@johnterrels105]

We were so lucky to live during that ere of music...I was concerned the tunes couldn't get any better....I believe I was right.

[@parallaxview47]

My generation of musicians are slowly slipping away. It's a sad evolution.

[@johnadkins7512]

So true

[@LeFraudHasChokedInSIXFinals]

David Crosby :-(

[@loraa3873]

Quickly.

[@cindydufala7646]

Glad I'm still here. To those who are not...white bird must fly 🕊 Bravo ⚘ on this timeless masterpiece 🎵🎶🎶🎵

[@blondelebanese9922]

Every junkie I knew 50 years ago loved this song. Thankful that I survived that short dreadful period of my life.

[@n2skcmo]

God bless you

[@larynbolinger7409]

Yea, I'm 68 and I remember those lay back, beautiful summer days listening to tunes like this. Wow what happened to this place nowadays.

[@Hazelnut_surprise]

Me too … 69 now . What a perfect time that was . Brings me to tears of frustration sometimes.

[@mazs1123]

what happened? You got old and didn't keep up.

[@larynbolinger7409]

@mazs1123 yea I got old and still have two drum kits and can still rock. As far as keeping up, keep up with what? Computer music, that's just trying to get around the hard work of actually having to learn how to play something

[@mazs1123]

@@larynbolinger7409 so weird that you just happen to think that the music of your youth was the best music--like every other generation. One can continue to love one's music without denigrating the music of other times.

[@tarvisponsdebeaumont794]

@@mazs1123 You're not so smart, do you know? No, of course.

[@charlesdelap4250]

I'm glad someone has saved videos also. My Lady and I went to the Fillmore West one night to see Paul Butterfield's Blues Band. The warmup band came out and Pattie introduced their first song. She backed up then came back to the mic and said We're "It's a Beautiful Day". They played so much that the people loved them, and we wouldn't let them leave the stage. They played every song they knew and had to start over again. I think after 3 sessions they were about done in, it was 2:20 AM or 3, and the Blues Band never came out. What a wonderful time to live in San Francisco and be among so many beautiful people.

[@kurtvoigt5006]

Chemical fusion of happiness 😊 surf's up somewhere.

[@josefinagarza241]

Not fair.

[@johnherrmann5261]

Now bands have to finish on time to make the next gig! Unfortunately…

[@pinkelephant4958]

Absolutely love this song. Better music from a better time.

[@lisawilliams4587]

I watched my husband‘s ashes go into the wind- into the sunshine- he promised he would come back to get me- he loved this song! 🕊️💟

[@GayleKazanis]

Me too after 43 years alone. Since February 😢

[@ChuckDeFuque]

I'm at this show! It was fantastic!!! Beautiful girl on my shoulders! 5 ft. from the stage! Joints passing back and forth!!!

[@shyman99]

+ChuckDeFuque Joints and listening to this song is redundant. Listening to this song does more for me than any joint could ever. i just took another amazing trip.

[@beverleytaillon5600]

+ChuckDeFuque Your so lucky; wow!

[@RaeZoladawn777]

cool ty for sharing joints were important back then

[@poposaynogo1]

Are you still at the show? LOL

[@TheWhaler32]

Went to India with David...many talks

[@virginiaf.5764]

I still have the album. Love those times, the incredible music and musicians we were fortunate to experience. So much amazing talent happening at the same time.

[@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491]

*Sweet Time! / Precious Time... / Time! *

[@forgetitohio]

I heard white bird on the local hippie radio station in 72. bought lp and still listen to it when I want to go back in time. yes I was a hippie.

[@caroljohnson2018]

Hi

[@artfernandez7127]

Me too loved this group and this song when it came out, I was 19, ha. Also remember, the group's "Fairport Convention" and "13 Floor Elevators"? Also "Emerson Lake and Palmer", "Deep Purple", "Procol Harem", and a bit later "Yes"!

[@jrussell9222]

Got my LP at the Hialeah KMart discount rack late 70s.

[@richardgreen9393]

forgetitohio Don’t be a “I was a hippie” be a “I am a hippie” ☮️❤️

[@phildelfino4627]

also from ohio. same here, heard it and bought. great album.

[@RenegadeCossack]

I can not believe this video is 47 years old. Unfreaking. believable.

[@angelgeaninicurto560]

46

[@janejones1084]

Angel Geanini Curto very nice

[@vickipalmier8488]

I Can- bcuz I was THERE!!

[@sharonabbott8807]

RenegadeCossack I can!!

[@gregm.846]

I can as well, I was there at THE SOUND FACTORY in Sacto.

[@bobsanders9114]

Wow. 52 years ago. A college staple back in the day. I AM old....

[@charlespatt]

Hanging around a small club with a friend in Boston, around 1971, I was only 16. They were performing with The Flock. One of the Flock band members let us help carry a couple guitars in to get backstage for free. Great inspiration for a 16 yr old.

[@mikeschille6503]

Brings me back to '68 when I first heard this incredible song. ❤️

[@KittyGrizGriz]

Wow; how cool is that; so lucky!! Love this song.

[@MrWildcountry]

Hey, , I am Born 47 SHE Is a Good Singer. . I am From Norway, . The Flock, Jerry Goodman, with JohnMcLaughlin. . I STILL Have TheFlock LP. Regards From Dag

[@PureMadMetal]

One of those gems from 60s, and if had played at Woodstock would have been given their place among the stars that shone at that time. What a fabulous band they take me to places others can't even tie their shoe laces.

[@jeffreymccoy4773]

To lose to Santana in a coin toss by Bill Graham... Had to be crushing. But had they won, would we have heard of Santana? These guys were the real deal. Patty had the best voice of that era (in my opinion of course)

[@jameslagarce4046]

I'm 74 now and the first time I heard this song I was mesmerized. It has been a beloved staple in my music . Turned mywife on to this band and she is sill a devout follower 55 years later.

[@gordontainsch2624]

I had recently come back from 'Nam at that time and was shocked by how much I had missed. Girls with no bras...long hair...the music...couldn't wait to join in. Remember this song vividly....as a welcome home.

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

One of the most underrated of bands at the time.

[@stugabe33]

🎵White bird In a golden cage On a winter's day In the rain White bird In a golden cage Alone The leaves blow Across the long, black road To the darkened skies In it's rage But the white bird Just sits in her cage Unknown White bird must fly Or she will die White bird Dreams of the aspen trees With their dying leaves Turning gold But the white bird Just sits in her cage Growing old White bird must fly Or she will die White bird must fly Or she will die The sunsets come The sunsets go The clouds roll by And the earth turns old And the young bird's eyes Do always glow She must fly She must fly She must fly 8:11 White bird In a golden cage On a winter's day In the rain White bird In a golden cage Alone White bird must fly Or she will die White bird must fly Or she will die White bird must fly Or she will die.🎵🕊️

[@GrandmaSmith-jn1uy]

This is one group that will almost never have a lyric that you cannot understand, but it is great to see them written.

[@Lynne-28]

Appreciated!!!

[@lauramichelerosenfeld5042]

❤

[@koshersalaami]

This is a surprisingly good live performance. The vocals are about perfect.

[@laurelthompson6167]

yes, they were not weak singers. Live performances with weak singers are often bad.

[@kathyschafer3202]

They are perfection in process...beautiful.

[@Blkojo]

Band dynamics are great. Only "issue" is the guitar is recorded too hot.

[@blmrgtr]

FANTASTIC live performance !!!

[@ericingham9925]

The bass, guitar, violin combo is mesmerizing.

[@malidadoedaughterofearth4174]

I cannot even describe all that is being reactivated watching these guys and hearing their music. ❤

[@mujaku]

Remember them at the Fillmore West! Wow, time flies. Holy shit I am in my 70s! Life has been one heck of an adventure.

[@barneyronnie]

What happened? That's what I wonder at 97 years old🤪

[@arthipster5966]

I also saw them at the Fillmore West, and am in my 70's. Maybe we were at the same performance!

[@mikedickson6382]

I could not live without music like this!!!!! Thank You to the people with TALENT!!!!!

[@richardbrinton5109]

Talented as hell, love this bsnd

[@brianhorner8349]

Beautiful Day - one of the most underrated bands of the era. So unique in so many ways. Thoughtful, musical, soulful ...totally great. The sound of a lost time when musicians could actually write songs, read music, sing in tune and play actual instruments with cultivated skills.

[@patrickqualtiere3134]

Brian, I couldn't have said any better !! THANK YOU!!!!!!

[@mpt2556]

Brian just to add to your comments...pure talent-no flashing light show-no smoke machines-and just a small stage with awesome musicians jamming and premium vocals-so glad that I was part of this generation!

[@brianhorner8349]

@@mpt2556 Me too. We have lost SO MUCH ..."Today's music don't got the same soul" - Bob Seeger. Its all so shallow and vapid and musically BORING. I get depressed thinking about it. So I don't. I just go spin another vinyl platter and revel in the joy of ACTUAL MUSIC.

[@mfcabrini]

One of my all time favorite bands. Impeccable vocal harmonies and incredibly innovative instrumentals make Beautiful Day one of the most impressive groups ever. LaFlame is a virtuoso violinist, classically trained. They never got the recognition they deserved. I wore out "Bombay Calling" on my vinyl record. I saw them in the 1990's in Moses Lake, WA of all places. Dynamite performers. Patti Santos had a terrific richness to her voice. She mastered the tambourine. Sounds odd to say that, but not everyone can be innovative on such a deceptively simple percussion instrument. And Hal Wagenet's lead guitar! So sad that so many tragedies happened to these talented musicians and kept them from the fame they deserved.

[@wesparker6624]

And Pattie Santos was 17 or 18 when she started singing with IABD. Such a perfect voice!

[@torunit4620]

RIP David LaFlamme. Pattie Santos died in a car crash in 1989, now both singers are gone.

[@Knards]

The beautiful Patti Santos. RIP you were beautiful talented and gracious Celebrate her 12/14/1989

[@gregorygibbs9551]

Do you know how Ms. Santo died? I read that she passed in her 20's somewhere but no cause of death was given.

[@j40bob1]

@@gregorygibbs9551 According to David LaFlamme's site, she died from a car accident.

[@gregorygibbs9551]

j40bob1 Thank you. I am sorry she had such a short life. If they had gone to Woodstock, and she had not been in that accident, ... who knows.

[@BigTriffy]

@@gregorygibbs9551 www.findagrave.com/memorial/20749253/patricia-dora-cockrell

[@normaharrison6143]

She passed away in 1989 at the age of 40

[@mr.businessman9790]

Cannot describe the feelings and memories this song evokes in my being. A positive, magical period of time that was amazing.... cant even compare it with anything before or since.

[@pleromicpastry5445]

@@gardenartist2150 Yes, I was going to say "it was prolly the acid, dude"

[@dougheywood400]

I was at this Tanglewood show!! Thank you so much, whoever recorded and posted it!

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Psychedelics

[@barneyronnie]

@@dougheywood400 So was I; small 🌎

[@jimmyneck2854]

Rest in peace David what are the most underrated musicians of all time

[@nigelrhodes2993]

Still got the album....it just does not date..still as good today

[@charlesveg]

And the album cover is as beautiful as the music. That is a lost art form nowadays. Gone like so much else...

[@jsbnewport3064]

Me too , bought the first one in 72 while in the Army stationed at Ft Sill Oklahoma

[@wildbill5670]

me too. Peace out.

[@haroldjurewicz6496]

@@wildbill5670 Still have the album too!

[@dday9257]

Nigel Rhodes I still have my 8 track tape from back then.Don’t know why they are playing this so fast.

[@debmontz550]

This is in the top 3 of my list. Can't Find My Way Home and Low Spark of High Boys are the other 2. Makes my heart soar!

[@Cream1968]

You have fine musical taste, and are not alone….😊

[@waterdragon4950]

Somebody To Love

[@nmb803]

I cannot argue with your choices Deb

[@dennybarlau8065]

Wow you can't get better than those picks I'm a huge winwood fan

[@peggysmyth6110]

1970 struggling at 18 this music soothed me.

[@nathanmoak1515]

hippie music at it's finest! long live the 60's!

[@carolemarino7753]

I was a white bird then and still am now at66. Music was so inspiring and beautiful in those days. Timeless.

[@anneaires3984]

This era will never be duplicated, it was a "magic carpet ride" we're still on!!!

[@itzawrap]

Still one of the best songs ever performed and recorded. So moving.

[@tluns810]

I woke up one night with this song playing in my head. I had not heard it in decades, but could not get back asleep until I got up and listened to it

[@peggylong6395]

I wrote up with it playing in my head this morning🤷‍♀️

[@marshaholly9891]

Just put the CD in my car and played "it's a beautiful day" over and over after hearing of Linda's passing. Loved this album.

[@williamblanck6754]

Just heard of David's passing on 7Aug23...RIP my friend, now you and Patti Santos can continue your beautiful music together once again...

[@RDYC]

This was one of the rarest and most valuable records in the day. It's A Beautiful Day. It was later re-released .

[@0202fabrice]

Yeah, for years it was extremely hard to find. Thought I heard it was a legal matter. I think my copy was the re-release; the artwork is very much brighter and saturated than ones I saw earlier.

[@music1nut]

Jake Diamond yes. Rare music.

[@michaelworse6034]

Got my vinyl as a re release in' 79 , when the original copies were about 300 Dollars , if you could find one .

[@rebeccasciutto2722]

I have the album from the first run. I still listen to it today. 66 and still the hippie. Bought this album and Aqualung at the same time. Never got to see It's a Beautiful day but have gotten to see Tull 4 times.

[@kirksmith3854]

I have the album along with my other great '70 albums.

[@stephenmiller5023]

R.I.P. Linda This album with this song has been in my collection over 50 years now & is a timeless classic for those of us who know .

[@timothyblanton4225]

I'm blown away... Yes, by the song which has long been one of my top tens for all time. But also by the amazing camera work and sound. There were at least four cameras rolling on this shoot and that was a really big deal in 1970. Thank goodness it's been archived. Bravo to the film crew and to "It's a Beautiful Day" for one of the all time classic San Fran sounds.

[@arcticwanderer2000]

I was at this concert. It was a beautiful evening at Tangelwood with It's A Beautiful Day opening for Jethro Tull followed by The Who.

[@ibleebinU]

GET OUTTA TOWN!

[@richardgreen9393]

arcticwanderer2000 Chicago’s Kinetic Play Ground would have similar playbills in 69 & 70 three or four amazing bands for $7 for the entire evening...never again

[@michaelworse6034]

Wow , what a night !

[@janmar100]

I would have loved to be at that concert!

[@brentdelaurentis8114]

Watching Tull videos is what brought me here

[@cynthiaweaver3073]

In 1970, I was a freshman at Univ of Miami, in Florida. They did a free concert one night, and afterwards, some of us who played guitar were invited to jam with them I'm the common area between the men and women's dorms (They were like that back then). We jammed for hours, with this song and some others; covers from other groups. It was magical!:That's how I remember it. Not like we were jamming with a known group. But all of us were just musicians getting off on the incredible music!

[@salcolombo4234]

One March day in 1969 in San Francisco, when I was 18, I got in my'69 Chevelle Super Sport and drove across town to give this album to my girlfriend for her 16th birthday.

[@mfv2024]

My first concert! Patti Santos was all aglow on stage-an image that will always be burned into my mind.