ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY - White Bird | FIRST TIME REACTION

[@brucewatts8447]

Way to go Shawn! This is a forgotten gem from the late 60s. I bought this album when I was 19 and I love this song. The vocal duet is great and it has music from Classical to folk, to rock, and jazz. Thanks for this, you are only one of four reactors to cover It's a Beautiful Day.

[@craigreid7178]

The '60s wouldn't have been the '60s without white bird.

[@blitztim6416]

This is what is fun to me. Young people experiencing these types of songs for the first time. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@bobschenkel7921]

Dreamy and dripping with Psychedelia. The 60's on parade.

[@bumperu]

A true hippie vibe with this classic song.

[@ericanderson8886]

Love that violin solo. "Hot Summer Day" is another killer song from that debut album.

[@paulwoodward3453]

I saw this performed in Northfield Ohio in 1972. The best intimate concert I ever attended. I've play "White Bird" every morning for the past 50 years to start my day. It is "A Beautiful Day!"

[@JonS0107]

RIP David LaFlamme (who passed on August 6, 2023) he co-wrote, sang and was the violinist. He was also co-founder of It's a Beautiful Day.

[@ariendeau]

So sad! Great talent.

[@kimn9802]

I've always thought the white bird was a metaphor for the need for personal freedom and taps into the hippie ideal of hoping for a better world.

[@mpemberton7760]

One of the purest musical compositions of the late 60's...a true classic!

[@chitownlee]

Their first album is in my top 5 all time favorites.

[@bravewave2084]

This is one of my favorites from that era. Smiles abound.Amazing that your interpretation is mine, too!

[@rhm5158]

Music back from this period totally blows away the garbage they call music today. Talent back then was amazing

[@rhm5158]

@Vlasko60 no it’s the truth

[@MisterWondrous]

This song has a particular meaning to me. After high school, in '73, I did the hitching America thing, and the very first hippie house I took respite within had this song playing on the record player. I took it as a sign that I had to fly away from my comfortable life and see the larger world, as a free bird, a white dove of peace, spreading peace and love in my travels. It has worked out remarkably well, especially when I see what has become of so many from childhood who did not fly the coop. You'll go far, I can tell already. You have a great infectious attitude, but no infectious diseases, I trust. RIP David La Flamme. Also...check out Renaissance. Very similar vibe, but more so, and with a great catalog with no fillers.

[@1Imonk]

Hey, brother from another mother. I was on the same road. I wonder if we ever crossed tracks. It was a time,

[@lisarainbow9703]

Great minds think alike! I was going to suggest Renaissance as well, Annie Haslam has an amazing voice! Fist bump to a fellow hippie traveler!🎶✌

[@MisterWondrous]

@@1Imonk Maybe so! It was an amazing time, especially musically. A kinder groovier time in many ways. Most rides were fellow hippies or bored truckers. All you had to do was look hip, and people would welcome you in. People are locked away today it seems.

[@MisterWondrous]

Lisa Rainbow...beautiful flower child name, greetings! It's cool that younguns today are discovering the great music and lifestyle of that time. Have a hug! :) @@lisarainbow9703

[@1Imonk]

@@MisterWondrous Yes. You speak the truth. I still pull out stories for the young from time to time. And now I'm the one who picks up hitchhikers. Payback, pay forward, whatever. Folks like us can suss out a good seed from the bad and help them along "the road to find out."

[@mamaflush9945]

I'm glad you liked it; I love this album. This band never reached the same success as other bands with a similar style or in the same genre as Santana, Jefferson Airplane or the Grateful Dead. But it's not because they didn't have talent, because my god you can totally hear the talent; the band created a unique blend of rock, jazz and folk. I just love how tight Pattie and David's harmonies are, the whole band were so musically in tune with each other; it's as close to perfect as one can get. lol (IMO) The band members were vocalist Patti Santos, along with violinist David LaFlamme and his wife Linda LaFlamme- on keyboards and Val Fuentes (drums), Mitchell Holman (bass) and Hal Wegenet (guitar) they formed San Francisco, CA. in 1967. Thanks so much for reacting to this one, it brought back a lot of memories. I'm truly grateful

[@lindalee5866]

Love this song. Good find!

[@davidmckenzie420]

So happy you went here!! I love this song as much today as i did back then! So beautiful. La Flamme was a real talent.

[@wallypeake6579]

I liked this song in the day but absolutely loved the song Hot Summer Day.

[@clifton8929]

They don't write songs with flowing grace, and whistful melancholic feelings about the need for personal freedom these days. There is certainly a clear desperation in the song with a message that says we are captured, we need need to live our lives with fear and be ourselves. Everyone is telling you what to say, what you can't say, what is real and what isn't, and what the truth is and isn't.

[@KevinRCarr]

Another great reaction to a great song. Poets could wish that people would read their poetry the way you listen to song lyrics.

[@fritty9927]

I hung this album in picture frame over 50 years ago. Still on my wall. I fell in love with the girl on the cover. One of my fav songs of all time.

[@suesmith7968]

Saw them live at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Perfect acoustics in that venue. And some unknown opened….Jim Croce!!!! What a great concert!!! ☮️❤️

[@jimtuell4076]

I had the privilege of hearing this sung and played in person months before it was released as a record. I was at the Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair in Sultan, Washington, during the Labor Day weekend of 1968. David LaFlamme was not the first rock electric violinist, but he most certainly was the best of the early ones.

[@realitybytez]

i'll never forget one day in my early teens and my clock radio woke me up and this song was playing. it was like waking up in a warm haze. that feelin comes back every time i hear this song.

[@philmann3476]

Suppose everyone's take on the song is a personal matter, but when it came out in '69, Vietnam was going strong, the draft was a real issue for men of that age, and the simple message to most of us listening then was that the "White Bird" dove of peace needed to, "Fly, or she [and we] will die." (Hey man, pass the bong...)

[@RobertERensch]

It’s about everyone. Very pretty song. ✌️

[@StefanPina]

Such a beautiful song RIP David David LaFlamme † 7. August 2023

[@bobjoel6715]

The violinist David LaFlamme is the singer also. A trained classical player that used to play with The Utah Symphony. He just past away last week.

[@MrSmartAlec]

I remember reading a story long ago that It's A Beautiful Day had been moved to Seattle by their manager to polish their act before performing in San Fran clubs. They were housed in the attic of some big old house with little food, no vehicle, and it was winter and raining. Whitebird was written out of the depression from those conditions

[@whattiler5102]

The first band I ever saw at an open air festival: Bath, England, in 1970. I thought they were great!

[@ariendeau]

The music from the “unknown” instrument is the picking of the strings of the violin by the violinist/vocalist.

[@johnthegreek5836]

Great classic song, definitely a psychedelic song

[@bobjoel6715]

That sound from that instrument that you couldn’t recognize in the beginning is the violin strings being plucked . It’s called Pizzicato.

[@michaelrawling9085]

The white bird is the dove of peace. She must fly or she will die. There must be peace or we are lost.

[@konradv7]

Saw them in concert paired with Miles Davis. Weird!

[@chrisreinert9981]

The song was written during a stay in Seattle, as they watched the rain outside.

[@unclejohn1053]

Very first concert I went to. It was a free one at The Paramount. My 2nd was Alice Cooper.. ha. Been to a couple hundred since.

[@problemchimp4231]

Not heard in 30 years...reminded of the great music I'm currently neglecting...

[@damienparis5377]

Yo!...havent heard this in a bit...great selection mate!....peace

[@chrisvickers7928]

The instrument you heard at the beginning you couldn't identiry was a violin being plucked called pizziczato..

[@jacobreisser8034]

This is a true hippy anthem. This one and Alone Again Or by Love just bleed LSD! 😊

[@denniswatson455]

Great take on this and your description would also fit a song by Joni Mitchell called 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns'....the theme of women trapped in their environment has been explored by musicians for decades....try out Tears for Fears 'Woman in Chains' as well. Keep up the great reviews

[@keanlange12]

If you like that It's a Beautiful Day song, try Wasted Union Blues! Kean

[@RegenaCox-yy1rl]

I'm 69 and I don't remember this song but it sounds very hippieish.

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Danny and Linda LaFlamme.

[@WMalven]

Sorry, Shawn, that's a typo, it's supposed to be "San Fran," as in "The San Francisco Sound," not "An Fran." Yeah, you're right that's "proto-prog" (thank you autocorrect) LOL!!! My bad.

[@ShawnSalvadori]

Hey, no problem! Another great request! Thanks for putting me on to this! 😁

[@rubroken]

Their second album "Marrying Maiden" was pretty much a flop......but, there was one song, "I let my woman flow," so so good

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

The emblem of rhe uk see for miles label is based on this.

[@scotto.4832]

I used to think this was Jefferson Airplane

[@BartholomewSmutz]

This is far too polished to be Jefferson Airplane. As musicians they were a bunch of hacks although Grace Slick was a terrific singer.

[@philmann3476]

@@BartholomewSmutz When I first heard White Bird in '69 at age 14, I thought it was the Airplane too. There weren't too many chick singers doing trippy tunes back then, and Grace was at the forefront. But Bartholomew is right -- except for Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, the rest of the Airplane were comparative hacks -- although I still love their music.

[@greggorup1006]

Didn't Spock sing this on Star Trek

[@Spearman1951]

The whole album is a lost classic.