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 LeeWood 30 Mar 2020

The most popular references to birds in any genre of music - lyrics (may exclude classical !) ?

Here's some starters:

Blackbird singing in the dead of night - Beatles

Crow on the Cradle - Mary Black

Be interesting to see what you can recall from memory - a google search might kill the interest !

edit: oops maybe better in culture bunker ??

Post edited at 17:53
 Tom Valentine 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Pretty Flamingo

 john arran 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Hotel California

 wintertree 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

- Counting Crows, can’t remember which one is actually about counting crows

Actual bird song and not references

- I know where Syd Barret lives - Television Personalities 

- I want to be a tree - Time Pole

 Sealwife 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

The Twa Corbies - Old Blind Dogs

In reply to LeeWood:

"His exposed skull a perch for the quartering crow"

National Sh1te Day - HMHB

 Andy Hardy 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Albatross.

Rockin Robin

When the Whip O'Will calls

The thieving magpie

Anything by Lieutenant Pigeon

Or Budgie

Or the partridge family

I'm sure there's loads more

 Huddy 30 Mar 2020
In reply to featuresforfeet:

Also Half Man Half Biscuit- For What Is Chatteris

“And as a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square”

 robert-hutton 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

White bird - its a beautiful day

 FactorXXX 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover

 DerwentDiluted 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Je ne Egret rien. Edith Piaf.

 FactorXXX 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Ride A White Swan - T Rex

 Kean 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Songbird...Fleetwood Mac

Bloomin' luverly!

Post edited at 18:34
In reply to LeeWood:

There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bustards - Ian Dury and the Blockheads

 Doug 30 Mar 2020

Black Swan, Bert Jansch

In reply to LeeWood:

Magpie - The Unthanks

 Chris Craggs Global Crag Moderator 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Blackbirds by Gretchen Peters,

Chris

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Une Paloma Blanca (paloma == dove). contributed by my wife

Lark in the Clear air - various folk

should we allow Bat out of Hell ? (unpopular present reminder !)

Seems like the Blackbird is topping the charts at mo - or maybe black birds in general - with the crow

Post edited at 19:14
In reply to LeeWood:

Mockingbird - Barclay James Harvest

 krikoman 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Shirley Bassey, she was a blackbird, in music.

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In reply to LeeWood:

Eagle - Abba

 graeme jackson 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Larks tongues in aspic part one.  King crimson

 Martin Hore 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Crazy Man Michael - Fairport Convention/Sandy Denny - the raven figures prominently. Good track too.

Martin

 Doug 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Martin Hore:

also her "The North Star Grassman and the Ravens" (LP & song)

 Blue Straggler 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

> The most popular references to birds in any genre of music 

Do they have to be the “most popular”?

 Blue Straggler 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

I don’t understand this thread at all. Lyrics, or titles? 

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 aln 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Freebird. 

Removed User 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Birdsong is a major feature in the work of Olivier Messiaen-as per this example-

youtube.com/watch?v=_XYZKGklT20&

Post edited at 19:57
 Pedro50 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

As the Crow Flies - the late lamented Rory Gallagher

Written by Tony Joe white 

Post edited at 19:59
 Dave the Rave 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

The Birdie Song? 

 Myfyr Tomos 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

The Lark Ascending.  Ralph Vaughan Williams.

 coinneach 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Myfyr Tomos:

Agnetha out of ABBA . . . . . . . 
 

I’ll get my coat . . . . . 

 Jack 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Skylark - Hoagy Carmichael

Bye bye blackbird - Ray Henderson

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 Dave the Rave 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Kookaburra song. Tommy Steele

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Blue Straggler:

> I don’t understand this thread at all. Lyrics, or titles? 

As its turned out - free for all  

But on resumé it will be interesting to see recurrent themes

In reply to LeeWood:

Erland cooper. Solan goose.

A whole album with every track title is a bird name, and a fair scattering of birdsong and calls.

A recent discovery and a thing of beauty if you like folky/ambient.

 ChrisBrooke 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

I'm like a bird - Nelly Furtado.

 bouldery bits 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Haven't you heard?

The bird 

Is the word. 

youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4& 

 Alyson 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

When Doves Cry - Prince

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Doves feature in Cohen's song Take this Waltz - adapted from spanish poet Frederico Garcia Lorca

Bluebird (late at night when the wind is down ... ) McCartney

 Blue Straggler 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

> As its turned out - free for all  

> But on resumé it will be interesting to see recurrent themes

Recurrent themes like what? The same birds? Crows and eagles and swans will be popular

 Blue Straggler 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Swans - Lisa Gerrard
 

anything by Swans

The Black Swan (album title) - The Triffids

The Seabirds - The Triffids

anything by The Byrds

Birdland (album) by the band Birdland

Birdland by Weather Report

anything by The Jayhawks

Nightbirds by The Walkabouts 

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 Fruitbat 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Stool Pigeon Kid Creole and The Coconuts

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Blue Straggler:

> Nightbirds by The Walkabouts 

Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to bouldery bits:

You're showing your age - I was only three yrs old then !!

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Andy Hardy:

> Or the partridge family

How about The 12 days of Christmas ? possibly unbeatable number of species named in one song !

 IM 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Enola Gay, Kestrel Manouvers in the Dark

russellcampbell 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

"If you were a Bluebird" - Joe Ely. Written by Butch Hancock.


If you don't know this song there is a link to a live version below.

youtube.com/watch?v=s9kwhM98oN8&

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Black Diamond Bay (as the cranes fly away ) - Bob Dylan

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to IM:

Check t§his out - I swear there IS a kestrel featured in the 1st 30secs  

'If You Leave'

youtube.com/watch?v=EPmTGFg06zA&

 Tig44 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Surprised no one has had 'starlings' by Elbow

 Tom Green 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Any of Ronnie Ronalde’s bird whistling songs!

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Vanessa Simmons:

> Mockingbird - Barclay James Harvest

Paul Robeson sang about this bird in 'Lindy Lou' - 'did you hear the mockingbird last night? '

 nufkin 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Lesbian Seagull - Engelbert Humpadink

 SenzuBean 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Removed Userena sharples:

> Birdsong is a major feature in the work of Olivier Messiaen-as per this example-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen#Birdsong

I've tried many times to enjoy Messiaen's music, but I cannot reconcile the expected delight of listening to a group of birds singing... with what I feel when I listen to whatever Messiaen produced.

Saint-Saen's The Swan evokes the swan somewhat for me though: youtube.com/watch?v=b44-5M4e9nI&

Removed User 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

True, it's not to everyone's taste but what is beyond doubt is that Messiaen possessed just about the fastest ears in Christendom as evidenced by the accuracy of his rendering-give this another go if you're so minded-

  youtube.com/watch?v=G6Izpdkjrhk&  (I guess like most you might have a bit of time to fill these days) 

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OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Doug:

> Black Swan, Bert Jansch

In the album Avocet he titled the six tracks after Avocet Lapwing Bittern Kingfisher Osprey Kittiwake

russellcampbell 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Blue Straggler:

> anything by The Jayhawks.

Jayhawks deserved a lot more success. Not alone there, of course.

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to SenzuBean:

> I've tried many times to enjoy Messiaen's music,

I know what you mean - needs a technical appreciation - some clever maths in there somwhere  

 skog 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

I Feel Like Chicken Tonight by Unilever.

Pick Up a Penguin by McVitie's:

youtube.com/watch?v=fI0Fa66h6Qo&

 Andy Clarke 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Since classical and instrumental is getting in: Handel: The Cuckoo and The Nightingale Concerto, Haydn: The Bird string quartet. 

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Dave the Rave:

Is that the children's song ? You've brought back epic memories of hearing these birds chorusing at dawn around echoing gum forests. I was down under in '90 and '96  

For anyone who's never heard it:

youtube.com/watch?v=TqdRQxgtZtI&

OP LeeWood 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Andy Clarke:

> Since classical and instrumental is getting in: Handel: The Cuckoo and The Nightingale Concerto, Haydn: The Bird string quartet. 

may as well throw in the trout quintet  

 Andy Clarke 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

I'm on a roll now: Stravinsky: The Firebird

 Dave the Rave 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Yeah. It was on an album of similar child’s songs that are ingrained in my head from taking kids up to Scotland . 

 Myfyr Tomos 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Has Charlie "Bird" Parker been mentioned yet?

 Blue Straggler 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Myfyr Tomos:

I nearly did but then I didn’t. You can use a browser search to see if something has been mentioned 

 Blue Straggler 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Kookaburra - Cocteau Twins

anything by Doves

anything by Cranes

anything by Eagles of Death Metal

Fly Low Carrion Crow by Two Gallants

 Blue Straggler 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

anything by Wings (the band The Beatles could have become)

anything by Phoenix

 FactorXXX 30 Mar 2020
In reply to Andy Clarke:

> Since classical and instrumental is getting in.

La Gazza Ladra

 Andy Clarke 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

> may as well throw in the trout quintet  

If we're talking Schubert, look no further than one of the greatest collections of songs ever put together: Schwanengesang

 Andy Clarke 30 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Getting back to popular culture, probably my favourite bird image: My love she's like some raven/At my window with a broken wing - Dylan: Love Minus Zero/No Limit

 Darron 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Johnathon Livingstone Seagull - Neil Diamond

Anything by Sheryl Crow

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 Blue Straggler 31 Mar 2020
In reply to Darron:

Aaaaah I was going to do both those. Well done! 

 Darron 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Taylor Swift

Dean Martin

Gullway girl by Ed Sheerwater

The house martins

For the benefit of Mr Kite - Beatles

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 Andy Clarke 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

> Doves feature in Cohen's song Take this Waltz

And don't forget Bird on the Wire.

Plus, from various points on the spectrum of folk: Steeleye Span: The Lark in the Morning; Laura Marling: Once I was an Eagle; Black Crow, from Joni Mitchell's magnum opus, Hejira. 

 veteye 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

What about the lovely song "The Bluebird" by Stanford. (Almost contemporary with Vaughan-Williams).

 Doug 31 Mar 2020
In reply to veteye:

the French kid's song 'Alouette' (lark)

 Pefa 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

White Dove - Lynard Skynard (with Ricky Medlocke singing) 

youtube.com/watch?v=RN23j8iQJg0&

Yellow Bird - Caribbean calipso song I don't know who sang it. 

youtube.com/watch?v=EJBjbvij-uI&

Post edited at 07:54
In reply to LeeWood:

Seagulls! with Yoda and Luke. A modern classic if ever there was one.

youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E& 

 jcw 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Resphigi is the first to spring to mind for me, but can't remember the title, somethin like the Birds.  In my youth when my musical knowledge far outpaced my literary I thought Mozart's famous aria Dove sono was something about the sound of doves. In the same way for long I believed Liszt was a contemporary of Dante as a result of having attended “une lectur de Dante”.

 aln 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine  youtube.com/watch?v=FxfWTvJD1q8&

 Max factor 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Parklife. 2 for the price of 1!

 deepsoup 31 Mar 2020
In reply to captain paranoia:

> Magpie - The Unthanks

Ah, thought that one would be gone.  Just in case there's anyone left who hasn't seen the lovely montage thingy the BBC did on 'Detectorists': youtube.com/watch?v=C6gSYHJhuCw&

Here's another one for folkies:

Echo Mocks the Corncrake.
Karine Polwart's version: youtube.com/watch?v=HXX-iEYFQG4&

 John Ww 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

The Snow Goose by Camel

 Myfyr Tomos 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Snowbird by Anne Murray.

OP LeeWood 31 Mar 2020
In reply to jcw:

Good one ! Respighi used a nightingale recording in Pine of Rhone

OP LeeWood 31 Mar 2020
In reply to SenzuBean:

> Saint-Saen's The Swan evokes the swan somewhat for me though

Swans are a recurrent theme in classical:

Sibelius - The Black Swan of Tuonella

and of course

Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake

OP LeeWood 31 Mar 2020
In reply to veteye:

> What about the lovely song "The Bluebird" by Stanford. (Almost contemporary with Vaughan-Williams).

I used to sing this (nb. not the solo !) in the school choir  

OP LeeWood 31 Mar 2020
In reply to FactorXXX:

> La Gazza Ladra

but which bird ??

 Myfyr Tomos 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

It's pretty black and white I'd say...

 Myfyr Tomos 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

This Little Bird. - Marianne Faithfull.

 Blue Straggler 31 Mar 2020
In reply to Myfyr Tomos:

> This Little Bird. - Marianne Faithfull.

Little Bird by Lisa Hannigan

Little Bird by Annie Lennox

Anything by One Dove. 

In reply to LeeWood:

Chestnut Mare and Tambourine Man...

OP LeeWood 31 Mar 2020
In reply to Myfyr Tomos:

> It's pretty black and white I'd say...

Yes,  enough stats here to draw a conclusion. Categories seem to break down as follows:

Non precise reference: bird, little bird

Colored birds: yellow, blue, black, white

Species specific: nightingale, lark (assume skylark), whipoorwill, corncrake (!), kookaburra all noted for their song so include 'songbird'

Birds as Band name: Eagles, Cranes

Mythical birds: firebird, phoenix

And I'm still puzzled why so many sing about starlings - loads of title on Spotify !

 wercat 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

The Roasted Swan - Carmina Burana (Orff)

rather gruesome, horrible idea https://lyrics.fandom.com/wiki/Carl_Orff:Olim_Lacus_Colueram/en

Goosie Goosie Gander

I was Kaiser Bill's Batman  (double reference though one is mammalian)

Tit Willow Tit Willow

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 Tom Last 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Shrike - Hozier

 FactorXXX 31 Mar 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

> but which bird ??

Pica Pica.

OP LeeWood 01 Apr 2020
In reply to wercat:

> Tit Willow Tit Willow

Damn I should have gotthat - was singing it just the other day - possibly the strongest souvenir from The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan  

OP LeeWood 01 Apr 2020
In reply to FactorXXX:

> Pica Pica.

You mean *magpie*  ??? ha ha ha 

OP LeeWood 01 Apr 2020
In reply to Andy Clarke:

> Since classical and instrumental is getting in: Handel: The Cuckoo and The Nightingale Concerto, Haydn: The Bird string quartet. 

Delius also featured the cuckoo 'On hearing the 1st cuckoo in spring"

Saint Saens also in Carnival of the Animals 

Post edited at 08:05
 FactorXXX 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

> You mean *magpie*  ??? ha ha ha 

La Gazza Ladra is Italian for 'The Thieving Magpie'.
I assumed that people would either know that, or, Google it if they didn't.

 Myfyr Tomos 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

The 2nd movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (No6) has several bird calls, with the cuckoo represented by 2 clarinet.

 wercat 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Ahem,

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road)

The chicken song (Spitting Image)

Captain Beaky?

Annie's Song

Post edited at 10:14
 Andy Clarke 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Are the Yardbirds still unclaimed? Now that's what you call a guitar band!

And from that lineage, the greatest British electric guitarist of them all*, Jeff Beck and the memorably named Constipated Duck, from the classic album Blow by Blow.

*with apologies to Eric, Bob etc etc...

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 Andy Clarke 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Do record labels count? If so, can I offer Bluebird Records - for whom I think the unjustly neglected but brilliantly named Robert Nighthawk may once have recorded!

 Myfyr Tomos 01 Apr 2020
In reply to Andy Clarke:

If so, I can add "Recordiau'r Dryw" - a 1960s Welsh recording company, meaning Wren Records.

 wercat 01 Apr 2020
In reply to Andy Clarke:

I liked the incidental music to an early 80s R4 programme called "To Fly Where the Sun Never Sets" narrated by Andrew Sachs about the incredible lives and travels of Arctic Terns who see more sunlight than any other living creature it seems.  Love to hear that programme again but I don't think it is available.

However, it has left evidence of its existence:

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e01a98ddafdf4b648378e456c5938e14  The kind of listening that would be ideal now.

Post edited at 10:30
 graeme jackson 01 Apr 2020
In reply to Myfyr Tomos:

> The Lark Ascending.  Ralph Vaughan Williams.


currently spinning on my turntable. Wonderful.

 Andy Clarke 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Another band name for the older demographic: Chicken Shack. I imagine people may remember their hits, the cover of I'd Rather Go Blind and Tears in the Wind - but how many recall the rather ornithologically inappropriate track Webbed Feet? (To other blues fans, it's an instrumental named for their fine lead guitarist, Stan Webb.)

 Blue Straggler 01 Apr 2020
In reply to Andy Clarke:

Reminded me of another old band

The Frank Chickens 

OP LeeWood 01 Apr 2020
In reply to FactorXXX:

> (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover

Another vote for the bluebird - Judy Garland singing Somewhere over th Rainbow

 jcw 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

"Underneath the spreading chestnut tree, the little birdies go tweet tweet"

Which reminds me of an exchange Shakespeare and Noel Coward had in the au delà when they chanced to meet. So, the former asked, "how would you describe that bow legged man over there?" "Underneath the spreading chestnut tree, a bandied legged man I see" replied his interlocutor with some pride. Somewhat miffed by the dubious look on the Bard's face he asked for his contribution. "Lo what manner of man is this, whose balls lie in parenthesis" came the reply.

 Trangia 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Respighi's  The Birds, and The Pines of Rome are beautifully uplifting, just like bird song.

ChilledPenguin 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Painted Bird - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Removed User 01 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:This is just delightfully bonkers. Beatrice Harrison was a top class cellist of the early 20th Century and was in the habit of playing to the nightingales in her garden of an evening, who sang back to her. This was played on Radio 4 the other day.  youtube.com/watch?v=iOUb48W1_90&

OP LeeWood 01 Apr 2020
In reply to Removed Userena sharples:

> This  is just delightfully bonkers

Vintage stuff machine and crackly 78rpm. Good find !

In reply to LeeWood:

One for sorrow, two for joy, 

Three for a girl and four for a boy, 

Five for silver, six for Gold, 

Seven for a secret, never to be told. 

MAAAAAG - PIE. 

 veteye 01 Apr 2020
In reply to Removed Userena sharples:

So settling and satisfying.

Excellent

 wercat 02 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

"Two lilltle dickie birds sitting in a row,

One called Peter, One called Paul,

Fly Away Peter, Fly Away Paul,

No Little dickie birds sitting in a row."

(Sung by my mother when I was very young!  As I haven't heard it in many decades it may not be quite right)

Sad to hear Michael Rosen is in hospital with the virus

 yorkshire_lad2 02 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

"Les Oiseaux" (Eric Satie)

russellcampbell 02 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

I don't think anyone has mentioned "Sing, Little Birdie" by Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson which was runner up in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest. I was 9 at time and can still remember the excitement.

OP LeeWood 02 Apr 2020
In reply to wercat:

Childrens songs are a gppd source of bird reference. I don"t think we've had Who killed cock robin' - which also names the sparrow as the culprit

 wercat 02 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

or Four and Twenty Blackbirds baked in a Pie?

OP LeeWood 02 Apr 2020
In reply to wercat:

> or Four and Twenty Blackbirds baked in a Pie?

The wren also features in that song - never really noticed before

 krikoman 05 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Anything by "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins

OP LeeWood 05 Apr 2020
In reply to krikoman:

> Anything by "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins

Reminds me of when jays get together to dispute over something - what a racket !

 dwisniewski 05 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Blackbird - Martyn Bennett/Lizzie Higgins
Of Danny MacAskill and The Ridge fame: youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_IQS3VKjA&

 Andy Clarke 05 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

You've assembled such a flock now you really need a bird catcher to deal with them all:

youtube.com/watch?v=JKntOWZuq14&

 Andy Clarke 05 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

Can't resist using the thread to give a plug to my current favourite country star, the marvellous Ashley McBryde and her just released second album which includes the song Sparrow:

youtube.com/watch?v=4Tpv0lnTB0U&

 wercat 05 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

My wife heard blackbird songtalk yesterday..  She was surprised to see the resident ringed male approaching her on foot, singing as he hopped, only stopping on arrival to start calling her for sultanas

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OP LeeWood 05 Apr 2020
In reply to Andy Clarke:

Other classics;

Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf - featuring a bird and a duck

OP LeeWood 06 Apr 2020
In reply to Removed Userena sharples:

> True, it's not to everyone's taste but what is beyond doubt is that Messiaen possessed just about the fastest ears in Christendom as evidenced by the accuracy of his rendering-give this another go if you're so minded-

I've only lately remembered this by Debussy - Syrinx. No need for quite such fast ears with this piece  

youtube.com/watch?v=RNjroFNi7mA&

 krikoman 06 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

One of my favourite birds, a jay, not seen many in my time though.

staticx 07 Apr 2020
In reply to LeeWood:

The Cure - Where the Birds Always Sing


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