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

5 ай бұрын

That's nuts and cool nuts at that!

@slingshotchicken4695

4 ай бұрын

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

@GrandmaSmith-jn1uy

4 ай бұрын

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

@fredsands9220

4 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for sharing! 😀

@Razoul-xf1wt

3 ай бұрын

Amazing memories 😀

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

@janetownley

Жыл бұрын

Not underrated at all

@2cozmick25

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

You are so right

@lewisc215

Жыл бұрын

it was never underrated, fool.

@johnyards5911

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@philmarasco7833

Жыл бұрын

Music.

@philmarasco7833

Жыл бұрын

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

@donheenan1571

Жыл бұрын

And to have vinyl lps today would be a win!

@jg6698

Жыл бұрын

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

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

6 ай бұрын

Thank you🫡

@CooManTunes

Ай бұрын

What was the worst thing you saw in Vietnam?

@timjc4344

Ай бұрын

@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

Ай бұрын

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

@hippieswereright

Ай бұрын

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

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

@charlesveg

7 жыл бұрын

amen

@edge845

6 жыл бұрын

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

@tsnyunt1

6 жыл бұрын

So true. Cult favorite

@williamhowerton8633

5 жыл бұрын

Amen friend, wonderful.

@kenrussell1093

5 жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@warrenblum3104

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

7 ай бұрын

Wow! What a concert that had to be!

@Intelife123

6 ай бұрын

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

@janniebee9501

2 ай бұрын

No shit!!

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

@skychristypresents4313

3 жыл бұрын

Yesssa A nearly lost art ..

@johnnyfoo8737

3 жыл бұрын

They had a thing call talent

@roberte.andrews4621

3 жыл бұрын

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

@bonehead1170

3 жыл бұрын

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

@bonehead1170

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@robin2012ism

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, baby.

@tomjanko8032

5 жыл бұрын

you´re so right 👍

@paulguzman1634

5 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Pexster

4 жыл бұрын

So true!

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

@thomasmazur6916

3 жыл бұрын

And excellent in concert.

@kentuckere1991

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@zampieritto

3 жыл бұрын

Late 60s. By 1970 the music changed a lot

@zampieritto

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

@paulmcilroy7508

3 ай бұрын

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

@dancotterman1267

3 ай бұрын

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

3 ай бұрын

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

@noelsalisbury7448

2 ай бұрын

❤

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

@stevemuhlberger

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

6 ай бұрын

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

@joekosobucki2141

5 ай бұрын

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

@BLOVECU

5 ай бұрын

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

5 ай бұрын

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

@GrandmaSmith-jn1uy

4 ай бұрын

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!

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

@joeyhumphrey4536

Жыл бұрын

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

8 ай бұрын

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

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

@robertmaser2126

3 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

Not undervalued in the bay area

@Tuzilla

2 жыл бұрын

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

@lastnamefirst4035

2 жыл бұрын

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

@TheJanis972

2 жыл бұрын

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?😉

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

@dragmyre

8 жыл бұрын

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

@ChuckDeFuque

8 жыл бұрын

+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

8 жыл бұрын

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

@ETandAssociates

8 жыл бұрын

"Sonic perfection" for sure.

@lordairgtar

7 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

@lewisc215

Жыл бұрын

you know nothing

@flemingcourt

Жыл бұрын

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

@reedbender1179

22 күн бұрын

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

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

@jamestiscareno4387

Жыл бұрын

Hey, me too. 63 now and 11 then.

@DaghaNotJamal

Жыл бұрын

63 years old man watching youtube.

@Lynjupiter1

Жыл бұрын

A pretty remakable song and band.

@phoneboxmag6575

Жыл бұрын

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

@richardwhite8227

Жыл бұрын

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

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

10 күн бұрын

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

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

@douglassharpe55

5 жыл бұрын

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

@MichaelJGayda

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ronaldadams7551

4 жыл бұрын

Music from this era clearly had fundamental reason to resist.

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

2 жыл бұрын

Chemical fusion of happiness 😊 surf's up somewhere.

@josefinagarza241

8 ай бұрын

Not fair.

@johnherrmann5261

2 ай бұрын

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

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.

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

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.

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

@timjc4344

Ай бұрын

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

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

@GrandmaSmith-jn1uy

4 ай бұрын

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

Good tunes forever

@johnhricko8212

3 жыл бұрын

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

@Swimmer47

3 жыл бұрын

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

@billwells7443

3 жыл бұрын

But you listen and you learned - cant lost that now

The harmony in this song is mesmerizing.

🎵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

11 ай бұрын

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

9 ай бұрын

Appreciated!!!

@lauramichelerosenfeld5042

8 ай бұрын

❤

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.

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

@angelgeaninicurto560

8 жыл бұрын

46

@janejones1084

7 жыл бұрын

Angel Geanini Curto very nice

@vickipalmier8488

7 жыл бұрын

I Can- bcuz I was THERE!!

@sharonabbott8807

6 жыл бұрын

RenegadeCossack I can!!

@gregm.846

6 жыл бұрын

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

The bass, guitar, violin combo is mesmerizing.

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.

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

11 ай бұрын

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)

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

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

@johnadkins7512

2 ай бұрын

So true

@LeFraudHasChokedInSIXFinals

Ай бұрын

David Crosby :-(

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@KittyGrizGriz

Жыл бұрын

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

@MrWildcountry

11 ай бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Beautiful!

@erniebornheimer

2 жыл бұрын

They were also the 1st concert I ever went to

@chrissupport

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

"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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Real music..Real Talent

@mizzury54

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

was a Renaissance

1970 I was only 5 years , but my older brother made me listen to these Music ❤ Iam very thankful .

R.I.P. David LaFlamme

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@arthipster5966

9 ай бұрын

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

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.

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

My teen asked me what my guilty pleasure song was. I said White Bird! 🌈

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

4 жыл бұрын

Hi

@artfernandez7127

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@richardgreen9393

4 жыл бұрын

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

@phildelfino4627

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@willis2626

3 жыл бұрын

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

@goldpanner9843

2 жыл бұрын

thank you

@StellarFella

2 жыл бұрын

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

@barneyronnie

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

4 ай бұрын

He looks out for you now.

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

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

GET OUTTA TOWN!

@richardgreen9393

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

Wow , what a night !

@janmar100

3 жыл бұрын

I would have loved to be at that concert!

@brentdelaurentis8114

3 жыл бұрын

Watching Tull videos is what brought me here

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@waterdragon4950

Жыл бұрын

Somebody To Love

@nmb803

Жыл бұрын

I cannot argue with your choices Deb

@dennybarlau8065

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

What made these shows so great was that the venues were not so huge. I was at a Steppenwolf concert in Schenectady NY in the Aerodrome and I was literally sitting on the side of the stage and got to talk to the members of the band during breaks. And yes, John Kay wore his sunglasses all night through the whole concert. Today, you could never have an experience like that with a major group. Another thing. They really played their instruments. No computerized stuff or digital signal processors. Maybe a fuzz tone then direct into an amp like a Marshall or a Fender Twin Reverb or Dual Showman. They also tended to ad lib a bit and stretch out solos and such giving you a unique experience that was only available at that particular live show. The late 60's to early 70's were a real transitional period in music and some of the coolest music came out of that era.

@rogermacauley806

2 жыл бұрын

Very cool...thank you.

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

@robertallen6710

4 жыл бұрын

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

@danielj1063

3 жыл бұрын

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

@1rainbowmoonchild

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought...but fooled me too

@cherylsmith2618

3 жыл бұрын

It's a beautiful day mojo

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.

One of the most underrated of bands at the time.

I'm eternally grateful I was alive when bands could still get away with music like this. It wouldn't be acceptable today, it's not artificial enough. It's not even autotuned.

It wasn't just a point in time, the whole era was a Happening!

@petersonlafollette3521

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, magical sounds in the air, mysticism all around.

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

Incredible in EVERY WAY.. Those harmonies.. That powerful bass line.. David’s violin 🎻.. The organ tranquility.. Guitar abstractions... Lyrics from another world.. Intoxicating percussion/drums.. Etc. 🌹

For me personally returning home from hell (vietnam) to So.Calif., in the spring of 1967 was like going to heaven. I know what Love IS. I give and seek it to this day. In both places and time, I never felt so alive. Keep this music alive.

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

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

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

@laurelthompson6167

2 жыл бұрын

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

@kathyschafer3202

Жыл бұрын

They are perfection in process...beautiful.

@Blkojo

10 ай бұрын

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

@blmrgtr

8 ай бұрын

FANTASTIC live performance !!!

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

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

@0202fabrice

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

Jake Diamond yes. Rare music.

@michaelworse6034

4 жыл бұрын

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

@rebeccasciutto2722

3 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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! 🕊️💟

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

3 ай бұрын

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

So much talent. This song is a classic forever.

I saw this band as a warm up band for Canned Heat and The James Gang who were the headliners. Great concert....1971.

@davidzornes6863

4 жыл бұрын

ME TOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

@charlesmoehrke3642

4 жыл бұрын

I saw this band in Atlanta in 1970 with Quicksilver Messenger Service. Great concert!

@alansmith7626

4 жыл бұрын

I hate You! LOL Was good times for sure, still are every time I listen we need OUR music station...

@bobe3250

3 жыл бұрын

You guys are so damn lucky! I listened to their music but never was fortunate enough to be there live when they played. I did hear Tommy Bolin live in 3.2 bar in Colorado. Great times! Peace.

The band never achieved the success of contemporaries such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Santana, with whom they had connections. The band created a unique blend of rock, jazz, folk, classical, and world-beat styles.

@KittyGrizGriz

Жыл бұрын

Yes; too bad they didn’t get to perform at Woodstock; love them too.

@markanderson1415

Ай бұрын

Saw them in Vermillion, SD when I was in college in the early 70s. They were great.

I grew up in a tiny town population 50 in Northern California about 70 miles from San Francisco. Around 1973 I was 19 years old and we had put a softball team together and we needed to raise funds. Somehow we booked this band to come and play a dance in our firehall and I bet every kid in the county came and even though the fee for the band was $400 we still raised $1000 for our team. That place was not that big to start with and it was packed! I remember the next morning at 9am we were playing softball in a tournament in Santa Rosa and before we could do we had to get up early and clean the beer bottles that were scattered around. Remember this is a town of population 50 and everyone is pretty much related so we got away with it. Think the Alfred Hitchcock schoolhouse. These days the ball field is long gone but the memories remain.

I've been looking for this since 1970. it's 2017 what a treat for my brain!!!

@leonmilkowski7021

6 жыл бұрын

Sharon Abby

@skytop71

6 жыл бұрын

glad you found it!

@skiendhiu

4 жыл бұрын

I. Know what you mean ,I been looking for it that long myself and it's almost 2020! Saw them 71 I think it was, a treat to hear after all these yrs. What a flashback....peace....

@goodnsharp

3 жыл бұрын

I remember a few years ago telling my friends about this song. They had never heard of it ! So I turned them on to it but I don't think they quite got it ! Too bad for them ! There loss!

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

@gregorygibbs9551

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@gregorygibbs9551

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@normaharrison6143

3 жыл бұрын

She passed away in 1989 at the age of 40

I was at this show, they were the opening act. Also on the bill was The Who and Jethro Tull!

Rest In Peace Pattie and David for they are flying w/ the Whitebird free forever.

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

@shyman99

8 жыл бұрын

+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

8 жыл бұрын

+ChuckDeFuque Your so lucky; wow!

@RaeZoladawn777

7 жыл бұрын

cool ty for sharing joints were important back then

@poposaynogo1

6 жыл бұрын

Are you still at the show? LOL

@TheWhaler32

5 жыл бұрын

Went to India with David...many talks

Thankfully, back in the day, we had progressive rock radio stations to play us music like this that didn't fit neatly into one genre.

@maggylind7733

8 жыл бұрын

Thankfully we were alive back when music was at it's greatest!

@catdaddy3302

8 жыл бұрын

KAAY , Beeker St. in Little Rock played it. They were an a.m. station with a 150 mile radius. My girlfriend / wife and I were 150 miles apart, and Little Rock was the same distance from us. And we'd listen to this at night and write each other letters. We couldn't afford a long distance call. Barely a 5 cent stamp in those days. Now, 46 years later, we're watching it on our smart tv.

@robbinbazinet4804

7 жыл бұрын

I requested it on that station bro. From little Rock Clyde Clifford played Bombay calling!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@thamnosma

7 жыл бұрын

KAAY. As a kid I used to stay up after lights out, portable radio under my covers and listen to the best radio at the time -- Beeker St. from my bed in St. Louis. I don't think the FM scene was even operating then. What was the host's name? I've forgotten now, but he was a hero to me.

@thamnosma

7 жыл бұрын

Never mind -- I just saw Clyde Clifford's name.

This song takes me back in time to places in my youth where we would sit in a circle and pass the bong around. I’m 77 now and the memories are coming back to me.

Such great memories . Summer of ‘69 on a beautiful warm summer eve, the local underground station (WZMF) played the entire album. It seemed so perfect for that night and that time in my life

I'll never forget when my Mom told me she was going to accompany a violin player and it turned out to be David LaFlamme.

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@dougheywood400

3 жыл бұрын

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

@lastnamefirst4035

2 жыл бұрын

Psychedelics

@barneyronnie

2 жыл бұрын

@@dougheywood400 So was I; small 🌎

One of the staple songs of the greatest radio rock show of all time and I mean all time, Beaker Street (late 60’s early 70’s). Nothin like it then and nothin like it now. Grateful to have been able to tune it in from KAAY, Little Rock, Arkansas with their signal finding its’ way to northern Wisconsin giving us a listen as to what was happening in music outside of the top 40 pop songs that were on local radio.

@timrossmultimedia

Жыл бұрын

Clyde Clifford was the man! All of us "silent heads" in Iowa farm country listened late at night. When this song came on it lit us up and WE LIT UP! Great times never to be repeated or forgotten.

It's A Beautiful Day was the GREATEST AMERICAN group of the rock era.

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

@charlesveg

5 жыл бұрын

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

@jsbnewport3064

4 жыл бұрын

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

@wildbill5670

4 жыл бұрын

me too. Peace out.

@haroldjurewicz6496

4 жыл бұрын

@@wildbill5670 Still have the album too!

@dday9257

4 жыл бұрын

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

When I was growing up I used to not care for the sound of a violin and the I started to listen to IABD and what David could do with the instrument and started liking the sound of a violin. And of course Pattie had a wonderful, almost haunting voice.

I always loved the way David played violin..he was one of the first to introduce it to Rock..if not the first..his wife Linda..has a great voice..a perfect accompaniment to her husband...and what great legs..the Laflames both hippies made great music..forever music that can and will always be cherished by those who love what is now called "Classic Rock" I finally got to see them about 7 years ago? when they played the Haight Street Fair...Although they had both been on our beautiful planet at least 40 years longer..at that point..they were as fresh as if they were still in their20's. I had an amazing time...being entertained by the band..just 3 blocks from where I live was awesome.. an unforgettable experience.

R.I.P. David LaFlamme, FLY HIGH MY BROTHER!!

White Bird brings back the intense beauty, hurt and so much more that seemed so golden in that era.

A hauntingly beautiful song.

1970 struggling at 18 this music soothed me.

What a classic tune!!!! Mr. LaFlamme lived to be 82 and appeared to be still active. That's wonderful!!

@Razoul-xf1wt

6 ай бұрын

Born in my hometown of New Britain, CT. Just found out😳

RIP David LaFlamme. He must fly...

Thank you KZread for putting this incredible band and song I had forgotten.

@speedyeg-guitars-playlists4800

5 жыл бұрын

I did not and I am from Germany. We lost already many Hifi Manufactures. But I will never forget my first Disco Evenings with Bose Loudspeakers and black Lights and Strobos and we smoked dutch weed ;-)

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

This really takes me back about halfa century. I'll never forget being on patrol in the hills and hearing this wafting up from our firebase -- just a little piece of the world. Yay! Just sane... :^) Saint