Silver Bird (Mark Lindsay song)

"Silver Bird"
Single by Mark Lindsay
from the album Silver Bird
B-side	"So Hard to Leave You"
Released	May 21, 1970
Genre	Pop
Length	3:05
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Kenny Young, Artie Butler
Producer(s)	Jerry Fuller
Mark Lindsay singles chronology
"Miss America" (1970) "Silver Bird" (1970) "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" (1970)

"Silver Bird" is a song written by Kenny Young and Artie Butler and recorded by Mark Lindsay, in his solo career after Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Background

"Silver Bird' was recorded along with L.A. session musicians from the Wrecking Crew ^[1] in 1969.

Chart performance

The single reached number 25 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 during the summer of 1970. In Canada, "Silver Bird" peaked at number 10. ^[2]

Weekly charts Chart (1970) Peak position Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 33 Canada RPM Top Singles [4] 10 New Zealand ( Listener ) [5] 15 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 25 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary [6] 7 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [7] 20

Year-end charts Chart (1970) Rank U.S. Cash Box [8] 94

Popular culture

• Yamaha used the music from "Silver Bird", with rewritten lyrics, as the background to at least one of its early 1970s motorcycle commercials.

• The 2022 Netflix movie The Gray Man , starring Ryan Gosling, features the song in the early depiction of Claire Fitzroy as well as in a scene at the end where she is told to play it in order to not hear gunfire.

References

1. Hartman, Kent (2012). The Wrecking Crew . St. Martin’s Griffin. pp.  261–263. ISBN   978-1-250-03046-7.
2. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1970-08-08. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 178. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
4. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1970-08-08. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
5. Flavour of New Zealand, 23 November 1970
6. Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 141.
7. Cash Box Top 100 Singles, August 8, 1970
8. Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1970

External links

• Mark Lindsay - Silver Bird on YouTube