Songs About Birds - A Collection

[Rob McCow]

Recently I've been enjoying 'Band On The Run', Paul McCartney's quite-good album from the 70's. It occurred to me that McCartney has written a fair few songs about birds. There's Blackbird, Bluebird and Jenny Wren. Almost one a decade!

So in a similar vein, if there was to be an ultimate compilation on songs about birds what would it include? What songs with birds, or types of birds, or about birds are there?

NB - Simply saying 'Anything by Sheryl Crow' doesn't count!

[SiHart]

Can we chose all the songs by Wings or The Eagles then?

Oh OK. An obvious choice from my point of view is ABBA's Eagle. Great song, very atmospheric.

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

"Blackbird on the Wire" by Beautiful South.
Anything by the Doves?
"Little Bird" by Annie Lennox.
"Raven Dove" by Dolly Parton.
"The Birdie Song"!!
"I'm Like A Bird" by Nelly Furtado
"Why Am I Sitting Here Trying To Think Of Songs With Birds In Instead Of Looking For A Job" by Si Hunt.

Oh, and "Rockin' Robin" by Lolly.

Si.

[Llordllama]

And what about "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd

[Stephen Morgan]

There's an almost forgotten hit from 1980 by French group Sweet People called And The Birds Were Singing. It's a sickly instrumental with birds twittering all through it, and spent ten weeks on the UK charts reaching #4.
Can we also mention the theme from Magpie by the Murgatroyd Band? They were actually The Spencer Davis Group with a few members of Traffic thrown in for good measure.

[SiHart]

There's Glodfrapp's Little Bird too.

And of course, The Birdie Song!

Si xx

[Stephen Morgan]

We mustn't forget Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson's early Eurovision entry Sing Little Birdie. It's a classic.

This thread could run and run!

[Rob McCow]

I was rather hoping it would take flight, Stephen!

Although none of the song title are about birds, they feature heavily in Kate Bush's Aerial album. There's that wonderful moment where she's singing along to a birdsong, then laughing like a loon!

[Jon Masters]

Albatross by Fleetwood Mac
The Rookie, Old Crow and Scattering Crows - all from an album Field of Crows by Fish
When a Nightingale Sang in Berkerly Square by some toff
Dodo Lurker by Genesis
Parakeet by REM

[shada pavlova]

Surfin' Bird?

Because the bird is the word.

[Stephen Morgan]

Disco outfit Silver Convention's 1975 dancefloor hit Fly Robin Fly.

[Rob McCow]

Which reminds me of the hit song made popular by Michael Jackson - Rockin' Robin!

[SiHart]

Belle and Sebastians I'm A Cuckoo needs to be there.

Then there's more Beatles- Norweigan Wood (this bird has flown) and And Your Bird Can Sing.

Si xx

[Pip Madeley]

Patrick Wolf -Vulture

[cyberchris35]

Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep, Cheep by The Middle Of The Road
The First Time by ROBIN Beck

[Stephen Morgan]

Lene Lovich Bird Song
Stevie Wonder Love Light In Flight.

[Andrew Curnow]

Feed the Birds, from Mary Poppins.

The First Time by ROBIN Beck

@ Chris. In similar vein, I supose anything by McFLY?

[Stephen Morgan]

@ Chris. In similar vein, I supose anything by McFLY?

By that token then, anything by The Dixie Chicks.

[Fate]

you gotta love three little birdies by bob marley. he was a god. song is an all time classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjtbhmQhsXg



damn think its a good time to break out me bob marley albums and turn up the volume

[Stephen Morgan]

And of course, The Birdie Song!

Si xx

There were quite a few versions of this around as I recall. I have an old KTel cassette somewhere with it as done by The Qwakas.

[Simon R]

Dolly P also has a "Little Sparrow" and Kate B has "Night of the Swallow" on her "The Dreaming" album.

[Pip Madeley]

Patrick Wolf - Pigeon Song
Patrick Wolf - Blackbird
Patrick Wolf - Magpie (is he some sort of bird obsessive?)
Genesis - Pigeons

[Stephen Morgan]

Dolly P also has a "Little Sparrow" and Kate B has "Night of the Swallow" on her "The Dreaming" album.

I'd forgotten 1979's one hit wonder The Sparrow by schoolchild group The Ramblers.

[Stuart Wallis]

Bluebird and Bluebird Is Dead, both by ELO.

Rockin' Duck by Grimms (true!).

[Dave Tudor]

Does 'Little Wing by the Jimi Hendrix Experience count?

Can we also mention the theme from Magpie by the Murgatroyd Band? They were actually The Spencer Davis Group with a few members of Traffic thrown in for good measure.

What, really!? Didn't know that!