I bought this album in 1970, loved it, and it's still great, esp White Bird. Love to re-listen to stuff I loved then, and frequently am amazed at how good some of it was. But there's still great music being made, by people we may not know of because they are not mainstream - like this also wasn't. And if you think all young people are soul-dead, then I'm sorry that you don't know the many fine young people I know.
@194jerry CONTINUED Many of them are far more "together" & honest & generous & committed people than a lot of the so-called Love Generation ever were. "Love"'s still here -are you actually looking for it guys, or just moaning about how great we all were back then? And those of you who hear this song as a shmoozy bliss anthem full of peace - you've not listened to the words? The words lament the white bird trapped in a golden cage, growing old, who must fly or she will die.
Wake up 60s people, we still have to open OUR cages if we've not done it yet, it still can be done. AND DON'T CONDEMN THE YOUNG PEOPLE. "Teach your children well" - did we?
Sorry if that was a bit tetchy, but come on, be honest: we had our flaws. WE did not create the fair, just, and environmentally responsible society that we really should have done for these ones who are young today. They were born into an even more materialistic society than we were - whose fault was that?
@194jerry, I was born in the late '60s, a Gen-X'er. I'm guessing you're a Boomer. These new kids are supposed to be called "Millenials", I've heard. I think all 3 generations have some people that care and live right. And all 3 have some self-absorbed, greed-driven jerks. I think the %-age of jerks has been rising and it's reflected in the music they "offer" us. Just my 2 cents.
@SgtCrom Yes, born in 1951, heard Beatles declare "All you need is love" when I was 16 & was v inspired by it. And was aware of being in v small minority (who really believed that possibility).Coupl of points: (1) young people are better people than they're given credit for & have been assaulted with consumerist propaganda much worse than we were so that's impressive I think, (2) what we get to hear these days is what gets sold us by the industry, itself a bastion of the profit motive.
@194jerry, I'm hearin' ya. I give all the credit in the world to kids who can resist the flood of crap they're subjected to. Be careful of scapegoating the profit motive. It's the control motive you need to watch out for. Control freaks have been using the "evil" of the profit motive as a smoke-screen for years.
@194jerry No, I don't think that; nor will I make any comments about Justin or his ilk. But GOOD music is hard to find these days. It's not modern music, it's modern radio. This may not have been mainstream back in our day, but it was played and many of us heard it on underground FM. This would be ignored today. I find some of the best new music on TV shows or movies, not radio.
@jody24ful Just one problem, only thing I can play is a CD player. LOL! I am pretty good at PA and Pro Audio (sound boards). Guess that makes me the "roadie".
@bluecatky Oh my. I didn't know either. I just now looked it up when I saw your post. Happened back in '89. So tragic, and barely a write-up. Our mortality is but for a fleeting instant, Pattie's memory will live on eternally in her "angelic" voice. RIP Pattie.....
this song just seems to bring peace to the heart .. why do people today got to be so screwed up? seems like everyone is out for themselves and not for the good of all. So eager to see others fall as if that will make them feel superior. we live in such sad times. I'm just glad there is music such as this to bring a sense of peace to one's self.
another five nine chiming in, from Tacoma... this is just X -tra special stuff ! For each of us a special feeling , as tazman said...was digging the deja -vu . Me too , big time.
going back via the mind. I love to crank this up , drums are simple but when he hits them..he comes down hard .............BPLATn ! PBLATn ! love that simple stuff too.
74sodapop, after reading your description, I have to say I feel a little bit sorry for the ones born later, not to have heard the radio through the late 60s through to the mid 70's. Every night as they sent me to bed,,, I'd turn on my hidden radio tucked in next to my mattress. This tune and many more you've never heard of made it onto the radio.
This is another iconic prog folk surfaced in the magic 60's. The song reflects the sentiment, mood, spirit of the time, but it is an affair most appreciated in person real time. The psychedelic 60's oozed magic accross the land and into the minds of especially children. But the devil's wheels never stop turning, they just sometimes slow down, that's all. The human need to be free.
At school in Alabama in 1969, magic mushrooms, dreamy afternoons and evenings, Atlanta Pop Festival, an incredible time and the music takes me back...
I always thought their name was odd, but they left us this absolute gem, fine violinist, great harmony vocals....I first heard this 40 years ago! Damn...time flies!
@ajenkins1978 I think I was about 14 years old when I first heard this song I loved it and it stuck in mind. A very special and magical time for me I will never forget. I am now 55 years old and i still love it
itsheatherrr wonderful tribute to your mom. I feel your pain. I.m sure she was a wonderful woman. I hope you can overcome your grief. It's what she would want for you.May god bless you both MARLON MILLBURN U.S A
This is a landmark song from one of the greatest albums of all time---IMHO--A true gem from hippie era. Excellent production values for the technology of the time. There's very few albums where I love every track and this is one of them--David LaFlame's violin is haunting, ethereal----a absolute classic if there ever was one!!
My special song, my best friend Linda Walters and i played this song over and over. She died when we were 16. I still miss her and grieve because we were so young and had so many plans...Murder/suicide in April 8, 1973. She and another girl were in a graveyard with a .38 and killed themselves..In Marco Island Florida, newspaper article on Sunday April 13.
@deb2008andy I'm so sorry for your loss. I too lost a good friend to suicide at age 15. It was in 1977. I still think about my friend sometimes and wonder if there was something, anything I could have done to help and to maybe keep it from happening.
@bluecatky I wrote you a message and it went poof...I am sorry for the loss of your friend too. I was very angry at the world for a long time. As we grow in life and in spiritual matters we think differently. I feel such love for my friend, and i know she is safe and well somewhere.
My special song, my best friend Linda Walters and i played this song over and over. She died when we were 16. I still miss her and grieve because we were so young and had so many plans...Murder/suicide in April 8, 1973. She and another girl were in a graveyard with a .38 and killed themselves..
i would never,never,never,never,never,never,never,never,never,never,ever,forget all the good times i had in the 60,s man all the weed, acid , now i,am a grandfather and life is good, and by the way have not drank in30 years and have not used drugs in 37 years
I am 59 and the memories and chills this song gives me are unreal. I am so glad I was part of that era of music and life. Wow where has life gone never forget my friends never forget Live it Love it Feel. Thanks for the post 74sodapop wow the memories are endless be well all. I wish I could go back
@tazman9779 I'm 57 myself. . .and Beautiful Day was the VERY first rock concert I saw when I was off at college at the Univ of Texas/Austin. I was instantly in love with Patti Santos. . .May still be for all I know. . .Every time I hear this song. . .which isnt often enough. . .I can still remember that show. . .and Patti ! ! !
@tazman9779 Yes, me too. Actually the song brought one the best person into my life.. I had been having dreams with that song for a couple of months and I met the sweetest man I have ever known. Unfortunately he is with the Great Spirit now, and oh! how I miss him.
I'm 59 too...I was raking leaves in the gray drizzle today and this song floated back into my memory...I don't have anything else to add. You said it all...
i LOVE this song. Especially the violin. Too bad todays music doesn't have the talent they did back in the 60's. I'm thankful I grew up in that era. Feel bad for todays generation they don't know what real music is....
The night I met my late husband, Bob, we drove to the coast at Bodega Bay in California and sat in his T-Bird and played this album while talking and getting to know one another. I really miss him and this song brings back a wonderful memory!
@Delana45 I can see you still love him.. Why did we not know what to do ... Love is is a following tide...Connection and feelings are so strange ... maybe you need to tell him.. Get off you ass and tell him. WHAT IF HE IS REALLY THINKING OF YOU TOO. .. He might be the shy type... I to found this out... GO GIRL... Don't you hesitate... LOVE NEVER DIES
I wish I could have played this one for us, Barbra, My True and Eternal Love. But, then again, you can certainly hear this from your palace in The Celestial Kingdom. The Lord of the Universe knows how much I miss you, Barbra. You are the most resplendent soul I've ever met in this world. Wait for me, My Matchless Gem of Heaven and Earth. I will LOVE YOU for all of Eternity, My Barbra Rose! Barbra Jean "Rose" Ragan (June 23, 1967 -- November 21/22, 2010) RIP Fly back for me soon, My Love.
This was my mom's absolute favorite song and now that she's in heaven, this song has been given so much more meaning. She had always said how she wanted this song at her funeral.. and when it was played, I just sobbed and sobbed.. This truly is a beautiful song and I'm glad I'm now able to appreciate it more than I ever could of.. ♥ RIP Mommy..
Here's a place in time that society forgot. ~ music was cool, groovy & innocent. Lyrics were clean and people were pure and unspoiled. Unlike today how media serves our kids a bunch of FILTH where lyrics of gang-sta rap & hip-hop are full of profanity, recording artists are horny sexual beings portrayed in videos & pop stars are admired for getting in trouble with the law - WHAT kind of CRAP is that ?? Just citing how societal erosion is deteriorating the very fabric that holds us together.
Wow. I remember this gem being pumped up out of my brother's bedroom, and my dad's reaction. "Henry, turn it down, and why's that towel under your door again!" Man, I miss those days.
Un saludo para todos mis amigos, esta cancion une almas, alimenta al corazon, endulza los pensamientos y nos recuerda que lo bello es simple y gratuito, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!
This comment is not with regard to the "music" herein, but rather to those concerned with our collective insight and sense of direction in life. Many of us are not extremist in our beliefs, but we are and have been willing to sacrifice to our convictions spiritually and morally. Because we did not take up arms against our governing arm does not implicate us as pacifists. We can vote and we can tote. When and where we make our "moves" in life is between ourselves and our maker.
@noraq1987 We have vital foreign interests. If we don't take control of valuable natural resources (i.e. oil) then some other power will and use them against us. Read your history. Japan and Germany did it in the 20s/30s without any resistance from the free world until it was too late. I don't want anti-West anti-Israeli powers in the mideast controlling oil or natural gas. That's why we're in Afghanistan. It's us or the Russians or the Chinese. They are not our friends and never will be.
@KUTVgroucho it is the USA who is no one's friend all we do is take & consume with out thinking about any other nation or fellow human being. Americans are not better than anyone else just greedy and not willing to share only to sell guns to others- In all the important places today we have not built one school, hospital or road to help the citizens of any other country however we gladly sell them arms and other deadly weapons so they can fight our wars- bring back the draft.
@noraq1987 You have your head up your ass if you are not aware of the many hospitals the US Army has built in the Middle east only to have them blown up by rag-heads-- maybe you are one of those assholes filled with hate while crying peace and love except for the USA and Israel.
@45Jimbart my, my don't we have a vulgar mouth. All those hospitals huh? For whom? all the killers who join the army so they can kill those rag-heads? Your lack of knowledge about the whole area( Iraq+ are not the "middle east" btw) is only as appalling as your lack of adjectives. Why does the Army have to build hospitals? I bet you like to shoot rabbits for fun, or maybe set bums on fire. The "aid" the USA sends to the "middle east" is weapons- USA is not into nation building but arms sales/war
I can always tell those who think they know what has and is happening in the Middle East. The rag heads tell lies and condemn and get upset over words used to question their hatred of the USA. They preach peace while ordering the murder of innocents. You are sick and, if your are in the USA, you should go back to where you can live under the guns of your fucking rag head (Muslim) governments.
I don't remember this song, but for some reason I like it....it's a peaceful musical that you find typical of the 60's. That said...I find it most relaxing...and peaceful. This from an old guy, who appreciates simple stuff, unlike what I hear from the now-sound....peace
Live your life fully. Live your dream. When other people, including your family, say that it’s impossible, ignore them and do it anyway. Do what you want to do now, not what others or society wants you to do. You won’t regret it. What you will regret is not doing it. Run while you are young; your time here on earth is very short. Old age may strike you down to a crawl, barely able to walk as it has done to me.
In the early 70's I watch these guys perform in a 'barn bar', in Trout Lake, Wa. . I have been , since then mesmerized. What a display of talent.... will always hold this song close....thanks for the video...great stuff!!
.. this was my 'theme song at age 15 and I made it my business to finance my food, clothing and part time apt at such a young age because my brother and sister were spoiled rotten (older sis, younger bro & me stuck in the middle) I blew my mom and dad's mind and I almost ended in juvenile hall.... But when I sort of moved back in before I moved 1800 miles I had a full scholarship to the Univ. of Miami... this song repeated over and over amongst others helped me... Thanks for/ super post...-:)
I dedicate this tune to wimpkins(silverafists), dude, you are soooo lonely I can tell, I too have read ALL your postings to other people and you are soooo SAD! :( btw man, get it through your head, I AM in your head "forever", ;o)
If You lived in Chicago During the 60's termoil Peace Man! I did! It took 5.3 billion years to experience the 60's movement. Pipers Alley and Wells street,Refeer Maddness, Vietnam, Watergate, Chicago "7", Riots, Ohio State,Black Panthers,Cuban Missile Crisis, coldwar, Kennedy assanation,But all-n-all we had Some Damn good Music!
Fond memories every time I hear this song. Being with good friends, sharing a "dooby". Kicking back, and drifting away to the music. It could paint a picture in one's mind.
Our dingy man was a hippie and everybody always ran to the van to get their favorite flavor. If I shut my eyes and concentrate hard enough I can go back to just what I felt as a 4 year old in 1969. The cloths, the smells, the attitudes. Seems like there were hippies all over my town. I remember hearing this song at Palmer's while my dad was getting some ham chipped for sandwiches.
I heard this for the first time 40 years ago and it still haunts me. As with most of the music of those years, I heard them during and around tours in Viet Nam. There's mixed joy for the comaradery, the pain, the loss, and the beauty. It's a part of my life thatshaped me and marked me, and this is a beautiful piece of that. I'm glad to have heard them......
I absolutely an needing to hear this today. My former BF called me the white bird who flew away so to avoid old age, I wish it was that easy, but age is just a number though my right knee would disagree today
This tops one of the 1968 tunes...hahaha I lost my virginity when this song came out after getting stoned...LOL...freedom was popular and pot sold for $5 an ounce...then the government took over selling their stuff to brainwash the public...they want us all dumbed down and stupid so we don't see what they are doing...flouride poison in our water/toothpaste...aspartame=poison, msg's= poison, preservatives=poison, gmo crops=poison, chemtrails, haarp,, rex 84, agenda 21...takeover of the world
@Whitedovie Yes, and did you know that tainted grape soda was sold in urban neighborhoods during the 60s to keep "down" the black man? You wouldn't happen to be Alex Jones, would you?
I loved this band back in the day and just looked them up !!!! Thanks for posting !!! So Beautiful ! Saw them in Colorado in the early 80's. Still great !
I wasn't turned on to these guys until the 80s, but understood their genius immediately. After getting it on CD upon its initial release, I was surprised how many people knew the music (I was a DJ at the time). Surprisingly I got a lot of requests for it. I eventually found all the albums, but they never recaptured whatever magic was there when this album was being made. David and Linda must have parted ways as I saw he went on to a solo career. Sad, but at least we got one album of pure magic.
Anyone care to remark as to how US got into four war theatres simultaneously...yet for the life of me, I cannot recall even a reasonable effort of peaceful demonstration for/against...It,s as tho no one understands the pos/neg aspects of sitting on their asses and 'goin, yea whatever' when the US backs it's ass into another corner. Goddammit wake up
@klondike6semperfi Yo, Glad to see someone else is AWAKE ! This Simulation is a Mental Facility / Nuthouse in the Hollow-deck of the 'collective unconscious ' of the Universe ! The 'Government" is a farce ! Hell- Low !!!!! Anybody else Home ?????
@klondike6semperfi Maybe people finally realized that the 60s counterculture was a dismal political failure and only aided in the selling of rock and roll albums and marketing illegal drugs plus other "groovy" paraphernalia.
My father loved this music. He got a lot of vinyl stuff of this kind.
Therefore music like this is the music of my early childhood.
Loved it, love it and will love it.
Moritz19081980 18 hours ago
I'm surprised Martin Scorsese hasn't used this in a movie. If had a radio show, I would use this as the intro or as a bumper.
judgesmails200 1 day ago
.. Thanks to Vanessa Mae for bringing me here. It was her cover of this forgotten gem that brought it back to me.
340rps 1 week ago
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Suckiest song of all time by the suckiest "band" ever.
FreeRangePancake 2 weeks ago
@FreeRangePancake SUCKIEST BAND.....YEAH THAY DID STINK. THE SONG IS WONDERFUL THOUGH.
rambler651 1 week ago
Christ. This song is over 40 years old, and it sounds just as beautiful as the first time I heard it.
anneshuck 2 weeks ago
What a beautiful, haunting old song!
Twinklebunny1 2 weeks ago
my life!!!!!
dra4myboys 2 weeks ago
tryin to find a vid for " no word for glad ". cant seem to find one.
psychedelicsam1 3 weeks ago in playlist hippie invasion
Brings about memories and by there brings memories................
wroche01 3 weeks ago
Beautiful. A classic. :D-)-<
pittypatcat 3 weeks ago
These guys also Remind me of Fair Port Convention or The Mama's and the Pappa's
wildkat700 1 month ago
These guys remind me of The Pentangle
wildkat700 1 month ago
Lets be friends! marknestbox@live.co.uk (and meet my fiancee...) xxx
marknestbox 1 month ago
am 17 and i love this kind of music.. <3 wish i was born like 20 years before
NinaNightray 1 month ago 2
Oh what a beautiful Day, if....
...there weren't these chemtrails of 20xx.
Or did they exist back in 1968?
Petra9119 1 month ago
@Petra9119 they exist from Wright bros. times.
odysseios 4 weeks ago
@odysseios
Oh, really. And the earth is a disc in reality, isn't it.
And banksters are the benefactor of mankind.
Dream on.
Petra9119 4 weeks ago
@Petra9119 Don't know it: you are the repository of the truth, not me.
odysseios 4 weeks ago
@odysseios too generous
Petra9119 4 weeks ago
@Petra9119 ;-)
odysseios 4 weeks ago
I bought this album in 1970, loved it, and it's still great, esp White Bird. Love to re-listen to stuff I loved then, and frequently am amazed at how good some of it was. But there's still great music being made, by people we may not know of because they are not mainstream - like this also wasn't. And if you think all young people are soul-dead, then I'm sorry that you don't know the many fine young people I know.
194jerry 1 month ago 2
@194jerry CONTINUED Many of them are far more "together" & honest & generous & committed people than a lot of the so-called Love Generation ever were. "Love"'s still here -are you actually looking for it guys, or just moaning about how great we all were back then? And those of you who hear this song as a shmoozy bliss anthem full of peace - you've not listened to the words? The words lament the white bird trapped in a golden cage, growing old, who must fly or she will die.
194jerry 1 month ago
Wake up 60s people, we still have to open OUR cages if we've not done it yet, it still can be done. AND DON'T CONDEMN THE YOUNG PEOPLE. "Teach your children well" - did we?
Sorry if that was a bit tetchy, but come on, be honest: we had our flaws. WE did not create the fair, just, and environmentally responsible society that we really should have done for these ones who are young today. They were born into an even more materialistic society than we were - whose fault was that?
194jerry 1 month ago
@194jerry, I was born in the late '60s, a Gen-X'er. I'm guessing you're a Boomer. These new kids are supposed to be called "Millenials", I've heard. I think all 3 generations have some people that care and live right. And all 3 have some self-absorbed, greed-driven jerks. I think the %-age of jerks has been rising and it's reflected in the music they "offer" us. Just my 2 cents.
SgtCrom 1 month ago
@SgtCrom Yes, born in 1951, heard Beatles declare "All you need is love" when I was 16 & was v inspired by it. And was aware of being in v small minority (who really believed that possibility).Coupl of points: (1) young people are better people than they're given credit for & have been assaulted with consumerist propaganda much worse than we were so that's impressive I think, (2) what we get to hear these days is what gets sold us by the industry, itself a bastion of the profit motive.
194jerry 1 month ago
@194jerry, I'm hearin' ya. I give all the credit in the world to kids who can resist the flood of crap they're subjected to. Be careful of scapegoating the profit motive. It's the control motive you need to watch out for. Control freaks have been using the "evil" of the profit motive as a smoke-screen for years.
SgtCrom 1 month ago
@194jerry No, I don't think that; nor will I make any comments about Justin or his ilk. But GOOD music is hard to find these days. It's not modern music, it's modern radio. This may not have been mainstream back in our day, but it was played and many of us heard it on underground FM. This would be ignored today. I find some of the best new music on TV shows or movies, not radio.
triplettam 1 month ago
It still gives me chills... after all these years.
WeCanWorkItOut48 1 month ago
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rtc132 1 month ago
wow..i haven't heard this tune since '70.
issurchaim 1 month ago
What this Country really needs right now is some good old fashioned "hippie music".
twajetmech1 1 month ago 22
@twajetmech1 get busy
jody24ful 4 weeks ago
@twajetmech1 les get busy, have drums will travel
jody24ful 4 weeks ago
@jody24ful Just one problem, only thing I can play is a CD player. LOL! I am pretty good at PA and Pro Audio (sound boards). Guess that makes me the "roadie".
twajetmech1 3 weeks ago
@twajetmech1 hahaha, but I think the whole world needs it righ now.
TheSunnyjen79 2 weeks ago
R.I.P. Patricia. Hope you've found the heaven.
flibideegibbit 1 month ago 2
RIP Pattie Santos, your beautfiul voice will live on forever in this song.
bluecatky 1 month ago 9
@bluecatky I didn't know-I'm very sorry to hrear of her passing.
darkfey1963 3 weeks ago
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@bluecatky Oh my. I didn't know either. I just now looked it up when I saw your post. Happened back in '89. So tragic, and barely a write-up. Our mortality is but for a fleeting instant, Pattie's memory will live on eternally in her "angelic" voice. RIP Pattie.....
twajetmech1 2 weeks ago
this song just seems to bring peace to the heart .. why do people today got to be so screwed up? seems like everyone is out for themselves and not for the good of all. So eager to see others fall as if that will make them feel superior. we live in such sad times. I'm just glad there is music such as this to bring a sense of peace to one's self.
340rps 1 month ago 3
another five nine chiming in, from Tacoma... this is just X -tra special stuff ! For each of us a special feeling , as tazman said...was digging the deja -vu . Me too , big time.
going back via the mind. I love to crank this up , drums are simple but when he hits them..he comes down hard .............BPLATn ! PBLATn ! love that simple stuff too.
dhfrenna 1 month ago
yet another artist who had to deal with Matthew Katz. ( upshot: sell your own music)
SeattleLA 1 month ago
why can't they make music like this today? so simple so easy. 20 years from now, this music will still be king. and today's music will be lost.
desertfox5555 1 month ago
Who is THE FEMALE SINGER?
taffywindsor1 2 months ago
@taffywindsor1 Pattie Santos
SeattleLA 1 month ago
God, I never get tired of this song. (it was written in Seattle)
SeattleLA 1 month ago
Me Neither! A GREAT SONG!! That many I,m afraid have never heard...B E A U T I F U L D A Y Indeed!!
alanu2hot 1 month ago
@alanu2hot great!
SeattleLA 1 month ago
74sodapop, after reading your description, I have to say I feel a little bit sorry for the ones born later, not to have heard the radio through the late 60s through to the mid 70's. Every night as they sent me to bed,,, I'd turn on my hidden radio tucked in next to my mattress. This tune and many more you've never heard of made it onto the radio.
SlackerSlayer 2 months ago 3
awesome
LeLoupDriveIn 2 months ago
This is another iconic prog folk surfaced in the magic 60's. The song reflects the sentiment, mood, spirit of the time, but it is an affair most appreciated in person real time. The psychedelic 60's oozed magic accross the land and into the minds of especially children. But the devil's wheels never stop turning, they just sometimes slow down, that's all. The human need to be free.
TangleF50 2 months ago
@TangleF50 "oozed magic accross the land and into the minds of especially children."
I had hopes then Reagan was (s)elected.
SlackerSlayer 2 months ago
At school in Alabama in 1969, magic mushrooms, dreamy afternoons and evenings, Atlanta Pop Festival, an incredible time and the music takes me back...
AddieJ10 2 months ago 2
I always thought their name was odd, but they left us this absolute gem, fine violinist, great harmony vocals....I first heard this 40 years ago! Damn...time flies!
bezzarguy 2 months ago
thank you soooo much! one of my all time fav's!
cassieburke123 2 months ago
It's a Beautiful Song!
Johnboy50011 2 months ago
@Johnboy50011 I have a boner
kennydisturb 2 months ago
@kennydisturb Huge boner
kennydisturb 2 months ago
Respond to this video... seriously huge rock hard boner
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It`s A Beautiful Day Ended When
The Golden Voice Of Lead Singer
Beautiful Patti Santos Died In
Her Car Crash 12/14/1989.
RIP Patti, We Miss You
Trevor Holtzworth
TrevorHoltzworth 2 months ago
the violin is precious.
lorilanglois 2 months ago
I have this album on vinyl!
ajenkins1978 2 months ago
@ajenkins1978 I think I was about 14 years old when I first heard this song I loved it and it stuck in mind. A very special and magical time for me I will never forget. I am now 55 years old and i still love it
linda02020 2 months ago
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ajenkins1978 2 months ago
itsheatherrr wonderful tribute to your mom. I feel your pain. I.m sure she was a wonderful woman. I hope you can overcome your grief. It's what she would want for you.May god bless you both MARLON MILLBURN U.S A
marlonmillburn67 2 months ago
This song RAWKS...still have the album and it's still one of my favorites...takes me back to another beautiful time of my life !!
Nancee57 2 months ago 2
@Nancee57
Yes a beautiful time in my life as well Albany Oregon concert 1970 or 1971 getting old.
59rbee 2 months ago
i always loved this song...beautiful...
robertahartley1 2 months ago
Awesome song! They don't make 'em like that anymore... ;-)
deenerboy 2 months ago
i have always loved this song
TheMackd08 2 months ago
Ok get it over with..I'm an old hippie..and this is dreadfull old hippie music.....don't care.....I LOVE IT
MrSirDel 2 months ago 2
This is a landmark song from one of the greatest albums of all time---IMHO--A true gem from hippie era. Excellent production values for the technology of the time. There's very few albums where I love every track and this is one of them--David LaFlame's violin is haunting, ethereal----a absolute classic if there ever was one!!
Sutterjack 2 months ago
My special song, my best friend Linda Walters and i played this song over and over. She died when we were 16. I still miss her and grieve because we were so young and had so many plans...Murder/suicide in April 8, 1973. She and another girl were in a graveyard with a .38 and killed themselves..In Marco Island Florida, newspaper article on Sunday April 13.
deb2008andy 3 months ago
@deb2008andy I'm so sorry for your loss. I too lost a good friend to suicide at age 15. It was in 1977. I still think about my friend sometimes and wonder if there was something, anything I could have done to help and to maybe keep it from happening.
bluecatky 3 months ago
@bluecatky I wrote you a message and it went poof...I am sorry for the loss of your friend too. I was very angry at the world for a long time. As we grow in life and in spiritual matters we think differently. I feel such love for my friend, and i know she is safe and well somewhere.
deb2008andy 2 months ago
My special song, my best friend Linda Walters and i played this song over and over. She died when we were 16. I still miss her and grieve because we were so young and had so many plans...Murder/suicide in April 8, 1973. She and another girl were in a graveyard with a .38 and killed themselves..
deb2008andy 3 months ago 2
My special song.
deb2008andy 3 months ago
YouTube needs to add a reaction to the list .... Timeless!!!!!!!!!!!!!
340rps 3 months ago in playlist play
I saw them in 1970 at the forum in Inglewood they opened for Jethro Tull this song was and is one the best ...Thank you......
mandala77729 3 months ago
hey youtoob dude enjoy life brother i,ts to short my man .
MrErnie408 3 months ago
i would never,never,never,never,never,never,never,never,never,never,ever,forget all the good times i had in the 60,s man all the weed, acid , now i,am a grandfather and life is good, and by the way have not drank in30 years and have not used drugs in 37 years
MrErnie408 3 months ago
I am 59 and the memories and chills this song gives me are unreal. I am so glad I was part of that era of music and life. Wow where has life gone never forget my friends never forget Live it Love it Feel. Thanks for the post 74sodapop wow the memories are endless be well all. I wish I could go back
tazman9779 3 months ago 20
@tazman9779 I'm 57 myself. . .and Beautiful Day was the VERY first rock concert I saw when I was off at college at the Univ of Texas/Austin. I was instantly in love with Patti Santos. . .May still be for all I know. . .Every time I hear this song. . .which isnt often enough. . .I can still remember that show. . .and Patti ! ! !
drandall1776 3 months ago 2
@drandall1776 Love the memories this song just gives me chills and makes my mind wander :). Where has life gone be well
tazman9779 2 months ago
@tazman9779 Yes, me too. Actually the song brought one the best person into my life.. I had been having dreams with that song for a couple of months and I met the sweetest man I have ever known. Unfortunately he is with the Great Spirit now, and oh! how I miss him.
goldengirlger 3 months ago
@tazman9779
I'm 59 too...I was raking leaves in the gray drizzle today and this song floated back into my memory...I don't have anything else to add. You said it all...
rschiel50 1 month ago
@tazman9779 me too...
I think we were the decade that really got to see it all go too far...
hocuspocusfocusable 1 month ago
@tazman9779 Don't we all. Saw them probably 4 times. What great memories. Saddens me that the youth of today will never experience it.
triplettam 1 month ago
wow..its been a long time since I heard this song...beautiful...
riamonger 3 months ago
i LOVE this song. Especially the violin. Too bad todays music doesn't have the talent they did back in the 60's. I'm thankful I grew up in that era. Feel bad for todays generation they don't know what real music is....
lorilanglois 3 months ago
such a beautiful song! should be played as a peace anthem all over the world ☮& ♥
ChickaFerdyParasol 3 months ago
This song still takes me back to a certain "place in mind" if you know what I mean. Not a place in time but a place in mind ... LOL!
ytoobdood 3 months ago 2
Thnaks to you guys for your support and saying you care. Maybe I'm not so old and washed-up after all...LOL!
ytoobdood 3 months ago 2
Thanks! Gives me Hippie chills!
bumcheek7 3 months ago
This Song really Feeds the Heart and Soul....
starbucks107 3 months ago 13
loved this song in the day as well as now but I miss KMET, little bit of heaven 94.7
KMET.
sz3rd 3 months ago
Treasured memories of time with the first love of my life and I still treasure the vinyl :-0
wintinliz 3 months ago
@cloudjia very cool detail, how did you come to know this was Justin's fave?
mythtree 4 months ago
@mythtree i sent you a message. cloudjia. What a beautiful song!
kloudzjia 3 months ago
@cloudjia very cool detail, how did you come to know this was Justin's fave?
mythtree 4 months ago
@cloudjia I didn't know that this was a favorite of Justin's! How did you come to find this cool bit of trivia?
mythtree 4 months ago
Some people are just plain mad at the world. Guess 24 of them came here. If this song does not touch your soul I don't know what could.
340rps 4 months ago in playlist play
Ann Dunlop... I was so in LOVE... I will never forget you.. and Larry
TrickShot6828 4 months ago
The night I met my late husband, Bob, we drove to the coast at Bodega Bay in California and sat in his T-Bird and played this album while talking and getting to know one another. I really miss him and this song brings back a wonderful memory!
Delana45 4 months ago
@Delana45 I can see you still love him.. Why did we not know what to do ... Love is is a following tide...Connection and feelings are so strange ... maybe you need to tell him.. Get off you ass and tell him. WHAT IF HE IS REALLY THINKING OF YOU TOO. .. He might be the shy type... I to found this out... GO GIRL... Don't you hesitate... LOVE NEVER DIES
TrickShot6828 4 months ago
Tell him you still love him... He may be waiting
TrickShot6828 4 months ago
tell him
TrickShot6828 4 months ago
@TrickShot6828 Please notice that I said late husband. He passed away in 2002.
Delana45 4 months ago
@Delana45 So sorry for the loss of your loved one, thank you for sharing your love, and your precious memory.
mythtree 4 months ago
Still utterly stunning. Have to wonder why popular music today is so much dreck.
Powerglide1A 4 months ago
I have loved 'White Bird' ever since I could remember. Beautiful song!
Tina2Cats 4 months ago
I wish I could have played this one for us, Barbra, My True and Eternal Love. But, then again, you can certainly hear this from your palace in The Celestial Kingdom. The Lord of the Universe knows how much I miss you, Barbra. You are the most resplendent soul I've ever met in this world. Wait for me, My Matchless Gem of Heaven and Earth. I will LOVE YOU for all of Eternity, My Barbra Rose! Barbra Jean "Rose" Ragan (June 23, 1967 -- November 21/22, 2010) RIP Fly back for me soon, My Love.
mickeymousebiker1 4 months ago
@mickeymousebiker1 what beautiful thoughts, love & light!
mythtree 4 months ago
@mickeymousebiker1 I am in the same situation as you. My best love, is also gone.
goldengirlger 3 months ago
This was my mom's absolute favorite song and now that she's in heaven, this song has been given so much more meaning. She had always said how she wanted this song at her funeral.. and when it was played, I just sobbed and sobbed.. This truly is a beautiful song and I'm glad I'm now able to appreciate it more than I ever could of.. ♥ RIP Mommy..
itsheatherrrr 4 months ago 39
@itsheatherrrr You had a wonderful mother, and she raised a lovely person, dear heart.
mythtree 4 months ago
@mythtree Thank you.
itsheatherrrr 3 months ago
@itsheatherrrr Gogs and heaven arnt real, sorry
ceddybea588 3 months ago
@ceddybea588 ... Yes there is a heaven, I've been there, ..As far as God I'm not positive, but have seen a few Goddesses.
340rps 3 months ago
@itsheatherrrr Thanks for posting such a sweat response. I used to listen to this tune back in the day.
Countrychiddler 2 months ago
those were the stone old days
eddiomann 4 months ago
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Here's a place in time that society forgot. ~ music was cool, groovy & innocent. Lyrics were clean and people were pure and unspoiled. Unlike today how media serves our kids a bunch of FILTH where lyrics of gang-sta rap & hip-hop are full of profanity, recording artists are horny sexual beings portrayed in videos & pop stars are admired for getting in trouble with the law - WHAT kind of CRAP is that ?? Just citing how societal erosion is deteriorating the very fabric that holds us together.
Korvinski 4 months ago in playlist Korvinski's Favorited Videos
Wow. I remember this gem being pumped up out of my brother's bedroom, and my dad's reaction. "Henry, turn it down, and why's that towel under your door again!" Man, I miss those days.
jcleve61 4 months ago 2
This is still awesome after more than 40 years!
mlstrazzo 4 months ago 2
Un saludo para todos mis amigos, esta cancion une almas, alimenta al corazon, endulza los pensamientos y nos recuerda que lo bello es simple y gratuito, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!
cHUCHo458 4 months ago
GREAT, GREAT SONG
Tomsouthrock 4 months ago
who are the 23 knuckleheads that dont like this ? they must be young ...probably torn between this and rap.
pg467 5 months ago
This comment is not with regard to the "music" herein, but rather to those concerned with our collective insight and sense of direction in life. Many of us are not extremist in our beliefs, but we are and have been willing to sacrifice to our convictions spiritually and morally. Because we did not take up arms against our governing arm does not implicate us as pacifists. We can vote and we can tote. When and where we make our "moves" in life is between ourselves and our maker.
klondike6semperfi 5 months ago
@klondike6semperfi Wise observation shared, such is responsibility.
mythtree 4 months ago
this is by far one of the most beautiful songs ever <3
emilygene17 5 months ago
Woww I havent heard this song in years, I have the Album somewhere.
Its my favorite on the Album.
Cathye3 5 months ago
KUTVgroucho- you are so correct- I have always pointed that out to others-except the other side is ruling us with the never ending war.
noraq1987 5 months ago
@noraq1987 We have vital foreign interests. If we don't take control of valuable natural resources (i.e. oil) then some other power will and use them against us. Read your history. Japan and Germany did it in the 20s/30s without any resistance from the free world until it was too late. I don't want anti-West anti-Israeli powers in the mideast controlling oil or natural gas. That's why we're in Afghanistan. It's us or the Russians or the Chinese. They are not our friends and never will be.
KUTVgroucho 5 months ago
@KUTVgroucho it is the USA who is no one's friend all we do is take & consume with out thinking about any other nation or fellow human being. Americans are not better than anyone else just greedy and not willing to share only to sell guns to others- In all the important places today we have not built one school, hospital or road to help the citizens of any other country however we gladly sell them arms and other deadly weapons so they can fight our wars- bring back the draft.
noraq1987 5 months ago
@noraq1987 You have your head up your ass if you are not aware of the many hospitals the US Army has built in the Middle east only to have them blown up by rag-heads-- maybe you are one of those assholes filled with hate while crying peace and love except for the USA and Israel.
45Jimbart 5 months ago in playlist Jim's Favorites
@45Jimbart my, my don't we have a vulgar mouth. All those hospitals huh? For whom? all the killers who join the army so they can kill those rag-heads? Your lack of knowledge about the whole area( Iraq+ are not the "middle east" btw) is only as appalling as your lack of adjectives. Why does the Army have to build hospitals? I bet you like to shoot rabbits for fun, or maybe set bums on fire. The "aid" the USA sends to the "middle east" is weapons- USA is not into nation building but arms sales/war
nurmaybooba 5 months ago
@nurmaybooba
I can always tell those who think they know what has and is happening in the Middle East. The rag heads tell lies and condemn and get upset over words used to question their hatred of the USA. They preach peace while ordering the murder of innocents. You are sick and, if your are in the USA, you should go back to where you can live under the guns of your fucking rag head (Muslim) governments.
45Jimbart 4 months ago
I don't remember this song, but for some reason I like it....it's a peaceful musical that you find typical of the 60's. That said...I find it most relaxing...and peaceful. This from an old guy, who appreciates simple stuff, unlike what I hear from the now-sound....peace
Keenersrockinhits 5 months ago
Live your life fully. Live your dream. When other people, including your family, say that it’s impossible, ignore them and do it anyway. Do what you want to do now, not what others or society wants you to do. You won’t regret it. What you will regret is not doing it. Run while you are young; your time here on earth is very short. Old age may strike you down to a crawl, barely able to walk as it has done to me.
Deborahcm 5 months ago
Forget about trying to "solve it". Try your best to live in it.
rblet 5 months ago
In the early 70's I watch these guys perform in a 'barn bar', in Trout Lake, Wa. . I have been , since then mesmerized. What a display of talent.... will always hold this song close....thanks for the video...great stuff!!
wildcrafterb1 5 months ago
.. this was my 'theme song at age 15 and I made it my business to finance my food, clothing and part time apt at such a young age because my brother and sister were spoiled rotten (older sis, younger bro & me stuck in the middle) I blew my mom and dad's mind and I almost ended in juvenile hall.... But when I sort of moved back in before I moved 1800 miles I had a full scholarship to the Univ. of Miami... this song repeated over and over amongst others helped me... Thanks for/ super post...-:)
time2act1001 5 months ago
I can "see" you on the astral Jason (silverafists), like I said sooooo sad and LONELY! :(
genxxxersize 5 months ago
I dedicate this tune to wimpkins(silverafists), dude, you are soooo lonely I can tell, I too have read ALL your postings to other people and you are soooo SAD! :( btw man, get it through your head, I AM in your head "forever", ;o)
genxxxersize 5 months ago
... beautiful...
meczydusza1 5 months ago
One of my all time favorite songs such a statement for the 60s
starfisher87 5 months ago
I agree it is beautiful...and yes I agree...and relate!!!
Thanks for this : )
TheRestlesswind1 5 months ago
Is it just me? Do they sound like Jefferson Airplane?
58936865233 5 months ago
@58936865233 No. The Airplane rocked. This band didn't rock.
KUTVgroucho 5 months ago
@KUTVgroucho Good point.
58936865233 5 months ago
If You lived in Chicago During the 60's termoil Peace Man! I did! It took 5.3 billion years to experience the 60's movement. Pipers Alley and Wells street,Refeer Maddness, Vietnam, Watergate, Chicago "7", Riots, Ohio State,Black Panthers,Cuban Missile Crisis, coldwar, Kennedy assanation,But all-n-all we had Some Damn good Music!
PathfinderMac 5 months ago
2:03 did i just see a Angel or Jesus in the clouds?
chevyvictor 6 months ago
Fond memories every time I hear this song. Being with good friends, sharing a "dooby". Kicking back, and drifting away to the music. It could paint a picture in one's mind.
rd6apache 6 months ago 2
I am crying and feel like I am 17 again. LOVE IT !!!
taffywindsor1 6 months ago
Our dingy man was a hippie and everybody always ran to the van to get their favorite flavor. If I shut my eyes and concentrate hard enough I can go back to just what I felt as a 4 year old in 1969. The cloths, the smells, the attitudes. Seems like there were hippies all over my town. I remember hearing this song at Palmer's while my dad was getting some ham chipped for sandwiches.
paulj0557 6 months ago
I heard this for the first time 40 years ago and it still haunts me. As with most of the music of those years, I heard them during and around tours in Viet Nam. There's mixed joy for the comaradery, the pain, the loss, and the beauty. It's a part of my life thatshaped me and marked me, and this is a beautiful piece of that. I'm glad to have heard them......
Tuscan002 6 months ago
22 people are locked in a musical cage. If you can't appreciate this song, I guess there is no hope. ...Just a beautiful gem of a song.
340rps 6 months ago in playlist play
I absolutely an needing to hear this today. My former BF called me the white bird who flew away so to avoid old age, I wish it was that easy, but age is just a number though my right knee would disagree today
snowbunne56 6 months ago
This tops one of the 1968 tunes...hahaha I lost my virginity when this song came out after getting stoned...LOL...freedom was popular and pot sold for $5 an ounce...then the government took over selling their stuff to brainwash the public...they want us all dumbed down and stupid so we don't see what they are doing...flouride poison in our water/toothpaste...aspartame=poison, msg's= poison, preservatives=poison, gmo crops=poison, chemtrails, haarp,, rex 84, agenda 21...takeover of the world
Whitedovie 6 months ago
@Whitedovie Would you like to make love to it again? ... just askin.
340rps 6 months ago in playlist play
@340rps you're too funny...hahahah Nah...I gave it up a long time ago
Whitedovie 6 months ago
@Whitedovie What, sex? ...Never!! lol Where are you from? or do you get up at 4am? just curious.
340rps 6 months ago in playlist play
@340rps yep...and I go to bed at 4 am lol
Whitedovie 6 months ago
@Whitedovie Yes, and did you know that tainted grape soda was sold in urban neighborhoods during the 60s to keep "down" the black man? You wouldn't happen to be Alex Jones, would you?
KUTVgroucho 5 months ago
@KUTVgroucho LOL nope didn't know the grape soda was tainted and definitely NOT AJ...LOL
Whitedovie 5 months ago
I loved this band back in the day and just looked them up !!!! Thanks for posting !!! So Beautiful ! Saw them in Colorado in the early 80's. Still great !
towne777 6 months ago
I know this is not by grace slicks my dad told me who it was, but I forget, but anyway she died in a car crash!:(
Browneyesarethekey 6 months ago
~MAGICAL~
SOAPBOX1965 6 months ago 2
This has been one of my favorites for over 30 years. Have the CD in my truck for the mountain recons.
commandorando123 6 months ago 12
Magical memories of being an adolescent in the 70's, discovering alternative music, parties............"if I could do it all over again"..........
THATNIC8 6 months ago
I wasn't turned on to these guys until the 80s, but understood their genius immediately. After getting it on CD upon its initial release, I was surprised how many people knew the music (I was a DJ at the time). Surprisingly I got a lot of requests for it. I eventually found all the albums, but they never recaptured whatever magic was there when this album was being made. David and Linda must have parted ways as I saw he went on to a solo career. Sad, but at least we got one album of pure magic.
thealbumcollector 6 months ago
Anyone care to remark as to how US got into four war theatres simultaneously...yet for the life of me, I cannot recall even a reasonable effort of peaceful demonstration for/against...It,s as tho no one understands the pos/neg aspects of sitting on their asses and 'goin, yea whatever' when the US backs it's ass into another corner. Goddammit wake up
klondike6semperfi 6 months ago
@klondike6semperfi Yo, Glad to see someone else is AWAKE ! This Simulation is a Mental Facility / Nuthouse in the Hollow-deck of the 'collective unconscious ' of the Universe ! The 'Government" is a farce ! Hell- Low !!!!! Anybody else Home ?????
towne777 6 months ago
@klondike6semperfi Maybe people finally realized that the 60s counterculture was a dismal political failure and only aided in the selling of rock and roll albums and marketing illegal drugs plus other "groovy" paraphernalia.
KUTVgroucho 5 months ago