Rejoice - High Flying Bird [Rejoice!] 1969

Rejoice - High Flying Bird [Rejoice!] 1969

Formed CA, United States
Members: Nancy Brown (vocals), Tom Brown (vocals, guitar), Michael Patrick Moore (drums).

"High Flying Bird" was written by Billy Ed Wheeler, a country-folk singer-songwriter in 1963.The song was covered by many folk and rock artists and bands like Richie Havens, Jefferson Airplane, HP Lovecraft,The Wizards from Kansas and others.

Note from band member: My name is Michael Patrick Moore. I was the original drummer for Rejoice. We were signed by Jay Lasker, president of the Dunhill label at the time, and we originally went into the studio with Terry Melcher as producer.

That was April 1968. While in the middle of our third or fourth song, Terry's father passed away and Terry was gone for about a week. Eventually, we went back to Marin County. Months later, Tom and Nancy Brown, the singers and main songwriters, went back to L.A. with Steve Barri as producer and completed the Rejoice album using studio musicians: Hal Blaine (drums), Joe Osborne (bass) and Larry Knechtel (piano). (Prairie Prince Minsky)

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[DennyTedesco]

That was great. Love to see the credits on the album. I heard it was Hal Blaine, Joe Osborn and Larry Knectel.

[RoadNasty]

@11cissiz1 I'm not at all familiar with this particular group - sorry....! You might check Amazon's MP3 downloads section, it's pretty extensive.

[11cissiz1]

@RoadNasty  Thanks :))))

[11cissiz1]

@RoadNasty The album "Rejoice"1969, which had a sonora song, I do not know where to find?

[RoadNasty]

@11cissiz1 Probably the best version of this was done by the Colorado group Zephyr - the song is on the 1972 album "Sunset Ride".

[11cissiz1]

I can not find this album anywhere ... I was glad that there is

[pontello3]

cool version of a classic 60's standard

[sfdrummer68]

@Denny Tedesco. Yes, the Wrecking crew is on this. The band was on the first recordings when Terry Melcher was our producer. Terry's father passed away in the middle of recording, the band went back to Marin and Steve Barri took over, he just called back the singers(Tom and Nancy) a short time later and used the Wrecking Crew to finish the project. Jimmy Haskell did the strings. Nancy had a special and wonderful voice.

[sfdrummer68]

Would love to hear how Nancy is doing or where she may be these days. I was the original drummer for Rejoice. Original band was, myself, Tom and Nancy Brown and fantastic jazz pianonist, Dick Conte. Also, for a short time, we had Artemesia Lee on cello.