Re: Songs about birds

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From: Bernie Mojzes
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 22:05

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Yes, brilliant song.

There is also the Beatles "Blackbird" which is lovely just as it is, but 
there is a very slow, haunting version by a female vocalist that I can't 
find now.

However, I did find this, that I didn't know existed:

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

Julie Fowlis covering the song in Scots Gaelic.



On Wed, 22 May 2013, jeff burka wrote:

> I'm sure others will come to mind soon,  but the one that immediately hits me is "The Cuckoo." Covered by many, but specifically the version from Kristin Hersh's "Hips and Makers"
>
> jeff
>
> On May 22, 2013, at 5:05 PM, "Marcel Rijs" <Marcel.Rijs@KB.nl> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Here's a question for all those of you who like to participate in this kind of
>> thing.
>> For a friend of mine, I am currently compiling a mixed tape, well cd, with
>> songs about birds. By that I mean songs that have the name of a certain type
>> of bird in the songtitle. Examples: "Little bird" by Annie Lennox is not good
>> (non-specific), "The nightingale" by Julee Cruise is good (i.e. specific). I
>> am making a booklet to go with the cd and each song has to be represented by a
>> real bird. That's the idea, anyway.
>>
>> To make matters a bit more difficult: my friend doesn't like 'heavy guitars'
>> so some ecto artists will have to be dropped, while others (who use guitars
>> but not in a 'hard' way) are still acceptable.
>>
>> Well, this is the briefing, I hope you have something to contribute. If all
>> goes well I'll send out a nice tracklisting to this list. :)
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Marcel.
>

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