Silver Bird (Mark Lindsay song)

"Silver Bird"
"Silver Bird"
Single by Mark Lindsay
from the album Silver Bird
B-side	"So Hard to Leave You"
Released	June 13, 1970
Genre	Pop
Length	3:05
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Kenny Young, Artie Butler
Producer(s)	Jerry Fuller
Mark Lindsay singles chronology

"Silver Bird" is a song written by Kenny Young and Artie Butler and recorded by former Paul Revere and the Raiders member Mark Lindsay.

Background[]

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

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]

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

Chart (1970)	Rank
U.S. Cash Box ^[8]	94

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

^ Hartman, Kent (2012). The Wrecking Crew. St. Martin’s Griffin. pp. 261–263. ISBN 978-1-250-03046-7.
^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1970-08-08. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
^ 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.
^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1970-08-08. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
^ Flavour of New Zealand, 23 November 1970
^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 141.
^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, August 8, 1970
^ Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1970

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