GOOD MORNING, CLASS OF '64
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| High Valley Summer Bluebird - Susan Bourdet |
The BluebirdJohn Burroughs
A wistful note from out the sky,
“Pure, pure, pure,” in plaintive tone,
As if the wand’rer were alone,
And hardly knew to sing or cry.
But now a flash of eager wing,
Flitting, twinkling by the wall,
And pleading sweet and am’rous call,–
Ah, now I know his heart doth sing!
O bluebird, welcome back again,
Thy azure coat and ruddy vest
Are hues that April loveth best,–
Warm skies above the furrowed plain.
The farm boy hears thy tender voice,
And visions come of crystal days,
With sugar-camps in maple ways,
And scenes that make his heart rejoice.
The lucid smoke drifts on the breeze,
The steaming pans are mantling white,
And thy blue wing’s a joyous sight,
Among the brown and leafless trees.
Now loosened currents glance and run,
And buckets shine on sturdy boles,
The forest folk peep from their holes,
And work is play from sun to sun.
The Downy beats his sounding limb,
The nuthatch pipes his nasal call,
And robin perched on treetop tall
Heavenward lifts his evening hymn.
Now go and bring thy homesick bride,
Persuade her here is just the place
To build a home and found a race
In Downy’s cell, my lodge beside.
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| Vintage Bluebird Postcard |
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| Spring Courtship - Fred Weiser |
Though you're deep in blue,
You will see a ray of light creep through,
And so remember this,
life is no abyss,
Somewhere there's a bluebird of happiness.
Life is sweet,
tender and complete,
when you find the bluebird of happiness.
Edward Heyman & Harry Parr Davies
Bluebird of Happiness 1934
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| Spring at the Tiptons - Fred Weiser |
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| Vintgage Bluebird Postcard |
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| Marvin Rainwater |
Gonna Find Me a Bluebird
Known for wearing Native American-themed
outfits on stage and was 25 percent Cherokee.
The song became a big country-pop crossover hit,
making Rainwater among the first country
singers to appeal to a pop market.
Reached No. 5 on the country chart
and 18 on the pop chart.
It sold one million copies by 1957,
and gave Rainwater his first gold record.
Marvin Rainwater - 1957
As long as there are bluebirds,
there will be miracles and a
way to find happiness.
Shirl Brunnel
I Hear Bluebirds 1984
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| Mr. and Mrs. Blue - Fred Weiser |
Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see
Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long
Irving Berlin
Blue Skies 1927
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see
Bluebirds
Singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds
All day long
Irving Berlin
Blue Skies 1927
| Bonnie Guitar |
Became one of the first female country
music singers to have hit songs cross over
from the country charts to the pop charts.
Hit the pop top 10 list and went
into the country top 15 list.
Guitar officially had a hit.
(Guitar is her stage name)
Bonnie Guitar - 1957
The Bluebird, shifting his light load of song
From post to post along the cheerless fence...
James Russell Lowell
From post to post along the cheerless fence...
James Russell Lowell
Under the Willows
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| In the Old Orchard - Susan Bourdet |
But there be others, happier few,
The vagabondish sons of God,
Who know the by-ways and the flowers,
Who know the by-ways and the flowers,
And care not how the world may plod.
They idle down the traffic lands,
They idle down the traffic lands,
And loiter through the woods with spring;
To them the glory of the earth
To them the glory of the earth
Is but to hear a bluebird sing.
Bliss Carman
Bliss Carman
From The Mendicants
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| Mickey & Sylvia |
Love is Strange
A crossover hit
Noted for its spoken dialogue section.
Peaked at #1 Billboard magazine's
R&B Singles chart and #11 on the Hot 100.
Was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
in 1964 for its influence as a rock and roll single.
(Mickey had been Sylvia's guitar teacher.)
Mickey & Sylvia - 1957
Be like the bluebird who never is blue,
For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do.
Cole Porter
Be Like the Bluebird 1934
For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do.
Cole Porter
Be Like the Bluebird 1934
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| Bluebirds - Susan Knowles Jordan |
Daddy dear, tell me please,
is the world really round?
Tell me where is the bluebird
of happiness found?
Wes Montgomery
Ralph Towner
Spike Jones
Little Child (Mon Enfant)
is the world really round?
Tell me where is the bluebird
of happiness found?
Wes Montgomery
Ralph Towner
Spike Jones
Little Child (Mon Enfant)
| The Bobbettes |
This song made them the first girl
group to have a #1 R&B hit and a
Top 10 American Pop hit.
#6 on the Billboard Pop singles chart,
remaining for twenty-four weeks,
and spending four weeks at #1
on the R&B chart.
http://www.uncamarvy.com/Bobbettes/bobbettes.html
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=20316
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bobbettes
The Bobbettes - 1957
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Journal April 3, 1852
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| Bluebird in Spring - Barbara Ann Robertson |
Gone away is the bluebird
Richard B. Smith
Richard B. Smith
lyrics of Winter Wonderland 1934
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| Thurston Harris |
Little Bitty Pretty One
Reached No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Reached No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
and No. 2 on the R&B chart.
Sold over one million records,
achieving gold disc status.Thurston Harris - 1957
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bitty_Pretty_One
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bitty_Pretty_One
A bluebird, famous for the scrap of sky
Borne on his back - an indigo so bright
That just a glimpse of his distinctive flight,
All swoop and flurry, captivates the eye ...
George Bradley
Borne on his back - an indigo so bright
That just a glimpse of his distinctive flight,
All swoop and flurry, captivates the eye ...
George Bradley
New Yorker, p. 146, Mar. 19, 2001
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| Baby Bluebirds - Don Edwards |
It's the truth,
it's actual,
Ev'rything is satisfactual,
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah,
zip-a-dee-ay,
Wonderful feeling,
wonderful day...
Ray Gilbert
from the film The Song of the South 1945
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| Summer Meadow Western Bluebird - Susan Bourdet |
The Last Word of the Blue Bird
Robert Frost
(as Told to a Child)
As I went out a Crow
In a low voice said, "Oh,
I was looking for you.
How do you do?
I just came to tell you
To tell Lesley (will you?)
That her little Bluebird
Wanted me to bring word
That the north wind last night
That made the stars bright
And made ice on the trough
Almost made him cough
His tail feathers off.
He just had to fly!
But he sent her Good-by,
And said to be good,
And wear her red hood,
And look for the skunk tracks
In the snow with an ax-
And do everything!
And perhaps in the spring
He would come back and sing."
In a low voice said, "Oh,
I was looking for you.
How do you do?
I just came to tell you
To tell Lesley (will you?)
That her little Bluebird
Wanted me to bring word
That the north wind last night
That made the stars bright
And made ice on the trough
Almost made him cough
His tail feathers off.
He just had to fly!
But he sent her Good-by,
And said to be good,
And wear her red hood,
And look for the skunk tracks
In the snow with an ax-
And do everything!
And perhaps in the spring
He would come back and sing."
The Last Word of the Bluebird
Robert Frost
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| Vintage Bluebird Postcard |
I know it is a mess
I don't have time to clean right now
I have a bluebird nest ....
Cherie Layton
The Bluebird Nut 2005
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Redbuds and Bluebirds - Fred Weiser |
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