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Red Bird
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA, c. 1968.
Master tapes transferred by Curtis Peoples, courtesy of Texas Tech University.
RED BIRD
I been born, and I’m gonna die
Blood-red wing, gonna make me fly
“Red Bird” is one of Allen’s first compositions that “felt like a real song” to him. “Written sometime in the fall of 1962,” he performed it three years later on the TV variety program Shindig!, pounding the piano and tooting a kazoo while the teenaged studio audience, which included the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, screamed.
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By The BachelorsRecorded in Los Angeles, CA, c. 1968.
Master tapes transferred by Curtis Peoples, courtesy of Texas Tech University.
RED BIRD
I been born, and I’m gonna die
Blood-red wing, gonna make me fly
“Red Bird” is one of Allen’s first compositions that “felt like a real song” to him. “Written sometime in the fall of 1962,” he performed it three years later on the TV variety program Shindig!, pounding the piano and tooting a kazoo while the teenaged studio audience, which included the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, screamed.