that song calypso/folk we all sang as kids has died.
How did she and her husband get credited for that song, does anyone here know?
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Marilyn Bergman who 'rewrote' Yellow Bird.
2022-02-02 21:46:10
2022-02-02 22:48:08
Choucoune
Haiti yellow bird choucoune folk song..."Haitian Nation"
One of Oswald Durand's most famous works, the 1883 Choucoune is a lyrical poem that praises the beauty of a Haitian woman of that nickname.
In many cultures around the world, a yellow bird symbolizes joy and a positive outlook on life. ... Additionally, a yellow bird also symbolizes a happy and healthy home life. People also believe that yellow birds help express psychological liberation and spiritual freedom
"Yellow bird" is based on a Haitian song called "Choucoune" writen in 1893 by Michael Maulèart Monton with lyrics by poet Oswald Durand. The Harry Belefonte song "dont ever love me" released in 1957 was writen by Lord Burgess to the melody of "Choucoune" and "Yellow bird" was writen the mid 50s by Alan & Marilyn Bergman and arranged by Norman Luboff to the melody of "Choucoune"!!!
Harry Belefonte never worked with Norman Luboff on "dont ever love me" and both songs are based on "Choucoune"
Harry Belefonte never worked with Norman Luboff on "dont ever love me" and both songs are based on "Choucoune"
Chet Atkins - Yellow Bird (Instrumental)
2022-02-02 23:03:46
Yellow Bird
Yellow bird, yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Did your lady friend leave your nest again?
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
You can fly away, in the sky away.
You're more lucky than me.
I also had a pretty girl, she's not with me today.
They're all the same, the pretty girls,
Take tenderness then they fly away.
Yellow bird up high in banana tree.
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Let her fly away, in the sky away.
Pick a town and soon, take from night to noon
Black and yellow, you, like banana too,
They might pick you some day
Wish that I was a yellow bird,
I'd fly away with you.
But I am not a yellow bird,
So here I sit, nothin' else to do.
Yellow bird.
Yellow bird.
Yellow bird.
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Did your lady friend leave your nest again?
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
You can fly away, in the sky away.
You're more lucky than me.
I also had a pretty girl, she's not with me today.
They're all the same, the pretty girls,
Take tenderness then they fly away.
Yellow bird up high in banana tree.
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Let her fly away, in the sky away.
Pick a town and soon, take from night to noon
Black and yellow, you, like banana too,
They might pick you some day
Wish that I was a yellow bird,
I'd fly away with you.
But I am not a yellow bird,
So here I sit, nothin' else to do.
Yellow bird.
Yellow bird.
Yellow bird.
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Irving Burgie
Yellow Bird lyrics © Reservoir Media Management Inc
2022-02-02 23:04:42
In reply to Brerzerk
Thanks for todays thread
I found out so many things about this song that I never knew before.
2022-02-02 23:52:08
In reply to sgtdjones
The 2 best versions for me R:
The Merrymen & Roger Whittekar
2022-02-03 01:05:18
In reply to sgtdjones
No, Thank You. You taught me even more. But you know all these years I've been singing
Up in a Banyan Tree!!!!
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