"Silver Bird" is a song written by Kenny Young and Artie Butler and recorded by Mark Lindsay, in his solo career after Paul Revere and the Raiders.

"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
"Miss America" (1970) "Silver Bird" (1970) "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind" (1970)

Background

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

Chart performance

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]

Popular culture

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

• The 2022 Netflix movie The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling, features the song

References

External links

• Mark Lindsay - Silver Bird on YouTube

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