It's A Beautiful Day - White Bird b/w Girl With No Eyes (1969) | San Francisco Psych | Full 45 Rip

Most copies of White Bird are the Columbia single. This is not that. It came out on San Francisco Sound, the label owned by the band's manager, with a different B-side, a different edit, and the wrong band name printed on the flip. David LaFlamme was a classically trained violinist who had soloed with the Utah Symphony as a boy. He formed It's A Beautiful Day in San Francisco in 1967 with his wife Linda on keyboards, Pattie Santos on vocals, Hal Wagenet on guitar, Mitchell Holman on bass and Val Fuentes on drums. Every violin part on this record is LaFlamme, overdubbed. The song was written in December 1967 in the attic of a house on Capitol Hill in Seattle, across from Volunteer Park, where their manager Matthew Katz had moved the band and then left them with no money and no transportation. LaFlamme's line about it: "We were like caged birds in that attic." Katz owned the club they played and the house they slept in. The single never made the Hot 100. The album went gold anyway and sat on the Billboard 200 for 70 weeks. Katz managed Jefferson Airplane and It's A Beautiful Day, and both bands spent decades in court against him. When the band left, he claimed he owned their name. Bill Graham eventually took over as their manager. Katz died in 2023 at 93. This pressing runs 4:53, which matches neither the album's 6:06 nor Columbia's 3:02 radio edit. San Francisco Sound BD-7, matrix F-286. The B-side label credits the artist as White Bird instead of It's A Beautiful Day. 0:00 Needle drop 0:09 White Bird 5:03 Flipping it over 5:22 Girl With No Eyes 🎧 Rare 45rpm Vinyl Rips - promo singles and obscure 7-inches: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pZAodT9-v-Lehtz7BPAlxi 🎧 Full Vinyl Rips - rare psych and rock LPs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn 🔴 Live Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:30am PT, one record from my collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9qEwJJg-w9RXM0MsbSk5H3F 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ I sell my doubles and extras here: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #ItsABeautifulDay #WhiteBird #SanFranciscoPsych #RareVinyl #45RPM