"Silver Bird" is a song written by Kenny Young and recorded by Mark Lindsay, in his solo career after Paul Revere and the Raiders.
Background "Silver Bird' was recorded along with L.A. session musicians from the Wrecking Crew 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.
Weekly charts Chart (1970)PeakpositionAustralia (Kent Music Report)33Canada RPM Top Singles10New Zealand (Listener)Flavour of New Zealand, 23 November 197015U.S. Billboard Hot 100 25U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary7U.S. Cash Box Top 100Cash Box Top 100 Singles, August 8, 197020
Year-end charts Chart (1970)RankU.S. Cash Box Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 197094
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 in the early depiction of Claire Fitzroy as well as in a scene at the end where she is told to play it in order to not hear gunfire.
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