SONG/ARTIST/ALBUM

“that cloud’s a bird flying through the air”

Look Around/Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66/Foursider [intro theme]

Woody Woodpecker Song/Baja Marimba Band/BMB Rides Again

La Paloma/Billy Vaughn/Best of BV

Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing/The Tinseltown Players/Chim Chim Cheree

The Hen’s March/Bonnie Rideout/Gimme Elbow Room

Swainson’s Thrush/Joe Weed/Waltz of the Whippoorwill

Redtail Hawk/Kate Wolf/Gold in California

The Woodthrush’s Song/Laurie Lewis/LL and Her Bluegrass Pals

Little Sparrow/Dolly Parton/Little Sparrow

Donna Donna/Joan Baez/JB Volume 1

White Bird/It’s A Beautiful Day/selftitled

The Secret Language of Birds/Ian Anderson/titlecut

El Colibrí/Inti Illimani and Holly Near/Sing to Me the Dream

Hummingbird/Seals and Crofts/Greatest Hits

The Owl/The Burns Sisters/In This World

Skylark/Bette Midler/selftitled

Baltimore Oriole/Lorez Alexandria/Songs That Made the Phone Light Up

Lesbian Seagull/Englebert Humperdinck/Beavis and Butthead Do America

Bye Bye Blackbird/Mel Torme/A New Album

Aerial Tal/Kate Bush/Aerial

Black Crow/Joni Mitchell/Hejira

The Crow/The Bobs/I Brow Club

Snowbird/Elvis Presley/A Canadian Tribute

Beautiful Bluebird/Neil Young/Chrome Dreams II [new]

Freebird/Wynonna/Revelations

This is a mug design I did for KHSU around 1990 or 1991. Wish it could have been re-issued for this spring’s Adopt a Salmon theme!

by Neil Young
From the 1977 album, American Stars ‘n Bars

It has often been my dream
To live with one
who wasn’t there
Like an ocean fish
who swam upstream
Through nets,
by hooks, and hungry bears.
When the water grew less deep
My fins were aching
from the strain
I’m swimming in my sleep
I know I can’t go back again.
Got the will to love,
the will to love.
I’ll never lose it,
never lose the will to love,
Never lose the will.
It’s like
something from up above.
I can be like
a fire in the night
Always warm
and giving off light
But there comes a time
when I shine too bright
Oh, I’m just a fire in the night.
And now my fins are in the air
And my belly’s
scraping on the rocks
I still think
someone really cares
And I’ll keep swimming
till I stop.
Got the will to love,
the will to love.
I’ll never lose it,
never lose the will to love,
Never lose the will.
It’s like
something from up above.
I’m like a singer on the stage
With the golden lights
and liquid rage
Down from the mountains
to the sea
Cool running love
keeps cleansing me.
It keeps my gills
from getting dry
But it distorts things
in my eyes
Sometimes I see
what really isn’t there
Like my true lover, and I care.
Got the will to love,
the will to love.
I’ll never lose it,
never lose the will to love,
Never lose the will.
It’s like
something from up above.
Sometimes I ramble on and on
And I repeat myself
till all my friends are gone
And get lost in snow
and drown in rain
And never feel the same again.
I remember the ocean
from where I came
Just one of millions all the same
But somewhere
someone calls my name
I’m a harpoon dodger,
and I can’t, won’t be tamed.
Got the will to love,
the will to love.
I’ll never lose it,
never lose the will to love,
Never lose the will.
It’s like
something from up above.
Baby, if I see boredom
in your eyes
I’ll know my river has run dry
But I won’t turn back
with that lonely tide
I bought that ticket
and I’ll take that ride.
If we meet along the way
Please sway beside me,
let us sway together
Our tails together
and our fins and mind
We’ll leave this water
and let our scales shine
In the sun above
and the sky below
So all the water
and earth will know
It has often been my dream
To live with one
who wasn’t there.

This Saturday will be the first day of the spring KHSU membership drive! And opportunities will abound with adoption of coho salmon as a way to help support your favorite radio station! I’ve been asked to have a FISH theme for my music show. This video was sent to me from Halimah the Dreamah… and it’s from one of my ‘favorite’ TV shows…Lawrence Welk! (it’s a love/hate thing)