At Althouse, "One day, she was noodling around on an electric piano with a chord sequence... 'Do that again,' he said."
"Two hours later, they had written their magnum opus, which became the opening track of their debut album.... [W]ith its imagery of a 'white bird in a golden cage' who 'must fly, or she will die,' the song encapsulated a longing by the flower-power generation to escape a conformist life and soar toward a loftier plane of existence. The song lived on, but the romance between the LaFlammes did not.... 'What we didn’t realize,' Ms. LaFlamme once said... 'is that we were connected so musically that we were not connected in the sense that you would say, married people had this love....'"
From "Linda LaFlamme Dies at 85; Her 'White Bird' Reflected a Hippie Fantasy/With her husband, David LaFlamme, she founded the rock band It’s a Beautiful Day and wrote a soaring paean to a generation’s dreams of escape" (NYT).
It was a big hit around my freshman year in college, especially being close (relatively) to the San Francisco area. I have a somewhat funny story about not going to a It's a Beautiful Day concert at Humboldt State, but I'm just gonna let that go. I liked the first album, was just OK with the second, never even knew they had a third.
Here's the group as fossil rocker at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio.
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