| "Hummingbird" | ||||
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| Single by Seals and Crofts | ||||
| from the album Summer Breeze | ||||
| B-side | "Say" | |||
| Released | January 1973 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jim Seals, Dash Crofts | |||
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"Hummingbird" is a song by American soft rock duo Seals and Crofts, released as a single in 1973. It was the second single from their fourth studio album, Summer Breeze, the follow-up to the LP's title track.
Background
The “hummingbird” in the song’s lyrics is a metaphor for Baha'u'llah, Prophet of the Baha'i Faith. The album version contains a prologue that is omitted from the shorter radio edit.
The song reached No. 20 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 15 on the Cash Box Top 100. "Hummingbird" was a bigger Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number 12 on the U.S. chart and number three in Canada.
Harvey Brooks played bass on this song and talks about it in this interview for No Treble.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
- ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
- ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, March 24, 1973". Archived from the original on June 9, 2015. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 214.
- ^ Adult Contemporary playlist, April 28, 1973
- Johnson, Kevin (April 18, 2019). "Stories Behind the Songs: Harvey Brooks".
- Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
External links
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