help identify old song

[itamai1]

pu lapa loma blanca. im just a bird in the sky?

[Sandy]

Could it be "Una Paloma Blanca"? :


When the sun shines on the mountain
And the night is on the run
It's a new day
It's a new way
And I fly up to the sun

I can feel the morning sunlight
I can smell the new-mown hay
I can hear God's voice is calling
For my golden sky light way

Una paloma blanca
I'm just a bird in the sky
Una paloma blanca
Over the mountains I fly
No one can take my freedom away

Once I had my share of losing
for they locked me on a chain
Yes they tried to break my power
oh I still can feel the pain

Una paloma blanca
I'm just a bird in the sky
Una paloma blanca
Over the mountains I fly
No one can take my freedom away

Una paloma blanca
I'm just a bird in the sky
Una paloma blanca
Over the mountains I fly
No one can take my freedom away


Written by Johannes Bowens.
Recorded by George Baker Selection (1975).

[Cegielski]

Jonathan King also recorded this in the UK.

[shakespeer86]

in the early 1970's, i remember a song on the radio, albeit for a brief period, that i truly enjoyed. I only today, some 30+ years later learned the song to be "Una Paloma Blanca". I seem only able to find poorly produced Spanish language versions on the internet. The version i knew and liked circa 1972 or so, not to sound provincial, was sung in English and was briefly on the pop charts. Does anyone know who sang this?

[Grendl2000]

As Sandy noted above, the 1976 hit version was by the George Baker Selection, probably better known for its other hit, "Little Green Bag."

Bobby Vinton also recorded it, perhaps a little earlier than George Baker. I remember him singng it on his syndicated TV show of the time.