{"id":977,"date":"2026-09-14T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=977"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:43:03","slug":"mm-1965-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/09\/14\/mm-1965-3\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1965"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/09\/image-1-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/09\/image-1-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/09\/image-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/09\/image-1-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/09\/image-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elusive Butterfly - Lyrics - Bob Lind\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xdr1ylz479w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Elusive Butterfly&#8221; is a popular song written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Lind\">Bob Lind<\/a>, released as a single in December 1965,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elusive_Butterfly#cite_note-pc30-1\">\u00a0<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0which reached number 5 on both the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\"><em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Hot 100<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)\">adult contemporary chart<\/a>\u00a0in the spring of 1966.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elusive_Butterfly#cite_note-2\">\u00a0<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0It also reached number 5 in the UK, after entering the charts on 19 February 1966, remaining there for five weeks.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elusive_Butterfly#cite_note-3\">\u00a0<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\">Australia<\/a>, Lind&#8217;s &#8220;Elusive Butterfly&#8221; entered the charts on April 10, 1966, and spent three weeks at number 2 during July of that year. On the New Zealand listener charts it reached number 12.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Bob Lind wrote &#8220;Elusive Butterfly&#8221; around sunrise while pulling an all-nighter in 1964: at that time he was living in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denver\">Denver<\/a>, performing at local\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_club\">folk clubs<\/a>. Lind credits the song&#8217;s inspiration as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._B._Yeats\">W. B. Yeats<\/a>&#8216; poem &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Song_of_Wandering_Aengus\">The Song of Wandering Aengus<\/a>&#8220;, stating: &#8220;I wanted to write something that [like Yeats&#8217; poem] had the sense we feel of being most alive when we&#8217;re searching or looking or chasing after something. That expectation is more life affirming than getting the thing you&#8217;re after.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elusive_Butterfly#cite_note-Colorado_Rocks-5\">\u00a0<\/a><\/sup>The song was originally five verses long and, with the instrumental passages Lind included, its performance time approximated ten minutes: (Lind quote:) &#8220;I played it for everybody I knew but I didn&#8217;t [think] &#8216;Man, this is my best song: it&#8217;s going to be a hit [that] millions of people [will] hear<small>&#8230;<\/small>It was just another [Bob Lind] song. I was thrilled [then] by everything I wrote.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . &#8220;Elusive Butterfly&#8221; is a popular song written by\u00a0Bob Lind, released as a single in December 1965,\u00a0\u00a0which reached number 5 on both the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100\u00a0and the\u00a0adult contemporary chart\u00a0in the spring of 1966.\u00a0\u00a0It also reached number 5 in the UK, after entering the charts on 19 February 1966, remaining there for five weeks.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0Australia, Lind&#8217;s &#8220;Elusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}