Song · Bernard Fanning
“Songbird” by Bernard Fanning
From the album Tea & Sympathy (2005)
“Songbird” by Bernard Fanning appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2005. It was first released in 2005 on the album Tea & Sympathy. Its best result is #14 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2005. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #278 alternative song of 2005.
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"Songbird" was the second single from Tea & Sympathy, Bernard Fanning's first solo album, released in 2005, and he wrote it alone. It came out of the first sessions for the record, held in mid-2005 at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, where Fanning produced it with Tchad Blake, who also engineered and mixed. Fanning plays guitar and sings, and multi-instrumentalist John Bedggood adds violin.
Triple J listeners put it at number 14 in the Hottest 100 of 2005, and it took Published Song of the Year at the 2006 Q Song Awards. The video is a neat trick: Fanning, acoustic guitar in hand, turns on the spot in a grand Queensland house, and each cut drops him into a different coloured room in different clothes without breaking the spin.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 14 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2005 | 100 |
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