Blue blue blue canary - pic, pic, pic - si perde l'eco

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Подробности про грустную канарейку
через baro_grga & levkonoe

download the song (italian version)

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[lestp.livejournal.com]

Now here's a real "incredibly strange" romp. Let me describe the songs.
Red Canary is a male / female duet, encouraging said bird to keep singing as an aid to their wooing (though given the title and the era's red scare context, I can't help but wonder if there's some veiled commie teasing (or McCarthy teasing) going on here, especially when the line, "in the future we'll be free" pops up from nowhere). Instrumentally it's a spritely electric organ, "raid the kitchen cupboards" percussion and amazingly athletic tuba -- trilling up and down the octaves all the way through. Vocal credits go to Millie Coury and Lon Saxon. It's nearly impossible to classify this into any genre.
http://ookworld.com/spins.html

I wonder if that's not the same song retitled for the sake of the "red scare". That would make the canary-in-the-coalmine speculations irrelevant.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Blue canary is definitely a very rare breed. So we should speculate on other source.

Your version looks viable.

But most probably the name of the song just come into someone mind without any additional meaning but blue as sad and canary as the song theme.

[lestp.livejournal.com]

I mean, this is not about the canary's color.
It looks like the composer and author of the original recording (Vince Fiorino) also had a song titled Red Canary - so I am wondering if the "Red Canary" is the original, which was later retitled, or if Fiorino just had a thing for the canary song titles.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

I mean, this is not about the canary's color.
one hundred percent not

Fiorino just had a thing for the canary song titles.
heh

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Goggling that and that I found a "Fiorino Canary". Yellow one, named, probably, by some place in Toskana. So may be our author really had a right to like the bird :)