Manager Matthew Katz had moved the band there to polish their act at a Seattle venue before booking them into San Francisco nightclubs.

Living in the attic of a Victorian house across the street from Volunteer Park, the band had inadequate food and no transportation during a rainy and cloudy Seattle winter.

[4] Following the popularity of the album track, a single version was edited and remixed for radio play, with a running time of 3:02, and released on October 4, 1969.

[2] The song was prominently featured in the surf movie Winds of Change in 1970 (retitled The Sunshine Sea the following year), produced by filmmakers Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman.

[8] David LaFlamme remade "White Bird" as the title cut for his 1976 solo album debut, with his second wife Linda Baker - credited as Dominique Dellacroix - providing the backing vocal.

It was also used in the soundtrack of A Walk on the Moon, a 1999 American drama about a married woman's infidelity starring Diane Lane, Anna Paquin, and Viggo Mortensen, including Woodstock Music Festival scenes.

[12] Most recently it was used in the 2015 film Focus, starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie, and in 2017, the premiere PBS-TV episode of Prime Suspect: Tennison.