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The song was most recently (2019) used in episode 1 of George Clooney's re-tooling of Catch 22 as a miniseries for Hulu, the U.S.-based subscription video on demand service. The Nat King Cole's version of the song was quoted by Maya Angelou in her bestseller I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an American television film based on the autobiography of the same name by Maya Angelou, first aired April 28, 1979, on CBS. Angelou and Leonora Thuna wrote the screenplay, and the movie was directed by Fielder Cook. Constance Good played the young Maya Angelou.
Maya Angelou (/ ˈ æ n dʒ ə l oʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [1] [2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.
Angelou was also a fan of country music, and had written several songs. [7] [note 1] Angelou recorded two albums of poetry and songs written during her time as a night club performer; the first in 1957 for Liberty Records and the second, "The Poetry of Maya Angelou", for GWP Records the year before the publication of Caged Bird.
The caged bird metaphor also invokes the "supposed contradiction of the bird singing in the midst of its struggle". [124] Scholar Ernece B. Kelley calls Caged Bird a "gentle indictment of white American womanhood"; [ 128 ] Hagen expands it further, stating that the book is "a dismaying story of white dominance". [ 128 ]
The hilarious video was shared by the TikTok account for @Kiki.tiel and people can't get enough of this musical bird. One person commented, "You didn’t turn it off, just snoozed it."
Well-known songs from her Philips albums include "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" on Broadway-Blues-Ballads (1964); "I Put a Spell on You", "Ne me quitte pas" (a rendition of a Jacques Brel song), and "Feeling Good" on I Put a Spell On You (1965); and "Lilac Wine" and "Wild Is the Wind" on Wild is the Wind (1966).
Caged Bird may refer to: Caged bird, a bird kept in a birdcage "Caged Bird", a song by Alicia Keys on her 2001 album Songs in A Minor "Caged Bird" (Wonderfalls), a 2004 episode of the TV dramedy Wonderfalls; The Caged Bird, a 1913 American silent short drama film "Caged Bird," a poem by Maya Angelou (not be confused with her memoir I Know Why ...