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"White Rabbit" is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It draws on imagery from Lewis Carroll 's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass .
A mere two weeks after Grace Slick joined the band, the group entered RCA Victor studios in Hollywood on October 31 to record their second album. Working with producer Rick Jarrard, the group recorded album opener "She Has Funny Cars" featuring Jack Casady on fuzz bass and the mellow folk-rocker "My Best Friend", written by departed member Skip Spence and chosen as the album's lead-off single ...
Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) [1] is an American retired musician and painter whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco 's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
Grace and Jerry Slick soon divorced. The Airplane recorded "Someone to Love" (retitled as "Somebody to Love") and Grace's own " White Rabbit " for Surrealistic Pillow . [ 4 ] Both songs were released as singles in 1967, reaching No. 5 and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 respectively. [ 7 ]
"White Rabbit" was written by Slick while she was still with The Great Society. The first album she recorded with Jefferson Airplane was Surrealistic Pillow, [52] its 1967 breakout album. [53] Slick provided two songs from her previous group: her own "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick. Both songs ...
When Grace Slick departed to join Jefferson Airplane, she took this song with her, bringing it to the Surrealistic Pillow sessions, [5] along with her own composition "White Rabbit". Subsequently, the Airplane's more ferocious rock-and-roll version became the band's first and biggest success, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. [5]
Pages in category "Songs written by Grace Slick" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... White Rabbit (song) This page was ...
"Somebody to Love" (Darby Slick) – 3:00 from Surrealistic Pillow "Comin' Back to Me" (Balin) – 5:23 from Surrealistic Pillow "Embryonic Journey" (Jorma Kaukonen) – 1:55 from Surrealistic Pillow "White Rabbit" (Grace Slick) – 2:34 from Surrealistic Pillow "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" (Kantner) – 4:34 from After Bathing at ...