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Phoenicopterus copei is an extinct species of flamingo that inhabited North America during the Late Pleistocene. Its fossils have been discovered in Oregon , California , Mexico and Florida . Many of these localities preserve the remains of juvenile individuals, indicating that this species nested at the lakes found there.
The song was released on Chess' Checker Records subsidiary in January, 1956, with The Flamingos version going to No. 5 on Billboard's R&B chart, [3] its sales greatly overshadowed by the Pat Boone version released the same month.
The flamingos are nomadic and tend to choose their habitat based on abundance of food and the waters characteristics. [7] Some water characteristics that attracted Phoenicoparrus jamesi were a higher pH, abundance of cyanobacteria and diatoms, and a medium temperature.
Flamingos are normally found throughout the Caribbean, the Yucatan peninsula and northern South America. However, birds can be blown hundreds of miles off course by storms, a boon for bird ...
The Flamingos recorded a dozen songs from Goldner's list, but "I Only Have Eyes for You" proved difficult. Flamingos high tenor Terry "Buzzy" Johnson, who was also the group's arranger, was advised by lead tenor Nate Nelson to do something exotic with the refrain: "Go way out on it! Make it Russian, like 'Song of the Volga Boatman'". The ...
The American flamingo breeds in South America (in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, coastal Colombia and Venezuela, and northern Brazil), in the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), The Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands), and tropical and subtropical areas ...
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In January 1959 Checker Records re-released The Flamingo's Parrot Records version as a single, and included it on their self-titled album the following month. [73] In 1961 The Flamingos re-released a version of the song on End Records (End 1085). [79] [80]