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Elusive Butterfly
Song by Bob Lind
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Search complete. 7 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Elusive Butterfly".
Oct 4, 2026
1966 Review Gave Us Good Vibrations & God Only Knows We Need Them. A Menagerie Of Songs Involving Butterflies, Flamingos & Fleas. I Could Mention More Songs But I’m Out Of Time
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51:47Stinky PeteHOST
And it's charted at number five in the US also by the first artist, but didn't chart at all in the US by the second artist.
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52:00Stinky PeteHOST
And the song is Elusive Butterfly of Love.
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52:06Big CHOST
Elusive Butterfly.
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52:07Stinky PeteHOST
Which was originally recorded by Bob Lind, who took it to number five in the UK and to number five in the US.
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52:18Stinky PeteHOST
But shortly thereafter, whilst it was still in the charts...
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52:25Stinky PeteHOST
It was covered by Lav Nacky Nude, who took it to number three in Ireland.
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52:37Stinky PeteHOST
So Elusive Butterfly of Love, twice in the charts, two different people.
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52:42Stinky PeteHOST
Big Lav was obviously the reason I chose it.
Episode 413 - "Red Planet Mars" (1952)
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0:56Bob LindSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's only me pursuing something I'm not sure of.
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1:01Bob LindSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Across my dreams, with nets of wonder, I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love.
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1:14Paul ZahlHOST
This is podcast episode number 413, entitled, elusively, Red Planet Mars, paren 1952, end of paren.
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1:27Paul ZahlHOST
And we've just heard an excerpt from Bob Lynn's 1966 number one American pop song entitled Elusive Butterfly.
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1:37Paul ZahlHOST
The word elusive is the main word here.
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1:41Paul ZahlHOST
And I'm talking today, having had a bit of a hiatus, which my friend and mockingbird mentor Will McDavid is helping me now restart.
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8:13Paul ZahlHOST
And then the choir, which is very classical, you know, high-level music, Christian classical music choir chimed in with, give me a higher love.
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8:23Paul ZahlHOST
Well, I have always nicknamed that song by Stevie Winwood, give me a prior love.