Mockingbird (Inez & Charlie Foxx song) her 1965 album "Runnin' Out of Fools"; Franklin performed the song (with Ray Johnson providing the counter-vocal) on the March 10, 1965 episode of the TV program "Shindig!". Franklin's version of "Mockingbird" was one of several tracks to which Columbia Records company gave a single release after the singer's commercial success with Atlantic Records in 1967; released at the same time as Franklin's Atlantic single album "Chain of Fools"—which would reach #2—Franklin's version of "Mockingbird" scored two weeks at #94 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in December 1967. American singer-songwriters Carly Simon and James Taylor recorded a remake of "Mockingbird"
And a Nightingale Sang And a Nightingale Sang And a Nightingale Sang is a play by British playwright C.P. Taylor (1977) and commissioned by Newcastle upon Tyne's Live Theatre Company. The play was made into a TV play in 1989 by Jack Rosenthal for Tyne Tees Television. Described as a bitter-sweet comedy, the play is set in Newcastle during World War II and portrays Helen Stott and her family as it copes on the home front with life during the war. The play's name is derived from a popular war-time song sung by Vera Lynn called "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square". The play