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"
Floreana mockingbird Floreana mockingbird The Floreana mockingbird or Charles mockingbird ("Mimus trifasciatus") is a bird species in the family Mimidae. It is endemic to Floreana, one of the Galápagos Islands; but human colonisation from 1832 onwards brought predators such as dogs and cats, and within 50 years the species was extinct on Floreana. It now occurs only on two inaccessible offshore islands, including Gardner. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The Floreana mockingbird is also known as Darwin's mockingbird, as it was the arguable inspiration for Charles Darwin's work on the origins of species; he noticed distinct differences between