Talk:Running Bear

Cleanup tags

Please help me explain the history of this great songs from the late 50s, early 60s. - Peregrinefisher 08:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Not "love at first sight"

Nothing in the lyric suggests that Running Bear and White Dove fell in love at first sight. They are just in love and separated (physically by the river, culturally by their warring tribes). I'm taking that line out of the synopsis. PatrickWB (talk) 00:04, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Dove soap

I found

It's been noted that JP Richardson was taking a bath and had a bar of "White Dove" soap with him at the time which inspired the song and the name of the song's heroine.

and replaced it with

Richardson is said^{{{By whom}}} to have been in the bathtub while thinking up the song, and to have had the name "White Dove" suggested to him by the bar of Dove soap there.^{{Fact}}

There was such a thing in '58/59 as Dove soap, and probably white Dove soap (it presently comes in white and pink). "White Dove soap" is unsourced (and presumably due to an unsourced blog). Believing that a brand name "White Dove" existed detracts from that source's already blog-inherent low credibility, as does the idea that the color of the soap or the product name "White Dove" was needed to suggest paralleling Red Running Bear with Little White Dove -- let alone in the same year or two when Bob Ferguson wrote "Wings of a Dove", whose chorus begins [emphasis added by Jerzy] "On the wings of a snow-white dove". In any case,

about 11,600 for "brown dove"

about 12,900 for "grey dove"

about 13,500 for "gray dove"

about 1,020,000 for "white dove"

--Jerzy•t 22:22, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

This song is pop music

This song isn't rock'n'roll or country or rockabilly..... This song is pop/i chanhed genre to "Pop." LSM1204 (talk) 00:54, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

I tend to agree. But I've removed the genre altogether until some actual source(s) can be found to support one. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 07:59, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Hooked on a Feeling

Should there not be some mention of the Indian chant in this turning up on the Jonathan King and the Blue Swede versions of Hooked on a Feeling? 86.187.224.53 (talk) 13:06, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Possibly, here's King and here's Swede. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:42, 5 April 2024 (UTC)