Today, a collection of songs celebrating that most iconic of bunnies the ‘White Rabbit’.
“White Rabbit” is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by the American band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It draws on imagery from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. It was released as a single and became the band’s second top-10 success, peaking at number eight on the Billboard. The song was ranked number 478 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, number 483 in 2010, and number 455 in 2021 and appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
White Rabbit is an album by George Benson. The title track is a cover of the famous Great Society/Jefferson Airplane song by Grace Slick.This album was George Benson’s second CTI Records project produced by Creed Taylor and was recorded nine months after Beyond The Blue Horizon. Interviewed by Jeff Tamarkin at “Music & Musicians”, answering a question about the choice of Jefferson Airplane’s song for this album, Benson said: “I had never heard of it before. I’d never even heard of the group! It sounded so bizarre, as opposed to what I wanted to do. But I have never run away from a challenge.”
“White Rabbit” is another cover of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit”. The Damned a rock band that formed in London, England in 1976 transforms the original psychedelic song into a punk and rock fusion that defines the style of the new wave music scene when it was released in 1980. It appeared on their “White Rabbit” Framed Album. The cover artwork features a gorgeous white rabbit staring into a matrix of both itself and a curious black rabbit.
“White Rabbit” is the second studio album by the rock music group Egypt Central, released in May 2011. The first single, “White Rabbit”, was released to radio stations in February 2011 and made available on digital platforms in March. A 30-second preview of the album was posted on the official Egypt Central YouTube channel. “White Rabbit” was released as the first single from the album. The song peaked at number 17 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart.
“Follow The White Rabbit” is a track by Funk Off from their album ‘Jazz On’ released on the Blue Note label in 2008. Funk Off is an Italian Jazz band, calling themselves the Funky Marching Jazz Band. The band came onto the scene 1998, brought together by saxophonist and ‘main man’, Dario Cecchini. And since then have played over 350 street, piazzas, festivals and on some great stages. In 2005 they appeared several times on TV with Renzo Arbore in the transmission Stasera and then in February backing Alexia on their arrangement of her song for the San Remo festival.
