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The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder

2010 studio album by Tobin Sprout

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ16244409 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder is the fifth solo album by Guided by Voices member Tobin Sprout, released in 2010. The name references the "bluebird of happiness" idiom.

Editorial summary

“The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder” enters the record as 2010 studio album by Tobin Sprout. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bluebirds, Happiness and Tried can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bluebirds, Happiness and Tried.
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Why this record matters

“The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bluebirds, Happiness and Tried provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16244409. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.