As much as I loved all of Jefferson Airplane's music, I can honestly say that my two all-time favorites were this song, "Come Up The Years," and the haunting vocal by Grace Slick in "Triad." Speaking of haunting, this song has haunted me over the long decades since I first heard it on the radio in the mid-to-late 1960's. It was on a winter night, walking down the street with my transistor radio (the same one I mentioned in my comments on the Little Peggy March video). I found out later that this song was done before Grace Slick, when the first female singer of the group was Signe Anderson (pictured above). After hearing more songs from the first album I can honestly say I wish Signe could have been twin-billing with Marty Balin a bit longer than she did. They certainly made beautiful music together. Credits say that Marty, Signe, and Paul Kantner are all singing on this track. I know one person who doubts Signe is in there. Be that as it may, she was certainly there in the vocals spiritually. In any event, Signe is credited with playing the glockenspiel on this song, which has a prominent solo in the latter section.

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