The Daily Herald is a daily newspaper that covers news and community events in Utah County, central Utah. Much of the coverage focuses on the Provo-Orem metropolitan area in Utah Valley. The Daily Herald is owned by Lee Enterprises, a media company based in Davenport, Iowa. It was acquired along with 13 other newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, when Lee purchased Pulitzer, Inc. in 2005. The paper has a daily circulation of 32,000, with a Thursday circulation of 42,000 and a Sunday circulation of 36,000. It also owns nine community publications in Utah and Sanpete counties. (More from Wikipedia)
The only definitive information on the formation of Silverbird comes from a 1971 newspaper article in the Daily Herald of Provo, Utah (one of the early Biloxi newspapers, The Daily Herald had that name also). The article appears under the heading “Birth of a Navajo Rock Band” and has a dateline of Long Island University; actually, Navajo is not one of the Indian tribes mentioned by J. Reuben Silverbird in his biography.
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This photograph of the Coronados with Jack Spector, a prominent New York City disc jockey on WMCA, was published in Billboard Magazine in 1965. (Spector is notable for having been the first DJ in New York to play the Beatles’ initial Capitol Records single, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in late December 1963). Their music is described in the Daily Herald article mentioned previously in this way: “The mode became eclectic – show tunes, popular numbers – with a professional gloss appropriate to the Borscht Belt and other resort circuits.”
Meanwhile, the four teenaged children of the bandmembers in the Coronados – who sometimes appeared with their parents on stage – were being attracted to rock music and began singing and performing together as the Real Americans.
(August 2013)
