Elusive Butterfly is one of the defining songs of the Folk Rock movement in the US and UK during the mid-1960s. Initially, the song was released as the B-side to the single "Cheryl's Goin' Home" in late 1965. However, thanks to a Miami DJ who "flipped the disc" and played the track, it quickly became a transatlantic sensation. With its highly poetic lyrics, inspired by W. B. Yeats' poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus," "Elusive Butterfly" uses the metaphor of the "elusive butterfly" to represent

In 1957, Paul Robeson performed the world's first transatlantic concert using a new phone line. John Liffen from London's Science Museum explains how it happened. More on Witness History. 🎧 https://bbc.in/3O2pFHv | BBC World Service

Transatlantic - SMPT:e (2000)