Jefferson Airplane with Signe Toly Anderson – It’s No Secret

It’s No Secret – single by Jefferson Airplane from the 1966 album Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. Released August 15, 1966.

The personnel differs from the later “classic” lineup: Signe Toly Anderson was the female vocalist and Skip Spence played drums. Both soon left the group—Spence in May 1966, Anderson in October — and were replaced by Spencer Dryden and Grace Slick, respectively.

Written and sung by Airplane vocalist and guitarist Marty Balin, “It’s No Secret” finds him declaring his love in no uncertain terms. If there was ever any doubt, it’s now out in the open, as he is now unleashing his feelings without ambiguity.

Balin wrote this with Otis Redding in mind. In his own words, Balin hung around Redding “like a puppy dog” during Redding’s early career. Balin also says he was the one who took Redding’s “These Arms of Mine” to promoter Bill Graham so Graham would hire Redding for the Monterey International Pop Festival.

“It’s No Secret” held up well; it was the first track on the best-of compilation The Worst of Jefferson Airplane.

The video is a recording from 1966, at Fillmore West in San Francisco.

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