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Silver - Musician   Country Rock

Silver was a 1970s country-rock band, best known for their bubblegum 1976 hit "Wham Bam".

Members of the group included John Batdorf (formerly of Batdorf & Rodney); Brent Mydland (later of the Grateful Dead); Tom Leadon (brother of the Eagles' Bernie Leadon); Greg Collier; and Harry Stinson. Phil Hartman designed the cover art for Silver, the quintet's lone album. The band's recordings were released on the Arista record label.

The single's title, "Wham Bam", was also shown as "Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang", and made #16 in the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1976. Arista executives gave the band the song to record after concluding that none of the other tracks on the album they produced had single potential.

Other songs on that album included "Musician (It's Not an Easy Life)," "Memory," and "Climbing".[2]