Shirley Jones sang lead on this very memorable Partridge Family song in which the family spoke to the crisis of the vanishing species—in this case, the whale.

With support from the New York Zoological Society, “Whale Song” features the sounds of actual whales in the recording. Songwriters Marty Kaniger and Dan Peyton put more effort into composing this song than any other song they ever wrote. Both songwriters signed these commemorative lyric sheets in support of When We’re Singin’ and their story about this song, told within the pages of When We’re Singin’, is the most riveting story of them all.