Signs (Five Man Electrical Band song)

"Signs"
Single by Five Man Electrical Band
from the album Good-byes and Butterflies
B-side	"Hello Melinda Goodbye"
Released	May 1971
Genre	Hard rock[1]
Length	4:05 (album version) 3:20 (single version)
Label	Lionel Records
Songwriter(s)	Les Emmerson
Producer(s)	Dallas Smith
Five Man Electrical Band singles chronology
"Signs" (1971) "Absolutely Right" (1971)

"Signs" is a song by the Canadian rock group Five Man Electrical Band. It was written by the band's frontman, Les Emmerson, and popularized the relatively unknown band, who recorded it for their true first album, Good-byes and Butterflies, in 1970. The LP Five Man Electrical Band had begun as a Staccatos album with Brian Rading, the band's bassist suggesting the band's new name from the song title.

"Signs" was originally a 1970 B-side to the relatively unsuccessful single "Hello Melinda Goodbye" (#55 Canada). Re-released in 1971 as the A-side, "Signs" reached No. 4 in Canada and No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 24 song for 1971. It became a gold record. In Canada, RPM Magazine ranked it at No. 55, with Absolutely Right ranked No. 49.^[2]

Some radio edits have omitted the instrumental introduction and shortened the instrumental coda for airplay, due to time constraints.