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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Greg B Date: 04 Feb 08 - 09:13 PM A handsome young airman lay dying And there on the deck where he lay With mechanics all standing around him These final few words he did say Take the pistons from out of me forehead Connecting rods out of me brain Take the crankshaft from out of me back-bone and assemble the en-gyne again! |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Songster Bob Date: 04 Feb 08 - 08:55 PM Bruce Phillips' "Enola Gay" "Come Josephine in my Flying Machine" "Thank You, Republic Airlines" (for breaking off the neck of my guitar) -- Tom Paxton ... nothing more comes to mind, but probably will once I sign off. Bob |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Feb 08 - 08:11 PM Sir jOhn- Should you be reminded to check what has been posted above? Deportees is a great song but it has been mentioned at least three times before. I, however, made a mistake above in crediting James Keelaghan with composing "Princes of the Skies." Here's the song as Keelaghan sings it with appropriate credit: Princes of the Clouds (Tony Kaduck 1989 SOCAN) I am a flyer, one of those wind-in-the-wires boys At the country fairs, you may have heard my name And I have flown where only wind and wild men go In the skies of France, or west across the plains When war was done, I couldn't go back to the farm There were Curtis Fours and Avros for a song It seemed like single and free was the only way to be I bought a good old craft and I named her Southern Star We drew crowds; they called us "Princes of the Clouds" In the railway towns across the Great Divide We'd come in low, then stage a dogfight for a show Then take the brave ones up for fifty cents a ride Just Bob and me; we didn't need no company And those farm girls made us welcome when we came It seemed like single and free was the only way to be And we swore those glory days would never end We had it planned; we were gonna fly the Rio Grande When I met her at a show near Calgary Becky Ann, she could have had her any man But I bought a ring; she said she'd marry me Bob went on; he headed south toward the sun I couldn't look him in the eye when the time had come He just said, "Single and free, man, it's the only way to be Southern Star got parked behind the old man's barn Six years ago, Bob was flying mail in Mexico When his plane went down; the wreck was never found The thirties came, we went two years without the rain Now I've a factory job, and room and board in town Becky knew that the glory days were through I got a letter from New Orleans the other day And she said, "Single and free is the only way to be Now, Southern Star, take me back and let me dream Oh, Southern Star, I got lost along the way. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: pdq Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:39 PM Airmail Special is also the name of a Benny Goodman song. An especially good vehicle for guitar pioneer Charlie Christian. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:32 PM Deportee |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: The Walrus Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:18 PM The Young Aviator (lay dying) - Okay that's more about a crashed aeroplane The Dive Bomber Song Flying Flying Fortresses The only, only way ("...he's the only Hun, you're the only Pup...") W |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Herga Kitty Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:15 PM I was going to say Coming in on a wing and a prayer, but Severn got there first. I don't think anyone's mentioned, "Ebony Eyes" yet though? Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:06 PM Levine and His Flying Machine, recorded by Kapelye. There's a Kristina Olsen song, don't remember the name, about a housewife who secretly takes flying lessons. One of her best, imho. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Lonesome EJ Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:04 PM The Ballad of You, Me, and Pooneil Cushingura Saturday Afternoon 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: number 6 Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:02 PM Steam-Powered Aeroplane - John Hartford Flight 505 - the Rolling Stones biLL |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Rich Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:01 PM Eight Miles High - The Byrds This Flight Tonight - Joni Mitchell |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:00 PM The Wild Blue Yonder - words have rather an ironic ring these days |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: The Sandman Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:58 PM Munich air disaster.The well known folksong Trains and Boats andPlanes |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:56 PM Come Fly With Me Up Up & Away (originally about a balloon but forever associated with TWA, courtesy of Madison Avenue) |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: bobad Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:54 PM Coming Into Los Angeles - Arlo Guthrie |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Severn Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:46 PM "Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer", even covered by Joseph Spence and Ry Cooder "Ship In The Sky"- Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston "Up In The Air, The Junior Birdmen" (Which Robin Williamson & His Merry Band would cover in live shows for fun) "Heaveanly Aeroplane"-covered by The Watersons on "Sound, Sound, Your Instruments of Joy" Oscar Brand's Electra US service songs, with one for each branch, has been reissued bu Collector's Choice as "Four Albums Of Military Song". He also put out a second Air Force LP in 1960, called "Out Of the Blue-More Air Force Songs", as well as a comedy album called "Up In The Air-Songs For Madcap Airmen" and a 2001 CD update of Air Force songs called "The Wild Blue Over Vietnam". All available through http://www.oscarbrand.com "In Country-Folksongs Of Americans In The Vietnam War" (Flying Fish 70552) has more from that era. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: SINSULL Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:10 PM Come Josephine In My Flying Machine Plane Wreck At Los Gatos ( Deportess) |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Bill D Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:04 PM The Two Lost French Fliers Come Take a Trip in My Airship |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: van lingle Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:01 PM You Can't Catch Me- Chuck Berry Ameila- Joni Mitchell Free Mexican Air Force-Peter Rowan |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: fretless Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:00 PM Airmail Special -- a bluegrass tune, not in digitrad, begins "When you wake this morning honey, keep your head up to the sky" |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Long Firm Freddie Date: 04 Feb 08 - 05:57 PM Snoopy vs The Red Baron by The Royal Guardsmen Bomber's Moon by Mike Harding LFF |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 04 Feb 08 - 05:30 PM A song about flying, sung from the perspective of an Irishman who wants to go to Amerikay, but once there, longs for the emerald shores of home. He can never make his mind up where he wants to be, and bounces back & forth across the Atlantic like a ping-pong ball, so he's never off a plane. Song is called "Hard To Say Goodbye", a.k.a. "Home Away From Home". Anyone not familiar with this scenario? I had one bag too many just as I was set to leave I was loaded down with bacon and with sausages and tea And I couldn't find my ticket as I'm walking out the door Till I emptied all my bags out on the floor. On board the plane I sip a drink while waiting for the meal Just trying to keep my head from knowing how my stomach feels There's a baby right behind me making sure that I won't sleep And the flight's too full to find another seat And I'm trying to fill out customs forms but I can't find a pen I'm swearing softly to myself I'll never fly again There's a woman right in front of me keeps playing with the seat And someone nearby never washed their feet But I fall asleep at last just as the plane is touching down And I age ten years just waiting for the bags to come around But finally I make it home and I'm barely settled when I'm already making plans to go again |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: BTMP Date: 04 Feb 08 - 05:28 PM 'Lucky Lindy', about Lindbergh, probably written in the late Twenties. 'Air Mail Special', a bluegrass tune recorded by Jim & Jesse. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,bernie Date: 04 Feb 08 - 05:20 PM On a lighter note: Nashville's Pickard & Bowden,at the time of Ghaddafi's introduction of airliner hijacking [apologies to John Denver].... I'm Lybian on a jet plane,dont know if I'll git home again ...Mummar,I hate to go.....etc..... |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Rog Peek Date: 04 Feb 08 - 05:17 PM Yukon Air Crash - Phil Ochs Talking Plane Disaster - Phil Ochs Is This Any Way to Run an Airline - Tom Paxton Rog |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Feb 08 - 05:01 PM Amelia Earhart's Last Fright by Red River Dave McEnery Deportees by Woodie Guthrie Princes of the Clouds by James Keelaghan Cowardly Act by Charlie Ipcar Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: topical tom Date: 04 Feb 08 - 05:00 PM The song about Amelia Earhart.I think that is the title: Chorus There's a beautiful, beautiful spot On an island that's shining and fair. Happy landings to you, Amelia Earhart. Farewell, first lady of the air. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Feb 08 - 04:59 PM Deportees |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: bobad Date: 04 Feb 08 - 04:58 PM Lindberg (Robert Charlebois) |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: cptsnapper Date: 04 Feb 08 - 04:57 PM Early Morning Rain: Airport Song by Magna Carta |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 04 Feb 08 - 04:56 PM More here: http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2006/10/17/ten-songs-about-airplanes/ |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 04 Feb 08 - 04:49 PM Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines |
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Subject: Songs involving Airplanes From: LeTenebreux Date: 04 Feb 08 - 04:43 PM Back in the USSR (Beatles) This Time Tomorrow (The Kinks) Leaving on a Jet Plane (Peter, Paul and Mary) ....your turn.... |
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