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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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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: 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: 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: bobad Date: 04 Feb 08 - 04:58 PM Lindberg (Robert Charlebois) |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: bobad Date: 04 Feb 08 - 06:54 PM Coming Into Los Angeles - Arlo Guthrie |
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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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 04 Feb 08 - 07:32 PM Deportee |
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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: 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: 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: 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: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 04 Feb 08 - 10:20 PM Roy Brown and Wop May It's the Baron! In terror they cried, 80 men tried him . . . 80 men died. With the German Flying Circus, along for the ride Nothing seemed likely to turn the tide . . . Through the haze flew Roy Brown and Wop May Two Royal Air Force fly boys from Canadi-ay. "Stop the Flying Circus!" they'd toast "Down with the Baron!" they'd drink to their host. There was fear in the sky when the Red Baron did fly, For numb was his nerve, and firm his despise. Eighty small emblems appeared as his brand, Each an opponent, shot down by his hand . . . For Manfred was a sniper who wore no disguise, From a fortress in Breslau came bullets with eyes . . . From above, he'd swoop out of the sun, On the doomed Allied pilot he'd open his guns! Through the haze flew Roy Brown and Wop May Two Royal Air Force fly boys from Canadi-ay. "Stop the Flying Circus!" they'd toast "Down with the Baron!" they'd drink to their host. T'was in spring of '18, over Amiens one day On his maiden mission, the rookie Wop May Felt the roar of a tri-plane hurtling his way, There were death lights flashing! He veered from the fray And a free-fall . . . he tried to escape but in vain, For the Baron was right on his heels again. And he prayed, "Take me home Lord, I'm finished I fear..." When high, from the sky, Captain Brown did appear! And with guns ablaze, from above and below, The Great Baron's plane became lifeless and slow . . . And it fluttered and fell to the ground, Where the great ace, Von Richtofen, dying; was found . . . Through the haze flew Roy Brown and Wop May Two Royal Air Force fly boys from Canadi-ay . . . ["To the Flying Circus!" they'd toast "Here's to the Baron!" they'd drink to their host . . . ] |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Teribus Date: 05 Feb 08 - 04:19 AM Surprised that no-one has mentioned Steve Earle's, "Johnny Come Lately". The aircraft mentioned: http://www.aviation-history.com/republic/p47.html |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,PMB Date: 05 Feb 08 - 06:32 AM Black hills of Dakota? They managed to write a song about Amy Johnson without actually mentioning her plane |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,PMB Date: 05 Feb 08 - 06:58 AM Nice one here: Me and Jane in a Plane. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: SINSULL Date: 05 Feb 08 - 08:07 AM Kendall Morse tells a Downeast tale of a pair of locals taking a ride in a bi-plane. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,HuwG at office Date: 05 Feb 08 - 09:00 AM Another apology to John Denver, courtesy of the Barron Knights: My bags were lost an hour ago As you might guess, I'm at Heathrow For all I know, they're on their way to Rome The fog this morning's very dense, My mates are waving through the fence (Hi, Greg!) In all my life, I've never felt so ill (ch) I'm heaving, on a jet plane Don't know if I will fly again Unfortunately, CD not to hand and I forget the rest of it. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: bankley Date: 05 Feb 08 - 09:07 AM from 'Shadow of the Twins' "Meanwhile on the deck of some early Boeing flight The controls lost all effect, Cap'n knew something wasn't right He said 'Communications have been compromised', now the treacherous ride begins For Flights eleven and one-seven five on a 'home-run' for the shadow of the twins" |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Johnmc Date: 05 Feb 08 - 10:42 AM "Bill Hosie" by Archie Fisher. About a man's dream. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: bobad Date: 05 Feb 08 - 10:56 AM Let's Roll - Neil Young |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Jim Date: 05 Feb 08 - 12:59 PM Charley Nobel: I love that song! I'd like to learn it, but something about it makes me choke up whenever I hear it; I don't know if I'd be able to make it through the song. Wierd; nothing in my life parallels the story of the song, but it still touches me. Anyway, Daniel, by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Little Hawk Date: 05 Feb 08 - 01:09 PM Al Stewart wrote a very neat song about Amelia Earhart. Can't recall the title at the moment, but like all Al Stewart songs it was quite intelligently done...fine music and excellent lyrics. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Georgiansilver Date: 05 Feb 08 - 01:56 PM "You belong to me"....(Fly the ocean in a silver plane) |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Tattie Bogle Date: 05 Feb 08 - 08:14 PM One we used to sing in the Girl Guides: He jumped from 40,000 feet without a parachute, x3 And he ain't gonna jump no more. Chorus: Glory, glory, what a terrible way to die, x3 And he ain't gonna jump no more He landed on the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam, x3 And he ain't gonna....... They scooped him off the tarmac like a ............... At which point the memory fails and I'll go to bed, but not before posting a song I wrote for my son when he was 18 and had aspirations to becone an airline pilot: he's since seen sense and gone down the line of being a musician instead! (Emmie Lou was the family cat, by the way!) FLY AWAY WITH ME Written for Ewan's 18th birthday - 24.11.01. On 24.11.83. Such a beautiful baby, what would you be When you came to manhood, we would see What destiny held for you? Could you be Thomas the Tank's trusty driver, or a Teenage Mutant Ninja fighter, Or a singer in a band that could get no higher? But flying's the life for you. Chorus: So fly me away again, I just wanna ride in your jet plane, I just wanna hear those engines roar As we fly to a foreign shore - oh now We can go, just me and you, Or take Daddy and your big sister too, Both your Grannies and your Grandads, even Emmie Lou So let's fly, fly me away. I wanna fly to Africa See the tumbling falls of Victoria Watch some lions on safari in Kenya Take a ride on camels that sway - oh We'll fly down the Nile to the Valley of the Kings Near Jo'burg we'll see boks on springs And in Zambia we'll buy drums and rings So come fly, fly me away. I wanna fly to Australia Cross the Bass Strait from Tasmania Then in Sydney go to the Opera In the winged house by the harbour, I wanna see Ayres rock, red and brown, Take coffee with the neighbours in Melbourne Town Swim the Barrier Reef, but don't let me drown, And tie me kangaroo down - sport! Chorus: So fly me away again, I just wanna ride in your jet plane, I just wanna hear those engines roar As we fly to a foreign shore - oh now We can go, just me and you, Or take Daddy and your big sister too, Both your Grannies and your Grandads, even Emmie Lou So let's fly, fly me away. And I wanna fly over the Arctic Sea I wanna see polar bears run free And fish through the ice just to catch their tea, And maybe spot the odd whale - oh, Then take me South to the other Pole To p-pick up a p-penguin, ain't they droll, As they fall off the rocks as the breakers roll, So come fly, fly me away. To scale Everest would be a drama I wanna take tea with the Dalai Lama And see the cone of Fujiyama And walk the Great Wall of China, but don't Fly me over Afghanistan - we might Get shot down by the Taliban Or even some of President Bush's gang who can't Recognise your airliner. Chorus: So fly me away again, I just wanna ride in your jet plane, I just wanna hear those engines roar As we fly to a foreign shore - oh now We can go, just me and you, Or take Daddy and your big sister too, Both your Grannies and your Grandads and Emmie Lou So let's fly, fly me away. And I wanna go samba in Rio City The carnival girls are oh so pretty And to climb the Andes would be real gritty Put your senses in disarray - oh And I wanna fly over the Empire State And even flip under the Golden Gate And through the Grand Canyon, I can't wait for you to Fly, fly me away. And though Europe, it may be our home, I haven't been to Budapest, Crete or Rome, And I never got to visit the Millennium Dome, they just Couldn't make it pay - so as I Talk of another destination I can see your look of consternation And I think I've really tried your patience So just fly me home to stay. Final Chorus: So you flew me away again I just loved to ride in your jet plane And I loved to hear those engines roar As we flew to those foreign shores - oh then We all went, not just me and you We took Daddy and your big sister too Both your Grannies and your Grandads, even Emmie Lou As we flew, all flew away. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Nick E Date: 06 Feb 08 - 06:37 PM Jefferson Airplane, Planes from the reuniun album I love Planes Jet Aircraft I love Planes Jet Aircraft He was just a little boy and he sat there in his school And the little girl in the very next chair she thought he was so cool And she watched him draw and draw Planes and wings and flying things Even during tests he'd keep on drawing And his mother didn't want him and his father was always working so he Just set his head to the center of the sky and dreamed of FLYING at first like a leaf floating in the air Now like an eagle soaring there FLYING Great roaring engines now will lift my wings Rockets now and spacecraft to the center of the sky I'm getting ready for a great leap forward Ready for a leap in the pool Ready to touch the stars again Ready to go back to school Puttin' the pieces together Put on your wings and come with me and Fly fly fly to the center of the sky let's go Flying I love Planes Experimental Aircraft I love Planes Jet Jet Jet Aircraft Breaking through The sound barrier Into Into the Light And the little boy is still like a little boy and he met another little girl and they made another little boy And the new little guy still loves planes and flying things And both his mother and father love him and Hold him and hug him whenever he needs it and Soon will send him lovingly to the center of the sky and teach him Flying and Dreaming and Visions True Flying I love Planes Jet Aircraft I love Planes Sensual Aircraft |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Neil D Date: 06 Feb 08 - 07:14 PM "Treetop Flyer" performed by Stephen Stills. Don't know if he wrote it or not. Very nice guitar work. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 06 Feb 08 - 07:26 PM Vladimir Vysotsky wrote many songs about pilots in WW2. Yak-Istrebitel (Yak fighter plane) is told from the POV of the plane!!!! The plane can't stand the 'one who sits inside me'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWy0NASC-B0&feature=related |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: oldhippie Date: 06 Feb 08 - 08:19 PM "Tchpone" |
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