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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Genie Date: 18 Jul 08 - 08:35 PM Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition also, Fly Me To The Moon |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Genie Date: 18 Jul 08 - 08:19 PM The Letter - "Gimme a ticket on an aeroplane, Ain't got time to take a fast plane. Lonely days are gone, My baby just wrote me a letter ... ." |
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Subject: Lyr Add - The Green Berets From: Jay777 Date: 18 Jul 08 - 04:18 AM Another new-to-me thread. SouthernCelt mentioned this song, so may as well post the lyrics. "Berets" is pronounced the US way, with the emphasis on the last syllable: "bur-RAY" THE GREEN BERETS, lyrics by SSgt. Barry Sadler, music Robin Moore Fighting soldiers from the sky, Fearless men who jump and die, Men who mean just what they say, The brave men of the Greet Berets. CHORUS: Silver wings upon their chests, These are men, America's best, One hundred men we'll test today, But only three win the Green Beret. Trained to live off nature's land, Trained to combat hand to hand. Men who fight by night and day, Courage take from the Green Berets. CHORUS Back at home a young wife waits, Her Green Beret has met his fate, He has died for those oppressed, Leaving her this last request: "Put silver wings on my son's chest, Make him one of America's best, He'll be a man they'll test one day, Have his turn to win the Green Beret." This is another of those songs which is probably not considered PC these days, and I personally don't like songs that glorify war. However, it's a good, rousing, tune, and reflects the attitude of many people in the mid-60s, before the anti-Vietnam War campaign really got going. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Rowan Date: 18 Jul 08 - 12:08 AM Perhaps the Dambusters' March didn't have enough words to qualify? |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,SenorChach Date: 17 Jul 08 - 09:07 PM I can't believe no one mentioned Nazareth - This Flight Tonight |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Dean T Date: 18 Feb 08 - 08:19 AM Hi Barry T. I need to get hold of you regarding some music. Can you go offline? deant AT rovinge DOT com |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 11 Feb 08 - 04:53 AM Meir Ariel "Terminal je taime". A weird but famous Israeli song about a man who goes to airports to watch planes take off. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: ossonflags Date: 11 Feb 08 - 03:58 AM Deportees (The plane wreck at Los Gatos) is the full title ofthe guthroe song. No one has metioned the great kieth marsden song; "left. left, right steady man" |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Gene Date: 11 Feb 08 - 02:07 AM The Last Flight of Will Rodgers and Wiley Post/I forget-RRDM? Wow... The Historic Flight of Gary Powers/Red River Dave McEnery L.A. International Airport/Susan Raye Boogie Woogie Flying Cloud/Hank Snow Johnny Zero/Merle Kilgore |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 11 Feb 08 - 01:42 AM What was the Al Stewart song from Year of the Cat? |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: open mike Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:45 AM Nancy Griffith has an album called Flyer with a song about a pilot she met in an airport when each was flying in different directions. and as Gordon lightfoot says in a previously mentioned song "you can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train..." |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: open mike Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:41 AM the Alan Parsons Band --On Air (this group was formerly the Alan Parsons project) has an album all about flight which has several flying songs and one of the earliest cd-rom music disc combinations..it had an entire encyclopedia of the history of flight and airplanes contained in the c.d. On Air covers the history of airborne exploration, from the mythological flights of Daedalus and Icarus, to Leonardo da Vinci's designs of flying machines, to hot air ballooning, and finally space exploration. www.amazon.com/Air-Alan-Parsons/dp/B000007R16 |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 10 Feb 08 - 06:21 PM I assume the Guthrie song about Lindbergh a few posts up is to the tune of White House Blues, http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7842 |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Greg B Date: 10 Feb 08 - 05:27 PM I always loved this verse from the A25 song--- (In the Digital Tradition) "I thought I was coming in high enough but I was fifty feet up when the batsman gave "cut", And loud in my earphones the sweet angels sang: "'Float, float, float, float, float, float, float, float, float, float, PRANG!" ...having quite a few hours in an airplane that liked to act that way. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Santa Date: 10 Feb 08 - 10:32 AM The Fleet Air Arm has a number of songs involving aeroplanes, not surprisingly. There is a book - the title escapes me - on sale at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. Many are just parodies of current songs: Any Old Iron about the Fulmar, for example. Oh, Mr. Fairey about the Barracuda. The best known one is also in Cyril Tawney's Grey Funnel Line book. The A25 Song. The A25 is an aircraft accident report, and the song has a large number of verses from different periods. example. The batsman says low, but I always fly higher. I come in too fast and I prang my Seafire The guys in the goofers all think I am green But I get my commission from Supermarine! (chorus) Cracking show! I'm alive! But I still have to render my A25. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Kiwi Guest Date: 09 Feb 08 - 10:01 PM There was an Ausie song around the time of the Vietnam war. "The F1 Double 1." |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: nager Date: 09 Feb 08 - 06:42 PM I guess any political song would be appropriate? They would have to be left wing or right wing... |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Lin in Kansas Date: 09 Feb 08 - 06:24 PM Great one, Uncle Phil! Here's another: Gary Allen, "Watching Airplanes" Don't think he wrote this one, but he does a great job performing it. Lin |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 09 Feb 08 - 01:51 PM Has "On a wing and a prayer" been mentioned? |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: topical tom Date: 09 Feb 08 - 11:43 AM John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Uncle Phil Date: 08 Feb 08 - 10:22 PM If nothing else it's easy to remember the words. SILVER WINGS (Merle Haggard) Silver wings shining in the sunlight, Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight. They're taking you away, Leaving me lonely, Silver wings slowly fading out of sight. "Don't leave me." I cried, "Don't take that airplane ride." But you locked me out of your mind, And left me standing here behind. Silver wings shining in the sunlight, Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight. They're taking you away, Leaving me lonely, Silver wings slowly fading out of sight. Silver Wings from the "Last of the Breed" tour - Phil |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Gweltas1 Date: 08 Feb 08 - 09:57 PM Unless I missed it when scrolling down though this thread, there hasn't been a mention of "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" !! |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Greycap Date: 08 Feb 08 - 07:39 PM Apart from all the aforementioned there's a good one called " Colin Kelly, won't you tell the boys up yonder" which was an old patriotic WWll song about a B-17 pilot, recorded by Chester & Lester Buchanan. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle Date: 08 Feb 08 - 06:30 AM Woody Guthrie: Ship in the Sky Well, a curly-headed girl with a bright shining smile Heard the roar of a plane as it sailed through the sky To her playmates she said, with a bright twinkling eye My Daddy flies that ship in the sky x 3 My Mama's not afraid and neither am I 'Cause my Daddy flies that ship in the sky Then a button-nosed kid, as he kicked up his heels He said, My Daddy works in the iron and the steel My Dad builds the planes and they fly through the sky And that's what keeps your daddy up there so high x3 My Dad builds the planes and they fly through the sky And that's what keeps your daddy up there so high Then a freckle-faced kid pinched his toe in the sand He says, My Daddy works at that place where they land You tell your mama, don't be afraid My Dad'll bring your daddy back home again x3 Don't be afraid when it gets dark and rains My Dad'll bring your daddy back home again And slightly more remotely- Woody Guthrie: Lindberg Mister Charlie Lindbergh, he flew to old Berlin, Got 'im a big Iron Cross, and he flew right back again To Washington, Washington. Missus Charlie Lindbergh, she come dressed in red, Said: "I'd like to sleep in that pretty White House bed In Washington, Washington." Lindy said to Annie: "We'll get there by and by, But we'll have to split the bed up with Wheeler, Clark, and Nye In Washington, Washington." Hitler wrote to Lindy, said "Do your very worst," Lindy started an outfit that he called America First In Washington, Washington. All around the country, Lindbergh he did fly, Gasoline was paid for by Hoover, Clark, and Nye In Washington, Washington. Lindy said to Hoover: "We'll do the same as France: Make a deal with Hitler, and then we'll get our chance In Washington, Washington Then they had a meetin', and all the Firsters come, Come on a-walkin', they come on a-runnin', In Washington, Washington Yonder comes Father Coughlin, wearin' the silver chain, Cash on his stomach and Hitler on the brain. In Washington, Washington Mister John L. Lewis would sit and straddle a fence, His daughter signed with Lindbergh, and we ain't seen her since In Washington, Washington Hitler said to Lindy: "Stall 'em all you can, Gonna bomb Pearl Harbor with the help of old Japan." In Washington, Washington Then on a December mornin', the bombs come from Japan, Wake Island and Pearl Harbor, kill fifteen hundred men. Washington, Washington Now Lindy tried to join the army, but they wouldn't let 'im in, 'Fraid he'd sell to Hitler a few more million men. In Washington, Washington So I'm a gonna tell you people: If Hitler's gonna be beat, The common workin' people has got to take the seat In Washington, Washington. And I'm gonna tell you workers, 'fore you cash in your checks: They say "America First," but they mean "America Next!" In Washington, Washington |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 07 Feb 08 - 06:36 PM Cole Porter - I Get a Kick Out Of You. Cited for excellent use of internal rhymes such as _fly_ing up _high_ with some _guy_ in the _sky_ is my _i_dea of nothing to do. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Santa Date: 07 Feb 08 - 04:14 PM Paxton: I lost my heart on a 747. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Mark Ross Date: 07 Feb 08 - 02:49 PM SHIP IN THE SKY by Woody Guthrie and or course; THERE'LL BE A HOT, HOT TIME IN LAKEHURST NEW JERSEY WHEN THE HINDENBURG COMES TO TOWN.. Mark Ross |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,saltz Date: 07 Feb 08 - 02:37 PM Airport, The Motors 1978. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 07 Feb 08 - 01:30 PM The Irish Rovers sang this: http://nghardin.home.att.net/Rovers/IRSL-Biplane.htm |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: SouthernCelt Date: 07 Feb 08 - 01:19 PM To Guest, Rich: Yes, the Byrds were 8 miles high but I never asssumed they used an aircraft ;-). Don't see "Ballad of the Green Berets" mentioned. (Yes, I realize it doesn't say airplane but the first line is "Fighting soldiers from the sky...") This one may not be remembered by anyone but late 60s "hawks" and John Wayne fans. SC |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Santa Date: 07 Feb 08 - 06:25 AM Early Morning Rain: Gordon Lightfoot |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: M.Ted Date: 07 Feb 08 - 06:21 AM "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Barry T Date: 06 Feb 08 - 11:06 PM I remember this whimsical tune from a Laurie Bower Singers LP back in the early 70's. I also remember The Irish Rovers singing it on their TV show. I think the title is correct, but I was unable to track down the name of the composer. I WISH I WAS A PLANE I wish I was a plane so I could fly above the rain And leave my worries on the ground. The worries in my mind are the imaginary kind And if I was a plane they couldn't bring me down. Maybe if I was a kite they'd never make things right I'd get so tied down with a string. Besides, they'd need a breeze so they could fly along with ease And if I was a plane I wouldn't need a thing. Chorus ------ Above the clouds I would fly in a sky that is blue All the world will be down instead of me. Though the mountains would try they would not get as high I know they'd try to touch me but I'd be too free. Oh the world will never see a plane as high as me My silver wings will touch the sun. I won't rest till I find a spot up in the sky A spot abover the clouds just big enough for me. Chorus Repeat first verse |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: oldhippie Date: 06 Feb 08 - 08:19 PM "Tchpone" |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: bobad Date: 05 Feb 08 - 10:56 AM Let's Roll - Neil Young |
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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: 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,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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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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