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Best songs about Flying

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  • 09-18-2007 8:45 PM

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    Travel [ap] Best songs about Flying

    So what songs are out there and relate to Flying...heres s few to start off

    Leaving on a Jet Plane........John Denver

    I believe i can Fly................R/Kelly

    Fly me away......................Goldfrapp

     

     

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  • 09-18-2007 10:25 PM In reply to

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    Learn to fly....Foo Fighters Up up and away....5th Dimension Come fly with me....Frank Sinatra Fly me to the moon....Frank Sinatra
  • 09-19-2007 8:53 AM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away

     

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  • 09-19-2007 10:14 AM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
    My wings are like a shield of steel.
  • 09-19-2007 10:49 AM In reply to

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    Broadening the horizons slightly, I would go for the little bit of Sir William Walton's original score "Battle in the Air" ........that was retained for the 1969 film, 'The Battle of Britain'..... you know, the swirling dogfight bit.....

    The rest of the score was dropped before the film was released, and replaced with one by  Ron Goodwin.

    Who needs lyrics..........

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  • 09-19-2007 10:56 AM In reply to

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    Learning to fly - Tom Petty.

    Fly like an eagle - Seal.

    Make it so, number one
  • 09-19-2007 3:41 PM In reply to

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    "Eagle" by Abba.  (From "Abba - The Album").

    It's OK, I'll put my anorak away now..............and my sparkly all-in-one jump suit...................

  • 09-19-2007 4:01 PM In reply to

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    Like Bad Reception it has to be good ole' Frank Sinatra for me with Come Fly with Me and Fly Me to the Moon...you cannot beat a bit of swing...Geeked

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  • 09-19-2007 4:02 PM In reply to

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     Almost forgot the most obvious one:

     "Volare" - Dean Martin
     

  • 09-19-2007 4:11 PM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    Anything by Led Zepplin...

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  • 09-19-2007 4:12 PM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    ... or Jefferson Airplane for that matter.

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  • 09-19-2007 4:40 PM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    sorry about this...

    "Like a Virgin"

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  • 09-19-2007 4:40 PM In reply to

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    or the B52's

    Delta Lady...Joe Cocker

    Rocket Man....Elton John

    Endless Flight.....Leo Sayer

    Trains and Boats and Planes....Astrid Someone!

  • 09-19-2007 10:52 PM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    And more, how about

    Jet...Paul McCartney & Wings

    Wind Beneath My Wings...Bette Milder

    Dip Your Wings...Peter Cetera

     

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  • 10-23-2007 11:44 AM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    badreception:
    Learn to fly....Foo Fighters

    What a brilliant song and a hilarious video to boot.  Foo Fighters also released the song 'A320' about Dave Grohl's fear of flying, which was featured on the Godzilla soundtrack.

    Other aviation-related ones I can think of are 'Treetop Flyer' by Stephen Stills, along with 'Just A Song Before I Go' by Crosby, Stills & Nash which references United Airlines' campaign of the late 1960's/early 1970's - Fly The Friendly Skies....

     

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  • 11-05-2007 3:15 PM In reply to

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    erm..there's always the classic Saxon track 747 (strangers in the night) which has the jolly opening line of

    'We got a 747 coming down in the night
    There's no power, there's no runway lights'

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  • 12-14-2007 5:39 PM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    The thing is: there  are a LOT of 'flying' songs.

    Many of the I learned sometime during flight training (military) in Canada, and we even had a small booklet with song-texts. Unfortunately I have lost this booklet, but next to that most songs can be qualified as "dirty language".

    These songs never appeared on any hitparade, I fear.

     Perhaps I can find some song-texts if I start digging.....

    Keep singing,

     

    Martin

  • 12-15-2007 12:48 PM In reply to

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    "Volare" (original: Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu), but by the Author: Domenico Modugno

  • 03-13-2008 4:39 PM In reply to

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    How about anything by U-2?

    "Jump, jump Sir!"
  • 04-25-2008 10:05 AM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    Had to bring this thread back due to something I only recently found out - I'm a big fan of a fairly obscure American rock band called Pinback and one of their songs is called "Walters". It turns out it's actually about Larry Walters, the nutter who tied a load of helium weather balloons to his deckchair and reached about 16,000 feet over LA. He only took essential supplies, an air pistol to shoot out the balloons when he wanted to come down, a CB radio and a sixpack of his favourite beer.
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  • 04-25-2008 12:18 PM In reply to

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    Seems like a good combo to me, although there seems to be a lack of a snack option to choose from!!! Wink

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  • 04-25-2008 12:50 PM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    Up up and away ! ( I know its about balooning!)Whisper

  • 04-26-2008 12:11 PM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    Yes, by the "Fifth Dimension",   "Up, up and away".

    A child of the sixties. Much altitude gained without release from the grass. 

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  • 04-27-2008 9:03 PM In reply to

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    Re: Best songs about Flying

    So no-one else thought about "Learning to FLy" from Pink Floyd or "Five Miles Out" from Mike Oldfield?

  • 08-08-2008 2:22 PM In reply to

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    Cant believe you guys missed this one "Leavin on a Jet Plane" written in understated irony by Mr John Denver
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