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

 

 

Learn to fly....Foo Fighters Up up and away....5th Dimension Come fly with me....Frank Sinatra Fly me to the moon....Frank Sinatra

Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away

 

Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

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..........

 

Learning to fly - Tom Petty.

Fly like an eagle - Seal.

 

"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...................

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...

 Almost forgot the most obvious one:

 "Volare" - Dean Martin
 

Anything by Led Zepplin...

... or Jefferson Airplane for that matter.

sorry about this...

"Like a Virgin"

or the B52's

Delta Lady...Joe Cocker

Rocket Man....Elton John

Endless Flight.....Leo Sayer

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

And more, how about

Jet...Paul McCartney & Wings

Wind Beneath My Wings...Bette Milder

Dip Your Wings...Peter Cetera

 

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....

 

Titch

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'

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

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

How about anything by U-2?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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