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Apr 30th, 2003 at 6:47am

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with this very diverse group of people I am sure that there are hundreds of songs that refer to aviation in one way or another.
ex...
Leaving on a jet plane-Peter, Paul, and Mary

In The Early Morning Rain- Various country artist ("out on runway number nine, big 707 set to go")

Manhattan Project- Rush ("..The pilot of Enola Gay flying out of the shock wave on the August day...")

Thats a few of the ones that I know. Song, Artist, and a line from the song
 
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Reply #1 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 7:00am

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The eighties classic "Enola Gay"

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Reply #2 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 8:26am

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From the Boeing website: The 777 is named in a song by Dire Straits Mark's Knopfler. The song is contained on the CD, "Sailing to Philadelphia."

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Reply #3 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 8:35am
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i think that the title of another song was "seems it never rains in southern california", but i don't know the artist...
there was something with a "747" in its lyrics...
 
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Reply #4 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 9:49am

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Reply #5 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 11:33am

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Big ol' jet airliner,
Don'y carry me too far away.....
Oh,....Big ol jet airliner,
cause it's here where I got to stay!

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Reply #6 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 11:49am

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i think that the title of another song was "seems it never rains in southern california", but i don't know the artist...
there was something with a "747" in its lyrics...

"It Never Rains in Southern California". Written & recorded by Albert Hammond. 1972

"Got on board a westbound seven ..... forty seven
Didn't think before deciding what to do
Ooh, that talk of opportunities, TV breaks and movies
Rang true, sure rang true.............."
 
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Reply #7 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 11:56am

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After the turn of the century
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Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard
Like the scream and the sound of a big war bird


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Reply #8 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 1:57pm

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Here is one from my teenage years,...

Rollin'... Turnin'... Divin'....doing it again.
Rollin'... Turnin'... Divin'....
Fly......fly to live.....live to fly....do  or die......
Won't you....
Fly...Fly to live....live to fly..... ACES HIGH......
From a classic "metal" album... "Powerslave". The song is called Aces High and it a song about fighter pilots scrammbling to meet the attackers and the dogfight that ensues!!

Any body remember.......they were from the UK..Big metal band durring the 80's.

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Reply #9 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 3:22pm

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Learning to fly: Pink Floyd. Grin

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Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earth-bound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to guide my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, A state of bliss
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I


Quite a tough one to beat I think. Roll Eyes Tongue Grin
 
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Reply #10 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 3:58pm

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Posted by: Woodlouse2002 Posted on: Today at 4:22pm
Learning to fly: Pink Floyd
Quite a tough one to beat I think.

I would have to agree woody...every lyric in that GREAT song by a GREAT band is about flight!!
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Here is one from my teenage years,...

Rollin'... Turnin'... Divin'....doing it again.
Rollin'... Turnin'... Divin'....
Fly......fly to live.....live to fly....do  or die......
Won't you....
Fly...Fly to live....live to fly..... ACES HIGH......
From a classic "metal" album... "Powerslave". The song is called Aces High and it a song about fighter pilots scrammbling to meet the attackers and the dogfight that ensues!!

Any body remember.......they were from the UK..Big metal band durring the 80's.

Dave  Wink


Aces High by Iron Maiden! All about Spitfires:

" Bandits at eight o'clock move in behind us.
Ten ME 109's out of the sun.
Ascending and turning our Spitfires to face them.
Heading straight for them, I press down on my gun..."

Another English metal band called Saxon did a song called 747, strangers in the night. All about an air disaster!
 
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Reply #12 - Apr 30th, 2003 at 11:46pm

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Daniel Elton John - something about Daniel's plane flying away...

Armageddon Prism - The only song I know of that has a sound bite of a ground contolled intercept as part of the song. Smiley

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft Klattu/The Carpenters.  The International Song of Earth Contact Day. Do you really need more reference on this one. Smiley
 
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Reply #13 - May 1st, 2003 at 3:52am

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Err well quite a number of the tracks on the TopGun album!

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Reply #14 - May 1st, 2003 at 4:04am

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Fly me too the moon
Let me sail among the stars, etcetera ad nauseam.

"I wish I could Fly
Right up to the sky,
but I can't"

You Can

"I can't"

Orville.......

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Reply #15 - May 1st, 2003 at 9:16am
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gotta d/l some of those songs...

tom petty and the heartbrakers  - learnin' to fly


p.s:thanks,for the help,hagar. Wink
 
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Reply #16 - May 1st, 2003 at 11:15am

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Quote:
Posted by: HawkerTempest5 Posted on: Apr 30th, 2003, 5:58pm

Aces High by Iron Maiden! All about Spitfires:

" Bandits at eight o'clock move in behind us.
Ten ME 109's out of the sun.
Ascending and turning our Spitfires to face them.
Heading straight for them, I press down on my gun..." 


Glad to see somebody remembers that one Hawker!!! The lines you wrote were on the tip of my tounge!! I did not want to post those becuase I could not remember it!!  Great metal band, kind of went down hill after that album! Sad

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Does "Fling High Again" by Ozzy Osbourne count?  LOL
 
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Reply #17 - May 1st, 2003 at 5:19pm

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Glad to see somebody remembers that one Hawker!!! The lines you wrote were on the tip of my tounge!! I did not want to post those becuase I could not remember it!!  Great metal band, kind of went down hill after that album! Sad

Dave

 


One of my favourite  Iron Maiden tracks Grin You are right though, they did go down hill after Power Slave.
And sticking with the aviation realted topic, Iron Maiden also did "Flight of Iccarus."
 
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Reply #18 - May 2nd, 2003 at 1:09am

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Gentlemen! The Beatles.

Back in the USSR:

Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn't get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight.
(The song begins with the sound of an Airliner landing)

Also a song which goes something like:

Boeing, Boeing 707,
Going, Going skywardly, heavenly.

Don't know the artist but I presume the name to be "Boeing 707"  Grin

Oh yes, and who could forget the ever popular(??)

Up, Up and away
In my beautiful, my beautiful, balloon.

Balloons count too, don't they?
(There's an interesting project for a keen FS builder, a balloon - Of course you would have to set the weather on "windy",...............lol Grin
 
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Reply #19 - May 2nd, 2003 at 3:09am

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One of my favourite  Iron Maiden tracks Grin You are right though, they did go down hill after Power Slave.
And sticking with the aviation realted topic, Iron Maiden also did "Flight of Iccarus."

Iron Maiden Rocks!!!!!!!!!!
power slave my favorite song frm them.
 
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Reply #20 - May 2nd, 2003 at 3:16am

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it may be cheeezy or i might be old but i like rob zombe to Tchaikovsky

but like this one alot

John Denver - The Eagle And The Hawk
just 2min long but

I am the eagle I live in high country
And rock cathedrals that reach to the sky
I am the hawk and theirs blood on my feathers
But time is still turning they soon will be dry
And all those who see me and all who believe in me
Shier in the freedom I feel when I fly
Come dance with the west wind
And touch on the mouton top
Sail over the canyons and up to the stars
And reach for the heavens
And hope for the future
And all that we can be
And not what we are


i think it covers a lot of moods and like to cfs 2 to it lol gets me in a flying killing mood and thinking of the American way of life
 
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Reply #21 - May 3rd, 2003 at 6:52am
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"up where we belong" by joe cocker?
but i think,that this song was a religious one...at least it was used for the lufthansa-publicity in the mid-1990s.  Roll Eyes
 
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Reply #22 - May 3rd, 2003 at 10:21pm

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Creedence Clearwater Revival
"TRAVELIN' BAND"

Seven Thirty Seven comin' out of the sky.
Oh! Won't you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride,
I wanna move.
 
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Reply #23 - May 3rd, 2003 at 10:37pm

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I just found this one by Elvis. Was in the Movie "Men In Black"

Promised Land

I left my home in Norfolk Virginia,
California on my mind.
Straddled that Greyhound, rode him past Raleigh,
On across Caroline.

Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill,
And we never was a minute late.
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown,
Rollin' 'cross the Georgia state.

We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle,
Half way 'cross Alabam,
And that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded
In downtown Birmingham.

Straight off, I bought me a through train ticket,
Ridin’ cross Mississippi clean
And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
Smoking into New Orleans.

Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
Just help me get to Houston town.
There’s people there who care a little 'bout me
And they won't let the poor boy down.

Sure as you're born, they bought me a silk suit,
Put luggage in my hands,
And I woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the promised land.

Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte
Flying over to the Golden State;
The pilot told me in thirteen minutes
We'd be headin' in the terminal gate.

Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone;
Cut your engines, cool your wings,
And let me make it to the telephone.

Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia,
Tidewater four ten O nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line.

 
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Reply #24 - May 4th, 2003 at 5:51am
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mark cohen (sp?) - walking in memphis
 
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Reply #25 - May 4th, 2003 at 6:47am

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I just found this one by Elvis. Was in the Movie "Men In Black"

Promised Land

Thought it looked familiar. Originally written & recorded by Chuck Berry. 1964
 
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Flying North by Thomas Dolby.
He was popular in the mid 80's and wrote mostly science and mechanical themed songs. I believe his song "She Blinded Me With Science" was the first video MTV ever played.
 
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