Warbird Information Exchange

That guy is NUTS!!!!!! The songs O.K.

Phil

Oh synonymous...now I get it...

How about...

"My P-47 is a pretty good ship
She took a round coming cross the Channel last trip
I was thinking 'bout my baby and letting her rip
Always got me through so far"

Steve Earle - Johnny Come Lately

Back in the early 80s, a local TV station put together a collection of clips from the Dayton Air Show, set to the song "Twilight" by the Electric Light Orchestra. Since then, everytime I play that album (yes....album!) I think of airplanes.
The best part was the prologue, a synthesized voice droning as an SR-71 , warbirds, the Thunderbirds and others "performed".

Just on the border of your waking mind there lies another time where darkness and light are one.
And as you tread the halls of sanity you feel so glad to be unable to go beyond.

Nathan--

Cool idea for a thread...Most of the songs I equate with aviation one way or another have been noted already (Fly Me To The Moon; Come Fly With Me; Straighten Up And Fly Right, et cetera...yeah, I'm older than dirt and I like vintage jazz/ballad standards...) but there are a few others I think of in an aviation context:

*Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot; his lady love is leaving town on a 707)

*Leaving On A Jet Plane (Peter Paul & Mary and others)

*Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (as used in the film "Always")

*Fueled For Houston (Wilson Phillips--also their All The Way From New York)

*A Heart In New York (Art Garfunkel)

*Skywriter (Garfunkel again)

*Me262 (Blue Oyster Cult; never heard this one but the album it's on had an Avia S92--Czech-built Me262--on the cover)

*Various David Foster and Steven Vitali pieces (as used to accompany Snowbirds demos)

*Danger Zone (from "Top Gun")

*God Bless The USA (Lee Greenwood, aka God Bless You Canada; Julie Clark routine soundtrack)

*Keep Them Flying (WoA anthem, used during Heritage Flights)

*The White Cliffs Of Dover (Irving Berlin, best known as sung by Vera Lynn)

*Begin The Beguine (as painted down the side of Bill Odom's P-51C Race #7, and used in that movie about the '49 NAR that often plays on the widescreen inside my head)

S.

"Reap the Wild Wind" - Ultravox - Video has a Spitfire in it!
"Magic Carpet Ride" - Steppenwolf - I just think Hueys
"Heat Wave" Martha and the Vandelas - Opening sequence to "More American Grafitti"
"Danger Zone" - Kenny Loggins- Mandatory at every air show you will ever attend!!
Almost anything by Glenn Miller!
"Good Bye Blue Sky" - Pink Floyd- A very Luftwaffe sound about it

Just my crazy selections, your may differ!

"Aeroplane" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. (It's my ringtone.)

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"Walk Away" by the James Gang was seared into my synapses back in 1995 when Jan Jones flew an air show routine here in Knoxville to the song and it just seemed perfect (especially since she and Joe Walsh were from Cleveland). When she died a few weeks later on her way to another show, it kind of cemented it in my mind.

"Ride of the Valkyries" is my ringtone. I usually get weird looks when it goes off in a public place.

It was either the T-birds or the Blues that used the theme from "Midnight Express" (yes, the Turkish prison movie) as their warm up music...

Dave G

I always like the theme song to Spielbergs "1941".

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Trae

"Dreams" Van Halen

For something different from the new age/space genre I can suggest "Muroc" by Jonn Serrie, from his "Flightpath" CD. It's a tribute album to the pre space-age flight test program. Muroc is my favorite piece from the CD and it is a very quiet and relaxing work--as if you can imagine flying along in a sailplane. It was also a good song to listen to after a stressful day or when going to sleep.

Jonn Serrie composes music for planetariums and other aviation/space projects and his music has been used by the US Navy, Lucasfilm, and others.

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Steve, I have the Blue Oyster Cult song and it's not bad. The album cover is a drawing of the group members sitting on a wing of a Me 262 or what have you.

I prefer "Don't Fear the Reaper" for flying from the same group.

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You mean it's taken three pages before somebody mentions The Steve Miller Band's "Fly like an Eagle"?



Even better - the use of "Pipeline" during the helicopter attack mission; the sound of the whipping blades mixed with the reverb guitars - I bet Coppola kicked himself for not thinking of it first for "Apocalypse Now"...

Somewhere I have an old 45 of bawdy military songs including "I Wanted Wings (Till I Got the G_d__n Things)"...

And how about "Up In the Air, Junior Birdmen"?

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Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

When it comes to Viet Nam era helicopters the ultmate song for me, whenever I hear it I think of Iroquois, is "Paint It Black" by the rolling Stones - it has been used in several Vietnam chopper film/TV scenes - Full Metal Jacket and Tour of Duty included.

Also, locally, when I was in the RNZAF the No. 3 Squadron (Iroquois) "squadron song" was Khe Sahn by Cold Chisel. It's a real classic.

And No. 75 Squadron's favourite song was (for some reason) "We've Got Tonight" by Bob Seger

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Must agree on the Apocalypse Now theme. We have a guy here in Sweden flying an actual Vietnam Huey with rocket launchers and everything, and when he plays Flight of the Valkyries in the loudspeakers…

Very tacky, but it is 'my song': Elton John’s Daniel. Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane…

You guys are no fun...or don't like novelty numbers...

Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy vs. The Red Baron

Maybe the only song every to use warbird as a lyric.

Jim