L. A. International Airport is a good start Been wishing for a simpler better time, so I picked up Willie's Roadhouse on Sirus where I heard this song by Susan Raye. It is so hokey, it's cool lol. Further investigation and I read it hit number one in New Zealand, number 2 in Australia, and number 9 in the US Country Bill Borad. Anyone on here that walked through the LA International Airport in 1971? I miss my youth....
Whenever I walk through O'Hare (which is very seldom), I think of the theme music to the movie "Airport".
That's it, the last score by the great composer Alfred Newman. The interior shots were done at O'Hare - I once had lunch in the terminal shown at the beginning of that video - but the exterior shots all had to be done at Minneapolis because of a lack of snow in Chicago!
As a monster Floyd fan, when this song debuted, I just thought it was incredible...one of my all-time favorite bands singing about my all time-love...flying.
My single number one all time favorite song. Just unbelievable in so many ways. Pink Floyd was a one time thing. We will not see the likes of them in our lives.
"Dark Side Of The Moon". At the end, and seldom heard without earphones, " There is no dark side of the moon! It's all dark!"A great bunch !
I maybe should apologize but my first thought was what I learned in 1943. Sung to the tune of " Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean"' "Take down your service flag, Mother. Put up your flag of Gold, Your son is and aerial gunner and he'll die when he's 18 years old. He thought that he would be a hot pilot and fly over Berlin and Rome. But they made him an aerial gunner and they're shipping his dead body home. TS ,TS, they're are shipping his dead body home."
This is so true. A favorite song describes the death of Lt. Eric Fletcher Waters at the Battle of Anzio. It was just before dawn One miserable morning in black 'forty four When the forward commander Was told to sit tight When he asked that his men be withdrawn And the Generals gave thanks As the other ranks held back The enemy tanks for a while And the Anzio bridgehead Was held for the price Of a few hundred ordinary lives And kind old King George Sent mother a note When he heard that father was gone It was, I recall In the form of a scroll With gold leaf adorned And I found it one day In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away And my eyes still grow damp to remember His Majesty signed With his own rubber stamp It was dark all around There was frost in the ground When the tigers broke free And no one survived From the Royal Fusiliers Company Z They were all left behind Most of them dead The rest of them dying And that's how the High Command Took my daddy from me
"WHEN THE TIGERS BROKE FREE" A very haunting song, one that you would never, ever expect any band to do. And only Pink Floyd could pull it off the way they did. They really had such a wide range of musical talents and music styles. I saw them once in concert, but too young to really understand what I was seeing. I have become a big fan of "Britfloyd", an English tribute band. Their instrumentals are an almost perfect match to the originals, but the vocals-as good as they are, just don't quite match the original singers. Still, they do a great show.
On a lighter note and from long ago. based on the old Army Air Force song " Into the air, junior bird men. Into the air upside down. Into the air junior bird men. Keep your nose up off the ground. And when you hear that door bell ringing and you get your wings of tin. You will know the junior bird men sent his Wheaties box tops in." Off we go into the wild blue yonder..........
