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"Sail Away" is a song by Randy Newman, the title track to his 1972 album. In a 1972 review in Rolling Stone, Stephen Holden describes "Sail Away" as presenting "the American dream of a promised land as it might have been presented to black Africa in slave running days."
While the song is conceptually similar to the many charity supergroup singles released in the mid 1980s, "Sailing Away" has its origins as a television advertisement and was not a charity record. [1] The song uses the melody of the Māori folk song "Pokarekare Ana", and is bookended with a verse of the original song. [2]
Sail Away is the third studio album by Randy Newman, released on May 23, 1972. It was produced by Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman and issued on Reprise Records . While all of its songs were written and composed by Newman, several had already been recorded by other artists.
"Sailaway" is a song written by Maurice White, Eddie del Barrio, Philip Bailey, and Roxanne Seeman and recorded by American R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire for their 1980 album Faces. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was produced by White and recorded during the Faces sessions in Montserrat at George Martin's AIR Studios and in Los Angeles at The Complex/ARC Studios ...
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The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
"Orinoco Flow", also released as "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)", is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Enya from her second studio album, Watermark (1988). It was released on 3 October 1988 by WEA Records in the United Kingdom and by Geffen Records in the United States the following year.
The 2006 Randy Newman tribute album "Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman" features a cover on track 11 by Mark Broussard. Comedy band The Horne Section covered the song for their 2018 special, The Horne Section Television Programme [15], and for 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown in 2020. During the performance, Alex performs striptease while ...