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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.
Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist, composer and conductor. He is known for his non-rhotic Southern-accented singing style, early Americana-influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores. [5]
The artists of the 1970s produced so many chart-topping hits we compiled a list. It includes bands and singers such as Stevie Wonder, ABBA, and Redbone.
"Sail Away" (Sam Neely song), 1977; covered by the Oak Ridge Boys, 1979 "Sail Away" (Urban Cookie Collective song) , 1994 " Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) ", a 1988 song by Enya
Life, Love & Hope follows up the band's 2002 release, Corporate America. Tom Scholz produced Life, Love & Hope and wrote all of the tracks. Kimberley Dahme makes a vocal performance on several songs as well as Brad Delp (who performs on the new song "Sail Away" as well as rearranged songs from Corporate America). [3]
It first appeared in the 1971 film Cold Turkey, for which it served as a sort of theme song and played during the opening and closing credits. Newman re-recorded the song for his album Sail Away the following year. The ballad is both brief (running 1:52 in its Sail Away version) and very sparsely arranged.