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"Amelia Earhart's Last Flight" is a song written by Red River Dave McEnery shortly after Amelia Earhart's disappearance. [1] It was copyrighted in 1939, [2] [3] and was first performed by David McEnery on a pioneer television broadcast from the 1939 New York World's Fair. [4] McEnery recorded it in 1941. [citation needed]
Red River Dave McEnery (born David Largus McEnery) [1] (December 15, 1914 – January 15, 2002) [2] was an American artist, musician, and writer of topical songs. His two best-known are "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight" (a memorial tribute to the recently deceased pilot) and "There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere".
Last Flight is a book published in 1937 consisting of diary entries and other notes compiled by aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart during her unsuccessful attempt that year at flying solo across the Pacific Ocean.
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, as the daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867–1930) and Amelia "Amy" (née Otis; 1869–1962). [9] Amelia was born in the home of her maternal grandfather Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), who was a former judge in Kansas, the president of Atchison Savings Bank, and ...
Amelia Earhart is photographed with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the aircraft she used in her attempted flight around the world. Earhart and the plane went missing on July 2, 1937.
Fred Noonan is mentioned in the song "Amelia" on Bell X1's 2009 album Blue Lights on the Runway, which contemplates the last moments and the fates of Amelia Earhart and Noonan. The first ballad written about Amelia and Fred was written and sung by "Red River" Dave McEnerney in 1938 called "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight".
The object — which faintly resembles the shape of a plane — lies roughly 100 miles from Howland Island, the uninhabited strip of land just north of the equator where pilot Amelia Earhart and ...
American female aviator Amelia Earhart stands in front of her plane. In 1937, with navigator Fred Noonan, she set out to fly around the world. But, their plane was lost over the Pacific in July ...