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"Ghosts of planes" Thin Air: 2009: Immortal Technique "The Cause of Death" Revolutionary Vol. 2: 2009: Jay-Z and Alicia Keys "Empire State of Mind" The Blueprint 3: 2009: The song is largely about New York City in general, but includes the line "Long live the World Trade." Fear Factory "Controlled Demolition" Mechanize: 2010: And One "Seven ...
This song is dedicated to pilots Boris Kapustin and Yury Yanov, who both died in a plane crash on 6 April 1966, flying from West Berlin. Mark Bernes , Muslim Magomayev , Ljiljana Petrović , Heli Lääts also recorded their versions of the song.
The song was recorded by the Song Spinners [5] for Decca Records, reaching number one on the Billboard pop chart on July 2, 1943. [6]"Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" was the only song with a war connection to appear in the top twenty best-selling songs of 1943 in the United States (although record sales in this period were heavily affected by the first Petrillo recording ban).
[1] [2] The song was copyrighted on February 11, 1943. This was the theme music for the radio program that was broadcast weekly on Saturday on NBC from September 18, 1943, to June 10, 1944, by the Army Air Force Band under the direction of Captain Glenn Miller. [3] The radio show was initially on CBS from June to September, 1943.
By the late 1980s, the "Napalm" cadence had been taught at training to all branches of the United States Armed Forces.Its verses delight in the application of superior US technology that rarely if ever actually hits the enemy: "the [singer] fiendishly narrates in first person one brutal scene after another: barbecued babies, burned orphans, and decapitated peasants in an almost cartoonlike ...
One song in particular, "Men in the Air Force Blue", written and copyrighted in 1966, was for a time in the mid 1960s and early 1970s a favorite among Air Force personnel both in country and abroad. The song was written by Eve Lawson, the wife of Technical Sergeant Lawrence E. Lawson, while they were stationed at Niagara Falls .
The song is sung from the perspective of a man who has, temporarily, survived a mid-air collision.In his dying words, he describes in graphic detail what he remembered of the collision and his current condition: his arms have been severed, his co-pilot is already lifeless beside him, blood is rapidly leaving his body and pooling underneath him, and a paramedic indicates that no medical ...
Fly Me Courageous is the fourth studio album by Southern rock band Drivin' N' Cryin', released Jan. 8, 1991, by Island Records. [1] The album is the band's most commercially successful release, in part due to the title track striking a patriotic chord in the United States during the start of the Persian Gulf War . [ 2 ]