Aviation-Themed Songs

[Azuddin 1]

I know a few song

 

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (listen to the chorus part)

 

Mike Blakely - Let's roll (good song, but i don't recommend. This song is a bit controversy, since it's about United Flight 93 which crash in Pennsylvania.)

 

R Kelly - I believe I can fly (no doubt about it)

 

Mark Wills - Wish you were here (about a couple where the husband died in a plane crash during business trip)

 

Azuddin

[Ewan Shamsudin 0]

I know a few song

 

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (listen to the chorus part)

 

Mike Blakely - Let's roll (good song, but i don't recommend. This song is a bit controversy, since it's about United Flight 93 which crash in Pennsylvania.)

 

R Kelly - I believe I can fly (no doubt about it)

 

Mark Wills - Wish you were here (about a couple where the husband died in a plane crash during business trip)

 

Azuddin

 

Nice mix of love, uplifter and crash themes, Azzudin heheheh

[H Azmal 0]

I remember one malay song by Dato Sharifah Aini, about her iraqi pilot boyfriend than. That guy died in a car crash, thus the song composed by Dato Ahmad Nawab. Can't remember the title though, but quite nice tho melancholic a bit.

 

Just downloaded the song. Tangkap leleh wa cakap lu!

[Keno Omar 0]

I'm not sure why Hillary Clinton chose Celine Dion's "You and I" for her presidential campaign. The video clip looks like an advertisement for Air Canada.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Yx67fRkmo

 

High above the mountains, far across the sea

I can hear your voice calling out to me

Brighter than the sun and darker than the night

I can see your love shining like a light

And on and on this earth spins like a carousel

If I could travel across the world

The secrets I would tell

 

You and I

Were meant to fly

Higher than the clouds

We'll sail across the sky

So come with me

And you will feel

That we're soaring

That we're floating up so high

Cause you and I were meant to fly

 

Sailing like a bird high on the wings of love

Take me higher than all the stars above

I'm burning, yearning

Gently turning round and round

I'm always rising up I never

Want to come back down

[Ewan Shamsudin 0]

Hello guys, here's another one.

 

It's from Noorkumalasari, no less! Taken from her 1979 Album "Noor", the song is aptly entitled "Pramugari". It's composed by Akbar Nawab and Noordin Che Din.

 

I remember reading an article in my aunt's very, very old copy of Utusan Radio dan TV around three hundred years ago about young Noorkumalasari and her sister Noorsalasawati. She was quoted as saying that she wanted to be an air hostess. Of course she didn't pursue being one. Otherwise Malaysia wouldn't have got its Noor to brighten up the late 70's and 80's.

 

Children of the nineties, if you don't know who Noorkumalasari is, please consult your aunt.

 

I have done a little editing on the iMovie software by dumping some random photos from my iPhoto library and the mp3 file acquired from my online friend sezali.

 

This is a product of half an hour job. So apologies if it less than imperfect hehehe....

 

Click here.

 

Enjoy

 

Pramugari

 

Tugas aku pramugari

Di atas awan nan tinggi

bersama penumpang ku sayangi

mana saja hendak pergi

 

siang malam jalan tugas

pakaian indah menghias

senyuman mesra setiap hari

itu tanda ambil hati

 

berbagai ragamnya penumoang

kulayan dengan tenang

segala tugas biar kemas

agar merasa puas

 

tugas jauh tak peduli

di dalam dan luar negeri

rasa bangga dalam hati

jadi seorang pramugari

____

 

Air Stewardess

I am an air stewardess

High up in the clouds

With my beloved passengers

wherever they are heading to

 

I do my work day and night

Donning my pretty uniforms

And warm smile everyday

To capture people's heart

 

Passengers are of all sorts

I serve them with patience

All work must be neat

So that we're happy with it

 

My work takes me far

Within and out of the country

I feel proud inside

'Cos I am an air stewardess.

 

 

The lyric is so bimbo-ish, I know. Hahahha...

[Louis L. 2]

Lenny Kravitz -------Fly Away

 

I wish that I could fly

Into the sky

So very high

Just like a dragonfly

 

Id fly above the trees

Over the seas in all degrees

To anywhere I please

 

Oh I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah yeah yeah

 

Oh I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah yeah yeah

 

Lets go and see the stars

The milky way or even mars

Where it could just be ours

 

Lets fade into the sun

Let your spirit fly

Where we are one

Just for a little fun

Oh oh oh yeah !

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah yeah yeah

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah yeah yeah

 

I got to get away

Feel I got to get away

Oh oh oh yeah

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah with you yeah yeah

Oh yeah !

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah with you yeah yeah

I got to get away

 

I want to get away x4

Yeah

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah with you yeah yeah

I got to get away

 

I want to get away x4

Yeah

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah with you

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

[Azuddin 1]

Try to take a look at this

 

 

Nice parody to beach boys - california girl

 

Azuddin

Edited December 17, 2007 by Azuddin

[Izhar Z 1]

Aaahhhhh..... great topic. I know one.

Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly. And the video is cool.

Edited December 18, 2007 by Izhar Z

[Mohd Yohan 0]

Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BieVgyrfglQ

Edited December 18, 2007 by Mohd Yohan

[Andrew Lim 1]

How about Mighty Wings from the movie Top Gun??

 

 

 

 

It's just a ball of dust

Underneath my feet

It rolls around the sun

Doesn't mean that much to me

 

I take a chance on the edge of life

Just like all the rest

I look inside and dig it out

Cause there's no points for second best

 

There's a raging fire in my heart tonight

Growing higher and higher in my soul

There's a raging fire in the sky tonight

I want to ride on the silver dove

Far into the night

 

[Chorus]

Till I make you take me

On your mighty wings

Make you take me

On your mighty wings across the sky

Take me on your mighty wings

Take me on your mighty wings tonight

 

With just a little luck

A little cold blue steel

I cut the night like a razor blade

Till I feel the way I want to feel

 

There's a raging fire in my heart tonight

Growing higher and higher in my soul

There's a raging fire in the sky tonight

I want to ride on the silver dove

Far into the night

 

[Chorus]

Till I make you take me

On your mighty wings

Make you take me

On your mighty wings across the sky

Take me on your mighty wings

Take me on your mighty wings tonight

 

Take me on your mighty wings

Take me on your mighty wings

Edited December 18, 2007 by Andrew Lim

[Mohd Azizul Ramli 2]

Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5

 

Ewan, the song is only valid if you want to make a video compilation as the lyric doesn't have anything to do with aviation at all. But the video is very aviation-esque; disco like airport, sexy stewardesses catwalking on the aisle, sexy gate agents posing at the aircraft door, sexy custom and immigration doing molestation physical checking, catwalking on the travellator and a lot of aircraft shots inside and out.

[Nabiel Haniff 1]

Farah Wahida - Menerjah Awan ( Sountrack drama menerjah awan di tv3 suatu ketika dahulu)

 

 

Lyric as follows :

tiada jalan yang mudah

tuju cita-cita

selama kaki melangkah

dugaan menderap

untuk miliki sesuatu yang berharga

harus berani yakin dan tabah

menghadapi segala

 

andainya beburung terbang kerana sayapnya

aku terbang menerjah awan

demi hasrat membara

gunung dan ganang

lautan yang terbentang

hanya sesayup mata memandang

bukanlah halangan

 

hanya yang kuinginkan

rampaian doa

agar tiap langkah

diiringi restu semua

 

Thanks..

Edited December 18, 2007 by Nabiel Haniff

[Mohd Yohan 0]

 

"I Believe I Can Fly" by R Kelly...

 

I used to think that I could not go on

And life was nothing but an awful song

But now I know the meaning of true love

I'm leaning on the everlasting arms

 

If I can see it, then I can do it

If I just believe it, there's nothing to it

 

[1]

I believe I can fly

I believe I can touch the sky

I think about it every night and day

Spread my wings and fly away

I believe I can soar

I see me running through that open door

I believe I can fly

I believe I can fly

I believe I can fly

 

See I was on the verge of breaking down

Sometimes silence can seem so loud

There are miracles in life I must achieve

But first I know it starts inside of me, oh

 

If I can see it, then I can do it

If I just believe it, there's nothing to it

 

[Repeat 1]

 

Hey, cuz I believe in me, oh

 

If I can see it, then I can be it

If I just believe it, there's nothing to it

 

[Repeat 1]

 

Hey, if I just spread my wings

I can fly

I can fly

I can fly, hey

If I just spread my wings

I can fly

Fly-eye-eye

 

[Azuddin 1]

Anyone remember the song "Mulanya disini" by Freedom? I remember Malaysia Airline used to use it for it's TV commercial. IF you listen the song and skip the love part, you will get the song has some journey theme.

 

Azuddin

[Nabiel Haniff 1]

Anyone remember the song "Mulanya disini" by Freedom? I remember Malaysia Airline used to use it for it's TV commercial. IF you listen the song and skip the love part, you will get the song has some journey theme.

 

Azuddin

 

yeah..

i love it melody...

[Brennan Raj 0]

Richard Marx-Ready to Fly

 

 

I've been trying to open the door

To the secret of my destiny

And every new road I think is the one

Seems to lead right back to me

 

I've looked for a way to be wiser

A way to be strong

Now I see the answer was hiding

In me all along

 

Chorus:

And I'm ready to fly

Over the sun

Like a rocket to heaven

And I'm ready to soar

Right through the sky

Never dreamed I'd find something to lift me so high

I've always had wings

But I wasn't ready to fly

 

Restless, hopeless, and misunderstood

Like so many others I know

So busy tryin' to keep holdin' on

When I should've been letting go

 

I was given the gift to find it

The spirit inside me

But I never really imagined

All I could be

 

Chorus:

And I'm ready to fly

Over the sun

Like a rocket to heaven

And I'm ready to soar

Right through the sky

Never dreamed I'd find something to lift me so high

I've always had wings

But I wasn't ready to fly

 

The answer to all of my wonder

Was right in my hands

Now it's time for me to discover

All that I am

 

Chorus:

And I'm ready to fly

Over the sun

Like a rocket to heaven

And I'm ready to soar

Right through the sky

Never dreamed I'd find something to lift me so high

I've always had wings

But I wasn't ready to fly

 

I've always had wings

Now I'm finally ready to fly

[Khaled 2]

:good: Ewan, nice video!

 

I think Top Gun soundtrack is the best aviation album.

 

1 more to add Danger Zone also by kenny loggins

[Andrew Ong 1]

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (listen to the chorus part)

My sister loves that song

Edited December 21, 2007 by Andrew Ong

[Azuddin 1]

Try this song, it's a new country song

 

Gary Allan

Watching Airplane

 

Sittin Out here on the hood of this truck looking up

at a caramel colored sunset sky

checkin my watch doin the math in my head

counting back words to when you said goodbye

well those runway lights are gettin brighter

 

Im just sittin' out here watching airplanes

take off and fly

tryin to figure out which one you might be on

and why you dont love me anymore

right now im sittin' out here watching airplanes

 

I would've lied could've cried should've tried harder

done anything to make you stay

I wonder what you'd do if you looked out your window

saw me runnin down the runway just like i was crazy

that fence is too high so am i

 

so I'm just sittin' out here watching airplanes

take off and fly

tryin to figure out which one you might be on

and why you don't love me anymore

by now I know you're thirty thousand feet above me

but a million miles away, a million miles away

by now I know I outta act like you don't love me

 

but im just sittin' out here watching airplanes

take off and fly

im just sittin' out here watching airplanes

take off and fly

tryin to figure out which one you might be on

and why you don't love me anymore

 

yeah im just sittin' out here watching airplanes

go bye, bye, bye

im just sittin' out here watching airplanes

baby bye, bye, bye

[Irni Mastura 0]

Haha... interesting topic Few of you mentioned R Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly, but that song actually reminded me most of the OPPOSITE! It was a hit song shortly before the time of the economic downturn, which made our government revised the plan to send off its sponsored students to study overseas because its too expensive. I remember students just few months shy to fly off (like me) to UK or the States singing that song forlornly around campus. Hehe... touchy subject, lol..

 

I've found one song by Jason Mraz called "Plane", here's the YouTube link of his live performance for those interested:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHFlUVe5SMo

 

 

 

For me, my favorite aviation-themed song is this end theme song of a J-dorama called Good Luck!! which always made me think of airplanes everytime I listened to it. Always, always. It's called Ride On Time, sung by Tatsuro Yamashita, a famous 80s song. (Yes.. its in Japanese). Ahh... and they complimented this end theme song with scenes in ANA hangars, in the cockpits and I was totally envious of the lead star who gets to lie down on the plane's wing!

 

 

Oh... here's the link to that opening plus ending theme song of that J-dorama, for some of you who are curious:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZY0PKGDBgo

 

 

[Maarof Kassim 0]

My favourite is "Back in the USSR" by The Beatles. At the beginning and end of the song you can hear the sound of a plane landing. Since the song was recorded in 1967 there are two things mentioned in the song which don't exist anymore, so to speak. The first is USSR itself which as we all know has disintegrated. The second is BOAC which has become Brititish Airways.

 

Here...

http://www.beatleslyricsarchive.com/viewSong.php?songID=121

Edited January 9, 2008 by Maarof Kassim

[Mohd Azizul Ramli 2]

Reviving this wonderful feel good thread.

 

A recent hit by a vocal group (which called themselves the Black Eye Peas of Malaysia), the talented

 

 

Their music video is thoroughly about aviation; going to SZB Terminal 3, airport scenes and almost the entire scene was shoot inside an aircraft. I am SO SURPRISED that Firefly didn't make use of this song and music video to market themself, I mean FY is being the main feature in this music video - FY flight attendant (whom I swear I saw her pictures before in the Flight Logbook subforum), FY ATR 72-500 cabin interior and exterior while cruising in the skies were the main props of this music video. It could easily being the pre boarding song on FY flights, what a shame.

Edited April 30, 2009 by Mohd Azizul Ramli

[Rozhan 0]

Mine would be (!) Sharifah Aini's Kau Tinggi di Awan Biru in the movie Hapuslah Air Mata Mu. The movie has scenes on board the illustrious Sistem Penerbangan Malaysia's Boeing 737-200 while this song plays in the background.

[Mohd Suhaimi Fariz 2]

I'm not sure why Hillary Clinton chose Celine Dion's "You and I" for her presidential campaign. The video clip looks like an advertisement for Air Canada.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Yx67fRkmo

 

High above the mountains, far across the sea

I can hear your voice calling out to me

Brighter than the sun and darker than the night

I can see your love shining like a light

And on and on this earth spins like a carousel

If I could travel across the world

The secrets I would tell

 

You and I

Were meant to fly

Higher than the clouds

We'll sail across the sky

So come with me

And you will feel

That we're soaring

That we're floating up so high

Cause you and I were meant to fly

 

Sailing like a bird high on the wings of love

Take me higher than all the stars above

I'm burning, yearning

Gently turning round and round

I'm always rising up I never

Want to come back down

 

It looks like an Air Canada commercial because the song is commisioned by Air Canada....

 

[Yusoff 1]

It looks like an Air Canada commercial because the song is commisioned by Air Canada....

Not to mention that she's the most successful Canadian artiste. So great that I flew down to KL last year just to catch her concert. Superbvellous...