Songs that mention specific kinds of airplanes

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  1. Zombie Dodge

    Zombie Dodge Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Steve Miller, "Jet Airliner" - Boeing 707

    Albert Hammond, "It Never Rains in Southern California" - Boeing 747

    ELO, "Calling America" - Boeing 747
     
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  2. YardByrd

    YardByrd rock n roll citizen in a hip hop world

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    Red Krayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane

     
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  3. Sheik Yerbouti

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    "737 coming out of the sky ..."

    Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Travelin' Band"
     
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  4. Hombre

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    "2-4-2 Fox Trot (The Lear Jet Song)" by the Byrds.
     
  5. R. Totale

    R. Totale The Voice of Reason

    Lear Jet - that song Carly Simon wrote about me.
     
  6. GoodKitty

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  7. davebush

    davebush New Test Leper

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    Blue Oyster Cult - "ME 262"
     
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  8. YardByrd

    YardByrd rock n roll citizen in a hip hop world

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    Snoopy for President by the Royal Guardsmen namechecks the legendary WW1 fighter plane, Sopwith Camel
     
  9. Zombie Dodge

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  10. Marty T

    Marty T Stereo Fan

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    Howsa 'bout that parody to "That's Amore" we used to sing as kids that went, "When your balls hit the floor, like a B54, that's a rupture"
     
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  11. Zombie Dodge

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    The F-15 fighter jet is name-checked in Prism's "Armageddon" and Montgomery Gentry's "Something To Be Proud Of."
     
  12. mbrownp1

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    "Blinded By The Light" - Bakeng Deuce
     
  13. YardByrd

    YardByrd rock n roll citizen in a hip hop world

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    (Boeing B-17) Flying Fortress in Dylan's Grand Coulee Dam on Tribute to Woody Guthrie
     
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  14. hi_watt

    hi_watt The Road Warrior

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    The Dickies-Stukas over Disneyland
     
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  15. Wildest cat from montana

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    From Gordon Lightfoot's ' Early Morning Rain ' :
    " Out on runway number nine , big 707 set to go..."
    What a great song.
     
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  16. The Lone Cadaver

    The Lone Cadaver Bass & Keys Cadaver

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    The Pretty Things - Atlanta (Lockheed Tristar)
    Francis Monkman - Fly (Red Arrows)
     
  17. MattyDC

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    Here's a pretty down act called El Ten Eleven. Does that count? Dig these guys.

     
  18. classicrockguy

    classicrockguy Forum Resident

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    Beatles, Back in the USSR

    "Flying from Miami Beach BOAC..."
     
  19. bRETT

    bRETT Senior Member

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    "Then away went Rudolph, whizzing like a Sabre Jet..."
     
  20. Fitter Stoke

    Fitter Stoke You don't suspect my life's a mess...

    Saxon ‘747 (Strangers In The Night)’. Great song.
     
  21. robcar

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    “Dallas” by The Flatlanders mentions a DC-9.
     
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  22. Fitter Stoke

    Fitter Stoke You don't suspect my life's a mess...

    Two variations on the same theme:

    Swell Maps ‘Spitfire Parade’
    Public Service Broadcasting ‘Spitfire’
     
  23. Zombie Dodge

    Zombie Dodge Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    They don't say what kind of jet, though. I'll file this one away for a "songs that mention airlines" thread.
     
  24. Dylancat

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    BOAC is an airline.
    Not an aircraft
     
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  25. Dylancat

    Dylancat Forum Resident

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    Steve Earle
    Johnny Come Lately
    P-47
     
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