Let’s Get Away From It All: Songs About Traveling | afterglow

Music CLIP – OSCAR PETERSON, “MOONGLOW”

Welcome to Afterglow, [a show of vocal jazz and popular song from the Great American Songbook], I’m your host, Mark Chilla.

Summer travel year has formally begun, so… this 7 days on the demonstrate, we’re checking out the Excellent American Songbook of the jet established. Coming up this hour, we’ll take a look at tunes about traveling, sung by your favorites, including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday getaway, and Tony Bennett. We’ll journey by airplane with music like “Come Fly With Me,” by practice with tracks like “I Thought About You,” and travel to some “Far Away Places” such as Rio De Janeiro.

It’s Let us Get Away From It All, coming up upcoming on Afterglow

Music – TOMMY DORSEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA, “LET’S GET Absent FROM IT ALL”

Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra stay on the NBC Radio Network on June 12, 1941 with the Matt Dennis and Tom Adair track “Let’s Get Absent From It All.” That effectiveness took position on the rooftop backyard garden of the Lodge Astor in New York Town. That model highlighted several of Dorsey’s frequent vocalists, which includes Jo Stafford and her vocal team The Pied Pipers, along with Dorsey’s two featured soloists Connie Haines and a youthful Frank Sinatra. Sinatra would return to that song again in excess of 15 decades later on as a solo artist.

Songs CLIP – J.J. JOHNSON AND KAI WINDING, “LET’S GET Absent FROM IT ALL”

Mark Chilla in this article on Afterglow. On this clearly show, we’re having a excursion with the Great American Songbook, checking out music all about finding absent from it all. Coming up, we’ll listen to tunes about traveling by boat, by practice, and by plane… in simple fact, let us begin up in the air with a couple plane music.

The heyday of the American Songbook coincided with the arrival of business air travel, where getting a trip to a much absent land was under no circumstances easier and in no way speedier. So, it is not too a lot of a shock that traveling higher in the sky to unique lands grew to become a recurrent music subject matter from the 1920s by means of the 1960s. It was even the idea behind Frank Sinatra and Billy May’s 1957 album Appear Fly With Me, which I’ll sample from a couple periods this hour.

In addition to some founded specifications about globe travels, Sinatra also integrated some newer traveling tracks penned by his good friends and repeated songwriting companions Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. Let’s listen to a single now. This is the title keep track of from that album, Frank Sinatra with “Come Fly With Me,” on Afterglow.

Songs – FRANK SINATRA, “COME FLY WITH ME”

New music – JERI SOUTHERN, “LET’S FLY AWAY”

Two songs about traveling absent, published about 25 several years aside. Just now, the Cole Porter music “Let’s Fly Absent,” penned for the 1930 Broadway musical The New Yorkers. That was sung by Jeri Southern in 1959, arranged there by Billy May perhaps. Just before that, another Billy May possibly arrangement… that was Frank Sinatra in 1957 with “Come Fly With Me,” a tune written for the Capitol LP of the exact same title by songwriters Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. 

The album Appear Fly With Me was a strategy album, showcasing tracks all about touring close to the environment, usually to significantly off exotic destinations. Let’s hear a further observe from that album now all about this subject matter. The tune was prepared just the prior calendar year, 1956, by Harold Adamson and Victor Youthful Around The World In 80 Times. That film, of course, was an adaptation of the much more mature Jules Verne tale about wager to circumnavigate the globe.

Let’s listen to that tune now. This is Frank Sinatra with the track “Around The Planet,” on Afterglow

New music – FRANK SINATRA, “AROUND THE WORLD”

New music – MAVIS RIVERS, “FAR Absent PLACES”

Mavis Rivers in a recording for Capitol Records in 1960 with “Far Away Areas,” published by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer in 1948. In advance of that, Frank Sinatra in a Capitol recording from 1957 with “Around The Planet,” penned by Harold Adamson and Victor Young for the movie adaptation of Jules Verne’s Close to The Globe In 80 Days. Youthful gained an Academy Award for his new music for that movie.

The movie Close to The Entire world In 80 Days contains some popular travel by means of a incredibly hot air balloon. Not exactly the most popular way to journey long distances! Air vacation ordinarily suggests plane journey, and numerous music have been penned about flying. Here’s just one from 1962 by Brazilian songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim. It is referred to as “Samba do Aviao,” or “Airplane Samba.” In its original Portuguese, it is basically a song that stems from Jobim’s panic of traveling, whilst he was awed by the airplanes soaring out of the airport in Rio De Janeiro (and was primarily fond of returning property to Rio). 

Here’s an English translation of that music now, sung by Tony Bennett from his 1965 album If I Dominated the Earth: Tunes for the Jet Set. This is “Samba do Aviao,” on Afterglow

Music – TONY BENNETT, “SAMBA DO AVIAO (Tune OF THE JET)”

Songs – LUCY REED, “FLYING DOWN TO RIO”

Two songs about touring by plane to Rio De Janeiro. Just now, we read Lucy Reed in 1955 with the  Vincent Youmans, Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu song “Flying Down To Rio,” from the 1933 RKO movie of the exact same name (the initially film for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers). In advance of that, Tony Bennett in 1965 with “Samba Do Aviao” or “Song Of The Jet,” prepared by Rio resident Antonio Carlos Jobim.

We have traveled by airplane and by balloon so far this hour, as we’ve explored tracks about vacation. Let us acquire a trip on a boat. You know that old stating, “it’s about the journey, not the destination”? That is in essence the gist of this track. It is a song about seeking to consider a extended boat trip throughout the ocean, just for the opportunity to commit some high quality alone time with a lover.

Below is Kay Kyser and his Orchestra in 1948 with vocalists Harry Babbitt and Gloria Wooden, and the Frank Loesser song “On A Slow Boat To China,” on Afterglow.

Audio – KAY KYSER, “ON A Gradual BOAT TO CHINA”

Kay Kyser and His Orchestra in 1948, that includes vocals by Harry Babbitt and Gloria Wood, performing the Frank Loesser tune “On A Gradual Boat To China.”

Music CLIP – SONNY ROLLINS, “ON A Slow BOAT TO CHINA”

We’ll take some additional trips all-around the planet when we return, as we carry on exploring songs all about vacation. Remain with us.

I’m Mark Chilla, and you are listening to Afterglow

Songs CLIP – CHARLIE BYRD, “SAMBA DO AVIAO”

Audio CLIP – DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA, “TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN”

Welcome back again to Afterglow, I’m Mark Chilla. We’ve been exploring tunes about travel this hour, and so significantly we’ve explored generally songs about traveling, as nicely as one track about using a trip on a boat. What about travel by train? Prepare songs engage in a massive role in all types of American musical genres, from folks, to place, to blues. Let’s listen to two jazz specifications about educate travel now.

Initially up, right here is an Academy Award profitable song from Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, sung by Judy Garland in the 1946 film The Harvey Girls. This is songwriter Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers in 1945 with their strike model of “On The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe,” on Afterglow

Audio – JOHNNY MERCER, “ON THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE”

Music – ELLA FITZGERALD, “I Believed ABOUT YOU”

Two train songs from the Great American Songbook. Just now, Ella Fitzgerald in 1957 with the Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Mercer music “I Believed About You.” Right before that, Mr. Johnny Mercer himself, accomplishing a different song he co-wrote with Harry Warren, “On The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.” That recording with the vocal team The Pied Pipers arrives from 1945.

“I Thought About You,” compared with most of the vacation songs we have heard this hour, is a sad travel song, all about sitting on a teach, and with just about every passing city, getting preoccupied with the thought of a lost really like. That is the form of song I want to concentration on now—songs where journey isn’t always a happy getaway.

Here’s a single these track now, still another just one with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. This is Billie Holiday live in 1946 with “Trav’lin’ Gentle,” on Afterglow

Songs – BILLIE Getaway, “TRAV’LIN’ LIGHT”

Audio – LOREZ ALEXANDRIA, “TRAVELING DOWN A LONELY ROAD”

Chicago-primarily based singer Lorez Alexandria in 1963 with “Traveling Down A Lonely Street,” an English translation of the like topic from the 1954 Federico Fellini movie La Strada, songs by Nino Rota. Right before that, Billie Vacation are living at a Jazz At The Philharmonic Live performance in 1946 with Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young, and Johnny Mercer’s “Trav’lin’ Light,” a music Getaway introduced a couple yrs before with Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra.

Here’s a different touring song, even though 1 that you may possibly not know. It was penned by jazz pianist Dave Brubeck with his spouse Iola, and executed below stay by the pianist along with singer Carmen McRae. This is Brubeck and McRae at Basin Avenue East in 1961 with “Travelin’ Blues,” on Afterglow.

Tunes – DAVE BRUBECK AND CARMEN MCRAE, “TRAVELIN’ BLUES”

Audio – CHRIS CONNOR, “FLYING HOME”

Singer Chris Connor in 1959 with a vocal model of the Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton music “Flying House.” Just before that, Dave Brubeck and Carmen McRae from their 1961 album Choose Five Are living, and Brubeck’s unique track “Travelin’ Blues.”

We’re traveling toward the finish of our present about journey tunes, which is why I made the decision to enjoy “Flying Home.” But I have one particular additional song for you now. It again arrives from the 1958 Frank Sinatra and Billy May album Occur Fly With Me. On a quantity of Sinatra’s Capitol notion albums, he got his friends Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn to produce first tracks to support bookend the album, and Occur Fly With Me is no exception. After a total album of songs about jet-location across the world, Arrive Fly With Me finishes with this authentic song all about settling again house. 

To shut off this hour, listed here is Frank Sinatra with “It’s Good To Go Touring,” on Afterglow.

Songs – FRANK SINATRA, “IT’S Good TO GO TRAVELING”

Frank Sinatra and arranger Billy May perhaps with “It’s Good To Go Touring,” the closing monitor off of his 1958 album Occur Fly With Me, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn.

And many thanks for tuning in to this jet-setting edition of Afterglow.

Songs CLIP – ILLINOIS JACQUET AND HIS ALL STARS, “FLYING Dwelling, Part 1”

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