Comments on: Friday Five: Plane Crashes

By: Bobby Peacock

Bobby Peacock — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:27:45 +0000

One Last Time is a favorite of mine.

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:56:33 +0000

Actually, according to Wikipedia, Seeger did one of the first versions of the song.

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:49:58 +0000

Funny that, as far as I know, Pete Seeger never recorded it either–since he did a lot of Woody’s material and he’s kept on recording a lot longer–maybe even to this day.

That Highwayman record was the first I heard of Johnny Rodriguez. Too bad that cut couldn’t have been a hit. Johnny later did a killer version of REK’s “Corpus Christi Bay.”

By: Barry Mazor

Barry Mazor — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:03:14 +0000

Yes; Woody Guthrie never recorded that one and likely never sang it; he’d written the lyric as a poem, in the late 40s, and when it got put to music a decade later, he was in pretty bad shape with Huntington’s, though he still had a decade beyond that to live.

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:41:46 +0000

“Deportee”, on the original “Highwayman” album, is actually sung by Johnny Cash, Johnny Rodriguez and Willie Nelson. I think when that track was recorded, the idea of “the Highwaywmen” as a continuing, touring “supergroup” and brand name of Cash, Willie, Waylon and Kristofferson had not taken shape.

Also, while “Deportee” is an old Woody Guthrie song, in a sense, I don’t think he ever sang it. I remember searching for Guthrie’s version at the time. Turns out, I believe, the song was created after he died, that someone else adapted from some lyrics Guthrie left behind in one of his notebooks.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:55:49 +0000

Love “American Pie”.

I have an LP, “The Golden Hits of the Everly Brothers” (1962), which includes a song about a plane crash called “Ebony Eyes”. Written by John D. Loudermilk, it’s a real tear-jerker with a spoken part in the middle.

By: Ben Foster

Ben Foster — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:45:43 +0000

“Deportee” is great. I particularly like Dolly Parton’s version from the album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs. I didn’t expect “If I Had Only Known,” since the lyrics don’t specifically mention a plane crash, but I would have to agree that it’s a fitting choice considering what inspired it.