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Amelia Earhart | ||||||||||||
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| Recording Artist: | BTO | ||||||||||||
| Writers: | Jim Vallance David Simmons |
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| Date Written: | April 1978 | ||||||||||||
| Albums: | Rock ‘n Roll Nights (1979) | ||||||||||||
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Jim Clench: vocal, bass Fred Turner: guitar Blair Thornton: guitar Jim Vallance: keyboards, backing vocal Robbie Bachman: drums |
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Produced by Jim Vallance. Recorded by Rolf Henneman at Mushrooms Studios, Vancouver and by John Brand at Trident Studios, London. Mixed by John Brand at Trident Studios. |
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In 1937, with navigator Fred Noonan, Earhart attempted the first aerial circumnavigation of the world, by a woman pilot. She was completing the final leg of her journey, a hazardous crossing of the Pacific Ocean, when she apparently became disoriented in bad weather and missed a planned fuel stop on tiny Howland Island. She was never heard from again. To this day conspiracy theories abound. Several researchers claim to have found fragments of Earhart's plane, and even evidence that she secretly returned to the United States where she lived under an assumed name. Either way, fact or fiction, Earhart's story makes interesting reading. |
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| Lyrics: | Born among the fields where the corn is wild Amelia would sit and count Missouri miles She was a born-to-wander Kansas City child Sailing on the wings of a kite she’d play (sailing away) Dreaming of the time she would fly away And what was written on the wind, well you could say Amelia Earhart do you read me (Am I coming in loud and clear) Send a message if you need me And you know that I’ll be there High up in the skies in a flying machine (flying away) Amelia looked down and realized her dream And there it stretched as far away as she could see People in the streets on the world below Listen for the news on the radio But could they see just how much further she would go Amelia Earhart do you read me (Am I coming in loud and clear) Send a message if you need me And you know that I’ll be there Heaven fell to earth on a broken wing (falling away) A picture of a face in a magazine But what was written in the end was never seen Amelia Earhart do you read me (Am I coming in loud and clear?) Send a message if you need me And you know that I’ll be there Amelia Earhart do you read me (Am I coming in loud and clear?) Send a message if you need me And you know that I’ll be there |
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