Most Fridays my Father would finish his night shift and head to the local market to buy the family fruit and veg for the coming week. Next to the market was a record store and every now and again he would ask my sister and I if there was a single from the charts we wanted and this was waiting for us when we got home from school.
This was released in 1978 so I was 13 and to my amazement when I arrived home instead of the usual 7" single waiting for me there was a 12" single, not only was it a 12" single (my first) it was also bright blue vinyl. I don't think I put it down all weekend.
I love the track and a few others The Motors put out but this song will hold a place in my heart just because it was my first 12" single and my first coloured vinyl record.
So many destination faces going to so many places
Where the weather is much better
And the food is so much cheaper.
Well I help her with her baggage for her baggage is so heavy
I hear the plane is ready by the gateway to take my love away.
And I can't believe that she really wants to leave me and it's getting me so,
It's getting me so.
Airport -
Airport, you've got a smiling face,
you took the one I love so far away
Fly her away - fly her away - airport.
Airport, you've got a smiling face
You took my lady to another place
Fly her away - fly her away.
The plane is on the move,
And the traces of the love we had in places
Are turning in my mind - how I wish I'd been much stronger
For the wheels are turning faster as I hear the winds are blowing
and I know that she is leaving
On the jet plane way down the runaway.
And I can't believe that she really wants to leave me - and it's
getting me so,
It's getting me so.
Airport -
Airport, you've got a smiling face,...
Airport -
Airport, you've got a smiling face,...
Where the weather is much better
And the food is so much cheaper.
Well I help her with her baggage for her baggage is so heavy
I hear the plane is ready by the gateway to take my love away.
And I can't believe that she really wants to leave me and it's getting me so,
It's getting me so.
Airport -
Airport, you've got a smiling face,
you took the one I love so far away
Fly her away - fly her away - airport.
Airport, you've got a smiling face
You took my lady to another place
Fly her away - fly her away.
The plane is on the move,
And the traces of the love we had in places
Are turning in my mind - how I wish I'd been much stronger
For the wheels are turning faster as I hear the winds are blowing
and I know that she is leaving
On the jet plane way down the runaway.
And I can't believe that she really wants to leave me - and it's
getting me so,
It's getting me so.
Airport -
Airport, you've got a smiling face,...
Airport -
Airport, you've got a smiling face,...
I love this song too, but it brings back bad memories for me.
ReplyDeleteOn my 19th birthday in May '78, I went with a group of friends to Bournemouth beach for a day out. Unfortunately my mate Andy dived in to the sea & broke his neck.
He spent several months in Stoke Mandeville hospital and I used to go & visit him every other week with a friend. After we'd seen him, we used to call into a pub in Aylesbury called The Greyhound, for a pint before we caught the train back to Winchester. This song always seem to be on the juke box everytime we went in there.