Quando eu era criança, eu via e ouvia essa canção interpretada em portugues pelos bonecos da Vila Sésamo, em preto e branco. Só depois é que conheci este original em inglês, na Rádio Jovem Pan AM de São Paulo, no tempo em que ela ainda tinha programas musicais (hoje é só jornalismo). Bons tempos...
Webb you genious! Consider he crashed his glider in the mountains and saved his cover artist from hypothermia.I'd do it too! So many resources for song literature.Thanks Jimmy.
Did you know that this is a drug song? Junkies used to buy their fix, and it was given to them in a kid's toy balloon (deflated), and they'd carry it home in their mouths.
Timeless classic. Sounds other worldly. This song was playing in my mothers hospital room when she was going into labor. I was born the year this came out!!
This song was used on a Trans World Airline commercial back in the day. My Dad worked for the airlines for 35 years, This song reminds me of traveling and growing up at SFO airport....
Despite the fact the 1960's were a troublesome decade (Vietnam, JFK, Robert Kennedy. Dr King and the civil rights movement), its music was truly unforgivable. It reflected a sweet, heartwarming and purely artistic sound that is missed nowadays. And it is not because today's artist are bad, no, is because the 60's era was a time were many things were discovered and many liberal ways to think. "Today is all about ratings, and a compitition for how many hits you have in the tube.
Back 44 years ago each musical group or solo act played and sang songs in their own individual style. Today's music is "cookie cutter" material. There is no soul and no heart in today's music like there was from the music of the late 60's to the mid 80's.
Listening to this song brings me back to when life was fun and care-free, just like the fun and care-free sound of this song.
@civlwarnut218 Not true. Motown - among other labels - were factories where songs were written for any number of acts in a studio's stable. Only a handful of people actaully sold songs and most American mainstream acts; Sedaka, C King, Diamond, Bacharat, Dylan wrote for scores of artists and there were plenty of pre-fabricated bands. (Monkees, 3 Dog Night, et al). Years from now, the kids will be saying about their music what you are saying about ours. We romanticise because get got old.
@arkady714 Yes, the Brill Building songwriters were a type of popular music factory. But here's where you are wrong: "Years from now, the kids will be saying...what you are saying about ours." Those songwriters that you disparage wrote music that is far more interesting than the crap that is corporately chosen and controlled from the get-go. Take any musical element: harmony, melody, meter, rhythm, phrasing...60s to mid-80s music is more varied and, by any musical measure, just better.
absolutlely timeless, if you heard this song on your car radio today, you would want to pull over and wonder where in the hell did this masterpiece come from. The number one fell good song of all time!
I grew up with this song since i was a kid in the 80's and has been one of my favorite songs and i loved it how they used in American Pop (1981 animated movie)
Credit must be given to the great Jimmy Webb, the guy who wrote this song. He also wrote "McArthur Park," "Galveston," "Wichita Lineman." One of the great songwriters of our era.
This has been one of my favorites for a very long time. Such a wonderful, happy, upbeat song, unlike the dark and angry garbage that gets inflicted upon us so often.
Every teenage couple has a "song". "UP UP AND AWAY" was, and still is, "our song". At a prom in 1968, we went with other people to the prom. When the orchestra began playing this song, my boyfriend left his date, and my date stranded on the dance floor, and said, "nobody dances to "our song" with her, but me!". That's when I knew we truly were meant for each other, forever. Dating other people couldn't break us up, or "our song" !
@MerleOberon I was a flight attendant for TWA for 35 years!!! My first trip was on a 707...as the passengers boarded, the plane's music system played this song! What memories! Thank you :)
Happiness?!?!?! What a concept!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make's great music too! ANYONE under 50 yrs old needs to be treated like Wednesday was in Addam's Family values they need to be locked away in a small cabin and be forced to listen to songs like this one so they might get a clue as to what real music is like! PEACE
The sweetness and innocence of the late 60's. Beautiful music for the sake of beautilful music. This song and many more by the 5th Dimension. Thank you for the memories...
If this song takes you back to the Summer of '67, consider yourself blessed to have been born during the greatest era of music! We took this music for granted back then, we thought the hits would never end. Now we come here to blog, giving our belated thanks for an era of music gone from our current everyday lives.
@trinitylancer If good popular music hadn't fizzled out by the beginning of the 1980's we would have discovered new uncharted heights and new sounds, something worth talking about in years to come. As it is now, we'll have to start again from scratch when the time comes....
@trinitylancer - I totally agree with you. It is a bitter-sweet feeling reminiscing that era. Thank God for YouTube. (Facebook can disappear and I wont care but please not Youtube. It is my only connection to the blissful past right now.)
This wasn't a drug song. Actually it was a song that helped the mood of America in a deep, dark troubling time. Forward movement, upward growth, and universal love were the mindset of this era. Well evil has taken hold now, & universal hatered has given this music, & similar ideology the boot. Thanx republicans.
HERE ARE THE ALTERNATE LYRICS FOR THE HINDENBURG MUSICAL: Would you like to ride in my flammable balloon? Would you like to die in my flammable balloon? We could burn among the stars together, you and I So we can die! We can die! Up, up and away in my flammable, my flammable balloon! The world's a scary place in my flammable balloon. It will burn off your face in my flammable balloon. We can scream along and flail along the fiery sky So we can die! We can die!
@collegeman1988 Hahahaha.... That is SO MUCH like something a buddy of mine and myself would have come up with back in the 60s! Thank you for that! :-)
This was featured in the old PAN AM Airlines comercial in 1969 or 1970. Great Song, great memorires, 60 Otaku3-san!, you've outdone yourself. 5 stars for the upload.
@MrMotownmanny I knew I wasn't that crazy because I remember hearing this song in the 70's for Airline commercials,but I thought I was just imagining it
@uncoverbrother Maybe druggies USED it as their song...BUT it's writer, Jimmy Webb got the concept form attending an actual Hot Ait Ballon festival in California. The meaning behing the song is QUITE innocent.
This is a GREAT song to Masturbate to..... Up Up and away in my mangoo filled balloon! Or have like 10 guys jacking off above a crowd for a semen rain. :-)
I love the strings at 0:10, at 0:22, at 0:46 the drums at 1:38, the flute at 1:42 and Marilyn McCoo's honey-sweet voice especially at 0:53, at 1:53 and throughout. Up, up and away!! Beautifully Done. Thanks for posting. Fantastic.
"The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon"....The world was a nicer place back when this song was a hit. Miss those days. Thanks for posting. Enjoyed this song so much.
I remember the front cover of that album well during my youth in the 1960s. While the names of some of the songs in that album do not immediately come to mind, there are selections that could have made the top 100.
@ALANRLEAKE I agree...California My Way was great. Also...What a Shame that Too Poor To Die and Train Keep Movin were NOT on the album...but only released on 45s. I think they would have been bigger had they been ON the album.
This was the era when music was MUSIC! Not the rehashed, borrowed, disrespectful garbage that is forced into the mainstream today.
Genx4eva 3 days ago
Quando eu era criança, eu via e ouvia essa canção interpretada em portugues pelos bonecos da Vila Sésamo, em preto e branco. Só depois é que conheci este original em inglês, na Rádio Jovem Pan AM de São Paulo, no tempo em que ela ainda tinha programas musicais (hoje é só jornalismo). Bons tempos...
samuel63867 1 month ago
What a great Jimmy Webb song! The wrecking crew laying down the music and the 5th Dimension doing a great vocal. Doesn't get any better.....
engineer909 1 month ago
when listening to hot ride by the prodigy i was like 'i've heard this somewhere before' lol.
86toMOOSE 2 months ago
In 1967 I was 11&this song was all over the radio, I could not get enough of this song&still love it after all these years.
RonSafreed 3 months ago
CLASSIC, EPIC, TIMELESS! L.O.V.E.
MrMjhealtheworld 3 months ago
これ5th Dimensionの中では、sweet blindnessと同じくよく聴きます。歌詞もとってもいいですね～。後、小学生の時から親の影響で聴いていた数少ない曲です。当時はメロディーやグルーブだけで楽しんでましたが。
Naotoshi100 4 months ago
Naotoshi100さん、コメントをありがとうございます！
歌詞とメロディとのフィット感、高揚感が素晴らしいですね。
アメリカの某航空会社のCMソングとして起用されたのも頷けます。
60otaku3 4 months ago
Alan Harper's ringtone!! (Two and a Half Men)
427sir 6 months ago 6
why was there an ad in the middle of the song? yuk .. it deflated my baloon. 5th Dimension rules
beentrue 6 months ago
I don't know either but I think that perhaps it is a new function in YouTube video.
Otaku3 (^_^;)
60otaku3 6 months ago
listening to the vocals and knowing this is 1969 Wow!
WOcoFunnies 6 months ago
Thanks! How did you even think of this song. I sure am happy!!
MsNayners24 6 months ago 2
You're welcome, MsNayners24-san!!
This song always makes me feel so happy.
Otaku3 (*^_^)b
60otaku3 6 months ago
Webb you genious! Consider he crashed his glider in the mountains and saved his cover artist from hypothermia.I'd do it too! So many resources for song literature.Thanks Jimmy.
TheTherese3 6 months ago
song makes me happy
CherryBlossomBlyue 6 months ago 2
Did you know that this is a drug song? Junkies used to buy their fix, and it was given to them in a kid's toy balloon (deflated), and they'd carry it home in their mouths.
tlgodwin 6 months ago
Tchaikovski blessed Jimmy!!
TheTherese3 7 months ago
Nice!
76grandprix 7 months ago
You're welcome, conservativeheart1-san!!
Otaku3 (*^o^)/
60otaku3 7 months ago
UP UP AND AWAY ,.. 5th dimentional sweeping changes,.. this will be fun :)
MrMentalflossed 7 months ago
Captain...the nostalgia factor is off the chart. Damn, forgot how beautiful Marilyn McCoo was...
lowlander333 7 months ago 2
This reminds me of one of my favorite summer's in my life. Love this song!
susie2b4u 7 months ago
Thank you for posting.
n64wilbert 8 months ago
You're welcome, n64wilbert-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)b
60otaku3 8 months ago
Whenever I hear this song, it reminds me of that episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air when Carlton was dancing to it. lol Nice song, though.
MoNicholasLaird 8 months ago
Thanks for posting!!! As if I needed more proof that today's music sucks. : (
TPBass1224 8 months ago 6
You're welcome, TPBass1224-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)/
60otaku3 8 months ago
The best song of The Fifth Dimension!!
1997Roscoe 8 months ago
is there a digitally remastered version of this song
alphanum001 8 months ago
Timeless classic. Sounds other worldly. This song was playing in my mothers hospital room when she was going into labor. I was born the year this came out!!
tomcamp6023 8 months ago
Timeless classic. Sounds other worldly.
tomcamp6023 8 months ago
This song was used on a Trans World Airline commercial back in the day. My Dad worked for the airlines for 35 years, This song reminds me of traveling and growing up at SFO airport....
oakland94621 9 months ago
The Immortal Jimmy Webb, Here's to ya
Rusticating 9 months ago
@TejMulen That's certainly not what your girlfriend said last night.
Transformers2themax 9 months ago
@TejMulen Your mother's ancient.
Transformers2themax 9 months ago
Ahhh, the legendary Hal Blaine on drums. Also drummed on "Wedding Bell Blues" and "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In".
lennonzappa71 9 months ago
This is Alan's ringtone on Two and a Half Men.
newjackrulez420 9 months ago
Special thanks to Johnny Rivers, Jimme Webb and Burt Bacharach for introducing and writing such beautiful music for the 5th Dimension
b42baritone 9 months ago
Una de mis canciones favoritas de siempre..
elyeye66 9 months ago
Great sound quality.....brings me back to being a kid and riding to the beach in the back of the family station wagon!!
jmmprime 9 months ago
It's odd to think that somewhere in the fifth dimension, this song plays on a constant loop.
imtheclone 9 months ago
Despite the fact the 1960's were a troublesome decade (Vietnam, JFK, Robert Kennedy. Dr King and the civil rights movement), its music was truly unforgivable. It reflected a sweet, heartwarming and purely artistic sound that is missed nowadays. And it is not because today's artist are bad, no, is because the 60's era was a time were many things were discovered and many liberal ways to think. "Today is all about ratings, and a compitition for how many hits you have in the tube.
nelsitoify1 10 months ago
@nelsitoify1 ~The 60s were unforgivable, huh?
brassknight4ever 9 months ago
@TejMulen so is king tut's tomb, but it's still beautiful
BENFICA60 10 months ago in playlist playlist 4
Back 44 years ago each musical group or solo act played and sang songs in their own individual style. Today's music is "cookie cutter" material. There is no soul and no heart in today's music like there was from the music of the late 60's to the mid 80's.
Listening to this song brings me back to when life was fun and care-free, just like the fun and care-free sound of this song.
Thanks for posting.
civlwarnut218 10 months ago 19
@civlwarnut218 Not true. Motown - among other labels - were factories where songs were written for any number of acts in a studio's stable. Only a handful of people actaully sold songs and most American mainstream acts; Sedaka, C King, Diamond, Bacharat, Dylan wrote for scores of artists and there were plenty of pre-fabricated bands. (Monkees, 3 Dog Night, et al). Years from now, the kids will be saying about their music what you are saying about ours. We romanticise because get got old.
arkady714 8 months ago
@arkady714 Yes, the Brill Building songwriters were a type of popular music factory. But here's where you are wrong: "Years from now, the kids will be saying...what you are saying about ours." Those songwriters that you disparage wrote music that is far more interesting than the crap that is corporately chosen and controlled from the get-go. Take any musical element: harmony, melody, meter, rhythm, phrasing...60s to mid-80s music is more varied and, by any musical measure, just better.
wxpowell 7 months ago 2
This was a #1 hit in Australia...
shmuli9 10 months ago
Beautiful. I wish the 90s an 00s music weres as good as this. long live the 60s 7s and 80 music.
ojbotaya 10 months ago
absolutlely timeless, if you heard this song on your car radio today, you would want to pull over and wonder where in the hell did this masterpiece come from. The number one fell good song of all time!
kbf1978 10 months ago
Bring back the music of 1967,68 and 69. let it live forever!!!!!!
413SPARKY 10 months ago
I grew up with this song since i was a kid in the 80's and has been one of my favorite songs and i loved it how they used in American Pop (1981 animated movie)
Johnlindsey289 10 months ago
It is because this song was released 44 years ago.
Otaku3 (^_^;)
60otaku3 10 months ago 10
I love it! Thank for posting.
valjazz 10 months ago 2
You're welcome, valjazz-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)/
60otaku3 10 months ago
have always loved this song
CraigOH1981 10 months ago
Credit must be given to the great Jimmy Webb, the guy who wrote this song. He also wrote "McArthur Park," "Galveston," "Wichita Lineman." One of the great songwriters of our era.
chenarch 10 months ago
#112 best songs of the 60s up up and away...the 5th dimension
zynjan 11 months ago
We'll search the clouds for a star to guide us
If by some chance you find yourself loving me
A VERY NICE SONG.
TheDiscoFantasy 11 months ago
deliusism1,
If you dislike this song, please do not post the comment here.
I deleted your critical comment.
60otaku3
60otaku3 11 months ago
This has been one of my favorites for a very long time. Such a wonderful, happy, upbeat song, unlike the dark and angry garbage that gets inflicted upon us so often.
AdmiralCSN 11 months ago
@AdmiralCSN What a perfect sentiment. I totally agree.
stingray100100 10 months ago
A favorite.
RamonaFromPomona 11 months ago
I always thought this was Sergio Mendes. And when I was a kid I thought this was an airline commerical.
sonnyandbilly 11 months ago
This was my one of my class Glee Club songs. We loved it!
Mandi7882 1 year ago
Every teenage couple has a "song". "UP UP AND AWAY" was, and still is, "our song". At a prom in 1968, we went with other people to the prom. When the orchestra began playing this song, my boyfriend left his date, and my date stranded on the dance floor, and said, "nobody dances to "our song" with her, but me!". That's when I knew we truly were meant for each other, forever. Dating other people couldn't break us up, or "our song" !
4vrGodsgrlMshell 1 year ago
1mexorgullosdad1,
I deleted your comment including threatening words.
Please never post such the comment on my videos.
60otaku3
60otaku3 1 year ago
TWA Jetstream 707
MerleOberon 1 year ago
@MerleOberon I was a flight attendant for TWA for 35 years!!! My first trip was on a 707...as the passengers boarded, the plane's music system played this song! What memories! Thank you :)
tenor175 1 year ago
One of the innumerable tracks featuring the great playing of legendary drummer Hal Blaine and others in the Crew
shardennefroider 1 year ago
thasooooooooomuchive beenn loking for this very group and cool magical song ive heard years agoalsome
billpage 1 year ago
Happiness?!?!?! What a concept!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make's great music too! ANYONE under 50 yrs old needs to be treated like Wednesday was in Addam's Family values they need to be locked away in a small cabin and be forced to listen to songs like this one so they might get a clue as to what real music is like! PEACE
51erb 1 year ago
Love it! Those are voices!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was 10 years old, but had older brothers and sisters that played this music.
anamcabrera 1 year ago
I adore this song, why cant they sing about good natured things like this!
candylane44 1 year ago
Three words: Alan Harper's ring tone
DieselVR6 1 year ago
What does your comment mean? ?
...Otaku3
60otaku3 1 year ago
@60otaku3 google it. Alan Harper from the tv show Two and a Half Men (a US comedy show). It's his phone's ringtone. It's a running joke in the show.
DieselVR6 1 year ago
Because I do not know Alan Harper and that TV show, I cannot find about it in Google.
Probably most Japanese people will not know them.
And after all... is it related with this song??
...Otaku3
60otaku3 1 year ago
@60otaku3 Yes, it's the song that plays on his phone every time it rings (his ringtone).
DieselVR6 1 year ago
Thank you for explanation, DieselVR6-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
@DieselVR6
lmao @60otaku3 . only reason why this song is so popular is because of two & a half men <3
xcaliburlol 11 months ago
@xcaliburlol B.S.!!!!! This song has been around before anyone ever even had cable or dish t.v.!!!
dmoninger1 11 months ago
The sweetness and innocence of the late 60's. Beautiful music for the sake of beautilful music. This song and many more by the 5th Dimension. Thank you for the memories...
donaldpattersonjr 1 year ago
You're welcome, donaldpattersonjr-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
This brings back good memories.
TJCATLOVER 1 year ago
述べているである何
mcintyre1477 1 year ago
Thank you for the comment in Japanese, mcintyre1477-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
up up and away riding on top of my cock
lvail92 1 year ago
@lvail92 yea come on then
tonyrheeston 1 year ago
Esta canción la compró la TWA para sus comerciales
eurocristo 1 year ago
The one person that disliked this deserves to be castrated
BSHFTW 1 year ago
My father introduced me to this group. He had the 8 track. Wow been awhile. Very classic and melodic group.
tomcamp6023 1 year ago
@99thmonkee CIA/Tavistock/MI6 killed lennon watch?v=VwGNrpX8KCM
spitpwned 1 year ago
I love the artwork on the album sleeve, oh yes great song.
zefer14 1 year ago
If this song takes you back to the Summer of '67, consider yourself blessed to have been born during the greatest era of music! We took this music for granted back then, we thought the hits would never end. Now we come here to blog, giving our belated thanks for an era of music gone from our current everyday lives.
trinitylancer 1 year ago 17
@trinitylancer If good popular music hadn't fizzled out by the beginning of the 1980's we would have discovered new uncharted heights and new sounds, something worth talking about in years to come. As it is now, we'll have to start again from scratch when the time comes....
334286 11 months ago
@trinitylancer - I totally agree with you. It is a bitter-sweet feeling reminiscing that era. Thank God for YouTube. (Facebook can disappear and I wont care but please not Youtube. It is my only connection to the blissful past right now.)
Percymony 8 months ago
Vivid memorys of this being played on the radio everymorning back in the so distant early 70s . When i used to get ready for school .
I don't know about anyone else but if your around my age how come you never remember those rainy days , only sunny days from childhood .
TheDjmurray123 1 year ago
I miss them so much!
I miss this sound - pop jazzy sound!
tonydegn 1 year ago
オタクさんへ
こんばんわ！! 相変わらず素晴らしいチャンネルですね｡自宅近くのFM局もこんな感じでAIRしてもらえると嬉しいんですが･･｡(相変わらずお喋りばかりでAM局と変わりませんね･･｡だからドンドン聴取率下がっちゃうんだよ｡) ジム･ウエッブでしたでしょうか？当時大好きな曲で親父に西銀座デパート内にある｢ハンター｣という中古レコード屋で買って貰った記憶があります｡その親父もずいぶん前に亡くなりましたが今でもその時の｢嬉しさ｣は心に残っています｡アップ有難う御座います｡
UNIT4PLUS1 1 year ago
こんばんわUNIT4PLUS1さん、
コメントをありがとうございます！
「ハンター」懐かしいですね。
昔テレビでコマーシャルをよく流しておりましたが、思えば中古レコード屋のCMなんてアレぐらいしか記憶にありません（笑）
おっしゃる通り「ビートでジャンプ」はジムウエッブの作詞作曲で、彼とフィフスディメンションを一躍有名にした出世作（グラミーの最優秀レコード賞を受賞）でもあります。
なお後にトランスワールド航空のCMソングにも採用されたそうです。
60otaku3 1 year ago
@UNIT4PLUS1 Aye exactly my thoughts
JohnnyV47 1 year ago
@UNIT4PLUS1 huh?????
mansfieldification 1 year ago
makes me think of careena when she was with kevin and we were all living high up in the california mountains
roblogosz1 1 year ago
you know if they have ties with the illuminati?
theguymakeinfunofyou 1 year ago
my mum calls condoms balloons.
porridgeeveryday 1 year ago
the most beautiful song iv'e ever heard,
bettychambers 1 year ago
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AdoreTheApes 1 year ago
The Fifth Dimension performing Jimmy Webb's classic upbeat song.
Those of you who think Mr. Webb should receive Kennedy Center Honors, raise your hand.
Juliaflo 1 year ago 2
was PAN AM or TWA?
georgemb61 1 year ago
In those days this song was used as a advertising jingle of Trans World Airlines and Trans Australia Airlines.
Otaku3 (^_^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
@60otaku3 I rember the TAA commercials. I flew TAA
zefer14 1 year ago
Unluckily I have never watched that commercial.
It is because the commercial was unpublished in Japan....
Otaku3 (^_^;)
60otaku3 1 year ago
@georgemb61 TWA. I still can't believe both TWA and PanAm (and Eastern, number one to the sun) are gone.
artistmac 1 year ago
@georgemb61 Los derechos de este tema los compró la TWA para sus anuncios
eurocristo 1 year ago
PAN AM? wasn't TWA?
georgemb61 1 year ago
@georgemb61 ...and TAA in Australia :)
yomumma92 1 year ago
This wasn't a drug song. Actually it was a song that helped the mood of America in a deep, dark troubling time. Forward movement, upward growth, and universal love were the mindset of this era. Well evil has taken hold now, & universal hatered has given this music, & similar ideology the boot. Thanx republicans.
Blkserpent1 1 year ago
Very good and catchy songs
BugMeNot1086 1 year ago
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collegeman1988 1 year ago 13
@collegeman1988 oh the humanity.
porridgeeveryday 1 year ago
@collegeman1988
The Hindemburg Zepplin fire in American territory was CRIMINAL.
harpsinth 1 year ago
@collegeman1988 Hahahaha.... That is SO MUCH like something a buddy of mine and myself would have come up with back in the 60s! Thank you for that! :-)
jamesrwill 11 months ago
I was wrong. It was TWA Airlines,I remember the slogan, Up Up and Away, with TWA.
MrMotownmanny 1 year ago
This was featured in the old PAN AM Airlines comercial in 1969 or 1970. Great Song, great memorires, 60 Otaku3-san!, you've outdone yourself. 5 stars for the upload.
MrMotownmanny 1 year ago
Thank you so much, MrMotownmanny-san!!
Otaku3 (*^o^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
@MrMotownmanny ....almost right. It was TWA....remember? Up, up and away....TWA!!
DAVIDSILVERCA 1 year ago
@MrMotownmanny I knew I wasn't that crazy because I remember hearing this song in the 70's for Airline commercials,but I thought I was just imagining it
PumaDown 1 year ago
DRUGGIE SONG, NO DOUBT!
uncoverbrother 1 year ago
@uncoverbrother Maybe druggies USED it as their song...BUT it's writer, Jimmy Webb got the concept form attending an actual Hot Ait Ballon festival in California. The meaning behing the song is QUITE innocent.
MsTexas73 1 year ago 2
Another great memory. Thanks!!
Greg98233 1 year ago 6
Thanks again for your comment, Greg98233-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)b
60otaku3 1 year ago
This is a GREAT song to Masturbate to..... Up Up and away in my mangoo filled balloon! Or have like 10 guys jacking off above a crowd for a semen rain. :-)
waterfordjim 1 year ago
my favorite song
kijinkid2000 1 year ago
To lumpishqa,
Because you commented about a website irrelevant to this song, I deleted it.
60otaku3
60otaku3 1 year ago
Awesome song... This is the cleanest version of the song available on youtube... thanks!
vaughanwilliams1 1 year ago
You're welcome, vaughanwilliams1-san!!
Otaku3 (^_^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
I love the strings at 0:10, at 0:22, at 0:46 the drums at 1:38, the flute at 1:42 and Marilyn McCoo's honey-sweet voice especially at 0:53, at 1:53 and throughout. Up, up and away!! Beautifully Done. Thanks for posting. Fantastic.
frankho99 1 year ago
You're welcome, frankho99-san!!
Otaku3 (^_^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
not heard this for a while
mrdee11091 1 year ago
"The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon"....The world was a nicer place back when this song was a hit. Miss those days. Thanks for posting. Enjoyed this song so much.
boxerdogs11 1 year ago
You're very welcome, boxerdogs11-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)/
60otaku3 1 year ago
Falcon says YES WHY YES I WOULD (but I think I'll hide in this box instead...)
straycornable 2 years ago
Sugoi to subarashii!
(You were a fan of American pop music in the 60's?)
ShunyamNiketana 2 years ago
Domo arigato, ShunyamNiketana-san!!
Yes, I am a fan of British pop music in the 60's too.
Otaku3 (^_^)/
60otaku3 2 years ago
I remember the front cover of that album well during my youth in the 1960s. While the names of some of the songs in that album do not immediately come to mind, there are selections that could have made the top 100.
ALANRLEAKE 2 years ago
@ALANRLEAKE I agree...California My Way was great. Also...What a Shame that Too Poor To Die and Train Keep Movin were NOT on the album...but only released on 45s. I think they would have been bigger had they been ON the album.
MsTexas73 1 year ago
Groovy baby!
watchinshadows 2 years ago
Just beautiful! Memories of spring, dear friend. Thank you.
John
tropicalpancake56 2 years ago
Domo arigato gozaimasu, John-san!!
Otaku3 d(^_^)b
60otaku3 2 years ago