High Flight - Lockheed F-104 Version (B&W)

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Origin: TV Sign Off Video...when TV used to stop broadcasting at night...

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High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward Ive climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovring there,
Ive chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind Ive trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

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[skippyqsb]

Thank you for saving this and sharing. What makes this even more special is, there were several diffrent one's used across the nation, but this is the one that originated from KCRA in Sacramento... the one I grew up with.

The video,the music, the voice, the poem.... It gave me goosebumps as a kid, and still does today.

Thank you, again.

[bluehazer]

Sign off piece? I recall, as a kid growing up down the road from Lackland, (Dad was a TI there) the stations would use this as a sign-on piece, but then, when you've got Kelly, Lackland, Medina all around the town.....!

Still touching! Thank you!

[H2R504]

I haven't heard since I was about 5 years old. It would run early Sunday morning on WCKT Channel 7 (now WSVN) before the cartoons. It still brings me to tears to this day. Thank you for finding it.

[Hepapagacoph]

I know of no other spoken poem that so moves my emotions as this one does. It brings me to tears whenever I hear it - especially the very last line. It reminds me of my dad who flew in World War II in the Army Air Corp. The last line is now true for my dad!

[Roamingdoc]

Always love this and could listen so often. Thanks for the great video!

[vistapho59]

Thanks for a great memory of growing up and staying up to late and watching this signing off... I wonder if it had anything to do with my joining the Air Force and flying for the better part of 22 years...

Thank You...

[BeauEvil]

I wonder how many times I sat up, waiting on our station to sign off, to memorize this poem.

[tooolnut]

The credits misspell the last name of the author as "McGee".

[mjw3121]

I remember this. I was just a kid laying on my stomach watching TV when this played. Wow, does this bring back the memories.

[StrongheartAngelBear]

HIGH FLIGHT was written by my Great Uncle, Pilot Officer John G. Magee Jr RCAF. he wrote the poem on the back of an envelope shortly before he was killed at age 19 in a Spitfire accident over England, where he is buried. A sonnet, it was the most famous poem written during WWI. President Reagan quoted HIGH FLIGHT in his speech after the Challenger blew up.

William Conrad is the voice you hear reciting it here.

For more on the poem, simply Google it

[StrongheartAngelBear]

HIGH FLIGHT was written by my Great Uncle, Pilot Officer John G. Magee Jr RCAF. he wrote the poem on the back of an envelope shortly before he was killed at age 19 in a Spitfire accident over England, where he is buried. A sonnet, it was the most famous poem written during WWI. President Reagan quoted HIGH FLIGHT in his speech after the Challenger blew up.

William Conrad is the voice you hear reciting it here.

So glad you are able to .

For more on the poem, simply Google it

[everythinguwanted]

@cd637299 Thanks for replying. I got goose bumps and teary eyed watching this again. Why the tears? Because if you grew up in the early 60's, you had something to believe in.... that right, would always eventually prevail. To me, the military was emblematic of that notion, however naive it may have been. I'm not so sure anymore.