Flight #Oldiers: Deep Roots of the Oldies

“Georgia On My Mind” 🍑 was by Mildred Bailey in 1931 before it was by 🎹Ray Charles. “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” “At Last,“ and “Unchained Melody” were not by The Platters, Etta James, or The Righteous Bros. Until they were. Flight #Oldiers is a playlist of older originals and their younger incarnations – the ones we digital newborns, in our unawareness, call “the oldies."

To experience the two renditions of the same song one after the other, the captain asks you to please refrain from shuffling. Thank you. Enjoy your flight.

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Flight time: 1 hr. 5 min. • 20 songs

Flight path:

🍑 Georgia on My Mind
1931 - Mildred Bailey
1960 - Ray Charles

💨 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
1934 - Paul Whiteman
1958 - The Platters

❤️‍🩹At Last
1941 - Glenn Miller Band feat. Ray Eberle
1960 - Etta James

⛓ Unchained Melody
1955 - Les Baxter
1965 - The Righteous Brothers

☔️ Singin’ In The Rain
1929 - Annette Hanshaw
1952 - Gene Kelly

💔 I Ain’t Got Nobody
1923 - Marion Harris
🥃 Just a Gigolo
1931 - Louis Armstrong
❤️‍🔥 Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody
1956 - Louis Prima
1985 - David Lee Roth

🌔 Twilight Time
1944 - The Three Suns
1958 - The Platters

🦴 Hound Dog
1953 - Big Mama Thornton
1956 - Elvis Presley

🔷Blue Moon
1935 - Al Bowlly
1961 - The Marcels

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When I start to worry about All Of Us and The World and Our Future, one of the things I do is think of past generations, the worry they felt, the odds they faced, and the ephemeral/eternal beauty of their labors and lives. 

Everyone has Their Time.

As they say, it’s an honor just to be here.