A-Z of Trips

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Lindum

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Holiday season approaches. Any film or song about (or including) a trip, journey, holiday etc. Any word the A-Z

A - Around the World in 80 Days. 1956 film of the Jules Verne novel starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine. I think there's been a remake but I haven't seen it.
 
D DAY TRIP To Bangor - Song from Folk group Fiddlers Dram got to number 3 in early 1980.

It is told, around folk clubs, that the song was really about a day trip to Rhyl but Bangor sounded better
 
... or... DAY TRIPPER by The Beatles. (1965). Reached number one in the UK singles chart.
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E EARLY morning cold taxi - song by The Who . Features on "The Who sell out" album (1967), although my vinyl copy is a re-issued version. Clip on YouTube. Great album. (y)
 
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F - Ferry Cross the Mersey. Song by Gerry Marsden released as a single in 1964 by Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Or for a longer trip, the 1954 Bart Howard song, Fly Me To The Moon, perhaps best known from the 1964 recording by Frank Sinatra.
 
Been on the actual ferry . It was a bit choppy out in the middle of the Mersey that day!

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G GET out of Denver - song by US rock singer-songwriter , Bob Seger. Opening track of "Seven" album (1974). Live version also appears on "Live Bullet" (1976).
Clip on YouTube. (y)
 
J JOURNEY To The Centre Of The Earth - Book by Jules Verne from 1864. Made into a film in 1959 with Pat Boone and James Mason. Starts in Edinburgh when James Mason (the professor) is given a piece of rock which is thought to have come from the centre of the earth and he goes off to search.
 
...or... JAMAICAN TRIP , by Polish reggae band , Star Guard Muffin (2011). They won a Polish tv talent competition and went to Jamaica to meet some of their reggae heroes, and record an album. Quite like it. Clip on YouTube.
 
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L LAST train to Clarksville - anti-war song by the US pop group, the Monkees (1966). Written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. Reached number 23 in the UK sinlges chart. (y)
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Good song. There was a lot of debate about whether it was a veiled reference to the war. The writers long denied but I think much later claimed it was. They used the song in the Monkees TV show a few times and as NBC supported US policy at the time the company at least didn't seem to view the song as anti-war.
 
M MULE train - many recordings of this well-known cowboy song. Best known version in the UK is probably by Frankie Laine and the Muleskinners ((1949) . Frankie was a US singer-songwriter (real name Francesco Paolo LoVecchio).
 
I was also thinking of the previous two. Alternative "O" - "On the road again" by US bluesy rock band Canned Heat. Reached number 6 in the UK singles chart in 1968.
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P (for a "double") - PAPER PLANE, song by Status Quo. (1972) . Reached number 6 in the UK singles chart.
 
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mikemiller said:
I was also thinking of the previous two. Alternative "O" - "On the road again" by US bluesy rock band Canned Heat. Reached number 6 in the UK singles chart in 1968.
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P (for a "double") - PAPER PLANE, song by Status Quo. (1972) . Reached number 6 in the UK singles chart.
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Or, P - An American in Paris. 1951 musical with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron.
 
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