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Coffee Break: Flight

by Anna Weggel

December 17, 2019

The first successful aircraft manufactured by the Wright Brothers, on display at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., circa 1920.
The first successful aircraft manufactured by the Wright Brothers, on display at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., circa 1920.Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Today, December 17, is Wright Brothers Day - which honors the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled airplane made by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention flight, airplanes, jets, pilots, wings, the sky, etc.?

Here are the songs we played last year for this theme - see if you can think of new ideas:

Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away
Husker Du - Flexible Flyer
Nancy Wilson - Fly Me To The Moon
Sloan - Flying High Again
Paul McCartney - Jet
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
Tegan and Sara - Hop A Plane
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Elton John - Bennie And The Jets
Peter Paul And Mary - Leaving On A Jet Plane
Blackalicious - First In Flight feat. Gil Scott-Heron
The Kinks - Big Sky
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing