Randy Newman | Sail Away 👉
Bobby Darin covered the song on his last album before he died in 1973, Motown's Bobby Darin.[4] Newman later said, "Bobby Darin could sing, but he did 'Sail Away,' and, well... I don't think he understood it.
He did it like it was a happy song about coming to America."[5]
Harry Nilsson
Randy Newman | Live in London | 2011
| "Sail Away" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Randy Newman | |
| from the album Sail Away | |
| Released | 1972 |
| Genre | Orchestral pop[1] |
| Label | Reprise |
| Songwriter(s) | Randy Newman |
"Sail Away" is a song by Randy Newman, the title track to his 1972 album. In a 1972 review in Rolling Stone, Stephen Holden describes "Sail Away" as presenting "the American dream of a promised land as it might have been presented to black Africa in slave running days."[2]
