Today’s music video is ‘One Day I’ll Fly Away’ from Randy Crawford.
This video was posted to You Tube by WilfriedBraem
There are songs you hear during your life that you really like, and yet they don’t become hit songs, and you wonder why the singer or the band did not make a bigger impression than they did. This is one of those songs, performed by Randy Crawford, a singer who really did not make all that much impression outside the Jazz charts. The music was composed by Joe Sample and the lyrics by Will Jennings. …
Randy Crawford sang with George Benson in the 70’s and had a couple of minor songs on her own. She may have been incorrectly categorised into the ‘Disco’ genre, and when you listen to this song, you’ll wonder how it might be referred to as ‘Disco’ music. She sang based out of New York, but was better known in Europe, and even though she was born and raised in the U.S., she actually won an award in 1982 as ‘The Best British Female Solo Artist’.
This song was a relatively big hit for her in 1980 in the UK, Europe and also here in Australia, but she never had a solo song that entered the Top 40 in the U.S. and in fact did not even make it into the Top 100, and the only songs that she sang on that did go into the Top 40 of the R and B charts were with other artists.
As you listen to this song, you’ll wonder why someone with such a wonderful voice did not do a lot better than she did, but keep in Mind, Randy Crawford did have a wonderful, and a long career.
There are a couple of live versions of this song, but because she was more popular in Europe than anywhere else, both versions have foreign language overdubbing scrolling across the screen.
This version is from the record, and has been artfully set to some wonderful images.
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