Fly Away

There is an overlooked gem on this album. It is the song "Fly Away", an eerie, hauntingly beautiful song with Olivia Newton-John adding a backing vocal to create an etheral effect.You can easily identify the woman singing the title phrase in response to John Denver, and her contribution helped "Fly Away" to become a hit.Reaching #1 AC, "Fly Away" reached #13 on the Pop charts and #12 on the Country charts after its release September, 1975. In the Spring of 1975 somewhere above The Rocky Mountains, I met a beautiful woman named Sandy and we experienced "love-at-first-sight". We drank some wine and "made out" in the back seat of an airplane bound for Los Angeles. Once I returned back to the ground the affair ended in tragedy and I walked away with a broken heart.The first time I heard "Fly Away" it instantly reminded me of my lost love Sandy and I cried. Today, 28 years later the song still has the same affect on me.