CHRISTOPHER CROSS – Sailing (1980)

CHRISTOPHER CROSS - Sailing (1980)



#CHRISTOPHERCROSS – Sailing (1980)

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49 thoughts on “CHRISTOPHER CROSS – Sailing (1980)

  1. I love this actual live version with the OBX analogue synthesizer instead of the string section. Tom Oberheim is a complete legend and is designing and making wonderful keyboards even now at age 85.

  2. Well, it's not far down to paradise
    At least it's not for me
    And if the wind is right you can sail away
    And find tranquility
    Oh, the canvas can do miracles
    Just you wait and see, believe me

    It's not far to never never land
    No reason to pretend
    And if the wind is right you can find the joy
    Of innocence again
    Oh, the canvas can do miracles
    Just you wait and see, believe me

    Sailing
    Takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
    Just a dream and the wind to carry me
    Soon I will be free

    Fantasy
    It gets the best of me
    When I'm sailing

    All caught up in the reverie
    Every word is a symphony
    Won't you believe me?

    Sailing
    Takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
    Just a dream and the wind to carry me
    And soon I will be free

    Well, it's not far back to sanity
    At least it's not for me
    And if the wind is right you can sail away
    And find serenity
    Oh, the canvas can do miracles
    Just you wait and see, really, believe me

    Sailing
    Takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
    Just a dream and the wind to carry me
    And soon I will be free

  3. Beautiful song. I always wonder – how could one afford to pay a band this big? Two keyboard players, two percussionists! I imagine they didn't make much. Music really is a labor of love.

  4. Does anyone know the name of the keyboard player standing up playing in the blue shirt and red pants at the beginning of the video? He played the piano at the La Mansion hotel in Austin for a while after he stopped touring with CC, and I can’t remember his name.

  5. I didn’t realize it at the time, but MTV killed the music industry. It became about looks, image, and the art got lost in time. I’m not sure if we will ever get back the musical integrity of original sounds. I keep waiting for the next musical revolution, but in a world based on views and likes, it might never come 😞

  6. I was 10 when this song was released. I recently found out that the song is about the sailing trips Cross took with his childhood friend and that friends father. Cross had an alcoholic father and these sailing trips were everything to him. A moment in time where he didn't have to live in fear, and felt free and pure. A return to innocence. Sad, but sweet .

  7. It's odd that the sound is absolutely identical to the studio version, except for the replacement of string section with the gorgeous old Oberheim OB-X synthesizer.

  8. We used to see these guys play at Arlington Square Club In Pasadena Texas and they played at my sisters wedding just before they won the Battle Of The Bands, I think was in 1977. You Sure miss those days.

  9. This is a true live version. There is another version of this video where the studio recording is used. But this one's all live, sounds great.

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