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These songs have been recommended by myself and others. Please feel free to e-mail additional suggestions to me at: meischa3@verizon.net
I have not heard all these songs. If some of these do not belong in a sailing category, please let me know and I will review it.
- "Louie Louie"
- "Lukey's Boat" by Maggie's Fury on the "Wherever You Roam" CD
- "Brandy", - Looking Glass
- "Caine Mutiny, The"
- ""Come Sail Away" - Styx
- "Louie Louie" - ???
- "Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffett
- "Son of a Sailor" - Jimmy Buffett
- "Sailing" - Christopher Cross
- "Sailing" - N'sync
- "Sea Cruise" - Frankie Ford
- "Some Where (Beyond the Sea)" - Bobby Darrin
- "Proud Mary" - Ike and Tina Turner
- "Paint the sky with stars" - Enya
- "Under the Sea" - Little Mermaid Soundtrack
- "Brandie" - ??? from around 1970-73
by U2 with lyrics about the ocean
by the Rolling Stones
- "Southern Cross" - CSN&Y
- "Southern Cross" - Jimmy Buffet
- Sailing to Philadelpia - Mark Knopfler
- If I had a boat - Lile Lovett
- Sail Away - David Gray
- Sailing - Rod Stewart
- Lorelei & Thousands are Sailing - the Pogues
- Drawn to the Rythm - Sarah McLaughlan
- The Wild Wild Sea & Valpariso - Sting
- Drunken Sailor - Great Big Sea
- Sail on Sailor - Beach Boys
- Yellow Submarine - Beatles
- Southern Cross - Crosby Stills and Nash
- Orinoco Flow - Enya
- The Banana boat song - the Muppets
- Farewell to Nova Scotia - Newfoundland Kitchen Party
- Anything by Sarah Dashew or Eileen Quinn (if you can find them)
- The entire "Victory at Sea" soundtrack written by Richard Rodgers and performed by the RCA Victor Orchestra.
Song of the High Seas
Beneath the Southern Cross
Theme of the Fast Carriers
- The Mary Ellen Carter - Stan Rogers
- Barrett's Privateers - Stan Rogers
- The Flowere of Bermuda - Stan Rogers
- "Cool Change" - The Little River Band
- "La Mer" by Claude Debussey
- "I'm Your Captain" by Grand Funk Railroad
- "Crystal Ship" by The Doors
- "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot
- "Eternal Father" (traditional hymn)
- "In the Navy" by the Village People
- Buffet...Some of these are more Island/Carribean related than sailing strictly speaking, but on my 'cruising list' anyway:
- Take It Back ( for you America's Cup fans)
- A Pirate looks at forty
- A Sailor's Christmas
- Christmas in the Caribbean
- The Captain and the Kid
- Landfall
- Changes in Latitudes
- Coast of Marseilles
- Jolly Mon
- The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
- Manana
- Tryin to reason with Hurricane Season
- Tin Cup Chalice
- Holiday
- Barometer Soup
- Lovely Cruise
- Island
- Nobody Speaks To The Captain No More
- Cowboy In The Jungle
- Jamaica Mistaica
- "Only Love" by Wynonna
- "I'm gonna sail like a ship on the ocean" Old Spiritual
- "Drowning in a sea of love" by Joe Simon
- "Expedition Sailor" by Kim Mitchell
- "Gilligan's Island Theme"
- "Red Sails in the Sunset" by Big Joe Turner
- "Somewhere beyond the Sea" by Frank Sinatra
- "Harbor Lights" by Boz Scaggs
- "Sea Cruise" by Frankie Ford
- "Ride Captain, Ride" by Blues Image
- "Home at Last" by Steely Dan
- "Storm Front" by Billy Joel
- "If I had a boat" by Lyle Lovett
- "The Anchor Holds", by Ray Boltz
- Opening title of 1492, by Vangelis
- "Shiver Me Timbers" by Tom Waits
- "Still Cruisin' " by the Beach Boys
(ok, ok, I know they're talking about driving,
but the lyrics in reference to sailing works)
Much of this list has been courtesy of :
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