"Amelia Earhart's Last Flight"
Song by David McEnery
Published1939
Songwriter(s)David McEnery

"Amelia Earhart's Last Flight" is a song written by Red River Dave McEnery shortly after Amelia Earhart's disappearance.[1]

It was copyrighted in 1939,[2][3] and was first performed by David McEnery on a pioneer television broadcast from the 1939 New York World's Fair.[4] McEnery recorded it in 1941.

It has been covered by artists including Kinky Friedman, Ronnie Lane, the Greenbriar Boys, Country Gentlemen, the Phil Keaggy Band, and Plainsong. Saskatoon-based band The Heartstrings covered the song, and used the second line of the chorus as the title of their 2009 album Far Away in a Land That is Fair.

References

  1. ↑ "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight". Sing Out!. 15 (3).
  2. ↑ Blood, Peter, ed. (2004) [1988]. Rise Up Singing. Annie Patterson, Kore Loy McWhirter. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Sing Out! Corp. p. 243. ISBN 1-881322-12-2. Copyright 1939 Stasny Music. Copyright renewed. All rights administered by Bug Music Inc.
  3. ↑ McEnery, Dave; Betty Ann Fisher (1939). Red River Dave song book: marvelous collection of cowboy, hill-billy, mountain and home songs, all originals. New York: Stasny Music Corporation.
  4. ↑ Wadey, Paul (2002-01-21). "Red River Dave McEnery". The Independent. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2009.



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