teecee60 Posted April 18, 2014 #26 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Off Topic! The song was by Johnny Horton. He also sang "Battle of New Orleans" and quite a few other songs with historical backgrounds. He was killed in a car wreck in Texas in the middle of his career. I guess Johnny's Sink the Bismarck would probably make some ship goers uncomfortable. :eek: :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy3putts Posted April 18, 2014 #27 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Theme from James Cameron's Titanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuiteCruising Posted April 18, 2014 #28 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Orinoco Flow by Enya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom55 Posted April 18, 2014 Author #29 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Orinoco Flow by Enya. Yesssss! Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holland316 Posted April 18, 2014 #30 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Drifting by Pearl Jam. http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScTSbw-LJw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampduck Posted April 18, 2014 #31 Share Posted April 18, 2014 The Beach Boys :D Kokomo Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take ya Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go Jamaica off the Florida Keys There's a place called Kokomo That's where you wanna go to get away from it all Bodies in the sand Tropical drink melting in your hand We'll be falling in love To the rhythm of a steel drum band Down in Kokomo Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go Down to Kokomo We'll get there fast And then we'll take it slow That's where we wanna go Way down to Kokomo To Martinique, that Monserrat mystique We'll put out to sea And we'll perfect our chemistry By and by we'll defy a little bit of gravity Afternoon delight cocktails and moonlit nights That dreamy look in your eye Give me a tropical contact high Way down in Kokomo Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go Down to Kokomo We'll get there fast And then we'll take it slow That's where we wanna go Way down to Kokomo Port Au Prince I wanna catch a glimpse Everybody knows A little place like Kokomo Now if you wanna go And get away from it all Go down to Kokomo Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go Down to Kokomo We'll get there fast And then we'll take it slow That's where we wanna go Way down to Kokomo Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go Down to Kokomo We'll get there fast And then we'll take it slow That's where we wanna go Way down to Kokomo Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go Down to Kokomo We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow That's where we wanna go Way down to Kokomo :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djhsolara Posted April 19, 2014 #32 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Time to say goodbye by Sarah brightman and botchelli (sp) That should be playing when we debark. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasset Posted April 19, 2014 #33 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Sea Cruise by Frankie Ford 1959 Happy Sails to You OOOEEE :D:D Bob and Phyl YES! Frankie Ford! No sappy songs. Rock and Roll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecslady Posted April 19, 2014 #34 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I think think of a few depending on the itinerary. But since I love Styx I have to go with "Come Sail Away". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom55 Posted April 19, 2014 Author #35 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I think think of a few depending on the itinerary. But since I love Styx I have to go with "Come Sail Away". Another good choice! Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeysmom220 Posted April 19, 2014 #36 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearette Posted April 19, 2014 #37 Share Posted April 19, 2014 HOT Hot Hot, heard it on my first cruise so I think it is a must on a warm itinerary. Plus anything by Jimmy Buffet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwr235 Posted April 19, 2014 #38 Share Posted April 19, 2014 "The Ocean" by Led Zeppelin (Live version...from "How the West was Won") even if it's not actually about the ocean !!:D Heck...play the whole album !! Better yet, just plug in my iPod !! Sorry...my idea of sail-away songs is probably wayyyyyyyyyyy different than most !!:D Woody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom55 Posted April 19, 2014 Author #39 Share Posted April 19, 2014 "The Ocean" by Led Zeppelin (Live version...from "How the West was Won") even if it's not actually about the ocean !!:D Heck...play the whole album !! Better yet, just plug in my iPod !! Sorry...my idea of sail-away songs is probably wayyyyyyyyyyy different than most !!:D Woody Yes it is! Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare 4cats4me Posted April 19, 2014 #40 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Happy! I like that for a song choice too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrierjohn Posted April 19, 2014 #41 Share Posted April 19, 2014 The Tide is High - Blondie, great calypso sound for a Caribbean cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janazaz Posted April 20, 2014 #42 Share Posted April 20, 2014 What a Wonderful World (Louie Armstrong) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatSomeMore Posted April 20, 2014 #43 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Every time Crystal leaves port, this is the song! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahhh Posted April 20, 2014 #44 Share Posted April 20, 2014 "Conquest of Paradise" by Vangelis, from the movie"1492" My first choice would be silence, so I could listen to my ipod if I choose. My second choice would be anything like the above mentioned soundtrack. That whole CD is a winner. Most instrumental movie soundtracks work nicely, including some tracks from Titanic, Braveheart, King Arthur, The Mission, Pearl Harbor, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, House of Sand and Fog, Hidden Dragon, Star Trek, etc. At the very least, an instrumental that is not intrusively blaring. Sailaway music should be background music. I avoid sailaway parties where all the energy is focussed on the "party band" (rather than the views) playing the same old songs they always play (AND ARE REQUIRED to play - Celebration, Margarittaville, We are Family, YMCA, etc.) That music is marketing at it's finest, to encourage people to spend more on drinks, and it is usually INTRUSIVELY LOUD :rolleyes:. Although I am not a fan of those songs myself (as I have heard them WAY TOO MANY TIMES over the DECADES, and on EVERY mass market ship I have been on), there is a place for them. I just avoid them, especially at sailaway, and enjoy my cocktail with a view and music to my own liking ;). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caribbean Chris Posted April 21, 2014 #45 Share Posted April 21, 2014 I worked for Royal Viking Line (no longer exists but was upscale line similar to Crystal) ... They always played a fun little ditty sung by a Norwegian kids group, "As we sail away..etc." while waiters passed champagne & serpentines and passengers all gathered on the wraparound teak decks to toss the serpentines (coiled paper streamers) down to people on the pier, waving goodbye. Those were the days when you could have bon voyage parties for your friends on board, so they would gather below (after "All visitors ashore please") on the pier and try to catch your streamer. After a while there were hundreds of colorful streamers connecting. Then as the ship sailed, the horn sounded, and the streamers tore in half as it moved from the pier, symbolic of cutting your ties with land. All very romantic! (Yes, I'm old. That was in the 80s.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom55 Posted April 21, 2014 Author #46 Share Posted April 21, 2014 I worked for Royal Viking Line (no longer exists but was upscale line similar to Crystal) ... They always played a fun little ditty sung by a Norwegian kids group, "As we sail away..etc." while waiters passed champagne & serpentines and passengers all gathered on the wraparound teak decks to toss the serpentines (coiled paper streamers) down to people on the pier, waving goodbye. Those were the days when you could have bon voyage parties for your friends on board, so they would gather below (after "All visitors ashore please") on the pier and try to catch your streamer. After a while there were hundreds of colorful streamers connecting. Then as the ship sailed, the horn sounded, and the streamers tore in half as it moved from the pier, symbolic of cutting your ties with land. All very romantic! (Yes, I'm old. That was in the 80s.) Wow, that sounds really cool! w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecslady Posted April 21, 2014 #47 Share Posted April 21, 2014 I worked for Royal Viking Line (no longer exists but was upscale line similar to Crystal) ... They always played a fun little ditty sung by a Norwegian kids group, "As we sail away..etc." while waiters passed champagne & serpentines and passengers all gathered on the wraparound teak decks to toss the serpentines (coiled paper streamers) down to people on the pier, waving goodbye. Those were the days when you could have bon voyage parties for your friends on board, so they would gather below (after "All visitors ashore please") on the pier and try to catch your streamer. After a while there were hundreds of colorful streamers connecting. Then as the ship sailed, the horn sounded, and the streamers tore in half as it moved from the pier, symbolic of cutting your ties with land. All very romantic! (Yes, I'm old. That was in the 80s.) Those were the days! I actually remember going to a Bon Voyage Party on board with all the fan fare - I was still a child then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhans24 Posted April 21, 2014 #48 Share Posted April 21, 2014 My wife hates it when I sing "My Heart Will Go On" while we are on the ship. Three weeks ago on the Equinox they played the instrumental version of that song three times, that we heard. I laughed, she was not amused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misha1 Posted April 21, 2014 #49 Share Posted April 21, 2014 There are 2 songs that I recall Celebrity playing at sail away in the 90s. One was "Simply the Best" by Tina Turner, which was also their theme song in their commercials in the 90s. The other was "Conquest of Paradise" by Vangelis, from the movie"1492" I could not place that song from conquest of Paradise, nor did I know why I should know it but it was played many times on our first cruise in 2000. I even recorded the pool band playing it so i could try to figure out where it came from. fast forward 14 years and I still did not know...until today. Thanks. It was a really pretty and eerie song all in one. My sail away favorite is calypso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Turtles06 Posted April 21, 2014 #50 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Lots of good suggestions above! I'm a sucker for "My Heart Will Go On," but I imagine some folks don't want to hear it on a cruise ship. ;) "Leaving Port" from the Titanic soundtrack would work very well. NCL ships leaving New York and passing by the Statue of Liberty play Lee *********'s "Proud to be an American." It would work for Celebrity's Cape Liberty departures. [Hmm... Lee's last name is censored by Cruise Critic. No idea why. It's Green and wood put together.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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