Your fav Regent Cruise Song by ?

[WesW]

Have you considered what your Regent cruise song would be? For us it is "Come Sail Away," by Styx. Take a look at the first lyrics below. We will begin a tradition when we can start cruising on Regent again going out to our Veranda on embark day and listening to this magical song.

 

COME SAIL AWAY

Styx

I'm sailing away
Set an open course for the Virgin Sea
'Cause I've got to be free
Free to face the life that's ahead of me
On board I'm the captain
So climb aboard
We'll search for tomorrow
On every shore and I'll try
Oh Lord I'll try
To carry on

[flossie009]

Nice sentiments, Wes.

 

For us, it just has to be "Sailing" by Rod Stewart

 

........ and maybe (tongue in cheek) for that first sailaway party "Don't stand so close to me" by The Police 

 

........ I hope JM and all the Regent team are keeping their spirits up with "I will survive" by Gloria Gaynor 

Edited September 14, 2020 by flossie009

[mrlevin]

My favorite sailing song is The Last Farewell by Roger Whittaker.

 

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

Though death and darkness gather all about me
My ship be torn apart upon the seas
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
And should I return home safe again to England
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dale

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

 

 

[UUNetBill]

5 hours ago, WesW said:

Have you considered what your Regent cruise song would be? For us it is "Come Sail Away," by Styx. Take a look at the first lyrics below. We will begin a tradition when we can start cruising on Regent again going out to our Veranda on embark day and listening to this magical song.

 

COME SAIL AWAY

Styx

I'm sailing away
Set an open course for the Virgin Sea
'Cause I've got to be free
Free to face the life that's ahead of me
On board I'm the captain
So climb aboard
We'll search for tomorrow
On every shore and I'll try
Oh Lord I'll try
To carry on

And of course we can't overlook the fact that this song is an integral part of Crew Capers - always a bittersweet moment as it signifies the impending end of a cruise.

 

I also like Cruisin' by Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow (or Smokey Robinson's version, but either will work), or Sailing by Christopher Cross.  For Caribbean Cruises you can't beat Kokomo by the Beach Boys.

 

And personally I always associate Cover of the Rolling Stone by Dr. Hook and Just a Gigolo by David Lee Roth with cruises as I earned a certain degree of notoriety on a couple of cruises (fueled by Maker's Mark bourbon) by choosing these songs on karaoke night.  🙂

[Pcardad]

Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you
That is how I know you go on

Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never let go 'til we're gone

Love was when I loved you
One true time I'd hold to
In my life we'll always go on

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

You're here, there's nothing I fear
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart and
My heart will go on and on

 

[Mudhen]

I'm a big fan of Sailing by Christopher Cross, but it evokes more memories of ocean (yacht type) sailing for me, sailing with actual sails. However at this stage of the game any kind of sailing would work for me.....tug, scow,, ferry, container ship, row boat, dingy, etc, etc, etc!

[WesW]

 a few more suggestions:

 

Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) by Enja 

Southern Cross or Wooden Ships (Crosby Stills Nash & Young)

Cruisin (Smoky Robinson)

 

[UUNetBill]

31 minutes ago, Pcardad said:

Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you
That is how I know you go on

Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never let go 'til we're gone

Love was when I loved you
One true time I'd hold to
In my life we'll always go on

Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on

You're here, there's nothing I fear
And I know that my heart will go on
We'll stay forever this way
You are safe in my heart and
My heart will go on and on

 

 

Our one non-Regent cruise was on the QM2 sailing out of NYC and we hit some winter weather, i.e. 30' seas and crazy wind...the lounge we were in was on like deck 4 or 5 and the waves were routinely crashing into the windows.  In other words, we were rockin' and rollin'...and someone doing karaoke came up and sang this song.  Seemed wildly inappropriate at the time considering the weather.  Was still kind of funny, though.   🙂

[UUNetBill]

28 minutes ago, Mudhen said:

I'm a big fan of Sailing by Christopher Cross, but it evokes more memories of ocean (yacht type) sailing for me, sailing with actual sails. However at this stage of the game any kind of sailing would work for me.....tug, scow,, ferry, container ship, row boat, dingy, etc, etc, etc!

Couldn't agree with you more - on BOTH counts!

[Guerncruising]

11 minutes ago, WesW said:

 

 

Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) by Enja 

 

Go with that and a fantastically soothing piece of music just prior to the late night/early morning UK shipping forecast “Sailing by”

[Pcardad]

30 minutes ago, UUNetBill said:

Our one non-Regent cruise was on the QM2 sailing out of NYC and we hit some winter weather, i.e. 30' seas and crazy wind...the lounge we were in was on like deck 4 or 5 and the waves were routinely crashing into the windows.  In other words, we were rockin' and rollin'...and someone doing karaoke came up and sang this song.  Seemed wildly inappropriate at the time considering the weather.  Was still kind of funny, though.   🙂

 

Inappropriate is why I like it!

[flossie009]

1 hour ago, Guerncruising said:

Go with that and a fantastically soothing piece of music just prior to the late night/early morning UK shipping forecast “Sailing by”

............ so much better than counting sheep if you are an insomniac.

 

A link for those who do not know the piece:

 

The comments under the clip on YouTube are priceless

Edited September 14, 2020 by flossie009

[tripperva]

The Beatles  "Here Comes the Sun" .

This was the sail away song for the old Royal Viking Sun in the nineties.

[Mudhen]

1 hour ago, tripperva said:

The Beatles  "Here Comes the Sun" .

This was the sail away song for the old Royal Viking Sun in the nineties.

aw....loved ALL of the RVL ships. Our first "grown up cruise" was on the RVL Star.....some of our fondest memories!

[Guerncruising]

1 hour ago, flossie009 said:

............ so much better than counting sheep if you are an insomniac.

 

A link for those who do not know the piece:

 

The comments under the clip on YouTube are priceless

Well Flossie, I had this played at my very good friend’s funeral along with Enya. We used to sail from Whitstable (Kent) to the Baltic but predominantly Holland for 30+ years. 

Always brought back to me on ‘big ship’ cruises. 

[lprp]

Because it’s always 5 O’Clock Somewhere........

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

Jimmy Buffett

I took off for a weekend last month
Just to try and recall the whole year
All of the faces and all of the places
Wonderin' where they all disappeared
I didn't ponder the question too long
I was hungry and went out for a bite
Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum
And we wound up drinkin all night

It's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

Reading departure signs in some big airport
Reminds me of the places I've been
Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure
Makes me want to go back again
If it suddenly ended tomorrow
I could somehow adjust to the fall
Good times and riches and son of a bitches
I've seen more than I can recall

It's these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
Through all of the islands and all of the highlands
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

I think about Paris when I'm high on red wine
I wish I could jump on a plane
So many nights I just dream of the ocean
God I wish I was sailin' again
Oh, yesterday's over my shoulder
So I can't look back for too long
There's just too much to see waiting in front of me
And I know that I just can't go wrong

With these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of my running and all of my cunning
If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane
If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane
If we weren't all crazy we would go insane

[Caroldoll]

House of the Rising Sun by Natures Rhythm (trio on ship)

[Bellaggio Cruisers]

Haven’t  been.. but heard Crystal plays ...What  a Wonderful World!
How perfect to start a cruise. 

sheila

Edited September 16, 2020 by Bellaggio Cruisers

[Mudhen]

Although it's Crystal's song, it's one of the very best. Soft spot for John and I, as it was the song John picked for his father/daughter dance at Elizabeth's wedding.