LA International Airport
| LA International Airport | |
|---|---|
| David Frizzell | |
| publication | 1970 |
| length | 2:57 |
| Genre (s) | Country music |
| Author (s) | Leanne Scott |
| Label | Capitol Records |
| Cover versions | |
| 1971 | Susan Raye |
| 2003 | Shirley Myers |
LA International Airport is a country song best known today in the 1971 version by American singer Susan Raye . It was first published a year earlier by David Frizzell .
history
Country singer David Frizzell first recorded the song in 1970 - eleven years before his first album - and released it as a single. “LA International Airport” was his first ever release and reached number 67 in the genre charts . A year later Susan Raye, who was also still at the beginning of her career, covered the song for her album Willy Jones and made it a hit. It reached number 9 on the country charts and was also the only song that Raye was able to place on the Billboard Hot 100 in her long career , and it also made it to number 1 in New Zealand.
In its version, the song about Los Angeles International Airport became one of the greatest crossover hits of the 1970s and made the young singer famous. She used the great popularity of the piece more than 20 years later to market one of her best of albums, which she named her most famous song. In 2003 she performed it again after a seventeen year break on the 75th birthday of the airport, and it was also declared the official song of Los Angeles Airport. In the same year Shirley Myers , a singer from Nashville , also re-recorded the song.
content
The song is about a woman who is no longer loved by her husband and who is now waiting for her departure in the departure hall of "LA International Airport" after leaving home in a taxi with a packed suitcase. It also describes how she fights with her tears while flying. She flies in a Boeing 747. The destination remains unknown.