I Am Sailing

"Sailing"
UK vinyl release of the Sutherland Brothers version
Unmarried by The Sutherland Bros. Ring
B-side	"Who'southward Crying Now"
Released	June 1972
Characterization	Island
Songwriter(south)	Gavin Sutherland
Producer(s)	Muff Winwood
The Sutherland Bros. Ring singles chronology
"The Pie" (1972) "Sailing" (1972) "Lady Like You" (1972)

"Sailing" is a vocal equanimous by Gavin Sutherland of the Sutherland Brothers in 1972, best known every bit a 1975 international hit for Rod Stewart.

Sutherland Brothers original recording [edit]

"Sailing" was written and recorded by the Sutherland Brothers – a duo consisting of Gavin and Iain Sutherland – in a June 1972 session. The brothers provided their own bankroll with Gavin on bass drum and Iain on harmonium. They intended the song to accept a "Celtic experience to it",^[ane] and overdubbed their vocals.^[2] Gavin Sutherland said of the vocal, "Most people have the vocal to be about a immature guy telling his daughter that he'south crossing the Atlantic to exist with her. In fact the song's got nothing to do with romance or ships; it's an account of mankind'southward spiritual odyssey through life on his manner to freedom and fulfillment with the Supreme Being."^[two]

Issued as a single, the vocal reached No. 54 in July 1972, and the single's sales were reportedly 40,000 units.^[two] The Sutherland Brothers had recorded "Sailing" subsequent to completing the tracks intended for their upcoming album release Lifeboat, and that album was issued in November 1972 without the inclusion of "Sailing": included on the Usa edition of the Lifeboat album, "Sailing" by the Sutherland Brothers would make its Uk album debut on the 1976 Sutherland Brothers' compilation album entitled Sailing.^{[2] [3]}

Rod Stewart version [edit]

"Sailing"
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland vinyl release of the Rod Stewart version
Single by Rod Stewart
from the album Atlantic Crossing
B-side	"Rock Cold Sober" (US "All in the Name of Rock 'N' Roll")
Released	1975
Genre	Soft rock[4]
Length	iv:thirty (LP) 3:31 (single)
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(south)	Gavin Sutherland
Producer(s)	Tom Dowd
Rod Stewart 1974–75 singles chronology
""Adieu" (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland) (1974) "Let Me Exist Your Machine" (U.s.)" (1975) "Sailing" (1975) "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for Yous)" (1975)
Music video
"Sailing" on YouTube

Overview [edit]

"Sailing" was recorded by Rod Stewart for his offset anthology recorded in N America rather than Great U.k.: Atlantic Crossing, which album was recorded April – June 1975 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with Tom Dowd producing. The first single from the album, "Sailing" afforded Stewart an international hit notably in the UK where "Sailing" was No. 1 for iv weeks in September 1975: augmented by a return to the UK chart in 1976 and – to a lesser extent – 1987, "Sailing" remains the Rod Stewart single to have the greatest success in its Great britain release. Yet, "Sailing" failed to beget Stewart a major hit in his newly adopted US homeland.

Background [edit]

Co-ordinate to Iain Sutherland the connection between the Sutherland Brothers and Rod Stewart which led to Stewart's recording of "Sailing" began when Stewart's live-in girlfriend Dee Harrington saw the Sutherland Brothers on the 20 June 1972 broadcast of the BBC2 music programme The Old Grayness Whistle Exam: Harrington recommended the Sutherland Brothers equally a musical act that would interest Stewart, and Stewart did indeed get a Sutherland Brothers fan afterwards seeing them perform at the Marquee Guild.^{[2] [one]} According to Gavin Sutherland, the Sutherland Brothers co-wrote two original songs with Stewart which Stewart hoped to record for Atlantic Crossing: however the but Sutherland Brothers tune Stewart would record for the album would exist "Sailing" whose seemingly nautical theme complemented the album'due south title.^[5]

Stewart would recall the recording of "Sailing" beingness a challenge: he was awoken in his hotel room by a 10 am telephone call from Dowd at Muscles Shoals, in which Dowd said "Go down here in half an hr; we've mixed the rails and need the vocal"; Stewart (quote): "I was like: 'You're joking, recording at 10:30 in the forenoon. I demand a potable to calm the old fretfulness'...There was nothing [alcoholic] to be had anywhere and I was terrified to sing without [a drink]"..."I'd never sung annihilation in a studio without having a drink – let alone a large old canticle. And I'd never sung anything, anywhere that early in the morning. Got it in vi or 7 takes though."^[6]

Touch on and legacy [edit]

Despite his enthusiasm for the Sutherland Brothers, Stewart said that he "argued vehemently" against the release of "Sailing" as the lead single from Atlantic Crossing,^[vi] instead advocating his own composition "Three Time Loser".^[6] Gavin Sutherland concurs: "I don't think Rod personally wanted ["Sailing"] put out equally a single. He just saw it as a large ballady-kind of final rails, side two, finish to Atlantic Crossing which had several other cracking tracks on information technology."^[5] However "Sailing" had an Baronial 1975 United kingdom single release parallel with the album release of Atlantic Crossing: reaching No. 2 UK in its second week of release, Stewart's "Sailing" would have a four-calendar week tenure at No. 1 UK.

Stewart's "Sailing" had a United kingdom nautical chart revival in 1976 equally a result of the rails existence utilized as theme song for Sailor a documentary serial on HMSArk Imperial which BBC1 aired for 10 weeks from 5 August 1976: "Sailing" ranked at No. l on the Great britain nautical chart dated 4 September 1976 and the track'southward renewed popularity continued even subsequently the vii Oct 1976 finale of the Sailor TV serial, as "Sailing" reached its 1976 chart peak of No. 3 on the UK charts dated 16 – 23 October 1976, with the rails remaining in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Top l into January 1977.^[7] Stewart performed "Sailing" live on the Pinnacle of the Pops broadcast of 23 September 1976. "Sailing" remains Stewart'southward biggest-selling unmarried in the UK: in November 2012 information technology was reported that "Sailing" by Rod Stewart had sold one.12 meg units in the UK with a resultant ranking at No. 112 of the 123 United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland million-selling singles.^[8]

In the The states, where Atlantic Crossing had been issued in August 1975 without a single release, "Sailing" was issued as the album's pb unmarried in October 1975 only failed to reach the Top xl of Billboard, attaining a Hot 100 peak of No. 58.^[ix] Overall "Sailing" did afford Stewart a major international success reaching No.one in Ireland, kingdom of the netherlands, and Norway; No. 2 in Australia, Belgium's Flanders, S Africa and Switzerland; No. 3 in New Zealand; No. 4 in Germany; No. 7 in Austria; No. 13 in Sweden.

The first music video for "Sailing" was filmed in the Port of Dublin and as well featured footage shot on the major Dublin thoroughfare Moore Street: featuring Stewart and his partner Britt Ekland, the video aired on the Top of the Pops broadcast of 28 August 1975. Another music video for "Sailing" was shot in New York Harbor in 1978, and would become one of the first to be aired on MTV when it launched on 1 August 1981.^[ten]

Equally the British task-force sailed out of Portsmouth Harbour on 5 Apr 1982 – the third day of the Falklands War – the recording of Rod Stewart's "Sailing" was broadcast from the quay's public address system.^{[11] [12]}

In 1987 Rod Stewart'south "Sailing" was reissued as a charity unmarried afterwards the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster off the Flemish port of Zeebrugge,^[thirteen] becoming a moderate hit in Belgium'due south Flanders (No. 24) and also the British Isles (No. 41 United kingdom/ No. thirty Ireland) ("Sailing" would be the simply charting Rod Stewart single in the British Isles in 1987).

Alive performances [edit]

Although Stewart had been touring the US with the Faces at the fourth dimension of the autumn 1975 unmarried release of "Sailing" that tour's setlist was focused on Stewart's collaborations with the Faces, with "Three Time Loser" being the only Atlantic Crossing number to exist included. "Sailing" would debut equally a Rod Stewart concert number during his European tour of November 1976 – January 1977 with the song ordinarily serving as each show's purported finale to be followed with "Stay With Me" equally encore: Stewart's 1 November 1976 performance at the Trondheim Spektrum in Norway launched the tour which later dates in Scandinavia, Republic of finland, Belgium and holland played 9 cities in Great Britain including six nights (21 -24 Dec 1976/ xiv–15 January 1977) at the Olympia London.^[xiv]

Stewart'south 1982 Absolutely Live concert album features a performance of "Sailing". He performed "Sailing" at the 20 June 1986 Prince'south Trust All-Star Rock Concert – with Elton John on piano and Eric Clapton on guitar – and at the 1 July 2007 Concert for Diana memorial gala for Diana, Princess of Wales: both events were held at Wembley Stadium.^[xv]

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Year-end charts [edit]

Chart (1975)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Written report)[32]	24

Stone Against Repatriation version [edit]

In Dec 1990 "Sailing" was remade every bit a protest song against the repatriation of Vietnamese gunkhole people who had fled to Hong Kong: Steve Hackett, who organized this multi-artist recording intended to raise funds to assistance those living in refugee camps, would recall:

I think...sitting there with Brian May and we were overdubbing the vocal on Christmas Eve. I had gotten people to work in England on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Battle Day...I was condign a professional person ragamuffin as you do when you undertake charity work. I was worried that I pushed a lot of my friends, family and direction to the limit with this. But even as nosotros sat there Christmas Eve doing the overdubs, they showed [the participating artists] working on TV from when they filmed us earlier. It had anybody singing along and it was a overnice buzz for Brian and me. I was worried I pushed him on information technology, only he said 'No, you lot got me out of myself by doing that. I'grand glad yous did that.' And then, information technology was a practiced effort.^[33]

It was announced that both the Sutherland Brothers: Gavin and Iain, would exist featured on the recording, although only Iain Sutherland would in fact be featured.^[34] Recorded at Surrey Sound Studios – with additional recording at the Cambridge Park and Maison Rouge studios (both in southwest London) and also Real World Studios^{[35] [ unreliable source ]} – the version of "Sailing" by Hackett et al. was issued xix February 1990 with the artist credit Rock Against Repatriation to spend a single week on the United kingdom chart ranking at #89 for the week ending iii March 1990, and – despite Hackett's accusation that "I must have washed over twenty Tv shows here in Due north America" in support of the single and its crusade – a US release went unnoticed. Hackett would admit: "The unmarried didn't accomplish what I wanted information technology to."^[33]

A video was prepped for the Rock Against Repatriation version of "Sailing" which intercut footage of the featured artists performing with media images of the Vietnamese refugees forcibly repatriated from Hong Kong.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Personnel [edit]

• Iain Sutherland, Paul Carrack, Jim Diamond, Fish, Kevin Godley, Justin Hayward, Steve Hogarth, Marker King, Bonnie Tyler – vocals
• Tom Conti, Paul Muggleton – backing vocals
• John Hackett – flute
• Steve Hackett, Steve Rothery – guitar, bankroll vocals
• Howard Jones – pianoforte
• Mark Kelly – keyboards, backing vocals
• London Sleeping accommodation
  Orchestra, bundled by Nick Magnus – strings
• Nick Magnus – keyboards, percussion
• Phil Manzanera, Mike Rutherford – guitar
• Ian Mosley – percussion, backing vocals
• Pine Palladino – bass
• Simon Phillips – drums
• The Pride of Murray – bagpipes
• Short Smith – guitar, vocals
• Pete Trewavas – bass, backing vocals
• Judie Tzuke – vocals, backing vocals
• Adam Wood – percussion

Charts [edit]

Chart (1990)	Elevation position
UK Singles (OCC)[36]	89

Other versions [edit]

"Sailing" has also been recorded by Joan Baez (anthology Blowin' Away 1977), Alliance of Homo (album xx Number One Hits 1980), the Nolan Sisters (album twenty Giant Hits 1978), Smokie, (anthology Uncovered Too 2002) and Matriarch Vera Lynn.^[37] Robin Trower (with bassist James Dewar on vocals) covered the song on the 1976 album Long Misty Days ^[38] and Roger Whittaker on the 1978 album Roger Whittaker Sings the Hits.,^[37] Aled Jones. Instrumental versions of "Sailing" have been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra (album Classic Stone 1977) and Richard Clayderman (album A Little Nighttime Music – 12 Archetype Dear Songs 1988).^[37]

A French version ("Ma musique") has been recorded past Joe Dassin in 1975.^{[ citation needed ]}

The song'southward melody is used for the football game dirge "No ane likes united states of america, we don't care", sung by Millwall supporters.^[39]

At the time of the Voyage of Greta Thunberg in 2019, climate strikers in Steyning performed the song with the lyrics "Greta'southward Sailing".^[40]

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External links [edit]

• "Rod Stewart: Sailing" at Discogs (list of releases)

josephunintork.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_(Sutherland_Brothers_song)

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