JANIS IAN Fly too High Special Promo Version

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Channel: daveinprogress3 · 2015 · Howto & Style

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The wonderful Janis Ian went disco in 1980 with Giorgio Moroder and achieved this worldwide hit: "Fly Too High'. This recording just gets better with age, in my opinion. It received high rotation airplay in the summer/winter of 1979/1980 (depending on where you lived!).

'Fly too high' was recorded for the movie 'Foxes' a Jodie Foster vehicle which also featured the Donna Summer classic 'On the Radio'. The Casablanca records album was a big success, and although Janis missed the Top 40 narrowly in Britain, and completely in America, despite a Grammy nomination, was a huge success in Australia, reaching #7. This special extended disco promo version accentuates everything great about this track - the pulsating beat, the at times coquettish, sometimes slinky vocal, the great trumpet & sax solos & the upbeat (pardon the pun) lyric.

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