L.A. International Airport

1970

LA International Airport is a country song, which is mainly known in the version of the American singer Susan Raye 1971 today. It was first released a year ago by David Frizzell.

History

The Country singer David Frizzell took the song for the first time in 1970 - eleven years before his first album - on and released it as a single. " L.A. International Airport "was his first release ever and could reach space 67 of the genre charts. A year later coverte Susan Raye, who also stood still at the beginning of her career, the song for their album Willy Jones and made him hit., He reached number 9 of the country charts and was also the only song that could place the Raye in her long career on the Billboard Hot 100, further he made ​​it to number 1 in New Zealand.

In their version of the song was about the airport Los Angeles one of the biggest crossover hits of the 70s and made the young singer famous. The great popularity of the piece she used still over 20 years later to market one of their best-of albums, which they gave the title of her most famous songs. In 2003, she led after seventeen years of stage pause the 75th anniversary of the airport again on, also it was declared the official song of the airport Los Angeles. In the same year also took Shirley Myers, a singer from Nashville, the song scratch.