There was a problem. The following year’s album, How Dare You!, would be the last by the Stockport art-rockers with Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. “That intrigued me because there was a real sexual connotation.”. But I suppose that’s life.”, Electric six- and four-string, acoustic bass, backing vocals, zither, Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley. Look at that guy looking up at Cindy-fly-me and I know he's never gonna get on an aeroplane, I don't think, except in his dreams. And it’s still one of our most requested songs in the live show.”. "I'm Mandy Fly Me" is a single by10ccreleased in 1976. Complete your 10cc collection. Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! It was taken from the How Dare You! 10cc - I'm Mandy Fly Me - Cover by: Brady Arnold Movies Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. I'm Mandy fly me I've often heard her jingle It's never struck a chord With a smile as bright as sunshine She called me through the poster And welcomed me aboard She led me she fed me She read me like a book But I'm hiding in the small print Won't you take another look? Share to Reddit. The album version of "I'm Mandy Fly Me" features an intro in form of one of the bridge sections of the band's 1974 song "Clockwork Creep". A quite "beatlesque" song from 10cc, one of the most underrated bands of rock history - and one of the best, as well. He said "I think it just gets too bland, it just goes on, on one plane, your verses and your middles and your der-der-der, they're all going on the one plane. It was taken from theHow Dare You!album. “It has all of our hallmarks and is very representative of what 10cc was all about,” says Graham Gouldman. That Godley was responsible for saving the day in both regards is, for once, unanimous. Share via email. What isn’t in dispute is that the song that gave the band a huge hit became a true pop classic. album, the former later claiming that “10cc was becoming safe and predictable”. album, and reached No. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. Almost 40 years after its release, I’m Mandy Fly Me remains a cherished throwback to a glorious era in British popular music, its storytelling qualities later reflected in cinematic-style mini-epics such as Guns N’ Roses’ November Rain. 6 on the UK Singles Chart.[1]. I've got some ideas, I've got some chords. Watch the video for I'm Mandy Fly Me from 10cc's The Very Best of 10cc for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. These days there’s no love lost between the two. The idea for this song came from a very suggestive - some would say sexist - advertising campaign in the '70s for National Airlines, an American carrier that was taken over by Pan-Am in 1980. I’m Mandy Fly Me certainly says a lot in five minutes and 24 seconds. I’m Mandy Fly Me has all these disparate elements flying all over the place but they’re all distilled into one fantastic record. I'm Mandy Fly Me I'm Not In Love I'm Not In Love - The 1995 Acoustic Session. "I'm Mandy Fly Me" is a single by 10cc released in 1976. " I'm Mandy fly me... " I've often heard her jingle It's never struck a chord With a smile as bright as sunshine She called me through the poster And welcomed me aboard She led me she fed me She read me like a book But I'm hiding in the small print Won't you take another look? All rights reserved. In a radio interview,[2] Stewart recalled the origins of the song: National Airlines used to have this beautiful poster that they displayed of this gorgeous stewardess inviting you onto the plane. Once we'd got that idea in, it, it just gelled into something else. 10cc - I'm Mandy Fly Me: auto scroll beats size up size down change color hide chords simplify chords drawings columns. Share to Facebook. “I saw a tramp standing in front of an American Airlines poster that featured a beautiful stewardess, smiling seductively and beckoning with her finger: ‘Hi, I’m Cheryl… Fly Me!’” Stewart recalls. So I brought it back, the idea back to the studio, where we were writing for the How Dare You! album, and put it to the guys: "Anybody interested in this 'I'm Mandy Fly Me'". “Gouldman is always taking credit for things that he didn’t do,” Stewart complains. However, as 1975 came to an end, it looked like 10cc might too. Watch the video for I'm Mandy Fly Me from 10cc's The Very Best of 10cc for free, and see … But, nearly four decades after they wrote it, its genesis has become a distillation of the bitterness and clash of characters that sadly defines 10cc today. Godley’s proposal of “two whacking great guitar solos” (Stewart’s description) and the addition of the bridge ‘The world was spinning like a ball/And then it wasn’t there at all/And as my heart began to fall…” heightened the drama of a storyline in which Mandy, the plane and its passengers dropped out of the clouds and plummeted into the sea. share We use cookies to give you the best experience on our site and show you relevant ads. I'm Mandy fly me I've often heard her jingle It's never struck a chord With a smile as bright as sunshine She called me through the poster And welcomed me aboard She led me she fed me She read me like a book But I'm hiding in the small print Won't you take another look? And we hoped that people would share that feeling.”. “The bare bones of its words were just okay until Kevin rewrote them,” says Gouldman. " I'm Mandy fly me... " I've often heard her jingle It's never struck a chord With a smile as bright as sunshine She called me through the poster And welcomed me aboard She led me she fed me She read me like a book But I'm hiding in the small print Won't you take another look? It was well played and smooth but it didn’t make you sit up and take notice.”. I'm Mandy Fly Me is a single by 10cc released in 1976. Stock image used Track title Duration A I'm Mandy Fly Me 4:37 B How Dare You 3:19 FREE UK SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER £30. 6 on the UK Singles Chart. Please refresh the page and try again. “The statement was obviously a pseudo-sexual invitation: ‘Come on, big boy, book a flight with us and I’m all yours.’ But watching this poor, ragged soul, I wondered if he was fantasising about getting on the flight, and ‘getting off’ with her, when realistically he would never board any aeroplane – [let alone] with her.”, “Eric didn’t see the poster, I did,” insists Gouldman, citing a United Airlines billboard that he claims said: ‘I’m Susie, fly me to Miami’. Visit our corporate site. But, enter from stage left, ha ha, the "wicked villain" Kevin Godley, twiddling his moustache, says "I know what's wrong with it. The section, whose lyrics are "Oh, no you'll never get me up in one of these again / 'Cause what goes up must come down", is rendered soft and tinny, as if heard playing from a portable transistor radio or an in-flight audio system. “We tried to make it sound like the crappy headphones that are given out on a plane.” Trivia fans should also listen for the ‘ping’ noise you hear when the button to summon a flight attendant is pressed; it’s at the five-minute mark on the full-length album version. Share to Pinterest. BA1 1UA. Share to Popcorn Maker. Let's slot those things in, try it, mess it around". Despite an impressive run of UK Top 10 records that included the No.1 singles Rubber Bullets and I’m Not In Love, by 1976 10cc’s original line-up was on its last legs. As well as a beautiful, radio-friendly arrangement, 10cc could always be relied upon for art-rock excess, and as an extra quirk it included a snippet from Clockwork Creep, a song on their 1974 album Sheet Music, its crooned lyric: “Oooh, you’ll never get me up in one of these again/’Cos what goes up, must come down” bolted on to Mandy’s intro. Again, impossible to dance to, as a lot of 10cc tracks were, but once Kevin had put that in, he became the third writer in the song so we were quite democratic in that way. That’s almost three different bands. -- a plane crash. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer, Moby: Why I ❤️ Pantera's The Great Southern Trendkill, Van Morrison is surprisingly enjoyable on album of grumpy but bouncy R&B, Bees, ballads, Michael Bolton, and the heroically overblown return of Touch, Watch Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons join forces to cover Fleetwood Mac. EMBED. Ascolta I'm Mandy Fly Me di 10cc, 31,645 Shazam, inclusa nelle playlist 10cc Essentials e Inspired by Magical Mystery Tour di Apple Music. "I'm Cindy, fly me" which was a quite sexual connotation as well, but I remember seeing in Manchester this beautiful poster and just below it was this tramp, I mean a serious tramp, quite a raggedy guy, looking up at this girl, and I thought God, do you know, there's a song there. To Stewart’s chagrin, Gouldman continues to tour with his own line-up of 10cc. album, and reached No. Although 10cc had bigger hits, it could be argued that I’m Mandy Fly Me remains the band’s quintessential song. Three years later, Gouldman and Stewart wound up the band after the poorly received and uncharting Mirror Mirror album. Sometimes those influences were credited, while others were not. With hindsight, a break might have solved the problem.”. It just wasn't going anywhere. Em Bm - A - G D - D7 Bb where on earth do I begi.....n : I'm Mandy, fly me ! (Classic Rock) 12 August 2015. Although Gouldman also professes to have switched the stewardess’s first name (“I changed Cheryl to Mandy!” Stewart objects), he stresses that the song isn’t about drugs, and Mandrax in particular. Stewart concurs: “The song wasn’t really knocking us out. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? We liked writing stories that defied logic but somehow felt right. So we changed the rhythm completely, and we put two whacking great guitar solos in there, in the middle of this quiet, soft, floaty song. A typically enigmatic, melodic and eloquent mix of music and wordplay, I’m Mandy Fly Me gave 10cc one of their biggest hits. Indeed both Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, who would drive the band onwards for eight more years after Godley and Creme’s exit, have both claimed the idea for Mandy’s title and lyrics as their own. A follow-up of sorts to "Clockwork Creep" (from the Sheet Music album), "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" is a superbly detailed and supremely dippy romance set around -- what else? Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. [3], "The Story Behind The Song: I'm Mandy Fly Me by 10cc", The Irish Charts – Search Results – I'm Mandy Fly Me", Dutchcharts.nl – 10cc – I'm Mandy Fly Me", Swedishcharts.com – 10cc – I'm Mandy Fly Me", Changing Faces - The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme, Strawberry Bubblegum: A Collection of Pre-10CC Strawberry Studio Recordings 1969–1972, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%27m_Mandy_Fly_Me&oldid=1003635073, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 January 2021, at 23:01. The world was spinning like a ball And then it wasn't there at all And as my heart began to fall. It was taken from the How Dare You! Godley and Creme quit 10cc after the completion of the How Dare You! Stock image used Track title Duration A I'm Mandy Fly Me 4:37 B How Dare You 3:19. With all four members contributing vocals, various instruments and song ideas and being involved in the production of their records at the group-owned Strawberry Studios, the band’s internal mechanism was more complicated than most. So the plane crashes, Mandy saves the song’s tramp-like subject from the sharks, and, lo and behold, her body vanishes mysteriously from the wreckage. Ask different members of the band who came up with the title and you’ll get different answers. “The example that I’m really talking about is Une Nuit A Paris [a three-song suite on 10cc’s 1975 album The Original Soundtrack], which preceded Bohemian Rhapsody. “It’s pathetic.”. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about 10cc - I'm Mandy Fly Me at Discogs. Then, in his usual subtle way, Kevin said: ‘It’s too safe. album, and reached No. Now her name wasn't Mandy actually, it was something like, er, oh gosh knows, "I'm Cindy", a very American name. It was taken from the How Dare You! It needs a kick up the arse.’ And he was right. The ads featured real stewardesses and carried headlines like, "I'm Cheryl. 6 on the UK singles chart. Although the hits would eventually dry up, Gouldman and Stewart continued as 10cc until 1983. 6 on the UK Singles Chart. Indeed both Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, who would drive the band onwards for eight more years after Godley and Creme’s exit, have both claimed the idea for Mandy ’s title and lyrics as their own. What it needs is someone to go 'Bash' on the side of your head". We, we scrapped it. The four men worked together again on ’92’s …Meanwhile album, but Godley and Creme’s involvement was minimal. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, “Kevin and I have since discussed the things that should have been done. By Tracklist Hide Credits. Share to Tumblr. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! "I'm Mandy Fly Me" is a single by 10cc released in 1976. As well as releasing their own records, the pair later pursued a successful career making videos for other artists. Bath © “I think that was my idea,” Gouldman says. show chords YouTube Clip hide all tabs go to top. … Share to Twitter. I'm Mandy, fly me I've often heard her jingle It's never struck a chord With a smile as bright as sunshine She called me through the poster And welcomed me aboard She led me she fed me She read me like a book But I'm hiding in the small print Won't you take another look? “It’s a bit of a tall tale,” acknowledges Gouldman. Both agree that an air of disappointment had greeted the song’s earliest draft, from Gouldman in a lyrical sense and Stewart in a musical one. It reached No. Let's sit down again." “Our three number ones were Rubber Bullets, which was a real rock song, sung by Lol Creme, the ballad I’m Not In Love, which Eric Stewart sang, and Dreadlock Holiday, a cod-reggae song sung by me. 10cc – I'm Mandy Fly Me Label: Mercury – 6008 019 Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single Country: Netherlands Released: 1976 Genre: Rock. The very latest chart stats about i'm mandy fly me - peak chart position, weeks on chart, week-by-week chart run, catalogue number In a radio interview,[1]Stewart recalled the origins of the song "I'm Mandy Fly Me": The intro to "I'm Mandy Fly Me" features one of the bridge sections of the band's 1974 song "Clockwork Creep". I'm Mandy Fly Me I'm Not In Love I'm Not In Love - The 1995 Acoustic Session. “Yeah, I hear echoes to what 10cc did in a lot of other bands,” Gouldman agrees. Style: Pop Rock. And Graham said "yeah, that sounds like a good idea. “But a lot of the things we did back then were in that stream-of-consciousness style. I'd switched it to Mandy. Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. “There was a cloud on the horizon. She led me she fed me She read me like a book But I'm hiding in the small print Won't you take another look And take me away Try me Mandy fly me away. You will receive a verification email shortly. We wrote it, and we didn't like it. Everyone knew that,” states Gouldman. Dave Ling Label: Mercury - 6008 019 Format: 7", Single Country: UK Released: 1976 Genre: Rock Media condition: Very Good (VG) Sleeve condition: Generic Comments: How do we decide the condition? Along with Art For Art’s Sake, I’m Mandy Fly Me was one of two hits from a highly inventive album conceived amid ever-growing tension. 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