![]() ![]() If I ever get to Luton I'll bet/ The first person I'll recognise …" That seemed to satisfy her. 'Would those having relatives or friends on flight 1203 please understand that owing to turbulent weather this has been diverted and has now landed safely at Luton airport'. The Very Best of The Everly Brothers - Compilation by The Everly Brothers Spotify Home Search Your Library Create Playlist Privacy Center Cookies Cookies Preview of Spotify Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. For obvious reasons she hated to hear me singing it, so I changed the lyrics for her benefit: "Then came the announcement over the loudspeaker. The last two verses are sung, ending: "If I ever get to heaven I'll bet/ The first angel I'll recognise/ She'll smile at me, and I know she will be/ My beautiful ebony eyes."īut the song (by John D Loudermilk who also wrote Abilene, The Language of Love, Indian Reservation and Tobacco Road) has the abliity to hook into your brain, and was still lodged in mine a dozen or so years later when I was going out with an air stewardess. Then comes the announcement over the loudspeaker: "Would those having relatives or friends on flight number 1203 please report to the chapel across the street …" and he knows the terrible truth. The clerk replies: "Oh, I guess they probably took off late, or they may have run into some turbulent weather and had to alter their course." This is one of the most improbable lyric lines to appear in any pop song. In the – frankly goose-pimpling, tooth-furring spoken interlude in the song – he goes to the airline desk to ask why her flight is so late. The singer is in the armed forces, but has permission for his fiancee to fly to the base for them to be married. So there were bans, brief or permanent, on Tell Laura I Love Her, Leader of the Pack and the distasteful Last Kiss, in which the singer snogs his girl friend, dying after a car crash.Įbony Eyes is less gruesome. ![]() ![]() Like sex, death was thought an unsuitable topic for impressionable young minds. Ebony Eyes was in the tradition of the death song, and was for a spell banned by the BBC for that reason. ![]()
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