"Sail Away" | |
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Single by Randy Newman | |
from the album Sail Away | |
Released | 1972 |
Genre | Orchestral pop[1] |
Label | Reprise |
Songwriter(s) | Randy Newman |
"Sail Away" is a song by Randy Newman, the title track to his 1972 album. In a 1972 review in Rolling Stone, Stephen Holden describes "Sail Away" as presenting "the American dream of a promised land as it might have been presented to black Africa in slave running days."[2]