Sailing Away (All of Us song)

Not to be confused with Come Sail Away.
"Sailing Away"
Single by All Of Us
B-side"Pick It Up"
Released1986
RecordedAuckland, 1986
GenrePop
Length3:59
LabelCBS
Songwriter(s)
  • Lyrics: Len Potts, Charlie Sutherland and Paul Katene
  • Music: Traditional
Producer(s)Murray Grindlay

"Sailing Away" is a 1986 single by a supergroup of New Zealand singers and personalities, to promote New Zealand yacht KZ 7 in the 1987 America's Cup. It spent nine weeks at #1 in the single chart, the longest run of a New Zealand single until 2009. While the song is conceptually similar to the many charity supergroup singles released in the mid 1980s, "Sailing Away" has its origins as a television advertisement and was not a charity record.[1]

The song uses the melody of the Māori folk song "Pokarekare Ana", and is bookended with a verse of the original song.[2]

  1. ^ "Sailing Away by All of Us". NZ Film Archive. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Pokarekare Ana". New Zealand Folk Song. Retrieved 26 October 2013.