What song did I Hear?

[Kurtatron]

I was in a Home Depot, only heard snippet of the song. It was an older piece I must have heard as a kid. Sounded like a black band. All I heard was:

Fly…
Fly…
Fly…
I want to flyyyyy…

Then a guitar solo rips.

What song was this? Sounded like 70s 80s

 

[JohnnyG]

Lenny Kravitz, Fly Away (I think). He's one of my favorites. Prob better than Hendrix on the guitar!

 

[BISCUT]

 

[aquariuscsm]

Fly Robin Fly?

 

[aquariuscsm]

Post a video of you singing it for us so we can identify it

 

[PharmerMike]

It doesn't help you in this instance, but when I hear a song I don't know, I just say, "Hey, Siri. What is this song playing right now?"

It actually works well...

 

[skyactiv]

It doesn't help you in this instance, but when I hear a song I don't know, I just say, "Hey, Siri. What is this song playing right now?"

It actually works well...

I was about to say the same thing.

 

[earlyre]

It doesn't help you in this instance, but when I hear a song I don't know, I just say, "Hey, Siri. What is this song playing right now?"

It actually works well...

Or "Hey Google..." etc if you don't have an iphone.

 

[earlyre]

I was in a Home Depot, only heard snippet of the song. It was an older piece I must have heard as a kid. Sounded like a black band. All I heard was:

Fly…
Fly…
Fly…
I want to flyyyyy…

Then a guitar solo rips.

What song was this? Sounded like 70s 80s

to help the group narrow things down.... "I must have heard as a kid" can you narrow that date range down a bit?

1950's? 1990's? 2000's? (sorry, but i don't have a clue how old you are....)
yes, you gave what you thought was an approxamite date range, of 70's or 80's, but one of the first suggestions that could def. fit was from 1998...

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

I was in a Home Depot, only heard snippet of the song. It was an older piece I must have heard as a kid. Sounded like a black band. All I heard was:

Fly…
Fly…
Fly…
I want to flyyyyy…

Then a guitar solo rips.

What song was this? Sounded like 70s 80s

Steve Miller Band "Fly Like An eagle?" Sounds like you heard the end

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

Posted it before I saw.

OP, was this the one?

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

It was obviously this

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

It was obviously this

Did you ever know that
.... You're my hero?

Starts at 3:47 but.. No guitar solo rips, I'm also not really impressed with this song it sounds.. contrived. Nice, but...

 

[wag123]

There is only one song that I know of that has the identical lyrics you posted...
Lou Reed's Dirty Blvd. (also covered by David Bowie, Alejandro Escovedo, Joseph Arthur, Speak Easy, and maybe others)



The "Fly, Fly, Fly Away" lyrics come about 2/3's of the way through the song.
During this time frame he had two of the world's best and most underrated guitar players... **** Wagner and Steve Hunter, both outstanding lead guitarists who worked with many of the top artists including... Alice Cooper, Mitch Ryder, Aerosmith, Jack Bruce, Peter Gabriel, David Lee Roth, Julian Lennon, Dr. John, and MANY others. Lou Reed was no slouch on guitar either.

 

[Warstud]

Sugar Ray - Fly

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

There is only one song that I know of that has the identical lyrics you posted...
Lou Reed's Dirty Blvd. (also covered by David Bowie, Alejandro Escovedo, Joseph Arthur, Speak Easy, and maybe others)



The "Fly, Fly, Fly Away" lyrics come about 2/3's of the way through the song.
During this time frame he had two of the world's best and most underrated guitar players... **** Wagner and Steve Hunter, both outstanding lead guitarists who worked with many of the top artists including... Alice Cooper, Mitch Ryder, Aerosmith, Jack Bruce, Peter Gabriel, David Lee Roth, Julian Lennon, Dr. John, and MANY others. Lou Reed was no slouch on guitar either.

That's a GREAT song and I like it!

I think you picked the winner.. I hope OP lets us know!

 

[DirectRejection]

J/K. It's Lenny.

 

[dishdude]

Sugar Ray - Fly

My vote is on this. Remember it being played constantly around the same time as the Macarena

At least the Foo Fighters were played a lot around that time...

 

[aquariuscsm]

There is only one song that I know of that has the identical lyrics you posted...
Lou Reed's Dirty Blvd. (also covered by David Bowie, Alejandro Escovedo, Joseph Arthur, Speak Easy, and maybe others)



The "Fly, Fly, Fly Away" lyrics come about 2/3's of the way through the song.
During this time frame he had two of the world's best and most underrated guitar players... **** Wagner and Steve Hunter, both outstanding lead guitarists who worked with many of the top artists including... Alice Cooper, Mitch Ryder, Aerosmith, Jack Bruce, Peter Gabriel, David Lee Roth, Julian Lennon, Dr. John, and MANY others. Lou Reed was no slouch on guitar either.

I have a couple of 45s by "**** Wagner and The Frosts". Maybe from 1967? On the Date record label.

 

[Kurtatron]

It’s not any of those.
I could of misheard the lyrics.

Let me emphasize some points.

1) sounded like a black band. Think Commodores, Heatwave, Earth Wind and Fire.

2) the sound was like a fusion of funk and r&b. Kinda like play that funky music.

3) I may have the lyrics incorrect, I heard something that repeated trice, sounded like Fly, then “I want to “fly”. Then immediately an electric guitar solo follows.

4) The electric guitar was tuned to sound similar to Michael Jackson’s Beat It guitar solo style.

Wish I had more to go off of!

Groove line, or boogie nights by heatwave is a similar style song.

I don’t think the song is too obscure or unheard of. It was playing at Home Depot. They play fairly well known tunes.