Talk:Leaving on a Jet Plane

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covers

Janis Joplin covered this song on her album "pearl"? --79.211.165.78 (talk) 20:50, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The song was not released on the album Pearl. Housewatcher (talk) 05:13, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Typo?

"Leavin - Jesse McCartney - is a reference to the song with lyrics pertaining to leaving on a jetplace and it also samples a bit of the tune." That should be jetplane, right? April 18, 2008

Yes. Actually in the future, just go with your gut feeling on a typo like that. :) --98.232.182.66 (talk) 05:46, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

How is John Denver's death an irony? It may be interesting trivia that Denver, who sang a popular song about air travel, died in an air accident -- but it's not ironic. Perhaps if he had written a song about how air travel made him feel alive ... but "Leaving on a Jet Plane" is farewell song before departing on a journey. Perhaps if Denver had crusaded for air travel safety. Merely writing a song about a jet plane and then dying 30 years later in a small plane accident doesn't qualify as irony. 66.17.118.207 13:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Point taken. The remark in question has been removed from the article. --Cheers, Folajimi (leave a note) 19:35, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What is ironic is that British Airways used it in a commercial for air travel when the very man who wrote the song died in a plane crash.

Actually none of this is ironic. It may be regarded as coincidental, unfortunate, karmic, foreshadowed, or in the case of the British Airways commercial, arguably poor taste. But none of it is technically ironic. For an excellent discussion of what is and isn't ironic, see Irony. Scorpiondollprincess (talk) 16:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is an example of denotation and connotation ... popular culture uses the term ironic in a broad sense, uppity english majors use it in a different sense ... but even the uppity can understand what the writer is trying to say in the non-correct sense ... so what gives, let's all be friends here ...jmh —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.56.86.35 (talk) 19:48, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is it or isn't it ironic, that someone who writes "let's all be friends here" is being abusive ('uppity') towards people whose English is simply better than his and who happen to know what the word 'ironic' means?

Cultural significance of the song

I feel that there should be a section about the cultural significance of the song, its popularity during the Vietnam War, etc. At the very least, there should be a comment about how the song is popularly interpreted to be about a soldier leaving to fight in the Vietnam War. 156.111.160.186 (talk) 21:26, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely. I thought this was written about Vietnam, too. I seem to remember hearing that somewhere, possible on a public radio program. Even if it wasn't, it became about it, after the fact. This DOES need to be mentioned in the article. --98.232.182.66 (talk) 05:39, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Except that it wasn't. Nobody I know who was around in the 1960s, thinks that it was anything to do with Vietnam at all.

Incidentally, the 1960s ended on 31 Dec. 1970, not 1969.

You can't be a cappella and accompany yourself with a guitar

I removed this for the above reason and for its insignificance.

"*Graphics artist Stan Le also covered the song acapella with his acoustic guitar during the production of The Daily Cougar's Graduation Guide." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.154.65.201 (talk) 04:13, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cover vandalism?

The last entry under the heading Covers seems to be vandalism. In any fact it seems to violate NPOV. I write this, not beacuse I could not correct it myself, but does such action (the vandalism) not warrent some kind of warning? How to do that, I do not know. Help. --Henry Berthelsen (talk) 12:58, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And so it was removed...--Henry Berthelsen (talk) 12:31, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

what album is it on?!?!?!?!?!

this seems like it should be in there... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dabean100 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

covers

shouldnt the parody by the baron knights "heaving on a jet plane" be listed on this list??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.176.221.162 (talk) 09:31, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What's with the purging of all mentions of Chantal Kreviazuk's cover?

Clearly, someone bitter or vindictive over Kreviazuk's cover of the song has done a shabby job of hiding their contempt for the cover. No one's asking you to like Kreviazuk's version, but it's disingenuous to pretend such a cover doesn't exist. I'm mentioning it in the article. Period. Peace&Karats (talk) 15:38, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SONGCOVER says otherwise.--Egghead06 (talk) 16:07, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ok then you're the big expert it seems, so please enlighten me as to what it will take to include Chantal Kreviazuk's rendition of the song into the article. Because I'd like to know now before you revert another one of my edits with a curt justification. Peace&Karats (talk) 18:03, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

it needs to satisfy one of the conditions of the guideline. As it is, it didn't chart, the rendition of the song is not notable.--Egghead06 (talk) 18:17, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"is not notable..." ...according to guideline established by the elite Wikipedia oligarchs who aim to have a monopoly on the dissemination of information? Well, that does make sense! It seems sadly that that the people who run Wikipedia are as infantile, hubristic and autocratic as they ever were. You can carry on as such - I will have no more to do with it. There - I'm extricating myself from Wikipedia BEFORE you block me, I suppose for some arbitrary infraction like "insubordination". See you around the "Interwebs", Buck-O. ;-) Peace&Karats (talk) 18:27, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Chantal Kreviazuk

Her cover deserves to be mentioned in this article. Wikipedia:SONGCOVER places an emphasis on notability. Chantal's cover has been consistently highlighted on the Armageddon soundtrack, it has enduring popularity because of its exposure from that movie. Furthermore it appears on three of Chantal's own albums because of this notability and is especially well-known in Canada.

This issue had been discussed prior, but it appears a cavalier editor dismissed the request. A brief search will reveal it charted in the UK at #59 along with numerous mentions of its impact on Chantal's career internationally.

It does feel like there has been an effort to sensor this article which would violate neutrality, objectively this cover version has gained enough recognition to at least warrant a mention in the article. Veryway (talk) 09:28, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Washington Airport

The article indicates Denver composed the song during a layover at Washington Airport. That's not possible as Washington Airport (later known as Washington-Hoover Airport) closed in 1941, two years before Denver was born. He most likely composed it at Washington National Airport, now called Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which was a new facility built to replace Washington-Hoover Airport and located several miles away in what is now known as the Crystal City section of Arlington County. It opened in 1941, the same year the former airport serving Washington, DC closed.

So the link and citation should be corrected as noted above. Also, I think it would be good to cite the source for the attribution that he composed it during a layover. It's an interesting tidbit and makes for a good story. As an aside, it's also odd that this was one of his more popular songs (and first notable one) and that he subsequently died in an airplane crash.

Thanks for the link to the original airport, I never knew it existed until I stumbled across your link. I'm a transportation professional but my career mostly involved almost every other transportation mode except the air side of airports. Bonsource (talk) 20:23, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]