US based Porter Singer describes her new single as a luscious reinterpretation of Rod Stewart’s classic hit.
During lockdown while in separate quarantine locations Spiritually-Inclined Music-Maker Porter Singer (aka Sirgun Kaur) collaborated with Songs of Eden on a new version of Rod’s 1975 number one classic,
Talking to SMILER today Porter said “We chose Sailing because it felt like the perfect lyrics for this time, longing to be united with others in the time of Covid, but also a longing to connect with who we all really are”.
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Sailing was originally recorded by the Sutherland Brothers on their Lifeboat album in 1972. It was written by their bassist Gavin Sutherland. Rod covered the song in 1975 on his album Atlantic Crossing
Rod related to the song’s theme of homesickness (the high rate of tax in the UK had forced him to move to America) and he recorded his version at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with a choir assembled by Bob Crewe, the Four Seasons’ producer. It became his third UK chart-topper and the following year, it was revived following it’s use as the theme music for a BBC TV documentary series about the HMS Ark Royal, this time peaking at #3. The combined sales of the 2 releases meant this is Rod’s biggest ever selling single in the UK with 955,111 copies sold.
Other acts who have covered this include Robin Trower (1976), Joan Baez (1977) and Smokie (2001).
