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33. My favorite story about this song is one of my own.

Thu Sep 21, 2017, 10:53 PM

Sep 2017

When I was in college radio, I did a request show because I actually had a few listeners to my little night-time show.

Some guy called in one night and said "play 'Aero-plane'." I had to think fast, because this wasn't at all clear. Did he mean "Leaving on a Jet Plane"? The Jefferson Airplane? I wasn't sure what he was requesting, and he repeated, insistently, "play 'Aero-plane'." I still had no idea what song he was talking about, so I started asking questions - "do you mean 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'? Or a song by the Airplane?" I could NOT figure it out. And he finally said: "No! Aero-plane! You know, gimme a ticket for an Aero-plane"!

I swear, I've cracked people up with that story since 1972!

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Number One 🎶 Fifty Years Ago Today 📺📻 [View all] Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 OP

Still sounds good to me. SamKnause Sep 2017 #1

Great song! Great voice! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #2

And he was sixteen years old at the time. nt rsdsharp Sep 2017 #5

Wow! I didnt know that! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #6

I've often wondered what it was like for Chilton rsdsharp Sep 2017 #35

He never heard no again !😏 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #39

Interesting! And what a flashback! Thanks! peacebuzzard Sep 2017 #37

Agree! maddiemom Sep 2017 #13

Wow, that takes me back. Waaaaay back! Arkansas Granny Sep 2017 #3

It does a lot of us! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #7

I can remember sitting at my little MuseRider Sep 2017 #4

Cool! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #8

Growing older is interesting isn't it? MuseRider Sep 2017 #9

Yep! At the time I lived in Cleveland. A friend who I worked with and I took turns picking each Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #10

:-) MuseRider Sep 2017 #14

It's weird how that song is 50 years old and I am still the same world wide wally Sep 2017 #11

I KNOW! MuseRider Sep 2017 #15

Yup on both counts! whathehell Sep 2017 #19

Somehow, my kids must have ,snuck out and grew up..... Now it's like we're the same age world wide wally Sep 2017 #31

Yeah, I know the feeling, lol whathehell Sep 2017 #41

Alex Chilton jayschool2013 Sep 2017 #12

Yes! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #20

Live jayschool2013 Sep 2017 #16

Cool! Thanks! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #21

Hmmm....I remember that one. I was in Vietnam at the time, listening to Armed Forces Radio Glorfindel Sep 2017 #17

Glad you came back! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #22

I was in the 7th grade mgardener Sep 2017 #18

Bummer! 😢 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #23

I remember walking home from school with a friend... QED Sep 2017 #24

Wise beyond your years! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #25

I'm 50 years old wysi Sep 2017 #26

Youngster! 😂 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #28

One of my favorite songs of my preadolescence 50 years ago jg10003 Sep 2017 #27

Please enjoy! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #29

wow only 1 minute 52 seconds long. IcyPeas Sep 2017 #30

Not exactly in a gadda da vida Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #32

My favorite story about this song is one of my own. calimary Sep 2017 #33

Cool story! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #34

I would have played him 'this' Aero-plane without a second thought. BluesRunTheGame Sep 2017 #40

the singer was 16?????? niyad Sep 2017 #36

Unreal! Like he had been singing in smoke filled bars and drinking whiskey for thirty years! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2017 #38

no kidding! the first word that came to mind was "jaded"-- kind of hard to be that at 16, though! niyad Sep 2017 #42

About seven years later, he would go on to front Big Star. Dave Starsky Sep 2017 #43