The Flight of Dragons (Title Song) - Don McLean 

I listen and cry. Song of my childhood. The cassette with this cartoon is still alive. Thank you for the memories. Greetings from Russia.

Anyone else still loving this song? A little wonderful musical memory from my childhood. They don't make them like this anymore.

"Listen Don, we've made a cartoon about dragons n shit, with wizards and ogres and all that crazy stuff. We want you to do the theme song. But here's the twist, we want it emotional and sad and be able to rip right through the soul of any child who hears it. " " OK no problem"

Gods... Back when I was just a kid and Blockbuster was still a thing, I'd always beg my mom to let me pick this movie. That and the Last Unicorn. This movie is what sparked my love for fantasy.

I picked up the beta max tape for this when my mom let me choose what to rent from the shop. I just chose it because of the title. I was so surprised it turned out to be one of my favourite movies of all time. I still remember the song and it still haunts me from time to time just like now. It was 1982 and two years later I'd lose my mom to lung cancer.

This was the single most important movie of my childhood

This song will stay with me my whole life...i was seven when I first heard it and now im 30. I love this song.

Whatever this world throws at me, I will always have Flight of dragons.

I’m convinced this movie began my journey to loving Dark Souls.

We sing our newborn to sleep with this song. Thank you.

My mom sang this to my once and now I forever hear a womans voice. It was the most beautiful thing I have and maybe will ever hear.

This movie and the last unicorn - true magic ❤️ I miss fantasy stories like this.

I still can't listen to this without bawling my eyes out. Aged 8, aged 38... doesn't matter, those first 16 bars set me off every time.

"The Flight of Dragons" is an actual book written in 1972 by a real person actually named Peter Dickinson. It is speculative natural history. He genuinely suggested that dragons could have been real and speculates on how their flight would work, and why there is no fossil evidence.

Saw this when it first came out, early 80s. It's hard to believe how fast time has flown, but you know, we're all still kids at heart. Great movie!

I was in single digits when I first saw this movie. I'm in my 30's now and I still remember this movie very fondly. I think the reasons I became fascinated with fantasy and dragons in particular was because of this movie.

I'm pretty sure I watched this 100 times as a kid. Explains my absolute LOVE of Dragons!

Ahh childhood memories, used to watch the fuck out of this film

The perfect song about dragons. It paints them in a very noble, benevolent, and dignified light. The lyric “pilots of fantasy” is precisely how I define these fantastic mythical creatures.

Man this takes me back to the old days. The days where these things told stories that filled your mind with wonder, and life with invitation to explore beyond reality.

To The guy in this comment section that said he was in his 30's, I'm only 18 years old and I can relate... I didn't know the movie was so old, but I do too remember seeing it as a child and really feel good when I think about when I'll be a father and show my kids this movie.

I didn't realize that watching this movie years ago changed my life, it's perhaps the thing that eventually got me into book writing myself, writing fantasy books with dragons.

Man, I really love this movie, I saw it first when I was 6 in 1986, now I´m 34. I always cry of joy when I see it.

Had this on VHS when I was a tiny kid. Might still have it somewhere. I came here after having just finished watching it tonight for what felt like the first time. What a shock to watch something with such nostalgia but it was refreshing too, I was soo little when my brother and I would play it over and over. I had no idea what it was ever really about, almost felt like a long-cherished dream I was able to relive so vividly. Understanding it now for the first time, my appreciation for this film is immeasurable. And its actually really good!

I'm 14 I saw this movie when I was 7 loved it watched it a million times, and then I forgot about it for years. I almost cried when I stumbled upon this. It holds up so well over the years.

"I want to go where they are going, into the world they've been" this lyric hits hard. I never grew up with this movie, but I have with a different series. I want to go to another world, another demention were theres peace and fantasy type magic. Were dragons exists as animals, and magical horses walking amongst the people

2019 goosebumps everytime I here the theme

Even years later, this song still touches the place of my heart where no other song has. I still tear up and cry over this song, for it is the song of my childhood. May magic and Dragons inspire us all...

This song is awesome, and is my favourite film. To top it off the bad guy Ommadon is voiced by Darth Vader

My family taped the movie off TV and my sister was a huge fan of this movie (I always thought it was cool too but she was older and grew up with it more than I did... So maybe 10 years ago after all the searching in the world I found it and got it for her as a joke/birthday gift along side a different gift that was her actual gift... She got ecstatic when she saw it! I think she liked the joke gift better!

Man, I was born in 86, this was one of my favorite movies asa kid! Thanks for the upload! Easily one of my favorite parts James Earl Jones ever voiced. Haha

I've always loved this song, always wished I could buy a CD of it. I had a video cassette of the film that my parents recorded when they lived in Hong Kong during the 80s, which I regularly watched when I was growing up in the 90s and 00s.

That was a true masterpeace!

every time I hear this song I get chills from my head all the way to my toes

one of the most influential movies of my childhood.

Flight of Dragons had such s profound effect on me as a child. I still watch it every year.

I wish this song was in iTunes right now. I could listen to this all day

after all of this yrs i finally found this song. one of my favourite movies from my early child hood. i still remember putting casette player close to tv speaker to record this song and instrumental from end credits

Still one of the best scientific explanations for how a dragon biologically functions. Thanks for posting this!

Has this song ever been released? Vinyl, cassette, CD, anything? I am so desperate to have it properly, in any format.

I will never forget this, one day I'll tell my nieces stories of this & others about a time man & dragon were side by side.

I love this song!,it's the song that the world needs right now!

This movie and tale aged so well. And this song just rips open the portal to childhood. 6 When i first saw it. 28 now and randomly felt compelled to search for this mesmerizing song and have a listen for old times sake.

Truer words never truly capture the epicness of why we all find Dragons so fascinating in fantasy and lore. I will always love this song and movie. Thank you Rankin Bass!

This was one of mine and my brothers favourite movies when we were children. We actually had to get the tape twice as we wore the first copy we had out. I so wish they would release it on DVD.

I grew up adoring this film with few to compete. Growing up, I discovered Don McLean as an artist and loved his works through and through. Then, one day, when I sought out Flight of Dragons and heard the intro... my jaw dropped. All these years, Don had been at the start of my favourite childhood film. Overwhelming and chilling and just thankful for it all.

I'm not the only one!!! I cry at this too. I had a copy of the film on VHS recorded off the TV back in the 80's. Its never been shown since and is very hard to buy. The song just takes me back.

Always a favourite of my sons'. One is now forty years old. What does that tell you? Dragons. Why not?

This song, no this entire film makes me really homesick. I used to watch it all the time when I was five at my old home. This was the first old movie I had an interest in, I loved it and now I can't watch it. My dad doesn't have it anymore and I don't think I will find it on Netflix. My fantasy and love I have truly lost to a lack of ability to remind myself of it. I love this film and this will now be my song playlist's staple. This regenerates my memories. Thank you.

I watched this movie several times as a kid and often find myself humming the bits I remembered from this song.

Happy 40th Anniversary Flight Of Dragons!

I miss the 80s. The fantasy movies they produced back then were unapologetically fantastical. These days fantasy almost seems ashamed of what it is.

Enjoyed this movie as a kid. Still enjoy the song as an adult.

I just got the chance to see this movie yesterday and i freaken love it! This song aint leaving my head anytime soon.

I feel like this is a dnd movie through and through and i feel like i understand why i became such a dnd nerd with how many times i watched this movie.

Спасибо за детство! Волшебная песня!

90's kids...time capsolls in the 20th century...will never feel at home in this new world.

This song is epic af

So enthrallingly enchanting!

I remember watching this great cartoon when i was a kid, good old days

Wow. This takes me back. I loved this movie as a kid.

This and the Last Unicorn really define the kind of stuff I lives as a child. Could not begin to get my kid to sit through this now.

Awsome track and song writted by Don Mc Lean - remembering our chilhood

Although i am only 17 im so incredibly grateful i was too poor to get a dvd player so i would watch this movie for hours and hours and would make sure to take care of that tape to this day if i had a dvd player i feel that i wouldnt have fallen in love with movies such as this, the last unicorn and the animated lord of the rings movies

BEST CARTOON OF MY CHILDHOOD..BEST SONG OF MY CHILDHOOD!!

I watch this movie when I'm high and I swear I feel fucking ethereally blessed every time

Favorite film of all time, love the song too. Nothing compares. Yes, I do have the book ;).

Pretty sure my mom still has the VHS tape we'd recorded it onto from TV. A classic from my year of birth. I have the DVD these days though, so easy to throw in the XBox & try not to cry at the one spot I always do.

We had this taped off TV, I wore that cassette out. I have a newer copy, but have heard bad reviews of the blu ray (remastered but poorly cropped for widescreen). I wish WB would give it the love it deserves!!!

I can't believe this is making me a tinsy bit emotional as we're still hot off the heels of James Earl Jones' passing, and this movie was never even nostalgic to me. I only found it just a year ago. And yet, this is punching me extra hard for some reason. 💔

Golpezas el dragoncito :( que hermoso recuerdo era muy pequeño pero recuerdo esta pelicula, muchas gracias!!!

When one asked me what is your childhood soul song... I started humming it in his/her face 👀👀👀 Bring me my childhood back ❤

I had it on VHS and wore the tape out. Such a definitive part of my childhood. Wish I was that kid again... safe in the knowledge that magic was real and what I wrote down would always be there.

It's from the movie "Flight of Dragons" and I must have watched the movie many times.Truly enjoyable. Love the theme song.❤

I picked the vhs of this up at a car boot sale (flea markets in the u.s i think) when I was around 7 years old and it absolutely blew my mind,I think i may actually still have it somewhere,even though I no longer own a vhs player 😆

When I lived in apartments when i was a kid, there was a Hastings just walking distance. My mom and I wouod walk there and if be allowed to get a few movies. Every time I saw this sitting there ,I snatched that VHS up. I never got tried of it.

What A great Movie!

Beautiful song

Great childhood memories

I miss this movie.

Thank you so much for posting this, I was talking about the movie on Twitter and this is making me so nostalgic. ;_;

The feeling of nostalghia i get from hearing this is overwhelming

I remember when this movie was on TV.....Great flick!!!

Beautiful but sad

still got this on vhs. loved this film as a kid

I've never seen the movie, don't know what it's about...but somehow, years ago, I heard the song and fell in love. It's always been magic and nostalgic to me, even if there was no reason why.

Love this .will remain with my all my life

Love this song and movie. Thanks so much

Don was one of my loved artists We love you don! ישראל

child hood i was born in the time of the 90s but this was why i love dnd and these movies

I think all of us in these comments are connected.

goosebumps.. just goosebumps 🥰

Remembering how my mother recorded this the hobbit and return of the king on VHS for me. 😫 God bless that woman

magnific

Love this movie, thx for uploading

Book's birth - 1972 Movie's birth - 1982 My birth - 1992

Flight of Dragons movie was based on two books. The faux nonfiction book by Peter Dickenson and the fantasy novel The Dragon and the George by Gordon R Dickson. The story structure of the film came from Gordy. He published a huge number of books and stories and as best as I know, this is the only one filmed. Gordy was a kind and thoughtful man and very private. He was a treasured acquaintance whom I miss whenever I think of him.

YESSSSSS....today is my mom's birthday. She would've been 65 (#fuckalzheimers). She loved dragons, and this film, and so I love it too.

Even as someone who hasn't seen The Flight Of Dragons movie (yet), this is still a pretty good song. I kinda wish Don McLean or someone would release it at some point.

it's a great song and i love the movie