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2	[[caption-width-right:340:''Jefferson Airplane Takes Off''.]]
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4	''Jefferson Airplane Takes Off'' is the debut studio album by Music/JeffersonAirplane, released in 1966 through Creator/RCARecords. It is their only album with drummer Skip Spence (later a member of Moby Grape) and founding member Signe Toly Anderson. They would be replaced by Spencer Dryden and Grace Slick, respectively (though Spence and Anderson appears on three songs from this album on the UK version of ''Music/SurrealisticPillow''). Unlike their later albums, this album is significantly folk rock.
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6	"Runnin' Round This World" was supposed to end this album, but was [[ExecutiveMeddling rejected by the record company]].
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8	----
9	!! Tracklist:
10	[[AC: Side One]]
11	# "Blues From An Airplane"
12	# "Let Me In"
13	# "Bringing Me Down"
14	# "It's No Secret"
15	# "Tobacco Road"
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17	[[AC: Side Two]]
18	[numlist:6]
19	# "Come Up The Years"
20	# "Run Around"
21	# "Let's Get Together"
22	# "Don't Slip Away"
23	# "Chauffeur Blues"
24	# "And I Like It"
25	[/numlist]
26	----
27	!! Bonus Tracks (2003 Reissue):
28	[numlist:12]
29	# "Runnin' Round This World"
30	# "High Flying Bird"
31	# "It's Alright"
32	# "Go To Her"
33	# "Let Me In (Alternate Version)"
34	# "Run Around (Uncensored Version)"
35	# "Chauffeur Blues (Alternate Version)"
36	# "And I Like It (Alternate Version)"
37	# "Blues From An Airplane (Instrumental Version)"
38	[/numlist]
39	----
40	!!Principal Members:
41	* Signe Toly Anderson - backing and lead vocals, percussion
42	* Marty Balin - lead vocals, guitar
43	* Jack Casady - bass
44	* Spencer Dryden - drums [[note]]Only on the bonus tracks "Go To Her" and the alternate versions of "Chauffeur Blues" and "And I Like It"[[/note]]
45	* Paul Kantner - guitar, backing and lead vocals
46	* Jorma Kaukonen - guitar
47	* Skip Spence - drums
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50	!! Come Up The Tropes:
51	* AgeProgressionSong: "Tobacco Road" in which the protagonist tells his life story from birth until now.
52	* {{Bowdlerize}}: "Runnin' Round This World" was supposed to end this album, but was rejected by the record company. It ended up as a non-album B-side to "It's No Secret". Also, several of the songs off this album were censored.
53	* BreakUpSong:
54	** "Bringing Me Down"
55	--> ''Well, you used to tell me''
56	--> ''My love was your flame''
57	--> ''But I had you last evening''
58	--> ''No, it wasn't the same''
59	--> '''Cause you're bringing me down''
60	--> ''And you know it ain't right''
61	** "Run Around"
62	--> ''So couldn't we forget about today , start again from where we were''
63	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: "Tobacco Road"
64	--> ''Mother died and my daddy got drunk''
65	--> ''Left me here to die or grow''
66	* CoverVersion: "Tobacco Road", "Let's Get Together", "Chauffeur Blues" and the bonus track "High Flying Bird".
67	* CradleOfLoneliness: "Blues From An Airplane".
68	--> ''Do you know how sad it is to be a man alone?''
69	--> ''I feel so solitary being in my home without you''
70	* DarkerAndEdgier: "Blues From An Airplane".
71	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This album is basically a straight-ahead FolkRock album with little hint of the tripped-out weirdness that would follow. Significantly, this album features Signe Toly Anderson and Skip Spence instead of Grace Slick and Spencer Dryden, who would make up the classic line-up of Jefferson Airplane.
72	* FaceOnTheCover: A group photo of the band.
73	* IAmTheBand: Marty Balin at this stage of their career.
74	* MayDecemberRomance: "Come Up The Years"
75	--> ''I ought to get going''
76	--> ''I shouldn't stay here and love you more than I do''
77	--> ''Cause you're so much younger than I am''
78	* NonAppearingTitle: The title doesn't appear.
79	* ObsessionSong: "Chauffeur Blues", in which the protagonist is so desperately to have her chauffeur drive his car to she resorts to violence.
80	--> ''To be ridin' these girls''
81	--> ''But I don't want him to be ridin' these girls all around''
82	--> ''I'm gonna steal me a pistol, shoot my chauffeur down''µ
83	--> ''Going to let my chauffeur drive me around the world''
84	--> ''Then he will be my lover boy, I will be his girl''
85	* {{Pacifism}}: "Let's Get Together"
86	--> ''Hey people now, smile on your brother''
87	--> ''Let me see you get together''
88	--> ''Love one another right now''
89	* ThePowerOfLove:
90	** "Runnin' 'Round This World"
91	--> ''Is it the music in your heart I love so much''
92	--> ''Is it the rainbows of your smile I love to touch''
93	--> ''There are red flowers in each kiss upon your lips''
94	--> ''The times I've spent with you have been fantastic trips''
95	** "It's No Secret"
96	--> ''It's no secret how strong my love is for you''
97	--> ''It's no secret when I tell you what I'm gonna do''
98	--> '''cause I love you, yes I love you''
99	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Bringing Me Down"
100	--> ''Well your love used to echo''
101	--> ''From my feet to my brain''
102	--> ''Ah, but now it just whispers''
103	--> ''Well I think you are to blame''
104	--> ''Cause you're bringing me down''
105	--> ''And you know it ain't right''
106	* SillyLoveSongs: Among others, "It's No Secret".
107	* SomethingBlues: "Blues From An Airplane", "Chauffeur Blues".
108	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Signe Toly Anderson sings lead vocals on "Chauffeur Blues", and co-lead vocals on "Let's Get Together" and the bonus track "High Flying Bird". Paul Kantner sings lead vocals on "Let Me In" and "Run Around", and co-lead vocals on "Let's Get Together".
109	* UnrequitedLove: "Let Me In"
110	--> ''Without a word to me''
111	--> ''Without a look at me''
112	--> ''You turned me down without a care''

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