A CHARITY single written by two Royal Navy Observers from RNAS Culdrose has sailed into the Official UK Singles Download Chart in its first week of release.
Lt Cdr Dave Emery and Ltd Cdr Phil Clark wrote the single ‘Sailing Home for Christmas’ whilst serving onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth with 820 NAS as part of Operation Fortis last year.
The Helston-based pair decided to record the Christmas song with their band Little Red Ambulance after returning from the seven-month deployment to the Far East.
They invited Culdrose Military Wives Choir to sing the song with them as many of the wives' husbands were also deployed on the same operation.
Culdrose Military Wives Choir recorded a three-part harmony accompaniment on the Christmas song.
The music video for the single has so far had 15,000 with more views rising, and the band has gained a good following of well known-pro Royal Navy supporters online, including Bear Grylls who has recently posted about the single on Twitter.
The single has been played on BFBS Radio, Express FM Radio, BBC Radio Cornwall, and Pirate FM.
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Lt Cdr Dave Emery said: “Both the RNRMC and Culdrose Military Wives Choir have been so supportive of us and our families while we were away.
“It is great to be able to give something back.”
The song was released on December 2 with 100% of the money raised from the downloads of this song to be donated to the Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity and Culdrose Military Wives Choir.
You can follow the band and single process by following Little Red Ambulance on social media.
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