[GreenKeys] The Gooney Bird

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, Bruce Gentry wrote:

> The most common source of this song and others is a series of recordings 
> from the early 1960s by Oscar Brand on Elektra records. "The Gooney 
> Bird" and civil aviation songs are on the album "UP In The Air", Air 
> Force songs are on "The Wild Blue Yonder" and "Out of the Blue". You can 
> hear poor recordings of them on YouTube. I was introduced to them when I 
> was learning to fly as a teen in 1967, and embraced and played them 
> constantly, to the chagrin of my family and others. In school, those of 
> us at the Nerd Table would belt them out, and many friends and I would 
> in gym class and the locker room as well.  Strangely, once I actually 
> joined the Air Force, very few had ever known of the songs and 
> recordings, and even fewer wanted to hear them. They were enjoyed at the 
> amatuer radio club K5TYP at Keesler AFB, and I made several TTY tapes 
> that would print out the lyrics as you have here.

Thank you!

I think Dakota Natinoal Airways still flies in Oz; they do the DC-3 (of 
course) out of Bankstown, and the cockpit visit is really a beauty 
(although probably not possible in these days).

As I recall, they even had hosties to serve drinks; afterwards, quite a 
bods were, err, losing control of their stomachs (I was not one of them).

The mighty DC-3: low, slow, and bumpy...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."