Sounds of the sixties

[IFPS man]

Hi forumites
Seeing many of our readers are of the sixties, which hits of those days remind them of their aviation experiences?

[BEagle]

In 1969, this:

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[Democritus]

The obvious one is "Leaving on a Jet Plane" by John Denver and sung by Peter, Paul and Mary.....'All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go, I'm standing here outside your door, I hate to wake you up to say good-bye.'

A few of us were rather inebriated and singing that in a Transport Caff near RAF Ternhill at about 0200 one night in 1969 and we got flung out. Not many people have been ejected from a Transport Caff.....

"Up, Up, and Away" - Diana Ross and the Supremes

[joy ride]

+ 1 for BoB. What a superb score. My DVD has the option of playing it with the entire score by William Walton, or with the Ron Goodwin score but still the WW dogfight sequence. I have to say that Goodwin's score is generally so much better for the film, but the WW dogfight sequence is a masterpiece.

[Wander00]

Sound of the Sixties - RAF March Past, Saturday mornings at the Towers!

[descol]

Arlo Guthrie - Coming into Los Angeles

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[vctenderness]

BA cabin crew favourite: gypsies, tramps and thieves - Cher:ok:

[Karearea]

Susan Raye - L.A. International Airport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj8f30Iguw0

[philbky]

Early morning rain by Peter, Paul and Mary

[teeteringhead]

A few of us were rather inebriated and singing that in a Transport Caff near RAF Ternhill at about 0200 one night in 1969 and we got flung out. Not many people have been ejected from a Transport Caff.....

Ah! the Ternhill greasy spoon! Not long after your experience - in January 1970 to be precise - following the Mess Burns Night, a number of us at a similar hour went to said Caff.

All in DJs and long dresses (as appropriate!), and led by a large Scotsman, resplendant in his North British Jocks in Frocks evening dress, topped off by his St Andrews Uni academic gown - which was a tasteful shade of scarlet! :eek:

The local rockers went kind of quiet, one commenting "Are you lot for real?"

But we didn't get thrown out (but I don't recall any singing!) and said large Scot eventually retired as a 2-star. :ok:

[Lucky in retrospect we weren't singing, our favourite at the time was the 1969 Christmas No 1, slightly modified - RN/FAA influence? - to "Two Smally Boys!"]

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Any music by Mantovani or Glenn Miller brings back memories of the roof gardens at Heathrow as that was the sort of music they played on the PA system between announcements.

[G-AGJV]

The Early Morning Rain ...by Gordon Lightfoot....
Hear the mighty engines roar... see the silver bird on high ...

[treadigraph]

Eight Miles High by the Byrds -

Though their aerial conveyance is thought to be rather more chemically inspired than anything to do with aerodynamics...

[Fantome]

nah . . .. sixties too recent . . .. . turn the clock back a bit more



Hustling Hinkler up in the sky fair or windy
He’s flying high peerless fearless knows every cloud
The kind of a son makes a mother feel proud
Bustling Hinkler rides all alone in a little plane all his own
Hustling Hinkler showed them the way
And he’s the hero of the day.

This is the chorus of a song written to celebrate the achievements of Bundaberg born world famous aviator…Bert Hinkler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnANWSZWQxs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnANWSZWQxs)

[Blacksheep]

'Happy Jack' by The Who.

"Happy Jack" was the nickname for one of the Vulcan Crew Chiefs at RAF Waddington. One night we had a bit of an accident when refuelling his aircraft. Thereafter, any time The Who's record was played on the juke box, we'd join in with our own version

"Happy Jack was all right, 'til we ****ed his kite. That was last Friday night, now we're in the s**e. There was fuel all over the place! You should have seen the look on Happy Jack's face...."

[India Four Two]

An updated version of Leaving on a Jet Plane for modern times:

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[Herod]

"Both Sides Now" Judy Collins. Clouds:

"But now they only block the sun they rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way"

[arem]

Dunno about sixties but always thought "nessan dorma " was the long haul pilots lament!!

[hiflymk3]

Sounds that I heard in the early 70s living in Fulham were JT8Ds, Conways, Tays, Olympus, Solovievs... all sounds that originated in the 60s.

[Old-Duffer]

Trains and Boats and Planes.

TTH refers to Jacks Cafe, a place for eggy bake in the early hours after a G/N at Tern Hill. I drove past a couple of weeks ago and it looks completely different - but then so does the Officers Mess. The brown jobs pulled down the end wings of the splendid mess 'cause they couldn't afford it. Vandalism!

Old Duffer

[Shackman]

OD-

To be precise they only pulled down one wing (East Wing). The West wing fell down (internally) in the middle of the night, when the new colonel of the regt taking over from the RAF had most of the internal walls removed to make 'big suites' for his living in officers. As he didn't like the 'new' assymetric OM he had the other wing pulled down to match it, thus ruining one of the nicest messes I had the pleasure of living in - although the noise of the collapse was quite frightening.

In those days the colonel seemed to rule supreme and could order anything to be done to any building, no matter what advice was given to the contrary, and god help the MPBW/DoE manager who crossed him.

[ian16th]

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Will forever remind me of the bus ride from Limassol to Ladies Mile Beach.

The newest thing in In Car Entertainment was a sprung mounted 7" record player, every one of the bus drivers had Da Do Ron Ron.

[DaveReidUK]

"Both Sides Now" Judy Collins. Clouds:

"But now they only block the sun they rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way" Written by Joni Mitchell, of course.

[Barksdale Boy]

"We've gotta get out of this place" - The Animals.......South Cerney, 1965.

[lsd]

For this helicopter pilot, has to be 'Good vibrations' by the Beach Boys.
Feel free to read whatever you wish into that........

[Rosevidney1]

'Spirit in the sky' - haven't heard it for many a year.........

[Mr Mac]

Do not remember 1960,s so well, but the two below I especially thought appropriate, as I was going to and from school on BCAL 707 from Chile to London with "BCAL Auntie". Seems along time ago now !, although still always seem to listen to the Joni Mitchell track even now on EK ice system


This Flight Tonight - Joni Mitchell - 1971
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band - 1977 - "as I get on board the 707"


Regards
Mr Mac

[joy ride]

Back In The USSR by The Beatles. Sounds to me like a recording of a 707 on that song, just as I heard them at London and Dulles throughout most of the 60s. Always preferred the VC 10 though, way better!

[Captain Dart]

The engine noise on 'Back in the USSR' sounds like screaming Darts to me; possibly a Herald, a Friendship or, my bet is on a Viscount.

[ZeBedie]

'Back in the USSR' Sounds like the prop vortices from a landing Viscount. Other Dart powered aircraft didn't have the same sound.

[Stanwell]

I'm with you guys..
That's 4 Darts in a Viscount airframe!

As noted, different installations produce distinctive sounds.

[keebird]

For us general aviation pilots:
"Hello Teterboro tower" - Arthur Godfrey (http://youtu.be/x37f-_XrMJ0)

[Warmtoast]

Sounds of the Sixties - well go back ten years and I remember this tune - Leroy Anderson's Serenata.

5 FTS RAF Thornhill, S. Rhodesia 1951 - 1953. This tune was used by the projectionist of the Station's Astra cinema (in a hanger) to let the audience know that it was time to take their seats as the performance was due to start. It always brings back memories of rushing in to the Astra at the last moment to grab a seat before the lights went down.

Lovely music by the way - hear it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0WEZeVIwk

[Mickj3]

Hittadu Hermits 67/68. If your going to San Francisco (Addu Atoll), Scot Mackenzie.

[victor tango]

Remember one of the most sickly renditions by the Everly Brothers Think it was called Brown Eyes (retch)

Ray Coniff

anything by the Beatles (the whole of the 60's +)

A touch of Sandy/cathy kirby/ wossername died young?

Brian Poole & the tremiloes

The Shadows
Duane Eddy

I feel better just typing it out !!

[DaveReidUK]

Remember one of the most sickly renditions by the Everly Brothers Think it was called Brown Eyes (retch)

Ray Coniff

anything by the Beatles (the whole of the 60's +)

A touch of Sandy/cathy kirby/ wossername died young?

Brian Poole & the tremiloes

The Shadows
Duane EddyIt would be fascinating to know what aviation experiences that lot remind you of.

[victor tango]

Dave It would cost you at least 3 pints at my local !

[Karearea]

victor tango - that treacly Everly Brothers song you recall was probably "Ebony Eyes".

[victor tango]

Yes thats it Karearea do you remember the words ..... sooooooooooo
depressing that I'm amazed it ever sold?

[victor tango]

Dave
Im going out Saturday for a jar....I notice you are in Reading, so if you want we could meet up??? PM me if you are inclined.

[Herod]

"Ebony Eyes" was one of a slew of what were known as "death discs" or "splatter platters", which usually involved the death of the singer's boyfriend/girlfriend. "Johnny Remember Me", "Leader of the Pack" and so on.

[Fris B. Fairing]

Democritus

"Up, Up, and Away" - Diana Ross and the Supremes

Great song written by Jimmy Webb but The Fifth Dimension made it a hit. Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA) made it their theme song for many years and no doubt other airlines did too.

From:

VH-JET#1 & Her Sisters - History of the 707 (http://www.adastron.com/707/history/707-history.htm)

Whereas the Connie had inspired graphic artists, the 707 inspired a generation of song-writers.

Out on runway number nine, big seven oh seven set to roll. ("Early Morning Rain" written by Gordon Lightfoot and recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary)

But my heart keeps calling me backwards as I get on the seven oh seven. ("Jet Airliner" written by Paul Pena and recorded by The Steve Miller Band)

It's the only way to fly, Boeing Boeing seven oh seven ("Boeing Boeing 707" written and recorded by Roger Miller)

Seven oh seven mockingbirds they flying in the sky ("People Call Me Country" written and recorded by Digby Richards)

In the absence of any songs about the DC-8, the Comet, the Tu-104 or the Caravelle, it must be concluded that the 707 was indeed something special!

Were there any other 707 songs?

[PAXboy]

A Heart In New York
written by Benny Gallagher, Graham Lyle but I do not know when and no time to research further tonight.

Sung by Art Garfunkel

New York, to that tall skyline, I come
Flying in from London to your door
New York, looking down on Central Park
Where they say you should not wander after dark

[Shack37]

Nobody´s mentioned "The Green, Green Grass of Home" Very popular in Aden:{

OK, just leaving.

[Lon More]

For IR training, "Turn, Turn, Turn" or "You ain't goin' nowhere" :sad:

also by McGuinn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h02x7eryQA

[Stationair8]

I thought this was about things like Dc-3, Bristol Freighters, Vickers Viscounts, Fokker Friendships , B727 for those of us lived near the airport!

[pigboat]

Welll... Leaving On A Bristol Freighter doesn't have much of a ring to it. :p

[Mooncrest]

I'm a 70s child and my first real memories of Leeds Bradford Airport are from the first four months of 1975. The sound of Dart props courtesy of Northeast, Dan-Air, BIA and Air Anglia mixed with the Glitter Band, Jim Gilstrap, Sweet, Duane Eddy, Peter Skellern, Johnny Mathis, Guys and Dolls. And many more. Happy times:)

[sablatnic]

When I think sounds of the sixtieth I think turbocompounds and runaway propellors. Lived a few minutes of flight from EKCH back then.

[astir 8]

"I lost my heart on a 747, half way to heaven, passing over Des Moines"

Tom Paxton

[Discorde]

Andy Fairweather-Low belted out the vocal to 'High In The Sky' with Amen Corner in 1969. Saw him a few years ago at the Albert Hall when he was the support act to Eric Clapton. Have to say IMO his guitar playing was as good as Eric's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pbVfKnWAOA

Make sure you've got the vol turned up to 'threshold of pain'!

[wayoutwest]

how many of you flew to san francisco with a flower in their hair:ok:

[vctenderness]

Chuck Berry Promised Land:

Sure as you're born, they bought me a silk suit,
Put luggage in my hands,
And I woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the promised land.

Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte
Flying over to the Golden State;
The pilot told me in thirteen minutes
We'd be headin' in the terminal gate.

Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone;
Cut your engines, cool your wings,
And let me make it to the telephone.

Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia,
Tidewater four ten O nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line.
:):ok:

[Blacksheep]

...used by the projectionist of the Station's Astra cinema... Ah yes. For me, and no doubt many fellow 'Brats', whenever I hear 'Marie Helena' it takes me back to The Astra at RAF Halton in '63.

For we poor apprentices it was a struggle to get there . . . ;)

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"Through difficulties to the Cinema"

[pax britanica]

As already mentioned Joni Mitchell-looked at Clouds from both sides now -and still didn't like them. In 'This flight Tonite' she concludes with 'wish I had never got this flight tonite' but perhaps that was because earlier in the song she mentioned 'Up go the flaps , down go the wheels' which would have put her in a precarious position.

Artistic licence eh (she is Canadian) and I loved her anyway back in the day.

[India Four Two]

For me the aviation sound of the sixties was nine Lightnings overhead the crowd, after having flown in from behind at low-level doing Mach 0.9+. :D

[Warmtoast]

I was watching an André Rieu concert on Sky Arts last Saturday evening and one of the items they played was "The Aviators March". The tune was very familiar, but the name of the composer was not mentioned.

A bit of googling showed it was the 'Fliegermarsch' (Aviator's March), from the operetta 'Der fliegende Rittmeister' (1912) by Hermann Dostal. This march from 1912 pre-dates by twenty years the march of the same name by John Philip Sousa.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/Aviators%20March_zpskoq3zho6.jpg

André Rieu's version at his Maastricht concert can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYN2NHEq6Jo

...and if your'e interested in the words.

Lyrics:
Kerzengrad steig ich zum Himmel, flieg’ ich zur Sonn’ direkt.
Unter mir auf das Gewimmel, da pfeif’ ich mit Respekt.
Wenn wir dann so oben schweben, mein Freund das ist ein Leben!
Da fühl ich mich als junger Gott, Kreuz Himmeldonnerwetter sapperlot!
In der Luft gibt’s keine Räuber, kein Bezirksgericht,
und auch keine alten Weiber sieht man oben nicht.
Da oben gibt’s kein Hundefutter und keine Schwiegermutter.
In der Luft gibts keine Steuer, keine Kaution,
auch der Zins ist nicht so teuer, oben im Ballon.
Und kommt der Schneider mit der Rechnung,
Fliegt man bitte ganz gemütlich ihm davon.
Freunderl, drum sei nicht dumm, drum drum drum, sei nicht dumm:
Komm und sei mein Passagier, fliege, fliege, flieg mit mir!
Droben, wo die Sterne stehn, wollen wir spazierengeh’n.
Schmeiß hin all Dein Gut und Geld, einen Fußtritt dieser Welt!
In der Luft, in der Luft fliegt der Paprika,
auf zum Himmel, Himmel, Himmel, Hipp Hurra!

A not partcularly good translation by Google:

Candles degree I rise to heaven, fly I to Sun 'directly.
Below me to the crowd, because I give a damn 'with respect.
If we then float as above, my friend is a life!
Because I feel as a young god, cross sky thunder bang!
In the air there's no robbers, no district court,
and no old women can not be seen above.
Up there's no dog food and no law.
In the air there's no tax, no deposit,
and the interest rate is not that expensive, top of the balloon.
And the cutter comes with the bill,
If you fly quite comfortably it please him.
Freunderl, do not be stupid drum, drum drum drum, do not be silly:
Come and be my passenger, fly, fly, fly with me!
Above, where the stars are, we want spazierengeh'n.
Throw out all your stuff and cash, a kick in the world!
In the air, in the air flying the peppers,
at the sky, sky, sky, Hipp Hurra!

[magpienja]

The Beatles...back in the USSR...sounds very much like a RR Dart at the start of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgathVTaCjQ

[DaveReidUK]

The Beatles...back in the USSR...sounds very much like a RR Dart at the start of the song.

See post #30: http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/557807-sounds-sixties.html#post8895387

[thing]

Ron Goodwin-633 Squadron, I see Mossies in my mind's eye when I hear that. Always puts the hair on the back of neck up.


Edited: 'Cos I just realised this is about 60's music...

[ZeBedie]

A great clip of a 707 being poled around - unstable - I don't think the term was in use then :}

watch?v=lwxF8hfxx64

[mikemmb]

In the RAF in the 60's, I used to work with a guy called Johny Stewart, who played guitar in a group called Hedge Hoppers Anonymous and had a top ten hit called "Good News Week"...............he was there when I got the end of my nose chopped off by a Varsity prop. So that sounds of the sixties song certainly brings back memories!
Mike

[603DX]

This has been played as part of the "Concorde Experience" at Brooklands; seems to match the simulated sound effects nicely ...

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Forgot to mention that it was the first flight of Concorde 001 on 2nd March 1969 - there's the Sixties connection!

[Harley Quinn]

Walton's score for the climax of BoB

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[falcon12]

Unless I've missed reading it in an earlier post, four Vulcan B2's,using Rapid Start and leaving the QRA pans in very quick succession at Cottesmore '65 and '66. The noise was awesome, the ground shook and the wildlife scattered!

We all returned to the snooker table in the QRA hut....

Ah! Noisey but happy days!

[briani]

I used to make regular trips to Aden, staying in the Crescent Hotel. On one occasion, I had just arrived (very hot and sticky) the shower produced only hot water, and the radio was playing 'we gotta get out of this place' by the Who or the Kinks?. Whenever I hear the track played now I'm back in the Crescent!

[BEagle]

briani, the song was neither by The Who nor The Kinks - it was by Eric Burdon and the Animals!

Just for you:

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From a mere 50 years ago....:eek:

[briani]

Hi, thanks for the correction - I realised my error soon after I had posted the thread

[RedhillPhil]

Every time that I hear "River deep, mountain high" by Ike and Tina Turner I'm transported back to listening to it on the wireless in the MQ at Gaydon whilst a Lightning F3 was zipping around doing a practice for the next day's BoB day.

[Four Wings]

If we were talking 50s it'd have to be "you'll never get to heaven in a Vampire jet", but to stretch things a bit let's recall long-forgotten Aden. In '65 I was a rare civvy volunteer on AFBA (Aden Forces Broadcasting Association). Amongst my programmes was one of the pop request productions. My sound engineer (Dave) was a Griffon fitter in his day job, and always insisted I ended the programme with a phoney request for "8 Days a Week".
So my 60s memories are of Khormaksar, my girl friend being chatted up by a Griffon fitter behind the glass screen, and one of the Beatles less memorable songs.