WW2 aviation music & poems

[kateenaboy]

I've started to gain a interest in music & poems from WW2 but as an avid WW2 aviation enthusiast I was wondering if anybody now the names of or recording of period music or poems likely by airforce personnel either American or British?

 

[fubar57]

Something like this, which I heard a few times on the 40's channel on Sirius/XM

Songs of Warspot: The Legend about Johnny Zero

A forgotten song about how full zero turns into a national hero and an air gunner turns into a fighter pilot

warspot.net

 

[manta22]

How about the classic paratroopers' song "Blood on the Risers"?

 

[special ed]

I remembered two of those verses from the mid 50s as a Civil Air Patrol cadet. I don't know whose dad was a paratrooper. Another from that time was "Throw a nickel on the grass, save a fighter pilot's ass...."

 

[wlewisiii]

There's this classic too:

 

[special ed]

Also brought back memories. They missed the verse "you can tell a navigator by his ass, it's forty inches wide, getting wider by the ride. you can tell a navigator by his ass"

 

[pinehilljoe]

There were so many good ones from the War:

 

[SaparotRob]

I'm trying to find the song that has the lyrics
"We're off for the big show tonight
So fly them wing to wing.."
Was it from a movie dealing with the RCAF?

 

[Snautzer01]

I'm trying to find the song that has the lyrics
"We're off for the big show tonight
So fly them wing to wing.."
Was it from a movie dealing with the RCAF?

Hare Lift (1952) - IMDb

Hare Lift (1952) Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam

www.imdb.com

 

[SaparotRob]

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Hare Lift (1952) - IMDb

Hare Lift (1952) Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam

www.imdb.com

Of course I know Bug's lines! That's what started my search. I'm trying to find the source!
I started out on Wiki looking for the song. Your post actually has my first "hit". I tried looking through Jimmy Cagney's filmography. He was in a movie about Canadian ferry pilots (with a cameo by Billy Bishop). I think that song was the movie's theme song. No luck trying to find the movie, which I believe is titled Hell's Angels. I did get links to a butt ton of biker movies, though. I checked on lyrics, Billy Bishop movie cameos, propaganda films and wartime music. The point at which I gave up was when I clicked on the combination of World War II aircraft and music and wound up on the Forum! That's when I gave up and posted the question here. I even checked to see if either fubar57 or A Admiral Beez were "aboard" at the time.
I hate research.
I think Bugs also sings it in Hare Brained Hypnotist, after he says "I'm the B-19!"

 

[SaparotRob]

A famous philosopher once said:
Bugs Bunny is who we want to be.
Daffy Duck is who we are.

 

[Snautzer01]

Of course I know Bug's lines! That's what started my search. I'm trying to find the source!
I started out on Wiki looking for the song. Your post actually has my first "hit". I tried looking through Jimmy Cagney's filmography. He was in a movie about Canadian ferry pilots (with a cameo by Billy Bishop). I think that song was the movie's theme song. No luck trying to find the movie, which I believe is titled Hell's Angels. I did get links to a butt ton of biker movies, though. I checked on lyrics, Billy Bishop movie cameos, propaganda films and wartime music. The point at which I gave up was when I clicked on the combination of World War II aircraft and music and wound up on the Forum! That's when I gave up and posted the question here. I even checked to see if either fubar57 or A Admiral Beez were "aboard" at the time.
I hate research.
I think Bugs also sings it in Hare Brained Hypnotist, after he says "I'm the B-19!"

Look at the credit of bugs. Perhaps the song is mentioned there.

 

[SaparotRob]

Look at the credit of bugs. Perhaps the song is mentioned there.

Dude. First place I looked. I believe it will say music by Carl Stalling (all Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes cartoons of that time did). Not the answer I'm looking for.
So I'll start checking if Mr. Stalling wrote that song.

 

[SaparotRob]

I think I'll just watch the cartoons instead.

 

[buffnut453]

You asked for poems...the most famous has to be "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee. It's an absolute classic:

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds--and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew--
And while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand and touched the face of God