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Fighter Pilot & Aviation Songs
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Unofficial Squadron Songbooks |
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Date |
Title |
Artist |
Media |
| 20 June 1943 |
Songbook Squadron 4 OCS (Notes) |
Anonymous |
Mimeographed |
| ca 1943 |
Keesler Field Song Book (Notes) |
Anonymous |
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| ca 1943 |
Lowry Field Song Book (Notes) |
Anonymous |
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1945
[Reprinted 1961] |
Mess Songs And Rhymes Of The R.A.A.F.
(Australia) (Notes) |
Anonymous
[reprint possibly done by Donald Laycock] |
Mimeographed |
| ca 1944 |
The Drunks Album
Royal Australian Air Force (Notes) |
Anonymous |
Mimeographed |
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March 1945 |
Songs of the Century
[100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force] |
Anonymous |
Mimeographed |
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ca 1951 |
Death Rattlers
[Korea: Marine Air Squadron VMP-323 "Death Rattlers."] |
Anonymous |
Mimeographed |
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1950-51 |
The Three Hats (Notes) |
According to Bill Getz, this was privately published by
Dick Boutelle, former President of Fairchild Aircraft Corp |
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ca 1954 |
8th Fighter-Bomber Wing Songbook |
Anonymous |
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ca 1955 |
Untitled VP-9 Naval Aviator Songbook |
"Daug" |
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1956 |
Stovepipe Serenade 2nd edition (Notes) |
compiled & edited by Logan Bently |
Spiral Bound in plastic |
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1958 |
The Fighter Pilot's Hymn Book
(Notes) |
compiled & edited by William Starr |
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ca 1964 |
Songs of Saigon 1st Edition (Songs that Pacify) (Notes) |
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ca 1964 |
Songs of Saigon 2nd Edition (Songs that Pacify) (Notes) |
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ca 1964 |
Songs of the Saigon Cosmos Command
(Notes) |
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ca 1964 |
Cosmos Command Christmas Carols (Notes) |
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1965 |
Bull Durham Songs of SAC (Notes) |
compiled & edited by Bull Durham |
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1966 |
We're Here for Fun (Notes) |
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1966 |
12 TAC FTR WG Song Book (Notes) |
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1966-67 |
Phantom Phlyers Sing Vietnam (Notes) |
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1966 |
48th Assault Helicopter Company (Notes) |
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ca 1966 |
Songs of the UTT (Notes) |
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1967-68 |
The Crusader Hymnal (Notes) |
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ca 1967 |
Yankee Air Pirate Songbook Songs To Drink By. 355TFW. |
Anonymous |
Stapled 4to.
Photostat(?) |
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ca 1967 |
354th TFW Sdrn Training Manual (Notes) |
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ca 1968 |
Satan's Angels Songbook (Notes) |
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ca 1968 |
35th Tactical Fighter Wing Songbook (1968 Da
Nang)
along with Dirty Ditties supplement also
in Stapled Wraps |
Anonymous |
Stapled Wraps |
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1969 |
No Slack Him Book (Notes) |
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ca
1969 |
Songs of the Saints (Notes) |
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1970 |
44 TFS Hymnal (Notes) |
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1970 |
Bull Durham Songs of SEA (Notes) |
Bull Durham |
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1970 |
Untitled Songbook (From Reeves) (Notes) |
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1970-71 |
121 Aviations Company 'Tiger Tunes' (Notes) |
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1970-71 |
The Downwinds DET WESTPAC (Notes) |
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ca 1971 |
Songs My Mother Taught Me
(Revised Edition)
77 Squadron
[Royal Australian Air Force] |
Anonymous |
??? |
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1971 |
The SPUD Hymnal
(Also see the 1991 reissue below) |
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1971 |
Songs My Mother Taught Me |
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1971 |
The Spud Hymnal |
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1971-72 |
VT4 World Famous Rubber Ducks Hymnal (Notes) |
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1971-72 |
VMA-224 Songbook USS Coral Sea |
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1972-73 |
Proud Bird With A Silver Ass |
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ca 1972 |
17th Wild Weasel's Songbook |
Greg "Vito" Anders |
??? |
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ca1972 |
Songs of SEA, Other Places, Other Things with Stag Bar
Supplement (Notes) |
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1975 |
Fighter Pilots Song No. 77 SQN (Notes) |
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1975-85 |
Fighter Pilots Songs (Notes) |
Compiled by Rainer Otter |
Spiral bound A4 oblong folio. |
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1977 |
494 Phantom Song Book |
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1970s |
527th Aggressor Song Book |
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1970s |
Jerry Smith RAF Songs No 47 Squadron (Notes) |
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ca 1980 |
The Bronco Book 19 TASS Osan |
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ca 1984 |
Red River Rats Songbook |
Anonymous |
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ca 1985 |
18th TFS Blue Fox Song Book (Notes)
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ca 1985 |
43 TFS Song Book |
Paul "Flying Booger" Woodford and others |
Spiral Bound |
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ca 1985 |
44TFS
Bat Songs |
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1988 |
136 FIS Song Book |
Anonymous |
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1990 |
The
Raven FAC 1990 Reunion Songbook (Notes)
|
Jim Roper |
Spiral Bound 8"x11" |
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ca 1990 |
The Unofficial Fighter Pilot's Songbook |
Anonymous |
MS-Word |
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ca 1990 |
230 Tiger Squadron Songbook |
Anonymous |
MS-Word |
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17 Jan 1991 |
7440th Combat Songbook (Notes) |
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1991 |
335th Fighter Sqdn Songbook [(USAF) - F-15 -
Combat Songbook] |
Anonymous |
Spiral Bound |
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1991-92 |
Bat Songs 44 TFS |
Anonymous |
Photocopied 8x11 sheets folded & stapled |
|
1992 |
The
Spud Hymnal |
Stan Bloom |
Perfect bound trade paperback and PDF. |
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1996 |
53rd NATO Tigers |
Greg Gibson |
MS-Word |
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1997-2000 |
Songbook Compilation from TLP
(Tactical Leadership Program) |
Anonymous |
MS Word |
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2001 |
TLP (Tactical Leadership Program)Drinking Games |
Anonymous |
MS Word |
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2002 |
37th BS Bonedriver's Squadron Songbook |
Anonymous
(Produced at Dyless AFB
Texas) |
MS Word |
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2002 |
400 Squadron Song Book (Canada) |
Freddy K
(Local
Mirror) |
HTML Website |
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2002 |
The Fiend Book 2002 |
Anonymous |
Full red cloth 4to |
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2003 |
Compilation of Fighter Pilot Songs |
Rainer R. Otter |
MS Word |
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2004 |
The SPUD Hymnal |
Stan Bloom |
PDF |
Recordings
Please note that the ratings below are
primarily for folklore content/ |
|
Recorded/
Released |
Album |
Artist |
Media |
|
1951 |
Out
of the Blue |
Oscar Brand |
LP
 |
1959
(CD issued 199?) |
The Wild
Blue Yonder |
Oscar Brand |
LP & CD
|
1964 & 1971
(CD issued 1991) |
Songs Of SACk / Songs of S.E.A |
Bull Durham |
CD.
|
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1966
(CD issued 199?) |
Songs of the
O-1E "Bird Dog"
by a
Forward Air
Controller (FAC) |
Jonathan Myer |
CD
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1966-1968 |
FAC Songs from SEA
(Vietnam) |
Various |
CD
|
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1968 |
Songs from Korat RTAFB |
Various |
CD
(from tape field recordings)
|
|
27 Oct 1974 |
Commando Sing
- Korat RTAFB
 |
Various |
CD
|
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1989 |
The Wild Blue Yonder Over Vietnam |
Oscar Brand |
CD
|
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1989
(CD issued in 1995) |
A Night at the Bar with the
Boys
|
509th TFS Pirates |
CD
|
| 1991 |
In
Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War |
Fighter Pilots |
CD
|
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1996 |
A Viet Nam Aviator's Odyssey
 |
Jim Hatch |
CD
|
| 1969-1997 |
FSH Vol. I |
Dick Jonas |
CD
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| 1970-1997 |
FSH Vol. II |
Dick Jonas |
CD
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| 1973-1997 |
Two Sides of Dick Jonas |
Dick Jonas |
CD
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| 1988-1997 |
Swamp Fox |
Dick Jonas |
CD
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| 1997 |
Nickel On the Grass |
Dick Jonas |
CD
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| 1997 |
Itazuke Tower |
Dick Jonas |
CD
|
|
1 July 2000 |
Society of Old Bold Aviators
(SOBA)
Concert 2000 |
Dan McGrath, Irv LeVine, Chip Dockery, Jim Bullington, Jonathan Myer, Dick
Jonas and RB Double-A Bravo Quartet |
CD
|
| 2001 |
SOBA-2001 |
" |
CD
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| 2002 |
SOBA-2002 |
" |
CD
|
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2002 |
Boozin' Buddies |
Dick Jonas, Bull Durham, Irv LeVine |
CD
|
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2002 |
Cold Warriors
|
Dick Jonas, Irv LeVine |
CD
|
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2004 |
Live at the Sandtrap |
Dos Gringos |
CD
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Books
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|
Date |
Title |
Artist |
Media |
| 1917 |
Tommy's Tunes
(1st Edition) [Bowdlerized & Expurgated] |
FT Nettleingham |
Hardcover |
| 1917 |
Tommy's Tunes (2nd Revised Edition) [Bowdlerized & Expurgated] |
FT Nettleingham |
Hardcover |
| ca 1943 |
Lowry Field Song Book |
Anonymous
[Semi-official, amateur production] |
Stapled Wraps |
| 1943 |
Air Forces Airs (Notes) |
Anonymous |
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| July 1943 |
Keesler Field Song Book (Notes) |
Anonymous |
|
| 1945 |
The Airman's Songbook [Bowdlerized & Expurgated] |
C.H. Ward-Jackson |
Hardcover |
| ca. 1949 |
The Three Hats Vol. 1 |
Anonymous (According to Getz: "Privately published by
Dick Boutelle, former
President of Fairchild Aircraft Corp.") |
Spiral bound in pseudo-leather |
| ca. 1951 |
The Three Hats Vol. 2 |
" |
Spiral bound in pseudo-leather |
| 1957 |
Air Force Airs
[Bowdlerized & Expurgated] |
William Wallrich |
Hardcover |
| 1967 |
The Airman's Song Book
(Revised Edition) [Bowdlerized & Expurgated] |
C.H. Ward-Jackson |
Hardcover |
| ca. 1968 |
Fleet Air Arm Songbook
1st Edition |
Anonymous |
Perfect bound stiff wraps |
| ca.1969 |
Songs of SEA, Other Places, Other Things w/ Stag Bar Supplement |
Anonymous |
Large Stapled Wraps |
| 1976 |
Dick Jonas Songbook Vol.1 (Notes) |
Dick Jonas |
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| ca. 1979 |
The Fleet Air Arm Song Book
Mark II |
Anonymous |
Perfect bound stiff wraps |
| 1981 |
The Wild Blue Yonder: Songs of the
USAF
|
Edited by Bill Getz |
Hardcover
|
| 1986 |
The Wild Blue Yonder: Songs of the USAF
Vol.2
|
Edited by Bill Getz |
Hardcover
Pictorial Boards
|
| 1990 |
Singing the Vietnam Blues: Folksongs of
the American Fighter Pilot in Southeast Asia. |
Joseph F. Tuso |
Hardcover |
| 1997 |
RBAAB: Red-Blooded All American Boy |
Dick Jonas |
Perfect Bound Paperback |
| 2000 |
Bawdy Ballads & Dirty Ditties of the RAF |
|
Trade Paperback |
FIELD RECORDINGS
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|
Date |
Description |
Artist |
Media |
| 1968-74 |
32 songs recorded in Vietnam |
Various Artists
downloaded
from
woolyfsh.com |
Tape Recording |
| 1979 |
Jim Ropper and RAAF Pilots |
Various |
Tape Recording |
| 1990 |
Raven FAC Reunion |
Various |
Tape Recording |
| 1 April 2004 |
6 Yankee Air Pirate songs [1973-1980?] |
Dennis "Mu-Sick" Gill |
Digital Recording |
| 10 Oct 2004 |
5
Canadian Air Force Songs |
Freddy K |
Digital Recording |
| 26 Oct. 2004 |
"Swing Low Sweet Chariot": Bawdy Gestures |
Anonymous
Informant |
Digital Recording |
