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ABOUT THIS COLLECTION
This collection of bawdy ballads, limericks and US Air Force songs was compiled in the1950s by my late father, Lt. Col. William John Starr, USAF. He probably started compilingthe material during his first tour flying the F-86 Sabre jet out of Kimpo Air Base, K-14
Korea in1953-54. At the time of the books unofficial completion, around 1957-58, dad wasflying the North American F-100 Super Sabre at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico.
This booklet is about as original as you can get; the pages are actual photocopies of the
mimeographed folio dad kept. If there is a hand-typed original version somewhere (non-mimeographed), it is probably in my brothers possession and reflects the exact contents of thisbook. I do not know what the fighter pilots hymnbook original cover looked like. I suspect itmight have been the attached page containing the Pilots Toast centered on the page. This
un-numbered page was found with the original collection.
Around 1958 or 1959 my father sent this collection of songs to folk singer Oscar Brand.
Inspired, Brand transformed the compilation into two albums The Wild Blue Yonder: Songs
of our Fighting Air Force and Out of the Blue: More Air Force Songs. Dads original balladIn Flight Refueling was recorded on the second album. Brand credited my father on bothalbums. Below is an interesting account from Brands bookThe Ballad Mongers.
In my bookSinging Holidays, I pompously stated, The Air Force is our youngestservice branch. Some popular songs have been written which might do very well astheme songs, but weve decided to volunteer the following as our contribution to the
songbag of the Air Force.The following was a mild little creation parodying the oldArmy song, The Sergeant. As far as I was concerned that was as far as Air Forcefolksong had Progressed. On January 12, 1959, Captain William Smart (sic), jet pilot
Veteran of WW II and the Korean War, sent me a privately collected andmimeographed folio of 256 traditional Air Force songs. Many of the songs had been
created during World War I and refurbished in the years the followed
I can only assume that Mr. Brand or his editor accidentally misspelled my fathers name (therank was correct for that time period in dads career), and that the WW II reference wasanother glaring typo; Dad didnt fly in WWII.
As indicated by a date stamp on Brands The Wild Blue Yonder and Out of the Bluestudio master tapes (which, as of the mid 1990s, were then archived in Atlantic Recordscompany vault), the first album, The Wild Blue Yonder was recorded around April 7, 1959.
Which song was my dads favorite? I dont know. But my mother says he was very fond of
belching outSally
(page 4) and when he got to the part about
BAM BAM BAM!
hed slaphis knee three times and roar with laughter. Myself, Ive never settled on a favorite, but the
Brand versions ofI Wanted Wings, Give Me Operations and The Prettiest Ship are topcontenders.
John T. StarrNovember 16, 2005www.FabulousRocketeers.com
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