On Wednesday, February 28, 2001 at 3:58:05 AM UTC-5, Peter Dougherty wrote:

Abrey <Abrey_...@newsguy.com> said :

Dear Peter:

The 78rpm may be a Red Herring. It wasn't unusual for airchecks to be pressed
onto 78rpm long after they stopped being commercially available (after 1959 in
Canada).

Didn't know the 78 died before I was born; I though it continued into
the mid-60s for some reason. My family's 78s are long gone, though.

The piece sounds very familiar. It *MAY* have come from the CBC Radio
Comedy show called 'Funny You Should Say That', which aired in the late >60s-early 70s, with Ted Zeigler, Barry Baldaro, and I forget the other two >members.

Oh, Jeez, that troupe sounds VERY familiar. I remember those two names
from either a radio or TV show I used to listen to/watch when I was a
grade schooler (born in 61).

The sketch may also have been revived from the Royal Canadian Air
Farce's early days on radio, because the gag about the plane landing on separate
runways was used in some of their sketches in the 70s and 80s.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't the Air Farce, although they did one
*marverous* bit in the early 80s, I think, with the French Air Traffic Controller at Mirabel and the British Airways pilot looking for
landing instructions. This is another recording for which I would proverbially give body parts, but it's unlikely that it got published.
I had a cassette tape of it many years ago, but it's long since
departed.
"Bonjour, Anglaise!" "Is that radio interferance or are you speaking
French?"
"Go play your Réné Levesque records!"

Try this: go to the CBC Radio webpage, and if there is still a link for The >Royal Canadian Air Farce, send them an e-mail and ask them if anybody recalls
this bit. Canadian comedians who have been around a long time generally are >well-versed on historical comedians. They are also in a position to refer it to
someone at CBC archives, who may be able to trace it down for you.

What a splendid idea! Thanks. The Air Farce has their own site
(airfarce.ca) and I will attempt to contact them via that route. Now
that I'm "living" on the other side of the border (and I use the term guardedly), it's a lot harder to keep in touch with Canadian issues
and history.

One other thought: if the record was actually pressed in the 50s, it may have
been legendary CBC radio broadcasters Max Ferguson and Allan McFee, who were not
above a little nonsense like this every now and then.

Now those are names I've not heard in a long time.

Good luck in tracking it down.

Thanks.
In article <am4o9tg65usiuspq0...@4ax.com>, Peter says...

Hi folks,

I've got an urgent plea for information on an old comedy routine from >Quebec, probably dated from back in the 50s.

I don't have the name of the bit, but it centers around a the cockpit
of a small puddle-jumper airplane by the mythical name of TQH Flight
52. I remember most of the skit, and I'll include some quotes below.
The routine was pressed onto a 78 RPM vinyl record which I borrowed
from a high school firend back in the 70s. Some cretin _painted_ over
the label on both sides, and completely over the tracks on the "other"
side of the disk so I never got the info. The whole piece is about 15 >minutes long.

Even if you know the bit, but do not have it, I would appreciate any >information on who did it, the actual name of it, the
artists--anything.

Capitain Harbidal Spuldater
Co-pilot: Onézim (used to fly the kiddie-airplane ride at Parc
Belmont)
Stewardess Mimi, who passes out Pepsi and Mae West after departure.

"OK, Onézim, before we go to da took-off pointe, flap da t'ings, make
sure the red light is green and the blue light is on or off as it look
best to you."

"...In the event that the mask pops at you, I ask you to face the rear
of the aeroplane and blow out all your air very very 'ard"

"Welcome aboard TQH Flight 52, with service to (list of forgotten
place names), and many other places in La Belle Province of which I am
not sure, because I do not know which way the wind is blowing."

The end of the skit is "TQH announces the arrival of Flight 52 which
has just landed on runways 3,4,5,6 & 7. Passengers and crew may be met
at the following hospitals."

If replying by e-mail, please reply to pjd at panix dot com and not the address in the reply-to.
Cheers!
Peter Dougherty
Amatuer Radio: VE3THX /W2

Try this https://www.google.com/search?q=tqh+flight+52+quebec+humour#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:086dc8fd,vid:2cNIxyDtTZc

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