Junior Birdmen

The Junior Birdmen of America was a club for boys interested in building model airplanes, founded (ca. 1934) and promoted by the Hearst newspapers, with the cooperation of the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce.[1]

With a motto of, "Today's pilot of Models - Tomorrow's Model Pilots,[2]" it is now best remembered for the song "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen", which has been sung with a variety of lyrics to mock would-be or inexperienced aviators.[3][4][5] In a sequence in the 1955 film To Hell and Back, Audie Murphy's infantry companions irritate a group of Air Corpsmen by singing a version of the song.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Social History :The Winged Gospel". centennialofflight.net. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  2. ↑ "Vintage Kids Clubs Online Museum - Junior Birdmen of America". vintagekidstuff.com. Retrieved 2015-04-19.
  3. ↑ "Google Answers: old song history". answers.google.com. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  4. ↑ "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen! - Everything2.com". everything2.com. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
  5. ↑ "Up in the Air, Junior Birdman | Lyrics". makingmusicfun.net. Retrieved 2014-04-11.