should add the song "The Golden Age of Aviation" by the lucksmiths
Wow, Chris, some great songs I haven't heard... thanks for introducing me to them! You Rule!
Persevering? Your posts are pure pleasure. Thank you for the effort!
Man, I love these 7 Means of Movements posts! Thumbs up for all your efforts, dude. Love all the research that goes into the tunes. Particularly love your essays. I never knew about Lindhberg's darker side!
Mostly though, I just like the Tintin pics.
Keep up the great work, dude.
Though I wish this post could have been a bit less of a downer (soaring in a plane at 35,000 feet is as close to the heavens as most of us will get), I am delighted to see Tintin leading the way again. He's doing a fine job helping to tie all these essays together.
Oh, by the way... If the last interlude has anything to do with space travel, it would be most felicitous if it could be posted on October 4 - the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik....
Richard--yeah, this last one was a bit too dark (typing with a sprained finger likely didn't encourage my happier side), but the series will end on a note of pure optimism, if you can believe it.
But getting it together by Oct. 4, while it would indeed be felicitous, is not gonna happen, sadly.
"Heavenly Airplane" is an astonishing piece of music--reverent and bizarre (though I don't buy the AMG's smug assertion that this is a "comic" sermon)
Agreed. That was from the heart and part of the performance's charm.
This recording is from 1909, sung by Ada Jones, who apparently sang every bit of pop music written during the Taft Administration
It helped being a favorite of Thomas Edison.
Another wonderful post - thanks!
overwhelming, wonderful, to say the least
waiting for the epilogue 
- the dreamweaver
I really enjoy reading your essays. This series, (as difficult as it must be for you), has been a real triumph. Superlative work as always, but a stellar choice for subject as well. Thanks so much for all your hard work.
Amazing post.
One suggested addition to the tunes: DC-7 Blues, by Lightnin' Hopkins (from Blues in My Bottle LP) about the notoriously crash-prone Boeing DC-7. Link to MP3 from here
Gah. Correction to the previous. The DC-7 was made by Douglas, not Boeing.
Goddammit! further correction: the DC-7 was notorious for engine troubles, and was considered a bit unsafe. I haven't found any accounts of them actually crashing...
This post was wonderful: as erudite as usual, but also quite moving. Thank you for sharing your writing and your ideas with the rest of us. And no, I'm not being sycophantic or patronising, I truly did enjoy reading this and listening to the fine music.
Awesome scholarship as usual, although I'd challenge your characterization of Henry Burr as "some guy." He's believed to have appeared on more different recordings than any other performer--in excess of 12,000 during the pre-1920 Pioneer Era of Recording. Most of them sound indescribably primitive today, of course, but it was quite a bit of work nevertheless.
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