Post #21,650
12/16/01 6:00:53 PM
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Static does the Internet uber-finder dance.
Bit of a story behind this one.
Most years at Christmas, a local radio station hauls out a song about Snoopy and the Red Baron and how the Red Baron forces Snoopy down only to toast him with Merry Christmas. I usually miss it for one reason or another, but I managed to hear it yesterday morning. It's quite a good song, actually, nice and up-beat with action, tension, favourite characters, several key changes and some good Christmas schmaltz.
Well, I wanted to find out more and what is usually perfect for that but the Internet? All I knew was what it sounded like and how the chorus started but that is usually enough. I figured it was probably called "Christmas Bells (Snoopy and The Red Baron" so I went [link|http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Christmas+Bells%22+Snoopy+%22Red+Baron%22&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8|Googling]. From these pages (and a few others) I discovered it was performed by a troupe called The Royal Guardsmen originally released on an album called "Merry Snoopy's Christmas", sadly long out of print and not re-released on CD. So I started looking for MP3 archives.
With [link|http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22Snoopy%27s+Christmas%22+MP3&btnG=Google+Search|this] search string, I found [link|http://www.socool.com/archives/snoopy/snoopyx.mp3|this page]. There is an MP3 of that very song right at the top of the page. All in less than half an hour.
I think I have a blank mini CD-R to put it on... Dad is going to be so surprised. :-)
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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Post #21,660
12/16/01 7:43:35 PM
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Re: Static does the Internet uber-finder dance.
Well I went a [link|http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=The+Royal+Guardsmen+|a Googling] too. Here is what I found for you...
In the 2nd find, [link|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002R03/obscursongsfromt/102-7135943-8743312|this], it's an Anthology. Released in 1995. Ships in 3-4 days. Also if you look a bit on that you'll find other things... (-"
Happy, shopping.
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Post #21,662
12/16/01 8:04:18 PM
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I forgot about Amazon and ilk.
That's even affordable. I saw that one somewhere else, but they didn't have a price up.
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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Post #21,724
12/17/01 1:09:54 PM
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another place to look
is [link|http://www6.gemm.com/c/search.pl?field=ARTIST&wild=guardsmen|GEMM].
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #21,671
12/16/01 9:36:16 PM
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OT. Bringing back some memories for me, Wade.
Nothing to do with Christmas. Before moving to Charlotte, NC in 1979, I lived in "upstate" New York near Rhinebeck, NY were the [link|http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/|Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome] is located. The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome was and appears to still be a living museum of sorts. Back then on summer weekends, Cole Palen dressed as the [link|http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/richthofen1.html|Red Baron] would fly a [link|http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/germany/fokker/dri.html|Fokker tri-plane] and a fellow named David Fox would fly a [link|http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/gbritain/sopwith/camel.html|Sopwith Camel] and have dog-fight. Davis Fox had a small Snoopy figurine in model airplane attached to the top of his helmet. Disregarding the summer season, they played the song over the PA system.
The Fokker was painted red and had a Maltese cross to match that of the Red Baron. Both planes had rotary engines where the crankshaft is fixed and the engine (with attached propeller) rotates.
Alex
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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Post #21,700
12/17/01 10:51:29 AM
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Remind me - why did they do that?
Eeevull Alex: Both planes had rotary engines where the crankshaft is fixed and the engine (with attached propeller) rotates. For better cooling (in case some cylinders would otherwise be hidden under a cowling)? Or to achieve even lubrication (while maybe getting by without an oil pump)? Or what? I've known this, some time when I was younger and less senile, but... Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
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Post #21,747
12/17/01 4:10:53 PM
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Re: Remind me - why did they do that?
Well, it was before my time. :) But, in those days they were experimenting with different airplane engine designs.
Cooling was obviously not a problem. In fact there was a cowling over the upper 2/3 or so of the Fokker engine. Fuel distribution was relatively easy and went through the hollow crankshaft. There was no throttle, so one had to simply interrupt the fuel flow for speed control. The engine's flywheel effect kept things going. Listening to that on the ground the first time, is a bit disconcerting. The Fokker, I remember, had a 2 cycle engine, which helps with the power to weight ratio. Castor oil was mixed in with the fuel for lubrication.
The engine's gyroscopic effect stabilized the plane in flight. But, if you read the Sopwith Camel link, made take-offs tricky.
Alex
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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Post #21,757
12/17/01 5:47:02 PM
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Great minds..
as in ditto. Wondered how the meticulous tolerances needed - to keep all the rotating bits in (good enough?) dynamic balance: didn't torpedo this idea at \ufffd1 ?? That they actually made lots of them! Boggles mind.
(Well.. we could ask the same Q re Windoze, as the source code grew like Topsy - and everyone sorta noticed, but - and.. it's still a growin and..) Isn't it a lot like a fixed-crank and rotary cylinders?
So - never mind. We Knows why.
Ashton
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Post #21,773
12/17/01 9:24:49 PM
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PW Ratio
As I recall, there was really one good reasons for the short popularity of these types of engines in WWI. The power to weight ratio of these types of engines was among the best possible for the era. Considering the power levels of the WWI aircraft, every bit of weight reduction helped. As one of the pages posted here points out, the largest engine used in a Sopwith Camel was 130HP.
Beyond a certain point the gyroscopic force problem became uncontrolable and people stopped using this kind of engine.
Jay
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Post #21,946
12/19/01 8:08:23 AM
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I don' get it: Why'd that be lighter than normal way around?
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Post #21,702
12/17/01 11:03:48 AM
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Coolness!
I'd forgotten about that song. Used to hear it all the time. Thanx for the "flash back" :-)
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #21,704
12/17/01 11:11:51 AM
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10 20 30 40 50 or More...
I used to own the record as a kid on a 45rpm, though I can't recall the flip side number. There was also a Snoopy and The Red Baron part deuce that was a hit a year or two later.
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Post #21,723
12/17/01 1:09:36 PM
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The bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score!
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html|Thomas Friedman]
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Post #21,814
12/18/01 8:51:50 AM
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Re released.
All the original tracks. I owned this album when I was a snot-nosed kid and always got a chuckle out of Red Riding Hood.
Here are the original tracks,
1. Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
2. Liberty Valance
3. Bears
4. Peanut Butter
5. The Battle Of New Orleans
6. Baby Let's Wait
7. Bo Diddley
8. Road Runner
9. Sweetmeats Slide
10. Alley-Oop
11. Li'l Red Riding Hood
12. The Jolly Green Giant
13. The Story Of Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
14. Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
15. The Story Of The Return Of The Red Baron
16. The Return Of The Red Baron
17. The Story Of Snoopy's Christmas
18. Snoopy's Christmas
19. I Say Love
20. Down Behind The Lines
21. It's Sopwith Camel Time
22. So Right (To Be In Love)
23. Airplane Song (My Airplane)
24. It Kinda Looks Like Christmas
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