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