Here in Seattle there are Angels (blue ones!) roaring overhead, a signal that either the North Koreans or Canadians are *finally* invading US, or (one hopes more likely) it's Seafair Hydros week. Seattle has joined the big leagues in many sports now, we even have a professional Rugby team;, but when I was growing up in Seattle about 60 years ago, the Unlimited Hydroplanes of early August were really the only major-league sports thing here. The great race was the culmination of Seafair Week, which since before I was born (it felt like forever, but was actually a post-WW2 innovation) when we had big parades and whatnot. I know I wrote a parody of the famous song (Oh, it was sad!) about the sinking of The Titanic, when I was in grade school, about a race in which one of the main boats (I'm guessing Miss Bardahl, because I'm sure that "Bardahl" was in the lyrics someplace) flipped over and threw the driver in the lake. I have no idea whether I ever recorded the work in any format that could have stood the test of time. If I ever come up with it, I'll definitely post it. But an attempt to search for lyrics here about hydroplanes (NOT an airplane; a boat; if it actually went airborne it was probably a mistake and certainly a sight!) turned up nothing, but in recent years searching this site has been pretty near impossible. I always get an Internal Error when I try to do a "Lyrics & Knoqlwsfw AwEXH". I know there have to be a bunch of songs out there about this "sport", though, and it wouldn't surprise me if a few had shown up on the Mudcat. So I'm throwing it out there, so I thought I'd issue an invitation...

Leland aka Haruo (and here at one time Liland)