Lyr Req: Songs about hydro(plane)s (speedboats)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about hydro(plane)s (speedboats)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 25 - 11:23 AM

I was also too young to remember that, but we lived in West Seattle and you could hear the hydroplanes on Lake Washington clear across town.

If you remember Stan Boreson (Seattle musician and humorist with a children's program weekday afternoons at 5pm) he had basset hounds, at one time they were Slo Mo and No Mo, I think there was another one after one of the first two died.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about hydro(plane)s (speedboats)
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 25 - 08:40 AM

Well Haruo, that makes you a youngster on mudcat. Good luck

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about hydro(plane)s (speedboats)
From: Haruo
Date: 04 Aug 25 - 02:17 PM

Thanks! I was one year old, so I wouldn't remember it without technology.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about hydro(plane)s (speedboats)
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Aug 25 - 12:08 PM

Okay, I thought you were looking for hydro songs in general. Anywho, in case anybody's interested, Old Rooster Tail was a song about the flip of Slo-mo-shun V in 1955

That's one tuff canoe ya got

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about hydro(plane)s (speedboats)
From: Haruo
Date: 01 Aug 25 - 03:13 AM

Well, guest, when I came around (b. 1954) the Slo-Mos were no longer running, though I saw at least one of them in a museum, probably the Museum of History and Industry when it was in Montlake, though maybe not till it moved to Lake Union. Kind of hazy on when it was. Thanks for the link to the story of the record company.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about hydro(plane)s (speedboats)
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jul 25 - 11:23 PM

In Seattle slo-mo is the generic name for hydroplanes

Old Rooster Tail - The Legend Of A Proud Racing Boat

Subject: Lyr Req: Songs about hydro(plane)s (speedboats)
From: Haruo
Date: 31 Jul 25 - 03:43 PM

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)