Subject: Able, baker, Charlie From: GUEST Date: 27 Jun 01 - 06:46 PM This is a challenge for all you folks out there who usually come up with the goods. Anyone have any info on this song, probably by Harvey andrews? Sorry, don't have any more info at all, but someone I met has tried in vain to find it. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: Sorcha Date: 27 Jun 01 - 06:54 PM I don't suppose this is it? That was all I really found. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: GUEST Date: 27 Jun 01 - 06:59 PM Thanks for that fast response, Sorcha, but I don't think that is it. I have a feeling it was about the airfoce (UK) |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: Snuffy Date: 27 Jun 01 - 07:11 PM Able Baker etc was the alphabet the RAF used in WWII before the international Alpha Bravo was adopted |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: Sorcha Date: 27 Jun 01 - 07:19 PM Yea, Snuff. Besides the lyrics to a Greatful Dead song, that page has a LOT of explanation of different phonetic alphabets. PD here uses proper names--Adam Brian Charles David, etc. but I still tend to use Alpha Bravo which is what my Dad used. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: GUEST,bigJ Date: 27 Jun 01 - 08:31 PM Yes, it is Harvey Andrews and he recorded it in 1980 on his LP 'Margarita' on Beeswing Records LBEE 001 - I suspect that it was his own label. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: nutty Date: 28 Jun 01 - 03:22 AM Details of the Harvey Andrews records can be found here CLICK HERE |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: GUEST Date: 28 Jun 01 - 05:31 PM Mudcat came through again! Thanks, folks |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: bobby's girl Date: 03 Jul 01 - 06:23 PM Its a wonderful song which makes me cry every time I listen to it, but Harvey can do that to you! |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: GUEST Date: 04 Jul 01 - 01:42 PM Can you give me any details of the words/chords, bobby's girl? |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able, baker, Charlie From: Ditchdweller Date: 04 Jul 01 - 02:32 PM To Snuffy; Able Baker was the US system. The RAF phonetic alphabet used Apple as the 1st code word. The code words used in NATO system btw, were selected because they are all know and have the same initial letter in most NATO languages. |
Subject: Origins: Alpha Baker Charlie From: GUEST,Ebisu Date: 01 Oct 03 - 03:16 PM In the middle/late 1970s in Malta I heard Harvey Andrews sing a song about a Second World War RAF aircrew member, and I think the song may have been entitled Alpha Baker Charlie. Can anyone put me close to a source, please? It's a lovely song and I would hate to lose it - and the memory. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Alpha Baker Charlie From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 01 Oct 03 - 03:41 PM Not in "Airman's Song Book," (Royal Air Force and allied) under that title. Could you give us a few lines or words? |
Subject: RE: Origins: Alpha Baker Charlie From: GUEST,Peter from Essex Date: 01 Oct 03 - 03:47 PM A bit before my time but I think the WW2 phonetic alphabet started was Able, Baker, Charlie etc. The modern international version starts Alpha Bravo Charlie. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Alpha Baker Charlie From: GUEST,Ebisu Date: 01 Oct 03 - 03:51 PM Hi Q and Peter from Essex: can't remember any lyrics but memory tells me it was about an RAF aircrew member who fell on hard times; and it must have been Able Baker Charlie!! Many thanks |
Subject: RE: Origins: Alpha Baker Charlie From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 01 Oct 03 - 05:01 PM Peter, you are correct, but the song doesn't show with Able or Alpha. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Alpha Baker Charlie From: Allan C. Date: 01 Oct 03 - 05:09 PM For what it is worth, the phonetic alphabet as used by the RAF went through some changes over the years. You can see them here. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Alpha Baker Charlie From: Steve Parkes Date: 02 Oct 03 - 03:40 AM Bit of thread creep ... A "telephone speller" aphabet used in WWI included Ack, Beer, Aitch, Emma, Pip, Toc ... So the charitable organisation Talbot House is still known today as Toc H; there was a WWII radio programme called "Ack ack, beer beer"; anti-aircraft (AA) artillery was still called ack-ack in WWII; and you may occasionaly still come across people old enough to say "ack-emma" and "pip-emma" for a.m and p.m. Steve |
Subject: Lyr Add: ABLE BAKER (Harvey Andrews) From: harvey andrews Date: 02 Oct 03 - 06:05 AM I recorded it about 1980 on the album "Margarita", but when we came to transfer it to cd the recording was not technically good enough to reproduce. ABLE BAKER (Harvey Andrews) There hasn't been much to do for a long time Someone won the war they say But he won't give thanks to you for thinking We're far better off that way For he wore the wings and the runway waited Spitfire flies like a bird of prey Heinkels come again for hunting As they did that far off May And he rummages through all the books in view The belts, the badges, after something new And he reads the novels to remind him when He fought beside the best of men Ghosts and shades that haunt the memory Words he hears but can't recall A place that brings a face before him Names upon a billet wall One more year and the boys reunion Finds another face not there Still he wears the faded ribbon of the Cross And the Croix de Guerre And he flies again with the boys in blue The Few remaining of the very few And he tells the tales that he's told before As he feels again the esprit de corps With his victory roll and a mounting toll He's a fighter pilot with an aces soul And he drinks with boys who will soon be men And he wakes at dawn And he flies again And he flies again Able Baker, Charlie Two and Angels ten, And the fields of England pass beneath the men Who fly again, who fly again Who fly again, who fly again There hasn't been much to do for a long time Someone won the war....they say |
Subject: RE: Origins: Alpha Baker Charlie From: Joe Offer Date: 02 Oct 03 - 08:27 PM Just to make sure things were perfectly clear, I e-mailed Harvey and asked him if he wrote the song. Here's his reply:
Cheers, Harvey -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Origins: Alpha Baker Charlie From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 02 Oct 03 - 08:45 PM Sooo....is...Ebisu...really.....Harvey....lookings for??????
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Subject: Chord Req: Able Baker Harvey Andrews From: skipy Date: 20 Apr 11 - 06:53 PM I think there is a folk singer called Harvey Andrews & he wrote a song called able baker, anyone got the chords for it? Perhaps even that Harvey bloke. Skipy |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able Baker (Harvey Andrews) From: GUEST,999 Date: 02 Sep 12 - 08:43 PM Chords are here. One may also see/hear the song performed on YouTube. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able Baker (Harvey Andrews) From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Sep 12 - 04:55 AM Chords request still unanswered. |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able Baker (Harvey Andrews) From: rumanci Date: 18 Sep 12 - 10:49 AM There are chords posted at the link provided by Guest,999 but I cannot move them accurately to here Joe. http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/h/harvey_andrews/able_baker_crd.htm |
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Able Baker (Harvey Andrews) From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Sep 12 - 05:38 AM Able Baker http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/h/harvey_andrews/able_baker_crd.htm Thanks, Rumanci. |
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