THOSE FLYING SAUCERS
(Cy Coben-Charlie Green, 1947)
You’d better pray to the Lord when you see those flying saucers
It may be the coming of the Judgment Day
It’s a sign there’s no doubt of the trouble that’s about
So I say my friends you’d better start to pray
They’re a terrifying sight as they fly on day and night
It’s a warning that we’d better mend our ways
You’d better pray to the Lord when you see those flying saucers
It may be the coming of the Judgment Day
Many people think the saucers might be someone’s foolish dream
Or maybe they were sent down here from Mars
If you’ll just stop and think you’d realize just what it means
They’re more than atom bombs or falling stars
And though the war may be through there’s unrest and trouble brewin’
And those flying saucers may be just a sign
That if peace doesn’t come it will be the end of some
So repent today, you’re running out of time
When you see a saucer fly like a comet through the sky
You should realize the price you’ll have to pay
You’d better pray to the Lord when you see those flying saucers
It may be the coming of the Judgment Day
The Buchanan Brothers, RCA Victor 20-2385, 1947
ANOTHER TAKE — on the UFOs of the time...
I just got finished downloading a bunch of Billboard Top 100 songs (or Top 30, depending on the year), for the 50s...
I just listened to this one (and I remember it from back then...)...
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The Purple People Eater
By Sheb Wooley
Released 6/2/1958
Well I saw the thing comin’ out of the sky
It had the one long horn, one big eye
I commenced to shakin’ and I said ooh-eee
It looks like a purple eater to me
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin’ purple people eater
A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me
Well he came down to earth and he lit in a tree
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, dont eat me
I heard him say in a voice so gruff
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned flyin purple people eater
One-eyed, one-horned, flyin purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me
I said Mr. Purple People Eater, what’s your line
He said it’s eatin’ purple people and it sure is fine
But that’s not the reason that I came to land
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin’ purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin’ purple people eater
Flyin purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me
And then he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground
He started to rock, really rockin around
It was a crazy ditty with a swingin tune
Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin purple people eater
Flyin little people eater
Sure looks strange to me
And then he went on his way, and then what do ya know
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was blowing it out, areally knockin em dead
Playin rock and roll music through the horn in his head
Tequila
Listening to it again, now...
Here’s another one from 1956 (been listening to those oldies... ).
It’s a compilation of short segments of other popular songs, inserted into a dialog, to fit the story-line It’s funny...
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Flying Saucer
by Buchanan & Goodman
Released 8/4/1956
We interrupt this record
To bring you a special bulletin
The reports of a flying saucer
Hovering over the city
Have been confirmed
The flying saucers are real
(Too real when I feel
What my heart can’t conceal)
That was The Clatters
Recording, Too Real
We switch you now to our
On the spot reporter downtown
(Come on, baby
Let’s go downtown)
Take it away
John Cameron Cameron
This is John
Cameron Cameron downtown
Pardon me, madam
Would you tell our audience
What would you do if
The saucer were to land
(Duck back in the alley)
Thank you and now
The thin gentleman there
(What I’m gonna do
Is hard to tell)
And the gentleman
With the guitar
What would you do, sir
(Just take a walk
Down lonely street)
Thank you
We return you now...
This is Drak
Your outer space disc jockey
With a request for earth
(Earth angel, earth angel)
That was The Pelicans outer
Space recording, Earth
I’ve just been handed a bulletin
The flying saucer has just landed
We switch you again downtown
Here we are again
We have with us Professor
Sir Cedric Pentingmode
Of the British Institute
And the professor is approaching
The saucer to see if there’s
Possibly any sign of life aboard
Well, I’m sure something
Are you there
(I hear you knocking
But you can’t come in)
That was Laughing
Lewis’ record, Knocking
This is John Cameron
Cameron on the spot
And now I believe we’re
About to hear the words of
The first spaceman ever
To land on Earth
(Womp bop a loo bop
A lomp bam boom)
And now here are the ball scores
Four to three, six to two
And eight to one
The impact of seeing
The first spaceman has
This reporter reeling
(Here I go reeling
Uh-oh, uh-oh...)
That was The Clatters again
With their big one, Uh-Oh
This is John Cameron
Cameron again downtown
The spaceman has returned
To his ship and is taking off
We return you now to our studios
The flying saucer has gone
There is no threat of an invasion
However, the flying saucers
Are still around
(Still around)
We are not going
To interrupt this record
Yes, we are
The flying saucer
Has landed again
Washington, The Secretary
Of Defense has just said
(Ain’t that a shame)
That was Skinny Dynamo’s
Record, That’s A Shame
This is John Cameron
Cameron, part two
Gathered around me are
Several of the spacemen
Tell us, have you come
To conquer the world
And now would you
Repeat that in English
(Don’t want the world
To have and hold)
Hey, why don’t you go back
Where you came from
(Don’t be angry
And drive me away)
We return you now
To our studios
Here is a news item
From Washington
The President has just
Issued a statement to the
Spacemen and we quote
(You can do anything
But lay off of my
Blue suede shoes)
That was Pa Gherkins record, Shoes
We switch you again downtown
This is John Cameron
Cameron downtown
Professor Sir Cedric of
The British Institute
Tell us how were
The saucers able to land
Well, you see..
(The motor cooled down
The heat went down)
That was Huckle Berry’s recording
The Moter Cooled Down
This is John Cameron
Cameron again
I believe the spaceman has
A final parting word
(See you later, alligator)
We return you now
To our studios
The spacemen have gone again
But look to the skies
The saucers will
Always be there
(Always be there)
Goodbye, earth people
These songs in the 50s were probably generated by the “1952 Washington DC UFO incident”....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington_D.C._UFO_incident
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The 1952 Washington D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap or the Washington National Airport Sightings, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 13 to July 29, 1952, over Washington D.C. The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends, July 19–20 and July 26–27.
Longtime ufologist Richard H. Hall, who served as the assistant director of NICAP and as the director of the Fund for UFO Research, writes:
The summer 1952 UFO sighting wave was one of the largest of all time, and arguably the most significant of all time in terms of the credible reports and hardcore scientific data obtained.”