Lies Maclean & Maclean told me about rock & roll

This is another wacky exerpt from the Canadian comedy duo MacLean & MacLean's Bitter Reality album. They really were something live! Here they do several songs, including a spoof of Bob Dylan. Incredible. I recall the song "Put in your mouth Mrs Murphy", sung by co-workers in the Air Force. Great to find the cut! The boys talk about their early years in the '60's doing folk, then moving on to Toilet Rock & Genital Rock where I think they found their niche.

Dolly Parton's Tits - MacLean & MacLean

Probably the best known song by the Canadian comedy duo. I know it's been covered by other bands. From the 1982 MacLean & MacLean album "Suck Their Way to the Top" and also on their Dirty Thirty album.

Star Wars spoof - MacLean & MacLean

The Canadian comedy duo of Maclean & Maclean spoof the Star Wars movie, in a live recording at a Toronto club in the late 1970's. From the "Suck Their Way to the Top" album.
Incidently, it's said that George Lucas got the idea for the X fighter attack on the Death Star sequence from the movie 633 Squadron. I now have the film & will likely post a clip soon.

F**K Ya - MacLean & MacLean

Here's 3 versions of Canadian comic singers MacLean & MacLean's Fuck Ya, that I posted at YouTube. I was surprised that nobody hadn't already posted this tune. This was a sort of theme song for me & a few others when we were serving with 400 Air Reserve Squadron at Downsview. The first one is a live recording from the "Suck Their Way to the Top" album. The middle one is a short version from an unknown recording. The last one is from the "Go To Hell" album.

RCAF clips from 1942 movie Captains of the Clouds

Hollywood came north to Canada in 1941 (prior to America's entry in the war) to shoot a war movie about the Royal Canadian Air Force in technicolor. The plot of the movie was about a group of bush pilots who decide to join the RCAF as pilots. The film had some great historic scenes at places like RCAF stations Uplands, Trenton, and Jarvis as well as what looks like the CNE grounds in Toronto. The film, Captains of the Clouds, starred James Cagney, Alan Hale, and George Tobias (Abner Kravitz on TV's Bewitched. The film is a tribute to the men of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan pilots and had a wing ceremony conducted by Air Marshall Billy Bishop (The WW1 Ace). I first saw this film many years ago on Elwy Yost's Saturday Night at the Movies on TV Ontario, with interviews & background info. I'm pleased that it is available on DVD, if you'd also like to see the entire movie. "Per Ardu Ad Astra".

The Avro Canada Avrocar

This segment was part of a program that aired many years ago on TV Ontario that dealt with experimental & circular aircraft, including this portion on Canada's "flying saucer" - the Avro Avrocar. The Canadian government, the US Airforce & US Army all kicked in funds for the development of this secret project, which although a failure as a fighter jet, was the first hovercraft. The Toronto Aerospace Museum has been trying for some time to acquire one of the prototypes for display back where it was made in Toronto.