Does anyone (besides me) remember this song?

[Alpo]

Back when I was a kid - 10, maybe 11 - long about 5:20 in the afternoon they had the Air Force report. About a six or seven minute news broadcast about what was going on at the local Air Force Base.

 

And it started with this song

 

They took the blue from the sky, and the pretty girl's eye, and a touch of Old Glory too

And they gave it to the Man who probably wears the US Air Force blue

 

So I heard that everyday, 5 days a week. For several years I thought that was the Air Force song. I didn't know the Air Force song was off we go into the wild blue yonder. I thought it was they took the blue from the sky.

 

I've done an internet search on that song, and the all-knowing internet has never heard of it. Have any of y'all?

 

I suppose it could be a completely local thing. Somebody at the TV station wrote it especially for that 10 minute news report. I suppose.

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

Found this 

https://youtu.be/MoL8iJB54tA?si=NnMuZw4y_CxV_BPR

 

...and multiple others by searching "They took the blue from the sky"

 

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

The U.S. Air Force Blue

 

 

 

[Trailrider #896]

Oh, yes! Of course, the words "and gave it to the men who proudly wear" don't quite go along with today's dual gender Air/Space Force. The planes shown in the video date back to the Viet Nam era.  Frankly, I don't know how they could update those lyrics. Not sure "Off we go..." quite fits either, as it dates back to WWII.  But I do get some blurring to my vision and a bit of a chill when I hear either song! Although I never got to "bore holes in the sky", I did proudly wear U.S. Air Force blue (when I wasn't wearing fatigues out on a missile site).

[PowderRiverCowboy]

You do know its the US Chair Farce song right?

In 1938, Liberty magazine sponsored a contest for a spirited, enduring musical composition to become the official Army Air Corps song. Of 757 scores submitted, the one composed by Robert MacArthur Crawford (1899-1961) was selected by a committee of Air Force wives. The song (informally known as "The Air Force Song" but now formally titled "The U.S. Air Force") was officially introduced at the Cleveland Air Races on September 2, 1939. Fittingly, Crawford sang in its first public performance.

https://www.hill.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/397525/history-of-the-us-air-force-song/