Music for the aviator, and aviator at heart.

Toby Hughes:

   I've known some pretty good fighter pilot lyricists through the years, Bobby Middleton, Thud Jock, Irv LeVine, also a Thud Jock and Chip Dockery who has flown the Phantom and a bunch of other stuff. But the warrior song-writing talents of Toby Hughes are unmatched by any of us. If there is a heavy thought you want to leave to posterity and you don't know how to say it, check with Toby. He has a way of reaching into the viscera, grabbing a fistful of guts and twisting until the pain goes away. He wrote the title song to this album, The Light In The Window. It is a tribute to those who had the toughest mission in any war -- stay home and wait.

   Bridget is two or three generations younger than those lyricists mentioned above. The Vietnam War had come and gone, and Desert Storm was on the horizon when she was born. Her eight songs on this album illustrate the changes which evolve in the warrior's psyche as the generations come and go.

Jake Brooks:

   Jake is a Tennessee songwriter with a keen perception of where the American common man finds himself today. You'll discover in his three songs Jake's convictions about the noble, courageous heart and soul of American tradition.

   Special thanks to my baby daughter, Angela Jonas, for her most excellent vocal rendition of Mom and Me.

Dick Jonas

1. The Light In The Window		10. No-Son-Of-A-Gun's Gonna Take My Gun
2. Mom and Me (Angela Jonas)		11. Off To War
3. Old Farts		12. Warthog
4. Willing To Fight		13. Son of the Warrior
5. Single Gold Bar		14. Whiskey Bill
6. Kay Cee One Three Five		15. Take a Stand
7. Red, White and Blue		16. Itazuke Tower
8. FNG		17. Medevac
9. Bill Kirk

Album disks available at Erosonic and The River Rat Country Store. Downloads and streams available at iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite download site.

The songs in this album come from a 2-set show at Randolph AFB TX. Set 1 was done for the San Antonio River Rats. Set-2 beginning at Cut 11 RBAAB was somewhat impromptu and a bit rowdier for a younger set of Air Force flyers. Also, present for Set-2 was a contingent of Strike Eagle jocks. No clue where they came from.

This album represents a landmark and a homecoming. I never dreamed when I wrote my first fighter pilot songs in the Vietnam War that there would someday be 30 disks. And I also never dreamed when I did my first show with Charlie Huff at Randolph AFB TX at a POW reunion in the mid 70s, that we would be raising hell at Randolph nearly 50 years later singing songs and spinning yarns like we did in the long ago. It kinda reminds me that he and I are still alive.

1. Huff intro Jonas
2. Itazuke Tower
3. Throw a Nickel On the Grass
4. Huff: How To Make Major
5. Reunion
6. Jonas intro Hughes
7. Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats
8. Huff Coathangers
9. 69BRD
10. Tchepone
11. RBAAB
12. I Wish I Had a Gun
13. Strike Eagle
14. Ain't No Fighter Pilots Down In Hell
15. Ballad of Jeb Stuart
16. Nipple On the Grass

1. Tales that I can tell
2. Ballad of Robin Olds
3. Little Town Up North
4. Let's Get Away With It All
5. Thud Pilot
6. Yankee Air Pirate
7. Banana Valley
8. MiG 21
9. Satan's Angels Toast

10. Intro to Rest of Songs
11. Will There Be a Tomorrow
12. Normandy's Sand
13. Blue Four
14. Son of Satan's Angels
15. Wolfpack's Houseboy
16. Heinz E. Coordes
17. FSH, Satan's Angels

1. Hun Drivers In the Sky
2. Throw a Nickel On the Grass
3. Itazuke Tower
4. Sandy Low
5. Battle Hymn RRR
6. I've Been Everywhere
7. RBAAB
8. Bud Day Tribute
9. Thud Pilot
10. Give Me Operations
11. Son of Satan's Angels
12. Kay Cee One Three Five

13. Wolfpack's Houseboy
14. Ain't No Fighter Pilots Down In Hell
15. BUFF
16. I Wish I Had a Gun Just Like the
    A-10
17. Little Brown Mouse
18. It's a Lie
19. My Father Was a Fireman
20. Airman's Toast
21. Nipple On the Grass
22. F-4 Backseater
23. I Don't Want To Join the Army
24. My Husband's a Colonel

1. Throw a Nickel On the Grass
2. Boozin Buddies
3. Battle Hymn of the River Rats
4. Ballad of Robin Olds

5. Itazuke Tower
6. Yankee Air Pirate
7. Wrench Bender's Revolt
8. Ballad of Jeb Stuart
9. Korean Waterfall
10. God Bless the Gun Plumber
11. Crack Went the Rifle
12. 2061 Days
13. Blue Four
14. Wolfpack's Houseboy
15. I've Been Everywhere
16. Son of Satan's Angels

17. F-4 Back-Seater
18. Thud Pilot
19. Bugsmasher
20. Give Me Operations

1. Tales That I Can Tell
2. The Ballad Of Robin Olds
3. Little Town Up North
4. Son Of Satan's Angels
5. Thud Pilot
6. Homeward Bound
7. Yankee Air Pirate
8. Will There Be A Tomorrow
9. Banana Valley
10. Thunder Thud Mission
11. The MiG-21
12. A Fighter Pilot's Christmas

1. Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats
2. Wolfpack's Houseboy
3. Blue Four
4. Pine Cones and Oak Leaves
5. Normandy's Sand
6. Old Weird Harold
7. Uncle's Nephews
8. I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock
9. Short Timing Sailor Boy
10. Love Angel
11. I've Been Everywhere
12. Machete Flight

1. Wrench Bender's Revolt
2. God Bless the Gun Plumber
3. Ballad of Jeb Stuart
4. Thanh Hoa Bridge
5. Pull the Boom From the Gashole
6. Old Henry's Hoss
7. Sharecroppin'
8. Seven Little Chartreuse Men
9. Saydee Bel
10. Seaboard Line
11. Angelina
12. Loving Her Was Easier

1. Swamp Fox
2. Raggedy-Ass Militia
3. Great White Whale
4. Big BX
5. El Gato
6. RBAAB
7. Sidewinder
8. F-5E
9. 2061 Days
10. CGS
11. Genuine Good Bitch
12. T. Mike

1. Throw a Nickel On the Grass
2. Lady In Red
3. Ain't No Fighter Pilots Down In Hell
4. Little Brown Mouse
5. It's a Lie
6. Give Me Operations
7. Marauder
8. Air Corps Lament
9. I Wanted Wings
10. Bronco
11. Ultra Hog
12. Viet Vet
13. Be-No
14. 30-Plus Month Tour

1. Itazuke Tower
2. DaNang Lullabye
3. Korean Waterfall
4. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
5. Strike Eagle
6. Crack Went the Rifle
7. Grunt
8. Another Old Soldier
9. Stand To Your Glasses
10. Man Who Flies the Back Seat
11. Heinz E. Coordes
12. Let's Get Away With It All
13. Strafing 'Round the Mountain
14. Fireball

1. Cold Warriors
2. O-1E
3. F-4 Back Seater
4. Rollin' In My F-105
5. Bobby Watson
6. My Husband's a Colonel
7. Cold Black D. C. Wall
8. Early Abort
9. Get Me Out of Vietnam
10. Robin Olds
11. The Chief
12. Warrior Bards
13. Kansas Flash
14. Yodel-de-O
15. Rollin' In My F-105

1. Boozin' Buddies
2. Yay-Boo
3. Airman's Toast
4. Golden Jock Strap
5. Benny Havens, Oh
6. Peacemaker
7. Roll Your Leg Over
8. Buff
9. Hey, Mr. Taliban
10. The Last Fighter Pilot
11. Reunion
12. I Don't Want To Join the Army
13. Wake Island
14. What the Captain Means

1. God Bless America
2. America the Beautiful/This Land
3. This is My Country
4. How Great Thou Art
5. Amazing Grace
6. Danny Boy
7. Marine Hymn
8. Ain't Gonna Rain No More
9. Futures
10. GIB Named Richard
11. Bless 'Em All
12. Teak Lead
13. TV Commercials
14. Drugstore Cowboy

1. Hey, Mr. Taliban
2. Throw a Nickle On the Grass
3. Son of Satan's Angels
4. Korean Waterfall
5. Pull the Boom
6. Yodel-de-O
7. Thanh Hoa Bridge
8. Give Me Operations
9. Superman
10. My Brother Was a Fireman
11. The Wild West Show
12. Sally in the Alley
13. T. Mike
14. 322FS History Song
15. I've Been Everywhere
16. Ballad of Jeb Stuart
17. RBAAB
18. Crack Went the Rifle
19. Woody's Song
20. Swamp Fox
21. 322 Fighting Song
22. Aye-Yi-Yi-Yi
23. Banana Valley
24. Royal Goddam Dutch

1. Missing Man
2. Come and Join the Air Force
3. Co-Pilot's Lament
4. Bucanneers
5. ORI
6. Bill Anders
7. Sher-Babes
8. GIB
9. Delta Dawn
10. Bernie Fisher
11. One-Level Gunner
12. Rolling Thunder
13. Prowlin'
14. Holy Shit!
15. Sinha Hero
16. Old O-2 Pilot's Tale
17. My Iraqi Hacienda
18. Don't Bust Your Ass Fighter Pilot
19. Tanker's Yodel

1. Passing the Flame
2. I've Been Everywhere
3. Lakes of Tally-Ho
4. Call Out the Goddam Reserves
5. ZPU Gunner
6. Doumer Bridge
7. Cav Tanker's Boogie
8. The Choir
9. Mamas Don't Let Your Babies
10. Goin' In For Guns
11. TDY Again
12. Sammy Small
13. I Wish I Had a Gun Just Like the A-10
14. Bingo Over Baghdad
15. A-10
16. Nipple On the Grass

1. The Girl I Left Behind
2. Old Love Affair
3. San Antonio Rose
4. Miriah
5. Long Black Veil
6. Wayward Wind
7. Fraulein
8. Geisha Girl
9. Filipino Baby
10. Viet Nam Rose
11. Girls Along the Youkon
12. When the Roses Bloom Again
13. Barbara Allen
14. Wild Side of Life
15. Gone With The Wind

1. Sad Sack
2. Home on the Pad
3. 18 Hours
4. Happy SAC Warrior
5. Hang Down Your Boom
6. SAC Lament
7. Old "97"
8. There Are No SAC Crewmembers Down In Hell
9. The Pad
10. The Crew That Never Returned

1. Freedom Thread
2. Jolly Green
3. Mighty Dustoff
4. Dear M'am Your Son Is Dead
5. I Fly The Line
6. Crack Went The Rifle
7. My God How the Morters Roll In
8. Saigon Girls
9. Puff the Magic Dragon
10. Tchepone
11. Republic's Ultra Hog
12. Jesus Wept

1. World War III
2. 2's Blind
3. I Dropped the Bomb
4. Jeremiah Weed
5. Predator Eulogy
6. I'm a Pilot
7. JDAM Blues
8. Last of the Breed
9. The Bitch Spent All My Money
10. The Wingmen
11. The Hound War Song
12. Last Song on the CD?

Chris "Snooze" Kurek and Rob "Trip" Raymond are Dos Gringos. They are two F-16 Viper Jocks singing the songs of this generation of fighter pilots. Click on their names for their biographies.

And...

The High Priced Help was a quartet of U.S. Army helicopter pilots assigned to the 174th Assault Helicopter Company at Fort Benning, Georgia, and transferred to the Republic of Vietnam in March 1966. They were stationed at Lane Army Heliport, west of Qui Nhon. In addition to their military responsibilities, the group volunteered to entertain the units of the 14th Combat Aviation Battalion at Lane AHP and at hospitals, clubs, and many field locations throughout Vietnam.

The quartet composed and sang these songs in 1966 and 1967 to entertain and relieve the stresses of daily combat; the songs do not necessarily express the views held today. This CD was reproduced using the tape that the group recorded in the Officers' Club at Lane AHP on February 27th, 1967.

The Heritage Collection

1. Korean Waterfall
2. Early Abort
3. Thud Pilot
4. I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock
5. The MiG-21
6. Throw a Nickel On the Grass
7. Give Me Operations
8. Bless 'Em All
9. Strike Eagle
10. Marauder
11. RBAAB
12. F-5E
13. Bronco
14. Peacemaker
15. Buff
16. Futures

1. Son of Satan's Angels
2. Ballad of Jeb Stuart
3. Cold Warriors
4. Heinz E. Coordes
5. T. Mike
6. Bill Anders
7. Machete Flight
8. Wrench Bender's Revolt
9. God Bless the Gun Plumber
10. Old Weird Harold
11. The Ballad of Robin Olds
12. Saydee Bel
13. Angelina
14. Sidewinder
15. 2061 Days
16. Swamp Fox
17. Raggedy-Ass Militia
18. Great White Whale
19. The Chief
20. Teak Lead
21. Buccaneers

1. Strafing 'Round the Mountain
2. Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats
3. Wolfpack's Houseboy
4. Normandy's Sand
5. Seven Little Chartreuse Men
6. Ballad of the CGS
7. Sharecroppin'
8. Short Timing Sailor Boy
9. Seaboard Line
10. DaNang Lullabye
11. TV Commercials
12. Love Angel
13. El Gato
14. Fireball
15. Drugstore Cowboy
16. Thanh Hoa Bridge
17. Old Henry's Hoss
18. Little Town Up North
19. Banana Valley
20. A Fighter Pilot's Christmas
21. Blue Four
22. Pine Cones and Oak Leaves

1. Ain't No Fighter Pilots Down In Hell
2. Lady In Red
3. Little Brown Mouse
4. It's a Lie
5. I Wanted Wings
6. My Husband's a Colonel
7. Yay - Boo
8. Airman's Toast
9. Roll Your Leg Over
10. Don't Want To Join the Army
11. What the Captain Means
12. My Father Was a Fireman
13. Wild West Show
14. Sally In the Alley
15. Royal Goddam Dutch
16. Call Out the Goddam Reserves
17. Nipple On the Grass
18. Aye-Yi-Yi-Yi (with Irv LeVine)

1. Boozin' Buddies
2. Pull the Boom From the Gashole
3. Tales That I Can Tell
4. Yankee Air Pirate
5. Uncle's Nephews
6. 30-Plus Month Tour
7. Stand To Your Glasses
8. Will There Be a Tomorrow
9. Genuine Good Bitch
10. Big BX
11. Be-No
12. Viet Vet
13. Come and Join the Air Force
14. Man Who Flies the Back Seat
15. Air Corps Lament
16. Co-Pilot's Lament
17. Let's Get Away With It All
18. Passing the Flame

1. One - Level Gunner -Toby & Chip
2. Benny Havens, Oh -Toby
3. The Last Fighter Pilot -Toby
4. Holy Shit! -Chip
5. ZPU Gunner -Chip
6. Delta Dawn -Toby & Chip
7. The Lakes of Tally Ho -Toby
8. Cobra Seven -Toby
9. Tree Buster -Toby
10. Ho Chi Minh Trail -Toby
11. Reunion -Toby

1. Son of Woody Juvat; JBC
2. O-1E; Irv
3. Nail 57; Irv
4. Brother Warrior; Irv
5. Old O-2 Pilot's Tale; Irv
6. Yodel-de-O ; Irv
7. Golden Jock Strap; Irv
8. 322FS History; Irv
9. 322FS Fight Song; Irv
10. Don't Bust Your Ass Fighter Pilot; Irv
11. Tanker's Yodel; Irv
12. Doumer Bridge; Irv
13. Cav Tanker's Boogie; Irv
14. My Grandpa's a Fighter Pilot; JBC
15. Yankee Air Pirate In Me; JBC
16. Korean Waterfall; JBC
17. F-4 Back-Seater; Dick Jonas

1. Son of Satan's Angels
2. Yankee Air Pirate
3. Little Town Up North
4. Banana Valley
5. Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats
6. Wolfpack's Houseboy
7. Thanh Hoa Bridge
8. 30-plus Month Tour
9. Pine Cones and Oak Leaves
10. Old Weird Harold
11. Uncle's Nephews
12. Short Timing Sailor Boy
13. Love Angel
14. God Bless the Gun Plumber
15. Old Henry's Hoss
16. Seaboard Line
17. Angelina
18. Big BX
19. Wrench Bender's Revolt
20. Pull the Boom From the Gashole

1. Tales That I Can Tell
2. Normandy's Sand
3. Will There Be A Tomorrow
4. I 'Druther Be An F-4 Jock
5. Thud Pilot
6. The MiG-21
7. Bugsmasher
8. Ballad of Robin Olds
9. Drugstore Cowboy
10. 2061 Days
11. Danny Boy (Angela)
12. A Fighter Pilot's Christmas
13. Ballad Of Jeb Stuart
14. Blue Four
15. Boozin' Buddies
16. Amazing Grace (Angela)
17. Summertime's a-Comin' (Angela)
18. Intelligent Design (Angela)
19. Echoing Violet (Tyler)
20. Runaway (Tyler)