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The barbershop quartet听Port City Sound听of Portland, Maine, lost a competition in New Orleans on Jan 7. But the singers appear to have won the Internet鈥檚 heart with听the viral video听of an impromptu concert aboard a US Airways flight.

鈥淭hat gig [on the plane] was totally unplanned, but it was a lot of fun,鈥� says Jim Simpson, 70, who was the bass voice those on the flight heard singing "Under the Boardwalk." 鈥淲e鈥檙e certainly never shy about singing for people so when the stewardess asked us, well, we were happy to oblige.鈥�

Simpson said that there were about 27 quartets in the BHS Midwinter Convention held there Jan. 6-11 competition which was for senior singers, 鈥淲e represented the Northeastern District and came in about 25th in the bunch.鈥� 听

The competition requires each quartet鈥檚 age to exceed 240 years of age combined with no member being below 55 years-of-age. Simpson says, 鈥淲e had that number beat handily!鈥�

Simpson and the rest of the group were asked to sing when the flight was delayed. US Airways flight attendant Kari Mann decribes what happend in the video posted on YouTube:

According to Simpson, the flight was arranged via US Airways, but was in fact a commuter plane chartered from听Republic Airways.

鈥淚 have no idea how that stewardess knew we were a quartet,鈥� Simpson said. 鈥淭hat was some pretty sharp work on her part.鈥�

This is far from the first time performers have been asked, out of the wild blue yonder, to help elevate the mood on a flight.听It seems long flights and delays on the ground make aircraft prime venues for impromptu performances.

Here are six musical moments on the runway and some that create a whole new meaning for top billing (can you get any higher than 35,000 feet?).

• On April 1, 2014 Australian cast member, Toni Stewart captured, an amazing impromptu听Circle of Life performance听on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney.

• When a group from The Philadelphia Orchestra found itself delayed on the tarmac for three hours waiting for their flight from Beijing to Macao as part of the 2013 Residency & Fortieth Anniversary Tour of China, a quartet of musicians decided to provide a听"pop up" performance听for the passengers on June 7, 2013.

• Even before the flight begins one flight attendant for听Southwest Airlines听turned the pre-flight safety and beverage lecture into a RAP听on Jan. 6, 2010.

• For the non-singer, another musical flight of fancy that鈥檚 become popular is the in-flight selfie lip-sync videos posted by bored passengers on long flights. A parody of A Great Big World's "Say Something" featuring Christina Aguilera aboard a听Tigerair听flight from Singapore to Hong Kong was posted to YouTube on Nov. 23, 2014.

• This was followed Dec. 18, 2014 by a sequel featuring Walt Disney's Aladdin song with a rendition of听'A Whole New World' on an Emirates A380 between Singapore and Dubai.

• Not all airborne performances are spur of the moment. Here鈥檚 a听U.S. Air Force flight crew听that has put out two videos on听YouTube听demonstrating how music keeps their spirits up, up, and away.听