MA-19 - Records from Regulus

Another instalment in my conglomeration of songs about the space program, outer space, and other unworldly topics.

1      Man from Mars         Ferrante and Teicher             1955

2      Those Funny Little Saucers in the Sky   Dr Danny Hart of the Church of Soul-Truth           1958

3      Take Me to Your Leader Cha Cha Cha         Sam Space and the Cadettes       1958

4 What Do You Hear from the Red Planet Conried-Pearce   1959

5 The Girl from the Fourth Dimension Sheldon Allman     1960

6 Space Mice Walter Brennan    1960

7 Sky Men Geoff Goddard      1963

8 Hootenanny on Mars Randy Starr and the Merry Martians 1964

9 You Came from Outer Space The Kirby Stone Four 1964

10 Mr Spaceman The Byrds 1966

11 The Invaders Are Here Mike Adkins   1967

12 Urban Spaceman Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 1968

13 Space Oddity    David Bowie     1969

14 It Came Out of the Sky Creedence Clearwater Revival 1970

15 Space Buggy    Asleep At The Wheel 1973

16 I've Seen the Saucers Elton John 1974

17 Flying Saucer Attack The Rezillos    1977

18 The Flying Saucer Man and the Truck Driver Red Simpson 1979

19 Thing from Another World Marlin Wallace    1981

20 Rocket Ship Kathy McCarty   1988

21 I Saw Elvis in a U.F.O. Ray Stevens   1989

22 Humans From Earth T-Bone Burnett 1991

23 Background   Background   2000

24 I Want an Alien for Christmas Fountains of Wayne 2005

25 Heck, I'd Go Maria Muldaur     2006

26 Flying Saucer U F O  with  Dee Dee Bridgewater 2006

Zoom Zippedee Dee!

Man, every time I hear it, "Background" (Track 23) is stuck in my head for a couple of days ... 

 

My Mom Loved It

If you look at this blog's header photo of my beloved dog Spock in the headphones, you see a few records behind him.  The photo was taken at our house, but those records are ones I had borrowed from Mom.

Here's another one, left behind when she went to meet the Author of music.  It's not to my tastes as much as the Texas Playboys or Ragtime Piano ... but here 'tis.

DISC ONE:
01. That's a Plenty - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (4:14)
02. Tin Roof Blues - George Brunis and His Jazz Band (2:54)
03. Panama - Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Seven (2:30)
04. Tiger Rag - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (3:06)
05. Zulu's Parade - Johnny Wiggs and His New Orleans Band (3:11)
06. Weary Blues - Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtimers (2:58)
07. At the Jazz Band Ball - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:55)
08. Black and Blue - DeParis Brothers Orchestra (3:11)
09. Jelly Roll Blues - Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers (2:46)
10. Jazz Me Blues - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (3:16)
11. Eccentric (The Eccentric Rag) - Max Kaminsky and His Jazz Band (3:00)
12. Shake It and Break It - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (2:37)
13. Ballin' the Jack - Eddie Condon and His Band (2:53)
14. Sensation Rag - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:39)
15. Basin Street Blues - Eddie Condon and His Band (4:14)
16. Skeleton Jangle - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (3:03)
17. At Sundown - Bobby Hackett and His Orchestra (3:53)
18. Lazy Daddy - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (2:24)
19. Everybody Loves My Baby - Max Kaminsky and His Jazz Band (2:25)
20. Muskrat Ramble - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (3:05)
21. I've Found a New Baby - DeParis Brothers Orchestra (2:53)

DISC TWO:
01. Memphis Blues - Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtimers (4:15)
02. Struttin' With Some Barbecue - George Wettling and His Rhythm Kings (3:06)
03. Wabash Blues - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:49)
04. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll - Eddie Condon and His Band (2:56)
05. Barnyard Blues - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (3:07)
06. At a Georgia Camp Meeting - Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers (3:12)
07. Original Dixieland One-Step - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (3:07)
08. I'm Coming Virginia - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:34)
09. Rosetta - Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtimers (3:12)
10. Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland - Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven (3:07)
11. Darktown Strutters' Ball - Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtimers (3:01)
12. Royal Garden Blues - George Brunis and His Jazz Band (2:57)
13. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (3:10)
14. High Society - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:39)
15. Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:52)
16. Georgia Grind - Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven (2:52)
17. Chinatown My Chinatown - Jack Teagarden and His Swingin' Gates (2:49)
18. Riverboat Shuffle - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:49)
19. How Come You Do Me Like You Do - George Wettling and His Rhythm Kings (3:01)
20. Ja-Da - Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven (2:39)
21. The Sheik of Araby - DeParis Brothers Orchestra (2:44)

Now do some struttin' and janglin' yourself!

 

Environments, disc 1

In the 1970s there was a series of records called Environments that featured various "natural" sounds, fitting right in with the whole "ambient sound" movement.

Each LP usually had a different theme on each side, which was a single uninterrupted "field recording."

This dose of cosmicness is a combo of Side One of Volume 7, and Side One of Volume 2.

1)  Intonation
2)  Tintinnabulation

And here's your ticket to "oommm."

See you Monday!

 

"The Jazz All-Stars" -- or "The Secret Agents" -- Play Just for You!

This set of session musicians knew when they found a gold mine: the spy craze of the 1960s.  These guys were in such a hurry to make a few bucks that they grabbed a handful of secret agent tunes, dashed off homemade arrangements on the back of a piece of wallpaper, and got to work.

They rented a wetsuit to imitate James Bond in Thunderball, got somebody's girlfriend to suck in her stomach, and dressed the blond guy in black to imitate Illya Kuryakin.

(Note the bombs with their labels THRUSH and SPECTRE.)

They figured they could make even more money by releasing ANOTHER record, with many of the same tracks, and credit the LPs  to TWO DIFFERENT COMBOS -- The Secret Agents and The Jazz All-Stars.  And so they did!

And they would have gotten away with it, too -- if not for those meddling kids and their stupid dog!


The first 10 tracks are from the THUNDERBALL The Man from U.N.C.L.E. & Other Secret Agent Themes album.  The last three tracks are the only ones not common to BOTH albums!

1     -     Thunderball

2     -     From Russia With Love

3     -     The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

4     -     Win, Lose or Spy

5     -     Under Cover Agent Theme

6     -     I Spy

7     -     Ipcress File Theme

8     -     Theme from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

9 - The Saboteur

10 - Majorca Express

BONUS TRACKS

(as “The Secret Agents”)

11 - Mission Impossible

12 - Theme from Star Trek

13 - Theme from Mannix

Spy out, kiddies! 

See you Thursday.

 

 

Grown' in the Sun

My guess is pre-1960 for this record.

01  Lovely Hula Hands - Ray Kinney
02  Huki Lau - Mel Peterson
03  Blue Lei - Mel Peterson
04  The Cockeyed Mayor  - Andy Cummings
05 Hawaiian Hospitality  - Ray Kinney
06 Little Brown Gal - Bill Akamuhou
07 To You Sweetheart Aloha  - Ray Kinney
08 Hapa Haole Hula Gal  - Andy Cummings

The rear CD case art is the LP liner notes, and the disc art is the LP sticker.  Then you will know as much as I do!

Aloha!