MA-27 - A Cosmic Chorus

Here's another of my scrapings off the ceiling of popular music.  All the songs are about space, aliens, our space programs, and other topics beyond our Earthly horizons.

1 -    Bluegrass on the Moon         Poteet Brothers    1953

2 -    I Talked to the Man in the Moon      Rocky Porter   1953

3 -    Captain Santa Claus and His Reindeer Space Patrol   Bobby Helms  1957

4 -   That Crazy Place in Outer Space       Annette Funicello       1958

5 -    Sputnik Rock and Roll         Rock-Krister and His Cristals      1958

6 -   Right Here On Earth     Gene Vincent 1959

7 -    God Is on the Moon     Norm Burns   1959

8 - The Face from Outer Space Jeff Barry 1960

9 - Kibble-Kibble (The Flying Saucer Song) Nervous Norvus 1960

10 - Jukebox on the Moon (acoustic version) Ginny Millay 1960

11 - Maid of the Moon  Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo     1963

12 - Love Goddess of Venus The Ventures 1964

13 - Space Walk The Spotnicks 1965

14 - U.F.O. Dudley & The Doo-Rytes 1966

15 - Moon Daddy Ole   Moon Daddy 1967

16 - Spaceship Lover Paul St John  1972

17 - Space Invaders The Piranhas 1979

 18 - Slime Creatures from Outer Space Weird Al Yankovic 1985

19 - Space Brothers JFA 1986

20 - Flying Saucer Over Mongolia Dogbowl 1990

21 - The First Girl on the Moon Roxette 1994

22 - 50,000 Spaceships (Watching Over Me) Groovie Ghoulies 1996

23 - Rocketman Red Elvises 2003

24 - Flying Saucer Baby The Slingshots 2008

25 - Two Planets Bat For Lashes 2009

26 - The Thrills That Come Along With the Landing of a Flying Saucer DeWolff 2009

Track 3 was the B-side of some of the releases of Helms' OTHER Christmas song, a little ditty called "Jingle Bell Rock."  I think it's more fun than the A-side!

I hope you have fun rocking and cringing alternately.

Zing! into orbit!

See you Monday.

It Is Well by Julie Clifford

This is a fine album of solo piano arrangements of mostly hymns.  It's another thrift-store find with little provenance.

The songs are:

1    It Is Well With My Soul    5:10
2    He Hideth My Soul    3:11
3    Trust And Obey    2:57
4    I Need Thee Every Hour    4:11
5    There Is A Fountain    3:17
6    Grace Greater Than Our Sin    3:10
7    America, The Beautiful    4:23
8    Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us    3:21
9    'Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus    2:56
10    Have Thine Own Way, Lord    4:33
11    I Surrender All    3:39
12    All That Thrills My Soul    2:57
13    Great Is Thy Faithfulness    11:21
14    How Firm A Foundation    4:57

Total time    55:00

... and here you go.

  I hope plenty of you will like it.

 

MA-14 - A Saucerful of Songs: Space-Age Pop Music

Here we have another wide selection of Exactly What It Says on the Tin.  These are the songs for this go-round.

1         Two Little Men In a Flying Saucer  Joe Loss & His Orchestra          1949

2         Rollicking Man From Mars  Scotty MacGregor           1955

3         The Fang   Nervous Norvus            1956

4         The Little Blue Man      Betty Johnson          1958

5         The Little Space Girl Jesse Lee Turner     1958

6         Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll       Love Brothers    1958

7 Martian Love Song Pete Seeger 1958

8 Santa Claus Meets The Purple People Eater Sheb Wooley 1958

9 Take us To Your President Conried-Pearce 1959

10 I'm The Little Space Girl's Father Jesse Lee Turner    1959

11 We Get Messages Jimmie Haskell 1959

12 Flying Saucers   The Mell-o-Tones 1960

13 The Fall of the Planet Earth The Moonbillies 1960

14 The Screemin' Meemies From Planet X Merv Griffin 1961

15 Fireball XL5 Theme Don Spencer 1962

16 That Martian Jubilee Rodd Keith 1964

17 Cockeyed Ballad Mollie Thompson 1966

18 Beautiful Zelda Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 1968

19 Space Odyssey The Byrds 1968

20 The Moon Bug    Delsu and the Smarts1969

21 Spaceman Harry Nilsson 1972

22 UFO Larry Norman 1972

23 Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft Langley Schools Music Project 1977

24 Ain't No UFO Gonna Catch My Diesel Joe Dolce 1981

25 Flying Saucer Brave Combo 1995

26 Music Man from Mars Rodd Keith 1996

27 Alien Abduction Background 2000

28 Let Me Fly Your UFO Frank Smith 2005

29 Spaceman The Killers 2008

So, enjoy your aural trip to space.