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

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

https://www.filefactory.com/file/7i9zaxkkuv5o/MA-14.rar


Amongst many fun tunes, #23 is of interest.  It was created in wish fulfillment that some of this wonderful Space  Brothers would deign to show their advanced science and morality to us poor Earthbound types.

This is a fairly typical device used by people who reject the idea of God, but still feel inclomplete without a high-five from somebody or something Out There.  But as a couple of guys observed,

            And what may be winking at us from the other side is not likely to be anything benevolent.

            -- Nelson S Pacheco and Tommy R Blann

 See you Monday.
  

Swingin' Sounds for Secret Agents & Billy Strange’s Secret Agent File

Billy Strange was a guitar guy with a twangin’ mess of talent. 

1          Thunderball

2          A Man Alone

3          9th Man Theme

4          I Spy

5          The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Theme

6          The James Bond Theme

7          Our Man Flint

8          The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

9          Run Spy Run

10        Get Smart

11        007 Theme

12        Goldfinger

Billy Strange: Secret Agent File

+ + + +

Swingin' Sounds for Secret Agents  is one of those anthology albums put out by a label with many different performers and arrangements, all centered around a theme.

From Columbia Special Products, we have all the excitement of spying, danger, and suspense turned into cheesy lounge music!

1)  Percy Faith - Thunderball   

2)  Mel Tormé - Secret Agent Man   

3)  Village Stompers - From Russia With Love   

4)  John Barry - The James Bond Theme   

5)  David Lloyd - 007   

6)  Bobby Vinton - Goldfinger   

7)  John Barry - Ipcress File   

8)  Ray Conniff - Third Man Theme   

9)  David Lloyd - On Her Majesty's Secret Service   

10)  Orchestra U.S.A. - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Swingin' Sounds for Secret Agents

Au revoir -- and watch your back!

MA-13 - Splitting Mad: More Nuclear Numbers

Here's a re-post of a recently re-upped music compilation. 

The goal? to take up where the soundtrack to The Atomic Cafe left off, documenting our society's uneasy relationship with the concept or nuclearity (hey Mom! I just made up a new word!)

Through the manipulation of clip art I keep hoping to be offered a job as a graphics designer of the inept or cheesy sort.

A NOTE ON TRACK 2, "Shh-Boom!": 

The song was first recorded on Atlantic Records' subsidiary label Cat Records by The Chords on March 15, 1954 and would be their only hit song. "Sh-Boom" reached #2 on the Billboard R&B charts and peaked at #9 on the pop charts.  It is sometimes considered to be the first doo-wop or rock 'n' roll record to reach the top ten on the pop charts (as opposed to the R&B charts). This version was ranked #215 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is the group's only song on the list.

Supposedly the song originated like this:  A group of friends was sitting in a car in their neighborhood, listening to the radio.  An announcer broke in to announce the successful explosion of the world's first H-bomb.  The fellows got to wondering what such a blast would sound like, finally settling on "sh-boom."  Then one of them took this phrase of doom and decided to make a song about it.

1    Fireball Boogie         Camille Howard               1948

2   Sh-Boom   The Chords               1953

3   Watch World War Three (on Pay TV)         Crown City Four              1960

4  The Sun Is Burning    Simon & Garfunkel                1964

5  I Come And Stand At Every Door  The Byrds               1966

6 Atomic Bombs Away Blues Creation 1971

7 Nuclear Blues Blood Sweat & Tears 1980

8 Your Attention Please Scars 1981

9 After the Rain   Comsat Angels 1982

10 99 Red Balloons Nena 1983

11 Party at Ground Zero Fishbone 1985

12 Protect And Survive The Dubliners 1987

13 Everyday Is Like Sunday Morrissey 1988

14 I Like Chinese Monty Python 1989

15 April 2031 Warrant 1992

16 Nuclear Supremacy Dayglo Abortions 1995

17 Jesus Hits Like an Atomic Bomb Chanticleer 2004

18 Bring Back the Bomb GWAR 2004

19 Brighter Than A Thousand Suns  Iron Maiden 2006

20 The Iranian Bomb Tal Gilad 2011

 The final track, originally from 2011, seems as likely to come true now as then.

https://www.filefactory.com/file/2jd1x6lvnmow/MA-13.rar

See you Monday!