Space--The Final Budget Cut, Part 2!

Was I hoping "we'd" go to Mars? (Actually, astronauts go, and the rest of us stay here, but you know what I mean.) The answer is, yes, I was very much hoping we would. Nothing makes more sense than space exploration. However, NASA has become--like everything else--an impediment to handing buckets of money to corporations, Wall St., and corrupt military contractors. So, our space adventures have to end. That it happened under a Democratic president gives me no cause for pride.

But, moving on to lighter subjects, we have today's playslaylist of goofy space-related numbers, with a number of these numbers having "Moon" (or "Looner") in their title, though none of these songs are about the Halloween tradition of mooning. Just so you know.

Moon Winks goes back to the early 1900s--Googling gives me two or three conflicting exact dates. It's a pleasant and bland "three step" whose sheet music cover has the coolest man-in-the-moon illustration ever printed. Our recording comes from 1938. Dickie Goodman's delightfully stupid Luna Trip (1969) is the best kind of period piece, with its Walter Cronkite references and the lunar E.T. who constantly interrupts the broadcast. As someone who was "there" (i.e. watching the landing on TV), I remember the creatures-on-the-moon rumors going around at the time. Despite all the media hype to the contrary, 1969 was a very unhip time.

And, of course, you needed another recording of the Star Trek theme.

To the Looner Toons:
Space--The Final Budget Cut, Pt. 2



SLAYLIST

ROCKET TO THE MOON--Tony Perkins, 1957.
THE LOONER FLUTER--Jon Kenny (Astro 711)
THE SCREEMIN' MEEMIES FROM PLANET "X"--Merv Griffin
THEME FROM STAR TREK--Ferrante and Teicher, 1978.
MOON WINKS--Byron Wolfe's Orch., 1938.
THE MOON HAS HIS EYES ON YOU--The Quartones.
OMICRON VISITS EARTH--Rege Cordic and Co., 1960.
LUNA TRIP--Dickie Goodman, 1969.
THERE'S NO LIFE ON THE MOON--The Mills Brothers, 1972.
MOONFLIGHT--Vik Venus, Your Main Moon Man, 1969.
SATELLITE--Teresa Brewer, 1958.
TAKE ME TO YOUR LADDER (Bacharach-Hilliard)--Buddy Clinton, 1960.
MAN FROM MARS--Ferrante and Teicher, 1955.
THE 'LECTRONIC BRAIN--The Moonbillies, 1960.
FALL OF THE PLANET EARTH--The Moonbillies, 1960.


Lee