Space--The Final Budget Cut, Parts 1 and 2

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SPACE--THE FINAL BUDGET CUT

Songs about space.  And space ships.  And faces from space.  And shrinking men, for whom surrounding space gets bigger and bigger as they get smaller and smaller.  As nearly always, all of these were ripped by me from my strange collection. Today's Halloween helping is mostly from vinyl, with two sides (The Coronet Orch. and Holst) from 78s. In space, no one can hear you practice the violin.


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SLAYLIST

JOURNEY INTO SPACE (Phillips)--Frank Weir's Saxophone and Orch., 1955.
THE SCREAMIN' MEEMIES FROM PLANET "X"--Merv Griffin, 1961.
VENUS AND BACK--The Coronet Orch., 1954.
COUNTDOWN; LAUNCH; INTO ORBIT (Rocketship X-M; 1950) (Grofe)
THE FACE FROM OUTER SPACE--Jeff Barry w. Billy Mure Orch., 1960.
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN--Ray Anthony Orch., 1957.
MERCURY (THE WINGED MESSENGER) (Holst)--Gustav Holst c. London Symphony O., 1926.
HELP ME TELSTAR--The Gee Sisters, 1962.
IT'S ABOUT TIME--Wade Denning, Port Washingtons, 1966.
WILL THERE BE SPACE IN A SPACE SHIP--McGuire Sisters, 1961.
ROCKET RIDE--Harry King Orch., 1956.
JOURNEY INTO SPACE--Antoine de Treville.

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SPACE--THE FINAL BUDGET CUT, PART 2

More 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