[GreenKeys] TELSTAR - The Song!

[Jim Backus]

On 10/07/2012 18:07, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> TELSTAR -   The Song!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE
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> Telstar is a 1962 instrumental record performed by The Tornados. It 
> was the first single by a British band to reach number one on the U.S. 
> Billboard Hot 100, and was also a number one hit in the UK. The record 
> was named after the AT&T communications satellite Telstar, which went 
> into orbit in July 1962. The song was released five weeks later on 17 
> August 1962. It was written and produced by Joe Meek, and featured a 
> clavioline, a keyboard instrument with a distinctive electronic sound.
> This novelty record was intended to evoke the dawn of the space age, 
> complete with sound effects that were meant to sound "space-like". A 
> popular story at the time of the record's release was that the weird 
> distortions and background noise came from sending the signal up to 
> the Telstar satellite and re-recording it back on Earth. It is more 
> likely that the effects were created in Meek's recording studio, which 
> was a small flat above a shop in London. It has been claimed that the 
> sounds intended to symbolize radio signals were produced by Meek 
> running a pen around the rim of an ashtray, and that the "rocket 
> blastoff" at the start of the record was actually a flushing toilet, 
> with the recordings made to sound exotic by playing the tape in 
> reverse at various speeds.
> The record was an immediate hit after its release on August 17, 1962, 
> remaining in the UK pop charts for 25 weeks, five of them at number 
> one, and in the American charts for 16 weeks.
>
> A French composer, Jean Ledrut, accused Joe Meek of plagiarism, 
> claiming that the tune of "Telstar" had been copied from La Marche 
> d'Austerlitz, a piece from a score that Ledrut had written for the 
> 1960 film Austerlitz. This led to a lawsuit that prevented Meek from 
> receiving royalties from the record during his lifetime, and the issue 
> was not resolved in Meek's favour until a year after his death in 
> 1967. It is unlikely that Meek was aware of Austerlitz, as it had been 
> released only in France at the time.
>
> "Telstar" won an Ivor Novello Award and is estimated to have sold at 
> least five million copies worldwide.
> (Note  this  test is  from the   site  ...   as well as the  listing 
> to the song  you will see  some of the best album and dingle  covers 
> art  for   TELSTAR as a visual - Ed Sharpe))
>
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And the link between The Tornadoes and Muse the current three piece 
stadium fillers?


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Matt Bellamy's father was one of The Tornadoes.

Jim, G4PFJ
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