[GreenKeys] TELSTAR - The Song!

[Keith Mc]

COURYHOUSE wrote:
> TELSTAR -   The Song!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE

VERY interesting.  Telstar is VERY similar to the title 
"Visa to the Stars", from the experimental electronic 
"musicians" Perrey-Kinsgley:
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrey_and_Kingsley

"Visa ..." is on their album "The In Sound From Way Out"
(...which I own from its initial release, as a vinyl LP... :-).

Perrey & Kingsley were dedicated early scientific experimentalists,
that  MANUALLY made music by painstakingly combining lots 
and lots of MAG TAPE snippets, each of which held samples of 
either a natural sound, an oscillator, or early electronic synthesizer output.

For samples from that album, see:
... http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,939719-2597078,00.html

Now that I hear it, I'm sure P-K used some of the "Telstar"
themes and orchestration stylings when making "Visa". 
(The above sample is only a snip, from the middle of the piece.)

BTW... That "borrowing" was not unusual for them. MANY of 
the Perrey-Kingsley songs on the ISFWO album (and others) 
included recognizable themes from well known songs. Examples:

... "Countdown at 6" - reminds me of Allan Sherman and
Lou Busch's "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"

... "Barnyard In Orbit" - Includes a theme from "Turkey in the Straw"

... "Electronic Can Can" - is akin to Jimmy Durante's
"One Of Those Songs" (... "This is one of those songs, 
that you hear now and then" ...)

You can click on the samples in the above link, so see what I mean.

(... Darn... Now I've got to haul out the old turntable, and the album... ;-)

- Keith Mc.
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