[Vintage-Audio] Nashville "Country Moog"

Fri Sep 29 15:13:25 EDT 2006

Michael,

I am afraid that tape is probably forever lost. Unfortunately.

I have some recordings you might enjoy Michael, they are by a group called 
the Mystic Mood Orchestra. Two of the more popular albums were "One Stormy 
Night" and "Night Tide". Definitely mood music, or sometimes also known as 
'make out music'!

I have the original vinyl, naturally. (chuckle). However, many of this 
groups recordings were put on CDS after their original release in the late 
sixties. A girl who worked for me told me about them, i asked if they were 
by The Mystic Mood Orchestra? She said she thought they were, she found them 
at the main library and listened to them there. I did some investigating and 
found them on CD in 1992. I have eight recordings in all.

So Michael, if you like music set to the live recorded sounds of an 
approaching thunderstorm, the storm with lightning and thunder and the rain 
fading into sunshine then you will love "One Stormy Night"! The tempo of 
each musical selection, all instrumental, is equal to the tempo of the storm 
activity level. Way cool!

Then we have "Night Tide", which is set to the sounds of the ocean. Waves 
crashing onto the shore, sea gulls, the rhythm of the tides etc. A nice day 
on the white sands of the ocean shore fades into twilight. The opening song 
is "A Summer Place" and you can close your eyes and almost feel the water 
licking at your bare toes.

One selection on the "One Stormy Night" album involves a steam locomotive 
trying to climb an incline during the storm. You can hear it coming in the 
right channel, the wheels slipping, the train whistle warning of its 
approach etc. Then the engine drives right through the room and slowly fades 
off into the distance on the left channel. Wild!

How real does it sound? Well one evening my girlfriend and I were listening 
to it in my room and my Father came in and told me to close the windows as 
it was starting to storm outside! It was dark and he was serious. Well, at 
least he seemed serious! (LOL!) I guarantee it will make your woofers earn 
their keep!

This can get rather romantic in spots Michael, play at your own risk! 
Diapers not included!

Duane W8DBF

 ---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Salmons, Michael" <SalmonsM at missouri.edu>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] Nashville "Country Moog"

> Duane, you've touched upon one of my favorite hobbies. I have a pretty
> big library of "field" recordings of such things as storms, babbling
> brooks, airplanes taking off. It's in analog (tape) format. I've been
> flirting with the idea of putting them on a website. It would be nice to
> have a group of people submitting recordings, not just my own (not
> always good) recordings. Regardless, I would very much enjoy hearing
> your Model A recording if you ever find it.
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:vintage-audio-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Duane
> Fischer, W8DBF
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:19 AM
> To: Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back
> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Nashville "Country Moog"
>
> Hi Lee (and all)
>
> I think I have another Moog album that is by Gil. Of course a lot of
> what the world heard was by Walter 'Wendy' Carlos; Switched on Bach #1
> and #2, Switched on Bacharach and Beauty And The Beast.
>
> Whereas Carlos gave the Moog a very clean Classical sound, Gil added
> some beat, some instrumental depth and some personality! I got a copy of
> "Country Moog" from somebody and copied it to my Voice Of Music tape
> Deck. I had it on a seven inch reel recorded at 7 1/2 IPS. I was still
> living at home, so that had to be before August 3, 1968, got married and
> moved out!
>
> I also had a stereo recording of my 1929 model A Ford custom street
> machine.
> The engine was a 1933 model B Ford (model A had no crank counterbalance,
> model B from 32-33 had 3/4 balance and the 34 model C had full
> counterbalance) bored out .125 to 213 cubic inches, compression raised
> from
> 4:1 to 8:1, Mallory ignition, Chevy four ring pistons, shortened rod
> stroke, from drip oil to 80 pound pressurized feeder system, fiber cam
> gear to aluminum, single updraft to twin Weber downdraft with ram air
> induction, hand built headers with no exhaust for back pressure, two
> chrome pipes ran the full length of the running boards and flared just
> before the ten inch slicks, solid adjustable lifters, electric fuel pump
> (Moon five gallon hydroplane pressureized tank on chrome planted 1/4
> steel boiler plate mount on rear, etc. Let's just say that when she
> fired up, you could hear it bark for a quarter of a mile! Sure sounded
> cool on tape.
>
> Question is, what the heck happened to all of those tapes? I never threw
> out any of my music, none of them! Anyone who touched my stereo
> equipment, record albums or tapes was on my hit list! And everyone knew
> it too!
>
> Sometime I'll have to share with you a story that caused me to vaporize
> my Fruit Of The Loom briefs and wake up faster than I believed possible!
> Remind
> me: sitting on bed, playing Johnny Horton album and recording it to a
> seven inch tape. Suddenly heard this voice say "You're next!" It came
> out of my cieling mounted James B. Lansing 8 inch full range in 3/4 inch
> White Birch bass reflex cabinets. I played the tape back and sure enough
> it was on the tape I was recording to! It wasn't on the album, so like
> where did it come from?
>
> Duane W8DBF
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <LeeHazen at aol.com>
> To: <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Nashville "Country Moog"
>
>
>> In a message dated 9/11/06 6:13:41 PM Central Daylight Time,
>> dfischer at usol.com writes:
>>
>> << Hey Lee! Ever see a copy of the late sixties Moog synthesizer
> release
>> called
>> "Country Moog"? It did not have the guy/woman? Walter Wendy Carlos
> playing
>> it. He/she was about the only musician that could play it right, other
>
>> than
>> its inventor. Just look how far the synthesizer has come? >>
>>
>> Yes, I have it in my collection.  There were two very prolific Moog
>> artists in
>> Nashville - Gil  Trythall and Rick Powell.
>>
>> Gil's albums were entirely Moog.  He synthesized country instruments
> and
>> the
>> albums were very entertaining.
>>
>> Rick did two types of sessions - All Moog and Moog accompanied by the
>> Nashville
>> "A" team players as the rhythm section. Rick's recordings were
> incredible.
>>
>> I personally knew Rick and considered him  one of my best friends.  He
> was
>> an accomplished arranger and guitarist and a producer as well.  We
> lost
>> Rick
>> this year to cancer.
>>
>> I went to Ithica NY to train to program the Moog when I was at
> Woodland
>> Sound
>> Studios.  I was the staff "Moog guy" and programmed the instrument for
>
>> clients
>> who wanted to use it on projects.  I did a few wierd recordings on my
>> own -
>> " Moog 4 X" and "The Outer Orbital Freeway" (using an eventide
>> Harmonizer).
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that you could find the Moog albums at the Great
> Escape in
>> Nashville - and if not, I could copy my LPs to CDs since these
> records
>> are
>> out of print for over 30 years.
>>
>> Good Luck !
>>
>> Lee
>>
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