{"id":10408,"date":"2011-08-27T18:25:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-outer-space\/"},"modified":"2011-08-27T18:25:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T18:25:26","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-outer-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

1960's psychedelia explored inner space, but there were a few songs from the '60s about outer space themes.  Telstar<\/a>, an instrumental by the British band, The Tornados, 1962, was presumably in celebration of Telstar, the first communications satellite which also got high up in '62. (Telstar the song made it to the #1 slot on both the U. S. and British charts.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of high, the Byrd's Eight Miles High<\/a>, 1966,  tells of a trip into the outer or perhaps into the 'inner' or both.  I never paid much attention to the obscure lyrics.  The Coltranish riffs executed on a 12-string Rickenbacker were what got my attention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also by the Byrds, 1966, is the playful Mr. Spaceman<\/a>.  And we can't omit Elton John, Rocket Man<\/a> from 1972.<\/span><\/p>\n

Off topic, but appropriate given current East Coast weather conditions: Good Night, Irene<\/a>, 1950, the Weavers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Finally,  a tip of the hat this Saturday night to Victor Reppert<\/a> who pointed me to this incredible oldies site.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1960's psychedelia explored inner space, but there were a few songs from the '60s about outer space themes.  Telstar, an instrumental by the British band, The Tornados, 1962, was presumably in celebration of Telstar, the first communications satellite which also got high up in '62. (Telstar the song made it to the #1 slot on both the … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Outer Space”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}