{"id":5964,"date":"2016-12-10T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/10\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-some-space-tunes-in-honor-of-john-glenn\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:54:39","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-some-space-tunes-in-honor-of-john-glenn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/10\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-some-space-tunes-in-honor-of-john-glenn\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some Space Tunes in Honor of John Glenn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a>The third American in outer space, and the first to orbit the earth, John Glenn passed away the other day at 95.  So I raise my glass this Saturday night in salute of a great American hero.<\/span><\/p>\n

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 got high in '62. (Telstar the song made it high on Earth to the #1 slot on both the U. S. and British charts.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of getting 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. Damn if it doesn't sound as raw and fresh as it did back in '66.<\/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

Steve Miller Band, Space Cowboy<\/a>, 1969<\/span><\/p>\n

Kinks, Supersonic Rocket Ship<\/a>, 1972.  My favorite Kinks number is Waterloo Sunset<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police, Walking on the Moon<\/a>.  With Apollo 11 footage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The third American in outer space, and the first to orbit the earth, John Glenn passed away the other day at 95.  So I raise my glass this Saturday night in salute of a great American hero. 1960's psychedelia explored inner space, but there were a few songs from the '60s about outer space themes.  … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some Space Tunes in Honor of John Glenn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,18,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-music","category-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","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=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}