Space
Age Pop Album List
Photo courtesy Jack Diamond
Moon Gas
Dick
Hyman with Mary Mayo
Circa 1963
Tracks : Moon Gas, Maid of The Moon, Isn't It
Odd ?, Stella by Starlight, Imagination,
Space Reflex (Blues in 5/4) Bye Bye Blues, They
Can't Take That Away From Me,
For All We Know, Desafinado (Slightly Out Of Tune),
I'm Glad There- Is You,
Star Eyes.
Here is a list of albums that fit
the Space Age Pop category, at least as
defined by HobbySpace:
Space Age Pop
- music from the late 1940's to mid-1960's
that attempted to convey an impression of
space travel and exploration and often employed
exotic and unusual sounds generated by electronic
instruments, wordless vocals, and studio effects.
The list is compiled primarily from Jack
Diamond Music, the article Music
from Outer Space by Ken Saari at Jeff Central
&Exotica Research, and Wild Scenes (no
longer on line).
Follow the links to find album covers and more
information.
- 1940's
- Music
Out of the Moon (late 1940s - Capitol)
Les Baxter conductor and arranger of compositions
by Harry Revel with conventional instruments
and Dr. Samuel Hoffmann on Theremin.
- 1950's
- Destination
Moon (Columbia, circa 1950)
by Leith Stevens; movie soundtrack album.
- Day
The Earth Stood Still (1951) Conducted
by Bernard Herrmann, Lionel Newman and Alfred
Newman and features Theremins by Dr. Samuel
J. Hoffman. CD
at Amazon
- Impressions
of Outer Space (1953 - Brunswick)
by Larry Elgart with ensemble of saxophones,
trombones, piano, string bass and percussion.
The eight works include Airless Moon,
Gravitational Whirlpool and Space
Intoxication.
- Harry
Revel's Music from Out of Space
(1955 - MGM) - small orchestra, without
electronic instruments, arranged and conducted
by Stuart Phillips.
- Exploring the Unknown (1955 on
RCA) Composed/conducted and arranged by
Leith
Stevens and features the wordless vocals
of the Walter Schumann Voices and Paul Frees
as narrator.
- Tracks: Preparation and Blast Off,
Trajectory, Space Station, New Frontiers,
Arrival At Venus-New Sensations, Welcoming
Processional, Teleportation, Great Distances,
Regions of The Other Suns, The Comets,
The Heavens, Look Up.
- Ken
Saari
- Forbidden
Planet (1956 - MGM)
by Louis & Bebe Barron; movie soundtrack.
(MP3
Samples & CD at Amazon)
- Folk
Songs For The 21st Century - Sheldon Allman
at conelrad.com - Allman was a character
actor who will be quickly recognized by
anyone familiar with 1960s TV shows. The
title says folk but it's mostly 50's style
rock'n'roll.
- From
Another World (1956 - VIK/RCA) Sid
Bass arranged and conducted. Popular works
with reverberation and other electronic
effects.
- Space
Escapade (1957 - Capitol) Les Baxter
with orchestra with no electronic instruments.
Liner
notes at Wild Scenes
- Song
of the Second Moon (1957 -? ) Tom
Dissevelt and Kid Baltan with electronic
instruments.CD
Reissue.
- Tracks: Song Of The 2nd Moon, Sonic
Re-Entry, Moon Maid, The Ray Makers,
The Visitor From Inner Space, Orbit
Aurora, Twilight Ozone, Pianoforte.
- Cover
at Show
and Tell Music
- Fantastica: Music from Outer Space
(1958 - Liberty) Compositions, arrangements,
electronics and conducting by Russ Garcia.
Plus "ethereal voice effects"
of Marni Nixon.
- Tracks: Into Space, Nova (Exploding
Star), Lost Souls of Saturn, Monsters
of Jupiter,
Water Creatures of Astra, Venus, Red
Sands of Mars, Goofy Peepl of Phobos,
Volcanoes of Mercury, Birth of A Planet,
Frozen Neptune, Moon Rise
- Xtabays
World - Russ Garcia - Fantastica - Blognow
- May.15.07
- Roman´s
Easy-Listening- & Instrumental-Corner:
Russ Garcia - Fantastica (1959) - Nov.7.05
- Music
in Orbit (1958 - Capitol) Ron Goodwin
with a large orchestra
- Countdown (? - Imperial) Jimmie
Haskell with rock 'n' roll band and
electronic effects.
- Tracks: Blast Off!, Weightless Blues
Rockin' In The Orbit, Starlight, Hydrazine,
Moon Mist, We Get Messages, We Get Messages
(Stereo), Moonlight Cha Cha Cha, Astrosonic,
Astrosonic (Stereo), Venus, Asteroid
Hop, Asteroid Hop (Stereo), Homeward
Earth.
- jimmiehaskell.com
- Countdown!
Jimmie Haskell and His Orchestra - Dr.
Forrest's Cheeze Factory July.07
- Sample
MP3 clip at ontonson.com (Japan)
- Xtabays
World - Jimmie Haskell - Countdown -
Blognow - Nov.21.06
- Other
Worlds, Other Sounds (1958 -RCA)
Esquivel album is more Bachelor Pad than
Space Pop. His albums were renown for their
Hi-Fi stretching effects.
- Soundblast
- Ferrante & Teicher - the famous piano
duo made this and 4 other space themed albums:
Blast off, Soundproof,
Heavenly
Sounds in Hi-Fi, and Adventure
in Carols. (Album covers and info found
at
Show and Tell Music.)
Photo courtesy Jack Diamond
Fantasy in Orbit
An astronauts musical impression while
orbiting the Earth.
Electronic Musical Compositions of Thomas Dissevelt.
Circa 1967
Tracks: Ignition, Atlantic, Spearhead, Zanzi,
Anchor Chains, Tropicolors,
Gamelan, Woomerangs, Waltzing Mathilda, Pacific
Dawn,
Gold and Lead, Mexican Mirror, Seconds To Eternity,
Re-Entry
- 1960's
- Music for Heavenly Bodies (1960
-Omega) Andre Montero & his Orchestra with
Paul Tanner on electro-theremin.
- Tracks: Up to Jupiter, Misty Moon
Blues, Midnight Sun, Lost in the Stars,
20th Centry Venus,, I Wished on the
Moon, Sunrise Serenade, Moonlight Serenade,
The Red Sea of Mars, Holiday on Saturn,
Over the Rainbow, Out of this World,
The Story of a Starry Night.
- I
Hear a New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy
(1960) Joe Meek & the Blue Men
- Tracks: I Hear a New World, Orbit
Around the Moon, Entry of the Globbots,
The Bublight, March of the Dribcots,.
Love Dance of the Saroos, Glob Waterfall,
Magnetic Field,. Valley of the Saroos,
Dribcots Space Boat,. Disc Dance of
the Globbots, Valley of No Return
- Project Comstock--Music from Outer
Space (1962 - Warner Bros) Frank Comstock
with orchestra and electro-theremin and
electric violin.
- Tracks: Out of This World, Stella
By Starlight, A Journey To A Star, Deep
Night, From Another World, Galaxy, Out
of Space, On The Dark Side Of The Moon,
When You Wish Upon A Star, Journey To
Infinity, Stairway To The Stars, The
Moon Is Blue.
- Man in Space With Sounds (1962
- Worlds Fair Records) by Attileo Mineo.
Electronic and orchestra. Reissue on CD.
- Tracks: Welcome To Tomorrow 2. Gayway
To Heaven 3. Soaring Science 4. Mile-A-Minute
Monorail 5. Around The World 6. Century
21 7. Man In Art 8. The Queen City 9.
Man Seeks The Future 10. Boeing Spacearium
11. Science Of Tomorrow 12. Space Age
World's Fair
- Moon Gas (1962 - MGM) by Dick Hyman
and Mary Mayo. Orchestra and vocal.
- Tracks : Moon Gas, Maid of The Moon,
Isn't It Odd ?, Stella by Starlight,
Imagination, Space Reflex (Blues in
5/4) Bye Bye Blues, They Can't Take
That Away From Me, For All We Know,
Desafinado (Slightly Out Of Tune), I'm
Glad There- Is You, Star Eyes.
- See the Ventures
entry in the Rock
Space Music section where the
albums The Ventures Play Telstar
(1962) + Ventures in Space (1963)
are discussed.
- Fantasy in Orbit - ( 1967
- Philips) Tom Dissevelt. Electronic
compositions thtat convey an astronauts
impression while orbiting the Earth. Reissue
FWM Music, Italian Import, 2001.
- Tracks: Ignition, Atlantic, Spearhead,
Zanzi, Anchor Chains, Tropicolors, Gamelan,
Woomerangs, Waltzing Mathilda, Pacific
Dawn, Gold and Lead, Mexican Mirror,
Seconds To Eternity, Re-Entry
- GO! Colonel Glenn in Orbit. An
Historic Document in Sound of the First
American Orbit, 3 Times Around the World,
Geb. 20, 1962, Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Scamp
Passport - 101 Strings - "Astro Sounds
From The Year 2000" - 1969
- Daphne
Oram - Wikipedia - A British pioneer
in electronic music.
- DaphneOram.org
- The timeline shows that in February
1972 she composed "Rockets in Ursa
Major" for a science fiction play.
- For Young People
- Rocket
to the Moon (1950 - Young People's
Records) by Raymond
Scott Quintet. A children's record about
the first rocket mission to the Moon.
- A
Child's Introduction to Outer Space
(1956 - Golden ) the Satellite Singers and
Orchestra. Willy Ley advisor.
- Adventures
in Sound and Space (1958-RCA) Col.
Erhardt and cast with music by Marty Gold.
Narrated space adventure.
- Space Songs (1959 - Library of
Science) by Tom Glazer, Dottie Evans, and
Tony Mottola.
- Space Stories and Sounds (circa
late 1950's - Lion) Bill Stern narrator
with Aerodynamic Music. Music by Bill Simon.
Stories adapted from Classics Illustrated.
- "Modern" space age lounge style:
- Dana
Countryman - Destination Space
- Thelonious
Moog
- The
Simonsound - Simon James and Matt Simons
produced an album in 2009 that
offers an intriguing variety
of sounds, including what the duo describe
as ’50s and ’60s-inspired space music,
mood music for film and TV, haunting vocal
tracks inspired by the windswept beauty
of their home town, and switched-on cover
versions of ’70s funk classics realised
on the Moog synthesiser.
- Moog
- Other links:
- Space Music - Things Seen in The Skies
by Simon James & Ken Hollings. A streamed
program at totallyradio
/ totallyword. Includes music and readings
from an article written by Ken Hollings
for the July issue of The
Wire magazine. Available in the archive
but paid membership required.
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