[QuadList] TELSTAR - The Song! adn webcast date.

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nasa webcast  may  be the  12... check the  link I  prev.  sent.
 
ok... the  song!
 
 
TELSTAR -   The Song!
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE) 
 
 


 
 
 
 

Telstar is a 1962 instrumental record performed by  The Tornados. It was 
the first single by a British band to reach number one on  the U.S. Billboard 
Hot 100, and was also a number one hit in the UK. The record  was named 
after the AT&T communications satellite Telstar, which went into  orbit in July 
1962. The song was released five weeks later on 17 August 1962. It  was 
written and produced by Joe Meek, and featured a clavioline, a keyboard  
instrument with a distinctive electronic sound.
This novelty record was  intended to evoke the dawn of the space age, 
complete with sound effects that  were meant to sound "space-like". A popular 
story at the time of the record's  release was that the weird distortions and 
background noise came from sending  the signal up to the Telstar satellite 
and re-recording it back on Earth. It is  more likely that the effects were 
created in Meek's recording studio, which was  a small flat above a shop in 
London. It has been claimed that the sounds  intended to symbolize radio 
signals were produced by Meek running a pen around  the rim of an ashtray, and 
that the "rocket blastoff" at the start of the record  was actually a flushing 
toilet, with the recordings made to sound exotic by  playing the tape in 
reverse at various speeds.
The record was an immediate  hit after its release on August 17, 1962, 
remaining in the UK pop charts for 25  weeks, five of them at number one, and in 
the American charts for 16  weeks.

A French composer, Jean Ledrut, accused Joe Meek of plagiarism,  claiming 
that the tune of "Telstar" had been copied from La Marche d'Austerlitz,  a 
piece from a score that Ledrut had written for the 1960 film Austerlitz. This  
led to a lawsuit that prevented Meek from receiving royalties from the 
record  during his lifetime, and the issue was not resolved in Meek's favour 
until a  year after his death in 1967. It is unlikely that Meek was aware of 
Austerlitz,  as it had been released only in France at the time.

"Telstar" won an Ivor  Novello Award and is estimated to have sold at least 
five million copies  worldwide.
 
 
(Note  this  test is  from  the   site  ...   as well as the  listing to 
the  song  you will see  some of the best album and dingle  covers  art  for   
TELSTAR as a visual - Ed  Sharpe))






 
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