DR Essential Songs #3: Telstar - The Tornadoes

demonrail666 · 01.22.2009, 02:42 PM

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras

Produced by Joe Meek in 1962 this was the first song by a British band to make number one on America's Billboard Hot 100. This led to early US export singles being stickered with the logo, "Look out America, the British are coming" a good year before the arrival of Beatle-mania.

It's also probably the only hit single ever to have been named after a communications satellite.

MellySingsDoom · 01.22.2009, 02:42 PM

A seminal release, but also one of Thatcher's favourite tunes (ugh....)

demonrail666 · 01.22.2009, 02:56 PM

Haha. I never knew that. Either way, It's one of those records I would've genuinely liked to have been around to listen to for the first time when it was actually released. Have you heard the Joe Meek album from 1959, 'I hear a New World'? That's amazing. There's just something so utterly right about the idea of a RAF radar expert from Gloucester inventing Happy Hardcore from his bedsit on the Holloway Rd.

noisereductions · 01.22.2009, 03:00 PM

This is yr best pick yet! Dig this cover:

MellySingsDoom · 01.22.2009, 03:05 PM

demonrail - I've not heard that Meek album - I must investigate further!

wellcharge · 01.22.2009, 06:00 PM

i've only heard the ventures version

Everyneurotic · 01.22.2009, 10:53 PM

i thought i comment on this.

capital tune with capital production; kinda campy but really effective.

PAULYBEE2656 · 01.24.2009, 10:01 AM

one of the greatest songs ever recorded in the world ever by anyone!

RdTv · 01.24.2009, 10:03 AM

Excellent choice, a great record and one that I'm gonna play right now.

01.22.2009, 02:42 PM	#1
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras Produced by Joe Meek in 1962 this was the first song by a British band to make number one on America's Billboard Hot 100. This led to early US export singles being stickered with the logo, "Look out America, the British are coming" a good year before the arrival of Beatle-mania. It's also probably the only hit single ever to have been named after a communications satellite.
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01.22.2009, 02:42 PM	#2
MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	A seminal release, but also one of Thatcher's favourite tunes (ugh....) __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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noisereductions invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New England, USA Posts: 16,210	This is yr best pick yet! Dig this cover:
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01.22.2009, 03:05 PM	#5
MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	demonrail - I've not heard that Meek album - I must investigate further! __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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01.22.2009, 06:00 PM	#6
wellcharge expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: cold and boring kanada Posts: 1,297	i've only heard the ventures version
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01.22.2009, 02:56 PM	#3
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	Haha. I never knew that. Either way, It's one of those records I would've genuinely liked to have been around to listen to for the first time when it was actually released. Have you heard the Joe Meek album from 1959, 'I hear a New World'? That's amazing. There's just something so utterly right about the idea of a RAF radar expert from Gloucester inventing Happy Hardcore from his bedsit on the Holloway Rd.
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01.22.2009, 10:53 PM	#7
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	i thought i comment on this. capital tune with capital production; kinda campy but really effective. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	one of the greatest songs ever recorded in the world ever by anyone! __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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01.24.2009, 10:03 AM	#9
RdTv invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lexington,KY USA Posts: 2,512	Excellent choice, a great record and one that I'm gonna play right now.
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