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Similar in feel to The Champs – Tequila, kinda Mexican. A simple instrumental composition, lead by a sax; songs were uncomplicated back in the 50s! In less than twenty years, popular music had evolved into progressive rock with single songs taking up whole side of albums but this is an audio snapshot of a more innocent time; something to twirl your girl around the living room to.

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A totally ‘fun’ mix to indulge in, with a tracklist chosen around the theme of space and aliens and early sound effects created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Some less-than-serious music mostly from, I’m guessing, the 50s but an inspiring selection that’s been crafted together with care. Came across this mix after I’d signed up with a beta invite to a new streaming music site called MixCloud where you can upload your own mixes that people can then listen to streaming over the net. They’re not open to the public at time of writing but this mix by Monster Bobby was created to play in venues before his band, The Pipettes, came on.

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1. | 0:00:00 | Brian Hodgson (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Dalek Space Ship Takes Off
2. | 0:00:17 | Buchanan & Goodman – The Flying Saucer Part.1
3. | 0:01:00 | The 5 Blobs – The Blob
4. | 0:03:29 | Leonard Nimoy – Highly Illogical
5. | 0:05:40 | The Randells – The Martian Hop
6. | 0:08:04 | Dr. Strangelove And The Fall Outs – Love That Bomb
7. | 0:08:14 | Brian Hodgson (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Start Of The Cyber Invasion
8. | 0:08:28 | Sheb Wooley – The Purple People-Eater
9. | 0:10:37 | Malcolm Clarke (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Arcadia
10. | 0:11:44 | The Tornadoes (Joe Meek) – Robot
11. | 0:14:08 | Hanna, Barbera & Curtain – The Jetsons Theme
12. | 0:15:41 | BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Bubbles
13. | 0:15:51 | Lucia Pamela – Walking On The Moon
14. | 0:18:44 | Ella Fitzgerald – Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer
15. | 0:21:57 | Eddie Cletro – Flying Saucer Boogie
16. | 0:24:25 | Space Negros – Man To Man
17. | 0:25:10 | Barry Gray – Fireball Xl-5 Theme
18. | 0:26:25 | Paul Beaver & Bernie Krause – Sequential Voltage Sources
19. | 0:26:29 | Linda Scott – I’ve Told Every Little Star
20. | 0:28:31 | George Greeley – My Favourite Martian Theme Music
21. | 0:28:52 | Dick Mills (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Vardan Materialises And Shimmers
22. | 0:29:12 | The Moonmen (aka Link Wray) – Other Side Of The Moon
23. | 0:31:14 | Hank Snow – Honeymoon On A Rocket Ship
24. | 0:33:51 | Johnny Guitar Watson – Space Guitar
25. | 0:36:16 | David Vorhaus – Snide Rhythms (From The Tomorrow People Soundtrack)
26. | 0:36:32 | Bill Haley And His Comets – 13 Women (And Only One Man In Town)
27. | 0:36:51 | Brian Hodgson (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Tardis Lands
28. | 0:36:57 | Ike Turner & Jackie Brenston – Rocket ‘88
29. | 0:40:01 | Dudley Simpson – The Tomorrow People Theme
30. | 0:41:40 | David Cain (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Tomorrow’s World
31. | 0:41:52 | Jamie Horton – Robot Man
32. | 0:43:30 | Brian Hodgson (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Pouring Crystals
33. | 0:43:32 | Floyd Tilman – This Cold War With You
34. | 0:43:42 | The White Noise (Brian Hodgson/Delia Derbyshire) – Firebird
35. | 0:46:21 | Slim Gaillard Quartette – Atomic Cocktail
36. | 0:46:38 | Jesse Lee Turner – The Little Space Girl
37. | 0:49:17 | Bernie Krause And Paul Beaver – White Noise
38. | 0:49:24 | Big Joe Turner – Radar Blues
39. | 0:51:56 | Gershon Kingley & Jean Jacques Perrey – Pioneers Of The Stars
40. | 0:54:27 | Jonny Marvin And The Marsmen – Flip
41. | 0:56:35 | Todd Rhodes – Rocket ‘69
42. | 0:59:13 | John Williams – Lost In Space Theme
43. | 1:00:13 | The Tornadoes (Joe Meek) – Life On Venue (German Version)
44. | 1:02:23 | Li De La ruse (aka Delia Derbyshire) – Delia’s Theme
45. | 1:02:35 | Disaster Area – Only The End Of The World (Again) (From The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy)
46. | 1:05:58 | Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Space Arkestra – It’s After The End Of The World
47. | 1:06:08 | Delia Derbyshire (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Electric Storm
48. | 1:06:15 | Janet Greene – Poor Left Winger
49. | 1:06:36 | Dick Mills (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) – Execution Sequence

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Moody rock’n'roll that reached number one in August 1960 in the UK, another favourite of my dad’s and a genuine British rock and roll record. Even if the name of the band and title of the track don’t ring any bells, it has a very well known guitar break. Vibrato is the correct term I believe, “is a musical effect, produced in singing and on musical instruments by a regular pulsating change of pitch”, check out the stream.

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