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This is a list of recordings that feature the sound of a Mellotron, a polyphonic tape-replay keyboard developed in the 1960s. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Mellotron was used extensively by German electronic band Tangerine Dream through the 1970s, [56] on albums such as Atem (1973), [56] Phaedra (1974), [57] Rubycon (1975), [58] Stratosfear (1976), [59] and Encore (1977). [59] In the late 1970s, French duo Space Art used a Mellotron during the recording of their second album, Trip in the ...
The Birotron was named after its inventor, Dave Biro, and developed with investment from regular Mellotron player Rick Wakeman. [1] [2] Like the Mellotron, the instrument produced sounds from magnetic tape, but it used eight-track tape in a loop. As such tapes never need rewinding, this avoided the problem that the Mellotron had, where a sound ...
Chamberlin would receive royalty payments from the Mellotron company, though this apparently ended in the late 1960s. Through this same royalty system, he licensed the Chamberlin "3 violins" sound to be used as the violins sound in the Mellotron library. This sound was used on much of the British Mellotron music since the mid-1960s.
It was released in the UK on 19 April 1968, by CBS Records and in the US on 15 July 1968, by Date Records. [9] The album was recorded primarily between June and August 1967 at EMI (now Abbey Road Studios) and Olympic Studios in London. The Zombies, having been dropped from Decca Records, financed these sessions independently. After signing with ...
Following the auction in 2022 of a new version of “Blowin’ in the Wind” that sold to a bidder for $1.8 million, three more re-recordings Bob Dylan has made of his classic songs with producer ...
This coda, which Mark Lewisohn speculated was "seemingly copied straight from an unidentifiable modern jazz record", [1] was in fact played on a mellotron. (In addition to the familiar samples of instruments playing single notes, mellotrons had entire banks of a pop orchestra playing popular styles of music, with optional accompaniment.
A man on trial for murder claims he killed a woman to protect her daughter from being sexually abused.. Zachary Hughes, a Juilliard-trained pianist, turned himself in to police in South Carolina ...