Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Telstar" is a 1962 instrumental by the English band the Tornados, written and produced by Joe Meek. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1962 (the second British recording to reach number one on that chart in the year, after " Stranger on the Shore " in May).
The Tornados made a scopitone film (an early form of music video) for "Telstar" and another for their chart hit "Robot" featuring members of the group walking around a woodland dressed in appropriate headgear with their guitars, flirting with various young women and being finally arrested by policemen after lighting a campfire.
What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; Page information; Cite this page; Get shortened URL; Download QR code
The Ventures Play Telstar and the Lonely Bull is an album by the band the Ventures, released in 1963.It consists entirely of cover versions of popular instrumentals from the late 1950s to early 1960s (all of which reached the Top 15 on Billboard, including eleven Top Tens and three #1's) and became their highest charting album, peaking at #8 on Billboard and earning the band a gold record for ...
There is a YouTube video of La Marche d'Austerlitz here. Unfortunately it would be a copyvio to add this link to the article, but it can be used to decide whether Jean Ledrut was right that Telstar plagiarised this tune. It is similar, but then so is the theme from The High Chaparral, which was written after Telstar.--♦Ian Ma c M♦
The film tells the story of record producer Joe Meek, the songwriter-producer behind the 1960s hits "Have I the Right?", "Just Like Eddie" and "Johnny Remember Me".The film charts Meek's initial success with the multi-million-selling record "Telstar"; his homosexuality, which was illegal in the UK at the time; and his struggles with debt, paranoia and depression, which culminated in the ...
In 1984, the group recorded its sole single, a cover of the Joe Meek song "Telstar", with the B-side being "Telstar in a Piano Bar". The song had original lyrics written by Reade in its first version, which were rejected by Meek's publishers, and replaced by more abstract and unintelligible vocals. [2] Lindsay Reade explained: [3]
The album was released on LP, CD and Cassette by Telstar Records and BMG, and it charted at #2 in March 1994. Like Hits 93 Volume 3 , Hits 94 Volume 1 contains 22 tracks, a few of which are edited, some very crudely, in order to fit them all onto an 80-minute cd.