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"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.
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 ...
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His production of the Tornados' hit instrumental "Telstar" (1962) features the clavioline or perhaps a Univox, [7] as does the B-side of that single, "Jungle Fever". [1] Author Mark Brend states that, while the exact instrument used has long been open to debate, "there remains a very faint possibility that Meek used a Univox on 'Telstar,' mixed ...
Clips is a mobile video editing software application created by Apple Inc. It was released onto the iOS App Store on April 6, 2017, [1] [2] for free. [3] Initially, it was only available on 64-bit devices running iOS 10.3 or later; [4] as of version 3.1.3, it requires iOS 16.0 or later. Apple describes it as an app for "making and sharing fun ...
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]
This article was created as Telstar (song) in December 2004. It is a pop song in the loose sense of the term, but instrumental might be more accurate. I'm not too bothered about this, although the article could be proposed for renaming.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦ (talk to me) 17:33, 1 May 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]