IF EVER THERE WAS A RECORD THAT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS - IT HAS TO BE THIS ONE. WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT IN THE EARLY 60'S. I COULDNT AFFORD TO BUY RECORDS (WOULD HAVE BEEDN ABOUT 9 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME) THOUGH HAVE IT ON A COUPLE OF 1960'S COMPILATION ALBUMS. JOIE MEEK WHO PRODUCED AND WROTE THIS SONG ALSO PRODUCED THE HONEYCOMBS FIRST"HIT "HAVE I THE RIGHT"
Wonderful! has there ever been a more optimistic and exuberant yet at the same time hubristic piece of music ever recorded that was so toatlly in tune with the Zietgiest of its moment????
Just imagine hearing this for the first time on the radio. It literally took your breath away. What was that?Then waiting to hear it again. The most imaganitive record ever produced. Who was it? what was it? It is still an out of this world sound that you could never copy in a million light years. Hip hop? Hop off.
This captured the spiirt of the early sixties: the austerity years of the fifties were behind us, the welfare state was in full swing; there was nearly full emplyment; medical advances were banishing many diseases to history; slums were being replaced by new housing and science promised to be our servant. Little did we know that in no more than a decade it would all turn sour.
I can`t imagine now music be written about an Iphone.
Joe Meek heard sounds in his head & since he was not an actual "musician", hummed them into a recorder & had Geoff Goddard or whoever was handy transcribe them into music. Maybe that's one of the reasons they sound so different from everything else then OR now. His productions always sound, at least to me, a strange mix of futuristic AND vintage simultaneously - TOTALLY UNIQUE! You would never find anything anywhere close in today's sterile digitized world - you'd be foolish to disagree.
God...this heavenly thing, this heart-tearing melody always riveted me to the floor when it came on the radio...it IS sad, it IS evocative, it conveys the Love of Angels, Telstar, play for infinity and into worlds beyond....
I rushed out and bought this record when it first came out, of course we all rode horses back then and there were no colours, just black and white everywhere and bin men actually took your rubbish away without a formal letter of introduction from the pope. Was this Ken Freeman playing a Clavioline with the Tornados? If it was, we're hearing the forerunner of the Freeman string synthesizer. Anyone remember the band "Second City Sound"? I think that was Ken Freeman too.
i remember being a kid in the early 60s and seeing that sattelite cross the sky.. like a fast moving star. it was a big deal back then, and when the song came out . .woah!. .so futuristic! im sure it inspired 1000s of musical careers, still a cool song today.
Wow! I feel really old cuz I remember when the first satellite was launched and we were glued to the radio listening to these scratchy sounds of Telstar and thinking it was the most exotic thing that ever happened! The needle sounds on this 45rpm were what we heard every time we played a "vinyl"---had to put coins on the needle arm after while to keep it from skipping out of the grooves. Wonderful memories of innocent times. :)
This should have been the theme song to the original STAR TREK TV series back in 1966, my opinion! Has a "retro-futuristic" feel to it. I have an original 45 rpm copy of this as an American release on London Records. Transferred it to digital and downloaded it onto my MP3 player, and WOW!!!
i get shivers everytime i listen to it. i live on holloway rd and pass joes old studio quite often, i look up and think of the magic/madness that happened there in the 60's..a total engineering legend.
Telstar was the first TV satellite that gave us intercontinental TV reception. Some sane people still agree the record was smashing but the TV we get isn´t worth the money spent. ;)
xws, I remember when Germany had two (no typo - two) TV channels and they had what we called "streetcleaners" - all of Germany was a ghost town because everybody sat gloed to the tube. Nowadays, with 24/7 manure on fifty channels - your TV being on the fritz is like going on holiday.
And "music" on radio...burgle my house. Steal my money, my girlfriend, my toothbrush, you´re welcome - but touch my LP rack and I´ll introduce you to my shotgun. ;)
Yeah, although I doubt if a burglar would even recognise what an LP was. My brother's children refer to records as "those giant-sized CD's", even Technics have stopped making 1200's and 1210's. Incidentally, this copy of Telstar comes to you c/o a Technics 1210 MKII.
I think the pressing on the orig. Decca "Telstar" is a work of art in itself. The loudest record you've ever heard on British vinyl. Whoever did the mastering on that was a flippin' genius.
@xwsftassell That was Joe Meeks trademark, he liked it LOUD and powerfull, loads of bass and everythning else too !. One of his first records as producer at Abbey Road was Badpenny Blues by trad-jazz man Humphrey Littleton; he put so much emphasis onto the piano mix that Humph etc hated it, but it was an unlikely huge hit record.
@RockinRedRover Sure, yeah. It's also been noted that the piano sound on BPB was remarkably similar to the one that popped up later on The Beatles "Lady Madonna". I suspect (although I don't actually know), that George Martin may have been something of a Meek-watcher, as his early Sixties production on "Boot Hill" by The Federals, was also uncannily Joe-like.
I don't know if you sense a link between this lovely melody and all that I have described, but sometimes when I hear it my heart hurts metaphorically for the days before my parents made me promise I'd stop playing that Christmas Side/Dark Side game.
Well, our world was situated above the Earth and the enemies' (the Dark Side's) was situated below the Earth, just like Heaven and Hell (though I'm not religious). I drew a picture of the three different solar systems - this one, my one, and the Dark Side's, from an outter space angle, on Microsoft Paint.
Telstar is a part of me. I'm a dreamy and spaced out person (that's probably why I don't concentrate well in lessons and need a lot of support), I think too much and worry too much, I'm over-imaginative, I love the Swinging Sixties, I become very caught up in my own worlds - and one of these many worlds was a planet belonging to an entire solar system which I ruled with my siblings, and then there was the enemies' solar system that looked from an outter space angle identical to ours ...
This brings back memories of living at home. My mum used to play this on the record player. I can picture it now! She never has really grown out of the old stuff. Mind you, neither have I!
the knights of cydonia have recovered a cd which contains a greater purpose than mankind which has become tainted by lust shown by the cowboy licking the girl, to put the cd into effect they need the girl
''the pure sole'' so its kinda like jesus if ya think about it
and whilst we r on t' subject cydonia is where the rover landed on mars i think its on mars neway
You are saying that the music video is what it's all about? I would like to think different. it's nice to have a sense of humor, even about something serious.
In reality, I don't really know what you are saying except about the music video...
One of the greatest records ever made, and one of the very few UK instrumentals covered by the great US instrumental bands. When that guitar enters the cosmos, you are indeed in heaven.
When I was a kid growing up, this was on the radio a lot. I used to think it had come from outer space and that people living on the moon were singing to us.
I remember hearing this on the Ray-Dee-Oh back in the Stone Age and even as a nipper I thought it was sanitized Alien stuff. Catchy tune but thats about it.
Boy, does this take me back. Yep, I'm old enough to remember when this was on the BBC radio every day. Matt definitely based Knights of Cydonia on this sound although he has far surpassed his father.
Crazy! Just looking through my 45's that were stored away and came across this tune. As a child I would like to swirl & dance around in my room listening to this.
Oh I think you mean "Magic Star" by Kenny Hollywood. That's floating about YouTube somewhere. I personally think it's 'orrible, although I do like the crazy organ intro.
Yo nací en 1,967 , y recién conocí esta música hace dos años, en la versión de los Ventures. Hoy , me acabo de enterar , que existía una versión de los Tornados, que me parece que es la original,si no me equivoco. En ambos casos, debo decir, que esta música es tremendamente hermosa!!!. No sé porqué, me produce una preciosa tristeza...
Today international TV hookups are very commonplace. Telstar was the first successful communication sattelite launched in 1962. That fall, trans-Atlantic tv viewers saw live b&w telecasts from major European cities as well as Niagara Falls and other North American locations. The broadcasts were brief, since the sattelite moved out of synch with the earth's rotation.
This song always reminds me of the infant days of the US space program and especially the original 7 astronauts. Only two are left. Long live John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
I have to admit that I'm disapointed in this song, I was expecting more. However I am of a younger variety and I probably do not understand what made it great. Perhaps the genius is wasted on me, or maybe it was just a hype.
The voice (2.32 to 3.00) is Joe Meek's and the spacecraft at the end was created by recording and mixing construction noise/drills etc outside his flat in the Holloway Road. Genius !
The voice is Geoff Goddard's and he, not Roger Laverne, played the clavioline (sp) on the recording because the Tornados had to get back to Great Yarmouth where they were appearing at the time. Their next record was to have been the Breeze and I but the Fentones had beaten them to it and so Joe wrote Telstar and it was recorded in a rush. Brilliant tune though.
Brings back my Spokane days in the 60 s & a DJ used this in his closing. Anybody from Spokane help with my foggy memory.--KJRB-Woody Woodward (cried the day he died in car wreck)==Bruce in Oregon
The guy responsable for this is a genius called Joe Meeks, the scratchy record at beginning is deliberate. He was the FIRST person to use a synthetic electronic keyboard, that he invented, also designed the cardoid condenser microphone, AND invented "soundgating hiss reduction" which was later developed as DOLBY. GENIUS He killed himself , very sad.
Actually, Stranger on the Shore was also number one and was on the charts in April of 1962 and number one by the summer of that year. Mr. Acker Bilk is a native of Somerset, England. Telstar was number one in November of 1962, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis had the USA on the edge.
I have this music on my MP3 player and on my computer and I listen to it over and over again. I have an Asperger obsession with this music, and yesterday as I got onto the bus I was in a world of my own, singing this tune. I realised later that I was lost because I'd got on the wrong bus!
i used to have an absession for so such as knowing the song name i did'nt discover the name of this song, after 3 yrs (now like 17) it appeared on "music on cable", never been happier to find another song, til i found out the name ^_^
A T.A at my college said today that I absolutely have to become a writer, particularly for children's stories as I can draw as well. Still, it might be worth looking up what air traffic controllers do. I will try and remember to do that.
A groundbreaking masterpiece! Anyone remember that it was released the same year with words? You can check it out right here on U-Tube by pulling up MAGIC STAR KENNY HOLLYWOOD . It is so cool with heavy echos, Enjoy!
this was the dna gave to me as a nipper with my first mono record player this is why i had to travel weekends to hear 100mph instumental sounds that make my hairs stand on end. no doubt cilla black is why i like beat ballards
Yeah, it's that "frequency wave" thing, same as Northern, in a way. Probably is something to do with DNA. There's a lot of fairly inconclusive/scattered/fragmented research been done on the relationships between music/dancing/DNA/consciousness, in the fields of biology/anthropology/ancient religions etc, but there are some things about this subject that CAN ONLY be known by a seasoned Northern dancer, as you probably well know.
Nonsense. Have you heard how weedy and neutered this (and everything else besides) sounds on a CD? The tin-eared invariably mistake digital propriety for sound quality, and that, unfortunately for them, is their loss.
i have 7 different of this song
xxeleven 9 months ago
Granddaddy to knights of cydonia, truly epic :D
07hwatkat 9 months ago 2
This is where "Knights of Cydonia" comes from. The vibrato guitar and drum beat in that song is very similar to this one.
brown320 9 months ago
dunno? but david put the spiders to bed?
smithywick 9 months ago
i never knew the rhythm guitarist from this band is matthew bellamy's dad
skillzdatkillz900 9 months ago
fantastic piece of music
smithywick 9 months ago
Matt bellamys daddy! Woop!
urma1234567 10 months ago 2
That melody always comes in my mind
rlfmoba 10 months ago
Heard this on an old tape my dad had. Yes a little casette tape can you believe that :D
zxpalpha 10 months ago
Great memories of my childhood in the early sixties, I am now 56 and still love this song.
RAIN12FORD 10 months ago
Absolutely most fantastic nostalgic hit of the 60's,memories flood back whenever i hear this.
Keep your modern rave music.
andysedd 10 months ago
absolute class... masterpiece...
smithywick 10 months ago
I think this was the first brit no.1 in usa ....
pennypacker93 10 months ago
@pennypacker93 Yeah it was, first British band to hit #1 in America. Take that Beatles.
rustybb1 10 months ago
where is Joe Meek?
TheMimifur 10 months ago
@TheMimifur sadly he has since passed away as well as Heinz Burt
MegaCrowman 10 months ago
Heh heh... I don't get it.
EdouardDubois 10 months ago
Boaaah...da läufts mir kalt den Rücken runter....Wahnsinnsmusik!!
Artemis9749 10 months ago
Had this once .........:(
MrPaddyelvis 10 months ago
Lol VERY knights of cydonia
Cactus54022 10 months ago
This song remingds me of Knights of Cydonia by Muse. I wonder why...... Oh wait, thats it!
xxkie112xx 10 months ago 2
The first record I ever heard in stereo. Always has a special place in my memory. STILL one of the best instrumentals. Bring back the 60's
goonersRgr8 11 months ago
Matt Bellamy's Dad!!! WOOOO
alienspanner1994 11 months ago
I've arranged a new version of Telstar. Please check it out: THE DUELLING PIANOS Telstar
robrusdavies 11 months ago
sad fukas!! this is class..
smithywick 11 months ago
Horribly!
n3sc10 11 months ago
I can't put my finger on it but it sound similar to Muse... In some way
DarKnightofCydonia 1 year ago
good song
where is another version
before this 1962?
MichaelHansenFUN 1 year ago
@MichaelHansenFUN No other version,as far as I know. This was celebrating a wonderful new satelite.
coralarch 1 year ago
class
smithywick 1 year ago
IF EVER THERE WAS A RECORD THAT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS - IT HAS TO BE THIS ONE. WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT IN THE EARLY 60'S. I COULDNT AFFORD TO BUY RECORDS (WOULD HAVE BEEDN ABOUT 9 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME) THOUGH HAVE IT ON A COUPLE OF 1960'S COMPILATION ALBUMS. JOIE MEEK WHO PRODUCED AND WROTE THIS SONG ALSO PRODUCED THE HONEYCOMBS FIRST"HIT "HAVE I THE RIGHT"
gilllew 1 year ago 2
BEST INSTRUMENTAL EVER
mrbroadsword1 1 year ago
Does anyone have a copy of the lyrics?
HeartoftheDragonColo 1 year ago
@HeartoftheDragonColo Lyrics? What lyrics? I have never heard any singing to this. It was THE instrumental hit of '62.
coralarch 1 year ago
I wanna cover this soon!!
aimanaimanaimanhaziq 1 year ago
@aimanaimanaimanhaziq asshole! me first!...=_=...XD, imma cover the drums..:D...wanna merge?
thecitizenme 1 year ago
@thecitizenme okay babe XD
aimanaimanaimanhaziq 1 year ago
@aimanaimanaimanhaziq again, asshole...=_=.....XDD
thecitizenme 1 year ago
I remeber playing this in 1962 on my cheap record player. The scratching sounds are how it was.
fliegeroh 1 year ago
Telstar, the theme song of the Space Age, which began Oct. 4, 1957 with the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik and decades of space travel.
topknotchsteez98 1 year ago
this
music
is made
for angel
that
here remain on of the earth ;-)
questa musica é stata composta per quegli Angeli ché sono rimasti sulla Terra ;-)
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR
Eusepio1957 1 year ago 5
Wonderful! has there ever been a more optimistic and exuberant yet at the same time hubristic piece of music ever recorded that was so toatlly in tune with the Zietgiest of its moment????
quercusrobur2002 1 year ago
Some movie-of-the-week use to use this in the intro, i swear.
xxxMrSuspendedxxx 1 year ago
Have similarities with KOC of MUSE
gondarbounty 1 year ago
@gondarbounty you know that the guitarist from the tornadoes is the lead singer/guitarist from muse's father right?
lifeoftheparty2121 1 year ago
totally fab i still have all my old records love the scratches and scuffs at the start.
forget cds play the old ones......
chavmistress 1 year ago
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Oh yes; Rhiendahlen in 1963 any other service brats about?
Dancing in the Officers Club at JHQ; those were the days!!!
ru50deb 1 year ago
Oh yes; Rhiendahlen in 1963 any other service brats about?
Dancing in the Officers Club at JHQ those were the days!!!
ru50deb 1 year ago
Electro before electro existed.
02pete 1 year ago
There's only one word to describe this song "Fan-bloody-tastic"
OfAaron3 1 year ago
Just imagine hearing this for the first time on the radio. It literally took your breath away. What was that?Then waiting to hear it again. The most imaganitive record ever produced. Who was it? what was it? It is still an out of this world sound that you could never copy in a million light years. Hip hop? Hop off.
TheDavidjoy 1 year ago 2
Best song ever
stevio5758 1 year ago
Absolutely great track! This makes my day!
TheBalnat 1 year ago
Worthy of No 1 in any era.
brianclough 1 year ago
check out modern rock group MUSE its the son of TORNADOES GUITARIST
ASSASSIN07731 1 year ago
This captured the spiirt of the early sixties: the austerity years of the fifties were behind us, the welfare state was in full swing; there was nearly full emplyment; medical advances were banishing many diseases to history; slums were being replaced by new housing and science promised to be our servant. Little did we know that in no more than a decade it would all turn sour.
I can`t imagine now music be written about an Iphone.
glennfs1954 1 year ago
Sucks
SuperWaggers 1 year ago
Joe Meek heard sounds in his head & since he was not an actual "musician", hummed them into a recorder & had Geoff Goddard or whoever was handy transcribe them into music. Maybe that's one of the reasons they sound so different from everything else then OR now. His productions always sound, at least to me, a strange mix of futuristic AND vintage simultaneously - TOTALLY UNIQUE! You would never find anything anywhere close in today's sterile digitized world - you'd be foolish to disagree.
rnrmst 1 year ago
I can see where matt got the idea of knights of cydonia now
chibishade 1 year ago 2
@chibishade yeah, i can hear it in this song too.
xXFR057Xx 1 year ago
absolute classic....
smithywick 1 year ago 2
Matt Bellamy's daddyyy! :L This song freakin owns anyway <3
Livvi12341 1 year ago
I hear Blondie's "Dreaming".
jeddak5 1 year ago
God...this heavenly thing, this heart-tearing melody always riveted me to the floor when it came on the radio...it IS sad, it IS evocative, it conveys the Love of Angels, Telstar, play for infinity and into worlds beyond....
jonbcaliman 1 year ago 4
I rushed out and bought this record when it first came out, of course we all rode horses back then and there were no colours, just black and white everywhere and bin men actually took your rubbish away without a formal letter of introduction from the pope. Was this Ken Freeman playing a Clavioline with the Tornados? If it was, we're hearing the forerunner of the Freeman string synthesizer. Anyone remember the band "Second City Sound"? I think that was Ken Freeman too.
kaferere 1 year ago
A great record! A sound paradise. Believe it or not - I can hear "Love will tear us apart "
influenced by this simple diatonic melody RIP Joe Meek
robertlloydsite 1 year ago 2
I had an original copy of this single with much less crackle, but I lent it to Mike Scotney and never got it back!
NevilleStyke 1 year ago
i remember being a kid in the early 60s and seeing that sattelite cross the sky.. like a fast moving star. it was a big deal back then, and when the song came out . .woah!. .so futuristic! im sure it inspired 1000s of musical careers, still a cool song today.
bigratfink65 1 year ago 2
@bigratfink65 YES!! One of my dad's friends stopped in and everybody went outside to watch it pass on a warm clear summer night.
toenail37 1 year ago
Aaahhhhh, My favorite.
TheCrimsonSkull 1 year ago
Wow! I feel really old cuz I remember when the first satellite was launched and we were glued to the radio listening to these scratchy sounds of Telstar and thinking it was the most exotic thing that ever happened! The needle sounds on this 45rpm were what we heard every time we played a "vinyl"---had to put coins on the needle arm after while to keep it from skipping out of the grooves. Wonderful memories of innocent times. :)
klm7858 1 year ago 2
Thanks for this, the Tornados where fantastic.
58baza58 1 year ago
This should have been the theme song to the original STAR TREK TV series back in 1966, my opinion! Has a "retro-futuristic" feel to it. I have an original 45 rpm copy of this as an American release on London Records. Transferred it to digital and downloaded it onto my MP3 player, and WOW!!!
mrbe5a1r 1 year ago
A pop masterpiece, and harbinger of the British Invasion.
SamFerdoo 1 year ago
amazing amazing !
ik was nog een jochie een klein jochie die afhankelijk was van de stemming van mijn ma
plotseling komt uit een raam deze muziek de muziek die mij aan het huilen brengt zo mooi zo dichtbij ... zo vol verlangen naar .....
dinkeldal 1 year ago
i get shivers everytime i listen to it. i live on holloway rd and pass joes old studio quite often, i look up and think of the magic/madness that happened there in the 60's..a total engineering legend.
mrmrscosanostra 1 year ago
Wow, there's some crackle on that record! Good record nevertheless. Brilliant in fact. Five stars.
sirtinycreep 1 year ago
One of my all-time favorite songs. It went to #1 in the U.S. Dec.22, 1962, and stayed there for 3 weeks.
fordude60 1 year ago
This has pride of place on my old jukebox - a classic from that genius Joe Meek.
pawnshops 1 year ago
Great song. No.1 in 1962.
greenisland75 1 year ago 2
Oh boy,1962 that´s just a few weeks ago, innit?
Telstar was the first TV satellite that gave us intercontinental TV reception. Some sane people still agree the record was smashing but the TV we get isn´t worth the money spent. ;)
Pitfossil 1 year ago 13
Yeah, TV is crap. Sometimes I think everything went downhill for the human race when they introduced electric lighting.
xwsftassell 1 year ago
xws, I remember when Germany had two (no typo - two) TV channels and they had what we called "streetcleaners" - all of Germany was a ghost town because everybody sat gloed to the tube. Nowadays, with 24/7 manure on fifty channels - your TV being on the fritz is like going on holiday.
And "music" on radio...burgle my house. Steal my money, my girlfriend, my toothbrush, you´re welcome - but touch my LP rack and I´ll introduce you to my shotgun. ;)
Pitfossil 1 year ago 9
Yeah, although I doubt if a burglar would even recognise what an LP was. My brother's children refer to records as "those giant-sized CD's", even Technics have stopped making 1200's and 1210's. Incidentally, this copy of Telstar comes to you c/o a Technics 1210 MKII.
xwsftassell 1 year ago 5
yeah true, but from the goverments perspective it doesnt get much better than international brainwashing.. i mean broadcasting XD.
poisonapple1991 1 year ago
I just took delivery of an original pressing of this.
An absolute stunning record.
nov28gt 1 year ago 2
I think the pressing on the orig. Decca "Telstar" is a work of art in itself. The loudest record you've ever heard on British vinyl. Whoever did the mastering on that was a flippin' genius.
xwsftassell 1 year ago
@xwsftassell That was Joe Meeks trademark, he liked it LOUD and powerfull, loads of bass and everythning else too !. One of his first records as producer at Abbey Road was Badpenny Blues by trad-jazz man Humphrey Littleton; he put so much emphasis onto the piano mix that Humph etc hated it, but it was an unlikely huge hit record.
RockinRedRover 1 year ago
@RockinRedRover Sure, yeah. It's also been noted that the piano sound on BPB was remarkably similar to the one that popped up later on The Beatles "Lady Madonna". I suspect (although I don't actually know), that George Martin may have been something of a Meek-watcher, as his early Sixties production on "Boot Hill" by The Federals, was also uncannily Joe-like.
xwsftassell 1 year ago
Is it weird that I'm 28 and I've got this and Heinz's 'Just Like Eddie' on my ipod? Both terrific tracks IMO.
TheAutisticItGirl 1 year ago
Great song. No other words to describe it.
cytotoxix 2 years ago 2
I don't know if you sense a link between this lovely melody and all that I have described, but sometimes when I hear it my heart hurts metaphorically for the days before my parents made me promise I'd stop playing that Christmas Side/Dark Side game.
Ilovecats112233 2 years ago
Well, our world was situated above the Earth and the enemies' (the Dark Side's) was situated below the Earth, just like Heaven and Hell (though I'm not religious). I drew a picture of the three different solar systems - this one, my one, and the Dark Side's, from an outter space angle, on Microsoft Paint.
Ilovecats112233 2 years ago
Telstar is a part of me. I'm a dreamy and spaced out person (that's probably why I don't concentrate well in lessons and need a lot of support), I think too much and worry too much, I'm over-imaginative, I love the Swinging Sixties, I become very caught up in my own worlds - and one of these many worlds was a planet belonging to an entire solar system which I ruled with my siblings, and then there was the enemies' solar system that looked from an outter space angle identical to ours ...
Ilovecats112233 2 years ago 2
I know everone says Knights of Cydonia is like a continuation of this song, but I feel like Starlight might also be
chrispy002 2 years ago
classic ,classic track
thebigg72 2 years ago
Best instrumental ever made-brilliant-this song will be remembered when the X Factor" stars" are long forgotten!!
3friend 2 years ago 28
This brings back memories of living at home. My mum used to play this on the record player. I can picture it now! She never has really grown out of the old stuff. Mind you, neither have I!
syronofthestate 2 years ago 6
Excellent brings back memories of my junior infant school days every year it was played at the end of our Christmas party we all loved it.
dandyflossy 2 years ago 4
absolutely fantastic piece of music, every note has me in awe inspired delight
HLD77777 2 years ago 17
This is my theme music next time I need one!!
hilikus540 2 years ago
That's a great line...gonna steal it and use it sometime.
lotanerve 2 years ago
Matt Bellamy's dads band from Muse. Wow.! I am inspired somehow! Ha!
hilikus540 2 years ago
he was the rythm guitarist in the tornadoes, george bellamy
muse's knights of cydonia is a tribute to telstar
onthemicwithmike 2 years ago
Really? How is that?
Do you mean the tune being played by Matt on the guitar that goes with the first couple verses? I can see that.
That song man is more. A tribute, and a freaking message! My question is: Are their knights of cydonia from Mars seeking revenge for what we've done?
hilikus540 2 years ago
the knights of cydonia have recovered a cd which contains a greater purpose than mankind which has become tainted by lust shown by the cowboy licking the girl, to put the cd into effect they need the girl
''the pure sole'' so its kinda like jesus if ya think about it
and whilst we r on t' subject cydonia is where the rover landed on mars i think its on mars neway
so yeh ne more questions?
onthemicwithmike 2 years ago
Okay.
You are saying that the music video is what it's all about? I would like to think different. it's nice to have a sense of humor, even about something serious.
In reality, I don't really know what you are saying except about the music video...
hilikus540 2 years ago
such an optimistic sound...................
sculptsystem 2 years ago 2
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photoshoot60 2 years ago
One of the greatest records ever made, and one of the very few UK instrumentals covered by the great US instrumental bands. When that guitar enters the cosmos, you are indeed in heaven.
mrgbennet 2 years ago 2
Fair points one and all. You're not related to John Godolphin are ye?
xwsftassell 2 years ago
No.
mrgbennet 2 years ago
When I was a kid growing up, this was on the radio a lot. I used to think it had come from outer space and that people living on the moon were singing to us.
thewitchypoo3003 2 years ago 5
That's funny and cute. XD
bluetrancefer 2 years ago
That's amazing...how did you manage to get the music from that single '45 without it rotating?
terrythekittie 2 years ago
Forest of Dene vril power.
xwsftassell 2 years ago
That's what I thought!
terrythekittie 2 years ago
is it hard to get hold of a copy in such good condition?
rictorn 2 years ago
There are currently loads of copies of Telstar on ebay. Make sure you get a DECCA original as the pressing is particularly good.
xwsftassell 2 years ago
I got version of this song on a record of synth music.
alphamone 2 years ago
I remember hearing this on the Ray-Dee-Oh back in the Stone Age and even as a nipper I thought it was sanitized Alien stuff. Catchy tune but thats about it.
Sixalienasa 2 years ago 2
Boy, does this take me back. Yep, I'm old enough to remember when this was on the BBC radio every day. Matt definitely based Knights of Cydonia on this sound although he has far surpassed his father.
kerryokie1 2 years ago
Great...
But MUSE is Better.
Matt bellahmy definatly surpassed his fathers acheivments
jcfdzb911 2 years ago
Crazy! Just looking through my 45's that were stored away and came across this tune. As a child I would like to swirl & dance around in my room listening to this.
jmermaidj 2 years ago 3
This record was also on the London label.
tom4868 2 years ago
Has any one hurd the version were they sing words to it ?? Ive hurt it 40 years ago.
biskiers 2 years ago
Oh I think you mean "Magic Star" by Kenny Hollywood. That's floating about YouTube somewhere. I personally think it's 'orrible, although I do like the crazy organ intro.
xwsftassell 2 years ago
I was 10 yrs old when I first heard this.
How many of you can say that you saw the Telstar Sputnik.
In the South of England you could see it at night crossing the sky as it was dropping orbit.
God bless Joe Meek,
Has left me with a lot of happy memories.
Watch the film 'Telstar' it is brilliant.
Out on DVD.
bobbybyxby 2 years ago
Yo nací en 1,967 , y recién conocí esta música hace dos años, en la versión de los Ventures. Hoy , me acabo de enterar , que existía una versión de los Tornados, que me parece que es la original,si no me equivoco. En ambos casos, debo decir, que esta música es tremendamente hermosa!!!. No sé porqué, me produce una preciosa tristeza...
centellas07 2 years ago
I have this except my 45 player doesn't work.
Supergungun 2 years ago
matt bellamy from muse wrote knights of cydonia as a tribute to his dad who was in this band
64g15csr 2 years ago
this does remind of knights of cydonia
jonmac1987 2 years ago 2
matt bellamy father is playing guitar..
ddrmetal 2 years ago
rythm not the solo unfortunatley
onthemicwithmike 2 years ago 2
i was going to say the opening chord sounds similar to knights of cydonia
longfang40 2 years ago
Well it was his dad!
thewitchypoo3003 2 years ago
This song brings back alot of memmories for me seeings that I almost 50,every time I
forman772003 2 years ago
Today international TV hookups are very commonplace. Telstar was the first successful communication sattelite launched in 1962. That fall, trans-Atlantic tv viewers saw live b&w telecasts from major European cities as well as Niagara Falls and other North American locations. The broadcasts were brief, since the sattelite moved out of synch with the earth's rotation.
pgh45rpms 2 years ago 5
and you're still single?
g82h3ll 2 years ago
We certainly take a lot for granted these days.
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Lone06 2 years ago
It's a 1962 instrumental, an homage to space exploration just beginning then.
NickB1967 2 years ago 3
Funny how that would have been taken for futuristic music back then, now it just sounds like plain old nostalgia today!
GazzaLDN 2 years ago 5
it's dragonfource aat it's finest
SaiRyo 2 years ago
This song always reminds me of the infant days of the US space program and especially the original 7 astronauts. Only two are left. Long live John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
captainfairfield 2 years ago 9
"Get your hot buttered popcorn at the refreshment stand, and a cool refreshing soda! show starts in 10 minutes"
bopplayer 2 years ago
I have to admit that I'm disapointed in this song, I was expecting more. However I am of a younger variety and I probably do not understand what made it great. Perhaps the genius is wasted on me, or maybe it was just a hype.
SardinesRCool 2 years ago 3
I don't know why you're concerned. You either have a DNA match for this stuff, or you don't, I guess.
xwsftassell 2 years ago
A Joe Meek classic!! He was a genius!! I think this song hit #1 in England and U.S.
gkoz791 2 years ago 2
First brit group to hit no 1 in the U.S
jamesrachael 2 years ago
Awesome song! It reminds me of when I was a kid.
affectivity 2 years ago
my dad was in the tornados
nicepandas 2 years ago 2
I bet everyone wants to buy him a drink all the time. Which one's your dad?
xwsftassell 2 years ago
and you're Matthew Bellamy
right.
PaulAssassin 2 years ago
The voice (2.32 to 3.00) is Joe Meek's and the spacecraft at the end was created by recording and mixing construction noise/drills etc outside his flat in the Holloway Road. Genius !
miserichord 2 years ago
The voice is Geoff Goddard's and he, not Roger Laverne, played the clavioline (sp) on the recording because the Tornados had to get back to Great Yarmouth where they were appearing at the time. Their next record was to have been the Breeze and I but the Fentones had beaten them to it and so Joe wrote Telstar and it was recorded in a rush. Brilliant tune though.
webluva198 2 years ago
knights of cydonia rythm
AnTr3Y 2 years ago 4
matt bellamys dad was in the tornados
lambchoplovy 2 years ago 2
Totally harmonica. My party piece
colinkadink 2 years ago
this record was so far ahead of its time. JOE MEEK layed down some great stuff.
i would say this and APACHE the SHADOWS. were argubly the best instrumentals ever.. and ill bung in wonderful land the SHADOWS also
HITTHESKINS 2 years ago 4
Forget ye not 'Foot-tapper' and 'Atlantis!' :-)
Factnotfictionpeople 2 years ago
Absolutely brilliant, wonderful. The best piece of music ever written.
Telstar10000 2 years ago 6
Brings back my Spokane days in the 60 s & a DJ used this in his closing. Anybody from Spokane help with my foggy memory.--KJRB-Woody Woodward (cried the day he died in car wreck)==Bruce in Oregon
brucer12 2 years ago
This song is so legendary, that there's a movie for it coming soon!!
darkevilsin 2 years ago 3
The guy responsable for this is a genius called Joe Meeks, the scratchy record at beginning is deliberate. He was the FIRST person to use a synthetic electronic keyboard, that he invented, also designed the cardoid condenser microphone, AND invented "soundgating hiss reduction" which was later developed as DOLBY. GENIUS He killed himself , very sad.
dougienancy 2 years ago 5
The first British intumental to reach No 1 in the USA I think, and no wonder why (awesome)
mdjdecorations 2 years ago 4
Actually, Stranger on the Shore was also number one and was on the charts in April of 1962 and number one by the summer of that year. Mr. Acker Bilk is a native of Somerset, England. Telstar was number one in November of 1962, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis had the USA on the edge.
tigermark64 2 years ago
I have this music on my MP3 player and on my computer and I listen to it over and over again. I have an Asperger obsession with this music, and yesterday as I got onto the bus I was in a world of my own, singing this tune. I realised later that I was lost because I'd got on the wrong bus!
Ilovecats112233 2 years ago 5
i used to have an absession for so such as knowing the song name i did'nt discover the name of this song, after 3 yrs (now like 17) it appeared on "music on cable", never been happier to find another song, til i found out the name ^_^
fanglyn 2 years ago
you should become an air traffic controller
n136ha 2 years ago
A T.A at my college said today that I absolutely have to become a writer, particularly for children's stories as I can draw as well. Still, it might be worth looking up what air traffic controllers do. I will try and remember to do that.
Ilovecats112233 2 years ago
hey i heard this song at dodger stadium its a baseballsong
wardogkilla 2 years ago
My first 45--paid 60 cents--and played it to dust.
81shovelhd 2 years ago
A groundbreaking masterpiece! Anyone remember that it was released the same year with words? You can check it out right here on U-Tube by pulling up MAGIC STAR KENNY HOLLYWOOD . It is so cool with heavy echos, Enjoy!
cottonceena 2 years ago 2
this was the dna gave to me as a nipper with my first mono record player this is why i had to travel weekends to hear 100mph instumental sounds that make my hairs stand on end. no doubt cilla black is why i like beat ballards
bern1e 2 years ago
Yeah, it's that "frequency wave" thing, same as Northern, in a way. Probably is something to do with DNA. There's a lot of fairly inconclusive/scattered/fragmented research been done on the relationships between music/dancing/DNA/consciousness, in the fields of biology/anthropology/ancient religions etc, but there are some things about this subject that CAN ONLY be known by a seasoned Northern dancer, as you probably well know.
xwsftassell 2 years ago
ahead of it's time, pity about the sound quality as that makes it easy for less wiser ears to call it old/outdated etc
wotdoesthisbuttondo 2 years ago
Nonsense. Have you heard how weedy and neutered this (and everything else besides) sounds on a CD? The tin-eared invariably mistake digital propriety for sound quality, and that, unfortunately for them, is their loss.
xwsftassell 2 years ago
the intro to knights of cydonia by muse is based on this b