Eva-Tone Soundsheet: Sounds of the Space Age (From Sputnik to Lunar Landing)

[krishner]

I have the National Geogpraphic magazine with this flexi-disc still attached and unplayed in it. Its December 1969. Its great to actually hear the record as I've been keeping it safe and intact...thx OldMusicOnVinyl1!!

[TheGangsterPetre]

That sounds scarry me out of here

[m2esectr]

At the beginning, the narrator correctly deciphers Armstrong's historic words as "It's one small step for *A* man". Having first heard it on my copy of this record, I wasn't aware that the official transcript omitted the "a" until I heard the news that someone had examined the recording and found that it was actually there!

[cbfall]

Very cool and interesting flexi-disc record!

[metalshadowmario4]

HA! I have this thing at my house!

They had a bunch of National Geographics at school, and I was looking into one with the subject Apollo 11, and since my science teacher knows I'm interested in vinyl, she gave it to me.

[ThisGuyFrritz]

There's also "The Sounds of Whales" and one other flexi-disc that were in National Geographic Magazines. I think it would be a good idea if some collection of these recordings would be reissued.

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@ThisGuyFrritz That one other National Geographic flexi was about the death of Sir Winston Churchill. Have you ever seen that one?

[ThisGuyFrritz]

@OldMusicOnVinyl1 No, haven't seen that one on Winston Churchill.

[EmmetEarwax]

I have the Winston Churchill funeral, the space program, the whale record, many music adverts for albums, and even an advert for Radiola Radio-Yesteryear (good recording but company run by robbers !),I even have a Mr.Bill story (red soundsheet) and Neil Cassidy of the Grateful Dead raps (app. on drugs), and a 12-sided album of bird songs (soundsheets bound like a book . To select side you want just turn the pages.)

[vinyl12s]

Nice collectors piece..Yeah the top brass in the US was steaming when Sputnik was circling the globe.

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@vinyl12s Yes, that kind of "constructive" rivalry is missing nowadays. Along the same lines, we often reminisce fondly here about the Canada-Russia hockey series, especially about how it spurred such passion for the sport at the time. People still enjoy talking about it today. That international meet-up was very revolutionary for its day... now it's so commonplace.

[SlimeAmTheBest]

They're playing us. XD

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@SlimeAmTheBest LOL... Now I feel the urge to watch Capricorn 1. :P

[jason75]

A square vinyl how odd, i seen some werid vinyls not a square one

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@jason75 Most flexi-discs were square because they were intended to be actual inserts inside a magazine. This flexi was actually page 750 of the December 1969 issue of National Geographic.