Telstar by Original Tornados (1975)

[LiteracyLabyrinth2]

Thumbs up if Emergency in A & E brought you here

[RedPYEBluePYE1964]

"Telstar" was one of Meryl Streep's, ooops, sorry, Margaret Thatcher's favourite tracks !!

[mahasurya]

Thank you for this great uploading!

[SolarisUrbinoFan]

The names on the picture at 2:43 aren't right, are they? The one on the left has to be Heinz, I think.

[Telstar10000]

@SolarisUrbinoFan The names on the picture are correct.

[gilbert20]

I must say that I like the original better (no disrespect intended).

[theTardisrules]

I came looking for this song because I saw Roger LaVerne on an episode on "24 hours in the E.R." on BBC earlier today. I never heard of the tornadoes before but this is pretty cool :)

[Telstar10000]

@theTardisrules Yes, very cool, but remember this is a re-working of the original. The original 1962 release is in a class of its own. There are many uploads of it on YouTube.

[Appeltard]

@theTardisrules me 2! :P i'm watching that episode right now! :P

[FelicityH22]

@theTardisrules Me too! Except it's on right now in Australia. Never herd this song either. Cute lil ol' man though.

[pamdc43]

@georgegrasser Don't you mean George Asser?Wot a tosser!

[09bnunez]

the first british hit before the beatles came in 1964 ,,the tornados hit no# 1 in 1962

[makjac46]

sorry but to me this sounds like a instrumental karaoke. check out "joemeek304" version.

[LordGeorgeRodney]

The first ever British group to reach No. 1 in the US chart!

Congrats & RIP Joe Meek! A true legend!

[smithylvs]

best sound quality of this song yet

[spacepatrolman]

@smithylvs This sounds like a synth rerecorded version

[violinmadness]

At 20 years old i love this track, got into this track because i heard a cover done by the ukranians which i really loved and decided to find the original.

[chutchybo]

@NeonNightsGirl and me lol

[MrAlex247]

Just seen the organist of this group on 24 hours in a and e :)

[carolfury]

Love Telstar as remember seeing them playing it live in the 60's . Great tune and they had the best singer ever Billy Fury.

[Telstar10000]

@carolfury The Tornados were an instrumental band, so didn't have a singer. They were, from February 1962, for the best part of two years, Billy Fury's backing band, simultaneous with being stars in their own right.

[LeonidaEllison800]

Dnload the audio from this tune at thetunify doht cohm.

[TheApache49]

yes thats what brought me still mind of tornados used to like them still do

[Zombies100]

I think that sudden bump in views because their Keyboard player happened to be on a tv show about a hospital in the UK

[dbrew2u]

Awesome Post ! I too had no idea this existed. Some Tornados Fan i turned out to be ? Thank You so Much for Sharing it with us :)

[tomnanD3]

They did it the best...this is great...I didn't know it existed.

[JustSomeRandomDude99]

How many of you were brought here by MUSE?

[Factnotfictionpeople]

Kept expecting Rolf Harris to say 'Do you know what it is yet?' Sounds like a Stylophone! :-)

Still, fantastic sound guys........................

[DaveysMom]

Wow! - Matthew Bellamy's dad - (Matt is lead singer and guitarist in MUSE) they look alot alike!!!!! And had the same futuristic view of music!

[sGnAimless]

Such a tune, well done on posting.

[shirls2]

Hi i love there music every music they have done love Shirlsxx