The meaning of this music is: Hope. I was 5 years old when Telstar was launched, and I can remember the feeling of hope for the future most people had in 1962, especially represented by the space program. We stood on the threshold of a grand adventure. I've read some comments talking about how satellites are being abused for evil now. We always stand at the crossroads of good and evil: which way will we take? I still love this piece; for me it represents the good humanity can do if we will.
To the video I'll not respond (it takes my eyes away from what I'm doing). To the music I'll respond. I was in High School & the 50s music was great but then there was the Russians with their "Sputnick (spelling). We needed something new to say that we had not lost the race -- espically space! Then there was the "Ventures," & this wonderful Instrumental called "Telstar." Oh! there were other greats -- but when you are 17/18 teen, Somethings Remain -- Forever!
I absolutely LOVE those harp arpeggios during the guitar chorus--they really paint the picture of "celestial"....this blew my mind when I was 12 years old and I first heard this song. Yup--I wore out my 45rpm copy of it!
Telstar 1962. A flashback to a time when many earthlings were optimistic about the future. Success and survival is all about optimism. This tune is priceless really.
1st British artists to hit # 1 in the USA, in 1962. A little over a year later, Jan. 1964, 4 fellas from Liverpool had a # 1 song, and the British Invasion was off and running
Hey P..my thoughts ..I was standing on the the hill in 1970 an watched four of us get shot to death..I thank god every day that I was up on the hill..Clyde..Your on point..
This sure brings back the memories....The 60s was such a great time to grow up....things were just not so complicated then.....good music.....great vibes.......
@eaking346811 Same here, so did I.......I remember going outside on a clear night and trying to pick out the satelite from all the bright stars visible 50 years ago, before everybody and their uncle had a security light in there yard....much simpler times back then. Beam be back Scotty!
After School, Junior High, Me an Den headed to the Velvet Freeze for a fountain cherry Coke, listening to a tiny transistor radio - what should befall us? A song for the ages!
If you like 70's Eurodisco, this may be the T-Rex record -- before Motown's influences, even. The classic beat was more than a decade away, but here was a spacey sound that combined with weird vocals to create a unique dance experience.
I could peel back the onion more: Miss Toni Fisher's "The Big Hurt" (1959), the first hit to use an electronic "phaser," or Dave "Baby" Cortez's "The Happy Organ" (1959), perhaps the first instrumental chart-topper that went wild, as opposed to a slow dance.
wow, that one's prehistoric ! lol. it's more like my parents' generation but I remember my dad playing it often in his car like, 20 years ago or something, when he drove me to school ^^
for some reason this song reminds me of an equally old movie, the Forbidden Planet. why, go figure :/
Telstar was the first Telecommunictions Satelite, placed into service late in 1961 or early 62'...
It was a "Big Deal", all over the News, making it possible too Direct Dial, International Calls, without Operator Assistance... Exciting stuff for a "Sci-Fi", "Space Age", "High Tech" addicted 14 year old, looking forward too a Bright Future, without war, a future where Science and Technology could solve all of Mankinds problems... This song just added to the excitement... Boy, was I wrong!
@Tabstarbelle No, I didn't try too see it go by in the Sky at Night... As I understood at the time, Telstar was a stationary Satelite, meaning that it was placed in a stationary Orbit, in order to handle Television and Telephone Communication over one part of the Globe. Additional Satelites (Telstars) were placed in stationary Orbit in rapid succession after Telstar 1, in order too Network the whole Globe... :)
@philippgs I agree, we had hope then for a bright future through technology. Well, we got some pretty good technology and society is far more open today than in 1962.
But what's missing is that hope, that forward looking attitude, "go to the stars" thinking. Now, we're just hanging on for dear life.
@philippgs Telstar sound was a great hit and is still remembered 50 years on; those are no lightweight notes. In the absence of lyrics its buoyancy is even more astounding. Enigmatic really.
@philippgs I remember this tune from that day, but did not know the name. i dont even think i cared because i was only 11. I remember Telstar going into space real good. My teacher kept us in tune with that. Thanks for the tune and the info.
Hands down, I just love this incredible instrumental by the Tornados! The minute I heard it, I knew I had to include this in my vast music library. The quality of the upload is superior to all the other video variations on You-Tube....Thanks ecidarocnarf for maintaining quality.....
Love Joe Meek .....was the first of his kind in the Country .....I was a kid then ...but this is the best of the best in all it's newness and rawness....
Don't tell me there is anything more satisfying.
Probably recorded in his house as with The Honeycombs ....someone up stairs hitting the bathtub to make the drum sound heavy ......love it .....
Joe Meek "wrote" this - don't know where the doubt & debate came from. When I use quotes it's because Joe, not being a "musician" per se, hummed the melody he was hearing in his head into a tape recorder & had Geoff Goddard or someone transcribe it into musical form. The death & tragedy surrounding Joe only add to the melancholy feeling underlying all his music. No matter how upbeat or "rockin" the tune is, there's always a feeling of loneliness and sadness.
@eunaputtanata Yeah well, considering your age you don't no shit about anything yet. So your ignorance at what was groundbreaking for rock-n-roll in it's time gives you no reason to even make a comment. Excuse me while I shovel your 'comment' out of the kennel.
Ok I'm a huge muse's fan...but this song wasn't created by George Bellamy: it's a brilliant Joe Meek's work. And obviously this kind of music inspires Matt.
It was mainly just electronics. No one had heard anything like it at the time. Joe Meek was a radio engineer and this was tribute to the Telstar satellite which had just broadcast across the Atlantic for the first time.
let me get this right.....so a band member of the Tornados, is the father of the frontman in the band Muse??? as in "Time Is Running Out" song???? cooooo-ellllll !!!!!
telstar is immense! Even though this is the only number 1 the tornadoes had i still think they deserve this. the tornadoes came from the town where i live and one of the tornadoes used to be my dad's bff
telstar is the first record i remember hearing. got played over and over again. family huddled round the second-hand tv set watching fuzzy pictures in black & white on an incredibly small screen. we were grateful for what we had in those days!
@MrNaughtyflirt Laffy Taffy White T's Chain Hang Low Tipsy & it's goin down all of which those tracks sucked a reason why they are forgotten Soulja Boy and T-Pain will be joining D4L and suckage like that when it comes to the tracks of the 00's
these guys Elvis MJ The Beatles Paul anka Booker T Bee Gees Sugar Hill Gang
Jim Morrison and guys from the past 60 years will be remembered for good music that will age like fine wines.
all today's acts kids have got will age like pruno
@MrNaughtyflirt - oh ! totally agree old son. I can't remember or even name a really good group later than the early 80's - this will still be going when all the plastic "X factor" crap has faded into obscurity !! (not that it takes that long!!) Incidently -a mate of mine re-conditions transistor radios and you would not believe the age of group the people that buy most of them - in their mid to late twenties !! cheers chap.
All Sputnik did was broadcast a beep-beep-beep on the FM band as a show of USSR's superiority to us in space. The next Satellite was Sputnik II when they launched a dog (LEIKA) into space. That was 1957-1958. Then we countered with our own Explorer I. We were one of the few with an FM radio back then, I heard the beep and saw the reflection odf Sputnik I when it passed over our area.
Sputnik I was the first Satelittte in space. Telstar was a communication satellite lauched in 1961 I beleive, the predicessor to all the ones we have now.
Remember as the local Nautilus band played it in Miskolc, Hungary - in The forum coffehause on vadnai kuksi played The electricity organ just as about The original by The Bellamies.
I've always loved this tune. I can remember the first time it was ever played on the radio; and also the fabulous video clip that accompanied this song .. anyone else remember that clip (the british double-decker bus .. & the satellite where the flag pops out at the end of the clip). This solid-gold hit holds a special place of fondness in my musical memories, stretching back some 5 decades now (yeah, I know .. so I'm an old fart ... ) But - Thankyou. Great posting.
Forgive this ole (57) fart, but who the blank is Matt Bellamy?
Fond memories....I remember (62 or 63), seeing the U.S./U.S.S.R. track meet broadcast from Moscow....remember, before Telstar, that simply didn't happen.
Anybody who was around in 1962, do you know what Telstar is(or even was)? I think the Cubs and Phillies were shown on Telstar to the rest of the world(Europe)on July 23, 1962. I was but a year old when this song was out!
I saw them live from England as a little kid. The announcer at the stadium told the crowd they were live in England on TV and they all waved at us. We were amazed. Wonderful!!! Amazing at the time.
@birdyboy1961 dude shut up...
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The meaning of this music is: Hope. I was 5 years old when Telstar was launched, and I can remember the feeling of hope for the future most people had in 1962, especially represented by the space program. We stood on the threshold of a grand adventure. I've read some comments talking about how satellites are being abused for evil now. We always stand at the crossroads of good and evil: which way will we take? I still love this piece; for me it represents the good humanity can do if we will.
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To the video I'll not respond (it takes my eyes away from what I'm doing). To the music I'll respond. I was in High School & the 50s music was great but then there was the Russians with their "Sputnick (spelling). We needed something new to say that we had not lost the race -- espically space! Then there was the "Ventures," & this wonderful Instrumental called "Telstar." Oh! there were other greats -- but when you are 17/18 teen, Somethings Remain -- Forever!
rgath1964Utube 2 months ago
la escuche en un LP y el sonido es magnífico.
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play it when Martians invade the Earth
llabful 4 months ago
Don Draper looking out of an airplane window, smoking, about to jet off to the West Coast
TomthatiscalledTom 5 months ago
@TomthatiscalledTom Awesome scene
kjurko1 2 months ago
I absolutely LOVE those harp arpeggios during the guitar chorus--they really paint the picture of "celestial"....this blew my mind when I was 12 years old and I first heard this song. Yup--I wore out my 45rpm copy of it!
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thanks joe meek for this song
farerse 6 months ago
Six people are communists.
joesphx19 7 months ago
Telstar 1962. A flashback to a time when many earthlings were optimistic about the future. Success and survival is all about optimism. This tune is priceless really.
stanibol 8 months ago 6
SC Telstar!!!!
sumalischepiraat 8 months ago
thanks for uploading Telstar. First heard in Paris the year of it's release...and Telstar.
uslines 10 months ago
this great instrumental i have on 45vinyl. took it from my brother yrs ago and still have it in my collection.
missmanju123 1 year ago
1st British artists to hit # 1 in the USA, in 1962. A little over a year later, Jan. 1964, 4 fellas from Liverpool had a # 1 song, and the British Invasion was off and running
ITILII 1 year ago
The begining of the song sounds like KoC :D
coum199 1 year ago
So if ever wonder where the post-punk and new wave starts, here you have.
ECHOES2131 1 year ago
The 60's were so modern, when anything was possible
MerleOberon 1 year ago 3
In a way, you can kind of hear a sound that is like Muse.
JMBPR0DUCTI0N 1 year ago
Beautiful number.
ChevKen 1 year ago
Hey P..my thoughts ..I was standing on the the hill in 1970 an watched four of us get shot to death..I thank god every day that I was up on the hill..Clyde..Your on point..
skychief420 1 year ago
This sure brings back the memories....The 60s was such a great time to grow up....things were just not so complicated then.....good music.....great vibes.......
MsPinkylou 1 year ago
@MsPinkylou I agree. Great memories of this time period. Maybe they weren't so complicated because I was only 13. I did love this song!
eaking346811 1 year ago
@eaking346811 Same here, so did I.......I remember going outside on a clear night and trying to pick out the satelite from all the bright stars visible 50 years ago, before everybody and their uncle had a security light in there yard....much simpler times back then. Beam be back Scotty!
RXBA3U5 8 months ago
This is good.Love it. it Sounds kinda unique ,even in 2010.
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DarisPrayers 1 year ago
I love the original song by the Tornados...FUCK the Ventures. Rush Limbaugh played the song last week and gave the Tornados their due respect.
tallpaul521 1 year ago 2
I remember loving this song as a kid. I loved it.
It is GREAT to find such a nice audio representation here on YouTube as you have done.
Thanks
clydesight 1 year ago
Has it been 50 years ?!! I wonder where these guys are ?
vkorchnoifan 1 year ago
Quite brilliant ! and will be forever, such a very clever song, always give me goose-bumps !
schuller51 1 year ago
@DesiPattinson according to wiki, theyve worked with muse :/ its wiki tho, its not the most reliable xP
Serieth 1 year ago
After School, Junior High, Me an Den headed to the Velvet Freeze for a fountain cherry Coke, listening to a tiny transistor radio - what should befall us? A song for the ages!
MELDtoys 1 year ago 2
Thanks, mr. Bellamy, for this and for your magnificent son!
Cydonia170 1 year ago
Anybody remember 1962 and this novelty hit?
Chicago10281 1 year ago 2
If you like 70's Eurodisco, this may be the T-Rex record -- before Motown's influences, even. The classic beat was more than a decade away, but here was a spacey sound that combined with weird vocals to create a unique dance experience.
I could peel back the onion more: Miss Toni Fisher's "The Big Hurt" (1959), the first hit to use an electronic "phaser," or Dave "Baby" Cortez's "The Happy Organ" (1959), perhaps the first instrumental chart-topper that went wild, as opposed to a slow dance.
ptownfreddy 1 year ago
wow, that one's prehistoric ! lol. it's more like my parents' generation but I remember my dad playing it often in his car like, 20 years ago or something, when he drove me to school ^^
for some reason this song reminds me of an equally old movie, the Forbidden Planet. why, go figure :/
schwarzfalk 1 year ago
@schwarzfalk Prehistoric Dadrock. Still, it holds the fuck up and still is amazing,. It sort of predicts Bowie and Eno.
drshoggothshow 1 year ago
q rolon de verdad q si!!!!!!!!!!
pipo77ful 1 year ago
Telstar was the first Telecommunictions Satelite, placed into service late in 1961 or early 62'...
It was a "Big Deal", all over the News, making it possible too Direct Dial, International Calls, without Operator Assistance... Exciting stuff for a "Sci-Fi", "Space Age", "High Tech" addicted 14 year old, looking forward too a Bright Future, without war, a future where Science and Technology could solve all of Mankinds problems... This song just added to the excitement... Boy, was I wrong!
philippgs 1 year ago 34
@philippgs Did you ever look up to see if you could see it fly by at night?
Amazing things come from 'NASA' and our science minds.
Tabstarbelle 1 year ago
@Tabstarbelle No, I didn't try too see it go by in the Sky at Night... As I understood at the time, Telstar was a stationary Satelite, meaning that it was placed in a stationary Orbit, in order to handle Television and Telephone Communication over one part of the Globe. Additional Satelites (Telstars) were placed in stationary Orbit in rapid succession after Telstar 1, in order too Network the whole Globe... :)
philippgs 1 year ago
@philippgs I think it was in July 1962
Chicago10281 1 year ago
@philippgs I agree, we had hope then for a bright future through technology. Well, we got some pretty good technology and society is far more open today than in 1962.
But what's missing is that hope, that forward looking attitude, "go to the stars" thinking. Now, we're just hanging on for dear life.
Kinda sad?
clydesight 1 year ago
@clydesight Very sad. We can only change it ourselves though! I for one think we're still going to the stars.
edj66 1 year ago
@philippgs Telstar sound was a great hit and is still remembered 50 years on; those are no lightweight notes. In the absence of lyrics its buoyancy is even more astounding. Enigmatic really.
stanibol 8 months ago
@philippgs I remember this tune from that day, but did not know the name. i dont even think i cared because i was only 11. I remember Telstar going into space real good. My teacher kept us in tune with that. Thanks for the tune and the info.
tonkinshipwreck69 7 months ago
@philippgs I side with the 14 year old.
xearther 7 months ago
thank you george bellamy !!!!!
sarinamuse 1 year ago
sounds cool..like a good carnival
kansascitycomputers 1 year ago
Hands down, I just love this incredible instrumental by the Tornados! The minute I heard it, I knew I had to include this in my vast music library. The quality of the upload is superior to all the other video variations on You-Tube....Thanks ecidarocnarf for maintaining quality.....
stp88661 1 year ago
@stp88661 its really lame that you are declaring that you have a vast music library, but are only recently familiar with the tornados . . .
Walczyk 1 year ago
ó, to com preguiça de traduzir -.-'
@Tigermoon1950
Vai tomar no olho do seu cu. Invente um xingamento que cole com você filho da puta !
Puckatra 1 year ago
@mpharris88 FUCK you, asshole !
Puckatra 1 year ago
mad men episode 10 season 2!!!
aapiebooter 1 year ago
@aapiebooter the inheritant!
aapiebooter 1 year ago
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this song is horrible ² meen ! Not compares with Knights NEEVER ! O.O
Puckatra 1 year ago
@Puckatra Grow up, ignoramus.
mpharris88 1 year ago 2
@Puckatra I'm making a gesture to you. Guess what it is?
Telstar Rules the Space Between Your Ears....
Tigermoon1950 1 year ago
Makes me think of when we were young and had abright future in front of us. Now I don't see anything in the future. Sorry1
Anthony26030 1 year ago 2
@Anthony26030 Ain't that the freakin' truth. WTF happened? It just got away from us. :(
Tigermoon1950 1 year ago
my god its sounds like Knights Of Cydonia.. talent runs in the bellamy families x
ALDETwilight14 1 year ago
This song immediately sends me back to a time of more innocence and optimism.
It's universal in its spirit.
The nostalgia is undeniable.
Love it .
glaetze 1 year ago
Love Joe Meek .....was the first of his kind in the Country .....I was a kid then ...but this is the best of the best in all it's newness and rawness....
Don't tell me there is anything more satisfying.
Probably recorded in his house as with The Honeycombs ....someone up stairs hitting the bathtub to make the drum sound heavy ......love it .....
Neves376 1 year ago
This was a big hit at the Roller Skating Rinks. We called it "Skatin Music".
TheJamesCase 1 year ago
@TheJamesCase best comment i've saw so far i think it's fantastic
kelliej1p1 1 year ago
The No. 1 instrumental record hit in 1962..........The Ventures has its own version, too...........A feeling of nostalgia.............
nancyfloressantos 1 year ago
Whenever I here this come on the radio it sends a tingle down my back. It's the first record that blew me away by being so different at the time.
ivanrobertsole 1 year ago
@ivanrobertsole best instrumentalist i've heard by far although i do like apache by the shadows no comparison i know but love the music
kelliej1p1 1 year ago
Joe Meek "wrote" this - don't know where the doubt & debate came from. When I use quotes it's because Joe, not being a "musician" per se, hummed the melody he was hearing in his head into a tape recorder & had Geoff Goddard or someone transcribe it into musical form. The death & tragedy surrounding Joe only add to the melancholy feeling underlying all his music. No matter how upbeat or "rockin" the tune is, there's always a feeling of loneliness and sadness.
rnrmst 1 year ago
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this song is horrible O.O
eunaputtanata 1 year ago
@eunaputtanata Yeah well, considering your age you don't no shit about anything yet. So your ignorance at what was groundbreaking for rock-n-roll in it's time gives you no reason to even make a comment. Excuse me while I shovel your 'comment' out of the kennel.
Inquisitor53 1 year ago
wooow...da gehts mir kalt den Rücken runter, das mal wieder zu hören nach sooo langer Zeit ..dankeee
Artemis9749 1 year ago
@xmolzyx you do know that the tornados didn't even write this, joe meek wrote it. therefore you cant really give the bellamy's credit for it.
soldat182 1 year ago
This song is so awesome! :)
CCthebat 1 year ago
Joe Meek turned down the Beatles. I doubt it would have lasted with Lennon around who would not put up with Joe's tantrums.
NearAbbeyRoad 1 year ago
45 years later knights of cydonia:)
Olivia1460 1 year ago 3
I picture this tract in a "Rocky-esque" training scene. The hero training for a show down. The tune was a tribute to a satalite.
delbard1 1 year ago
@birdyboy1961 Not exactly true... Bellamy saw an ad in the paper to be the guitarist and was a proper member of the band..... Get your facts right
ChrixPT 1 year ago
The freedom of the 60s--to write a pop song about a satellite.
ickiepoo 1 year ago
I was a high school freshman...(!)
Mickagume 1 year ago
1962 song..........remembering first taste of high school life........
nancyfloressantos 1 year ago
Like father, like son...
iampadfoot1 1 year ago
I love this song.
emptypepsi 1 year ago
was this done on a stylaphone ??? lol
shaneybaby100 1 year ago
their music was one of a kind. the tornados.
hildman5 1 year ago
Radio Milano forever!!!!
boerbuevink 1 year ago
This was the first US #1 by a British group - in 1962, according to Wikipedia.
rockston1 1 year ago
@rockston1 haha i only watched the song cuz i just read that on wikipedia XD
pimpingpumps 1 year ago
sold 950,000 copies in 1962 and is one of the top 100 best selling british singles ever
26highstreet 1 year ago
one of my mams fave records it always makes me think of her when i hear it and it never fails to bring a tear to my eye!
bobcorb 1 year ago
Ok I'm a huge muse's fan...but this song wasn't created by George Bellamy: it's a brilliant Joe Meek's work. And obviously this kind of music inspires Matt.
LaMuseP 1 year ago
wow, one of the worst songs ive ever heard, if it could even be considered a song
bonanza69 1 year ago
@bonanza69
It was mainly just electronics. No one had heard anything like it at the time. Joe Meek was a radio engineer and this was tribute to the Telstar satellite which had just broadcast across the Atlantic for the first time.
NearAbbeyRoad 1 year ago
Still hits the spot..., wonderful !!!
schuller51 1 year ago
English version of Dick Dale.
Love it just before the Stones and The Kinks.
1988acid 1 year ago
great song
theaznlvr 1 year ago
My dad used to run around the playground in 1963 to this. he thought it made him run faster :p
TheIndividualsMusic 1 year ago 3
@TheIndividualsMusic It does make you run faster, listen to your Dad!!! lol
jedwinpenn 1 year ago
let me get this right.....so a band member of the Tornados, is the father of the frontman in the band Muse??? as in "Time Is Running Out" song???? cooooo-ellllll !!!!!
Madgeick 1 year ago 2
finally... been searching to this damn song for two straight days now :) such and awesome song!!
Abeuss 1 year ago
so advanced for the time
toby8stores 1 year ago
matt's dad's bandd.! ahh-mazinggg!
I<3MattBellamy&&Musee!!! (: ADD ME IF U THINK MUSE and MATT BELLAMY ARE AMAZING!
SheryP96 1 year ago 2
telstar is immense! Even though this is the only number 1 the tornadoes had i still think they deserve this. the tornadoes came from the town where i live and one of the tornadoes used to be my dad's bff
hanna5h 1 year ago
Almost 50 years on and it's still sounds great and not forgotten, Some tracks these days are forgotten in less than a year. Still love the tornados.
MrNaughtyflirt 1 year ago 18
telstar is the first record i remember hearing. got played over and over again. family huddled round the second-hand tv set watching fuzzy pictures in black & white on an incredibly small screen. we were grateful for what we had in those days!
mrmadmic1 1 year ago
@MrNaughtyflirt Laffy Taffy White T's Chain Hang Low Tipsy & it's goin down all of which those tracks sucked a reason why they are forgotten Soulja Boy and T-Pain will be joining D4L and suckage like that when it comes to the tracks of the 00's
these guys Elvis MJ The Beatles Paul anka Booker T Bee Gees Sugar Hill Gang
Jim Morrison and guys from the past 60 years will be remembered for good music that will age like fine wines.
all today's acts kids have got will age like pruno
odog65 1 year ago
@MrNaughtyflirt - oh ! totally agree old son. I can't remember or even name a really good group later than the early 80's - this will still be going when all the plastic "X factor" crap has faded into obscurity !! (not that it takes that long!!) Incidently -a mate of mine re-conditions transistor radios and you would not believe the age of group the people that buy most of them - in their mid to late twenties !! cheers chap.
RHODESIA111 1 year ago
still a great sound
markydjh1 1 year ago 3
Matt Bellamy's dad is in this band...
Muse is AMAZING
jmill2828er 1 year ago 5
@jmill2828er yeaah
anti2evil 1 year ago
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muse just rip this song off
chrislpp 2 years ago
lol not really, more of a homage seeing as how matt bellamy is the son of one the members of this band...
poisonapple1991 2 years ago 4
i agree!
heavymama 1 year ago
nope , matts dad was in this band and dont bother giving me a thumbs down , check wikipedia : )
jezzalikezguitarz 1 year ago 4
All Sputnik did was broadcast a beep-beep-beep on the FM band as a show of USSR's superiority to us in space. The next Satellite was Sputnik II when they launched a dog (LEIKA) into space. That was 1957-1958. Then we countered with our own Explorer I. We were one of the few with an FM radio back then, I heard the beep and saw the reflection odf Sputnik I when it passed over our area.
ferlenarab 2 years ago
That is so cool!
frog33ww 2 years ago
wow your old :)
21433H 2 years ago
@21433H Yeh, don't remond me.
ferlenarab 2 years ago
that is sooooo cool
were you freaked out that the reds were flying over your house?
brabon1 1 year ago
@brabon1 Not at all, Sputnik was more for show than threatening. the big thing was they were first which at that time was a slap in our face.
ferlenarab 1 year ago
This piece of music is more than a classic to me, it stands out through the years as something special, unique, and unforgettable.
SolarFlare42 2 years ago
'Twas the first british rock band that has got an american recognition.
Need to say; Bellamies deserved it!!1
munipuca 2 years ago
Sorry, not Russian, it was launched by NASA(US), France and Britain.
frog33ww 2 years ago
this song was written to commemorate the launch of the Russian satellite named Tellstar. The first satellite EVER sent into space.
frog33ww 2 years ago
After Sputnik, you mean? :-)
Factnotfictionpeople 2 years ago
Ah, your right , that is why I was thinking that this was launched by Russia, they got the first one up, didn't they.
frog33ww 2 years ago
@frog33ww Yes, but I don't think it was a communications satellite, like Telstar.
Factnotfictionpeople 2 years ago
Sputnik I was the first Satelittte in space. Telstar was a communication satellite lauched in 1961 I beleive, the predicessor to all the ones we have now.
ferlenarab 2 years ago
Yea, your right , thanks for refreshing my memory, What did Sputnik do, if not communica?
frog33ww 2 years ago
is joe meek. god bless him
crapasallgetout 2 years ago
I looked this up because Matt Bellamy's (Muse) dad was the rhythm guitarist in this band... I can definitely see where he gets it from...
PeopleRFragileThings 2 years ago 4
@PeopleRFragileThings yea knights of cydonia is kind of a tribute to this
liljdude94 2 years ago
srsly? good to know...
PeopleRFragileThings 2 years ago
same
kmcgimsey 2 years ago
tHE BEST SONG FOR ARE COUNTRY, LIFEIS GOOD. DETROIT
lip5er4 2 years ago
I was17 then...
Remember as the local Nautilus band played it in Miskolc, Hungary - in The forum coffehause on vadnai kuksi played The electricity organ just as about The original by The Bellamies.
...great sounds!!!
munipuca 2 years ago
Produced by Joe Meek. The sound effects were made at his flat above a shop at 304 Holloway Rd, London.
Telstar was a world-wide hit and prepared the world for what was to come in the British invasion.
Fantastic!
NearAbbeyRoad 2 years ago
What a great tune. Puts me into a nostalgic dream.
greenisland75 2 years ago
I've always loved this tune. I can remember the first time it was ever played on the radio; and also the fabulous video clip that accompanied this song .. anyone else remember that clip (the british double-decker bus .. & the satellite where the flag pops out at the end of the clip). This solid-gold hit holds a special place of fondness in my musical memories, stretching back some 5 decades now (yeah, I know .. so I'm an old fart ... ) But - Thankyou. Great posting.
colindominy 2 years ago 2
Still incredible after all these years...#1 hit around the entire world when it was first released!!!! I'm speechless...
GREATWHITE2 2 years ago 5
Bellamys rule!
basisti94 2 years ago 18
cool
RuailleBuailleIRL 2 years ago
oh now we know where matt gets it from!! lol
what a lovely family!
JadoreDom 2 years ago 7
actually, they are two different bands
lluiso12 2 years ago
I totally agree
lluiso12 2 years ago
Definitely a high degree of talent in the Bellamy family :-)
WildMorgan 2 years ago 33
@WildMorgan Abosolutely, this has a "knights of cydonia " feel to it, ....kinda
brianthebastard 1 year ago
joe meak the fucking mad head its like... BANK goes the wife
dannydudeno1 2 years ago
Joe Meek..."IF IT SOUNDS RIGHT IT IS RIGHT"
amen brother
MrTiptoes1 2 years ago
zoveel heeft deze compositie overleeft
briljant
dinkeldal 2 years ago
Few instrumental masterpieces rate anywhere close to this. It's the Hope Diamond of the instrumental world and has class like crazy.
skirts365 2 years ago 3
Great song then and forever,the history
behind this song is incredible.
Gregory195216 2 years ago 3
Never dates. Brilliant.
Fronika 2 years ago 5
Who else remembers Hy lit and his "Lovers Hour", yep this was the theme song he used. >>>thanx for reminding me :-)
RXRguy 2 years ago
I'm thirteen. And I love the Tornados.
TheRoyalFail 2 years ago 10
Good for you!
(And I don't mean that sarcastically.)
Craigmin 2 years ago 4
Forgive this ole (57) fart, but who the blank is Matt Bellamy?
Fond memories....I remember (62 or 63), seeing the U.S./U.S.S.R. track meet broadcast from Moscow....remember, before Telstar, that simply didn't happen.
bumblebeemoi 2 years ago
That's not too old! :L
Matt Bellamy is the lead vocalist/guitarist/pianist/song writer/composer/keytarist of Muse... they're a current rock band... the best really
BellamysGirl 2 years ago 8
You just realized? pfft
ADeformedCat 2 years ago 2
@sarah41590 Yup! This song influenced Knights of Cydonia.
OMG1wtf 2 years ago 2
This song makes me Happy! I Salute you!
Andreasantoni 2 years ago 3
Anybody who was around in 1962, do you know what Telstar is(or even was)? I think the Cubs and Phillies were shown on Telstar to the rest of the world(Europe)on July 23, 1962. I was but a year old when this song was out!
Chicago10281 2 years ago
Without Telstar, there might not have been an Internet.
Juliaflo 2 years ago 5
It was even before Star Trek!
skirts365 2 years ago
That, too.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Juliaflo 2 years ago
I saw them live from England as a little kid. The announcer at the stadium told the crowd they were live in England on TV and they all waved at us. We were amazed. Wonderful!!! Amazing at the time.
NearAbbeyRoad 2 years ago
Watched the Telstar movie last night it is really good Con O Neil as Joe Meek is amazing
marketgarden30 2 years ago
I have the original USA 45, THE TORNADOES, Not Tornados.
buddyeagle 2 years ago
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Yelens82 2 years ago
is the band of the matt bellamy (muse) father.
JeanMMarques 2 years ago