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T E L S T * R !
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| Joe Meek's secretary | Telstore answering message | |
| TEEN RIOT! | Telstar | |
| The Tornados |
Telstar 
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| Hurricane Strings | Telstar | |
| Joe Goldmark |
Telstar stomp
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| Los Straitjackets |
Telstar
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| The Ventures |
Telstar
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| The Versatiles | Telstar | |
| Joe Meek | Telstar (1st stage demo) | |
| The Champs | Telstar | |
| The Rockin' Rebels |
Telstar
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| The Lively Ones |
Telstar surf
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| Laika & the Cosmonauts |
Telstar
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| Dave Adams | Telstar (2nd stage demo) | |
| The Eagles (no, not those Eagles) | Telstar | |
| The Shatniks | Telstar | |
| The Spotniks | Telstar | |
| Joe Meek | Studio fragments (with Geoff Goddard) | |
| The Challengers |
Telstar
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| The Fingers | Telstar | |
| The Megatones | Telstar | |
| Joe Meek | Untitled (over backing track Telstar) | |
| The Routers |
Telstar
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| Johnny Taylor & the Strangers | Telstar | |
| Terry & the Blue Jeans | Telstar | |
| Joe Meek | Telstar (over backing track 'Try once more') | |
| Bud Ashton | Telstar | |
| Joe Meek | Return of the Outlaws | |
| Joe Meek | Studio chat | |
Comment:
Yes, I know that this is a maddening idea for a mix. If you know my mixes, you've probably picked up on my unhealthy Joe Meek fixation. I truly love Telstar and can (almost) never hear it enough. (You really don't want to just how many versions of it I have...I skipped most of the crummy 70s & 80s versions.)This is my tribute to my all-time fave instrumental, but it's more than just a couple dozen versions of the tune. There are demos, versions with vocals, swinging versions (The Champs kick ASS!), studio banter, and just about the whole kitchen sink (in true Meek style).
What brought about this ridiculous experiment in over-the-top "mixing"? Well, my band just recorded our version - yes, that's track two (with me on the gee-tar and my friend Charles Nelson Riot all over that farfisa) - and I started wondering just how many versions I had laying around here. Then I started deconstructing the tune and considering alternate ways to do it and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..... You get the idea - it's basically 1+ hours of the same goddamned tune .... which I happen to love. For those of you who don't get it, you're probably not alone - but I feel sorry for you.
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Telific! A song well worth this type of intense analysis.
OMG! Only a maniac would make a mix like this. Especially somebody who believes that there is Never Too Much of a Good Thing.
Well, you certainly do learn something new every day. I NEVER knew there was a vocal version of Telstar. Which one is it? ( i must check it out )
Oh baby. My idea of a Real Man is one who can Telstar all night long. I'm getting a bit breathless just reading the playlist.
Pure heaven, plain and simple.
I think Sting once sang," They say the Meek shall inherit the Earth." For once I think he was right. Cool mix, star. So which Eagles are we talkin' about?
It's a Joe Meek song isn't it ?
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You're mad, sir, completely mad!
Actually, I'd love a copy of this as it's the first song I ever fell in love with (at the age of five -do the sums) and I'd like to think it set the template for all my subsequent listening pleasures.
It Was also rumoured to be Margaret Thatcher's favourite record but we'd best not go into that.
By the way, yoeiu missed out versions by The Residents (part of 3rd Reich & Reich 'n' Roll) & Velvet Fogg (Telstar '69). Both available on request.
Actually, I'd love a copy of this as it's the first song I ever fell in love with (at the age of five -do the sums) and I'd like to think it set the template for all my subsequent listening pleasures.
It Was also rumoured to be Margaret Thatcher's favourite record but we'd best not go into that.
By the way, yoeiu missed out versions by The Residents (part of 3rd Reich & Reich 'n' Roll) & Velvet Fogg (Telstar '69). Both available on request.
Twisted and sick... lucky guy.
Very cool, Sean.
A little mad can't be that bad . . . (If I were Valis, I'd probably say, "Meek me in St. Louis", but that might be taking it a bit too far.) By the way, there's a German-language version of "Telstar" from the early 70s, sung by the German host of the infamous tv show "Games without Frontiers". Also available on request. ;)
Now we'll need a comp' dedicated to his Telstar-alike: Life On Venus!!!
Meek me in St. Louis!
Meek me in St. Louis!
Love it. I just go mad for this kind of analytical mix. Brilliant!
FYI - it's the demos and untitled track that feature "singing" or some type of melodizing. Neat, if a bit weird.
Crazed, but cool.
Jesus Christ... or is that Joe Meek I see on the horizon?!? MAKE HIM STOP MAKE HIM STOP MAKE HIM STOP!!!! (Cool mix, Seanald.)
Certainly a song worth analyzing. I'd love to hear how other artists cover a song like this.
Unreal !
Futuristic!!!
Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, launched in 1962, was nearly a yard in diameter and weighed 175 pounds.
The new communications satellite fired the imaginations of people around the world. The global television audience for the Telstar debut numbered in the hundreds of millions. An instrumental hit called "Telstar" by a British rock group, the Tornadoes stayed on the Billboard Top 40 music chart for 13 weeks, including three weeks at Number One. And Jazz legend Duke Ellington also composed a short piece entitled "Telstar". More recently, the pop group The Bangles recorded "Wishing on Telstar".
lots more Telstar trivia
Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, launched in 1962, was nearly a yard in diameter and weighed 175 pounds.
The new communications satellite fired the imaginations of people around the world. The global television audience for the Telstar debut numbered in the hundreds of millions. An instrumental hit called "Telstar" by a British rock group, the Tornadoes stayed on the Billboard Top 40 music chart for 13 weeks, including three weeks at Number One. And Jazz legend Duke Ellington also composed a short piece entitled "Telstar". More recently, the pop group The Bangles recorded "Wishing on Telstar".
lots more Telstar trivia
Swingin'! Got enough versions to give Rumble the same tribute?
I was only speaking this evening of Joe Meek with the composer of Nick Moran's Stage tribute to Joe Meek (Moran apparently played him for a night when the lead was ill) & about the rumoured possibility of a movie version - apparently Tim Roth & Kevin Spacey were rumoured to play Meek...anyway I was saying that Meek may well be our Phil Spector but much of what he produced in the fifties & early sixties (pre-Fab Four) wither in comparison to US stuff because the material i.e. the songs were grossly inferior & as I think I've said somewhere before, perhaps on one of my mixes, R'n'Roll is just not apart of our culture in the same way music hall & traditional song forms are. Sure we've produced Rockers but they are the exception. Anyway this mix is a worthy mix of one of Meek's madder moments!
Have you guys seen this : http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/037/index.html loads of downloadable evidence why Joe Meek concentrated on instrumentals. Is the play any good? I wanted to see it, but London's a long way for me.
(doh) - sound of poster realising one of the downloadable tracks he's linked to is actually on the mix.
All Telstar all the time!!!
Teen riot hold that last note forever, that's the track I would have gone out on
if I had sequenced this set myself.
Some of the Joe Meek cuts are just *too* kitchen sink for me, but I can't dispute that they're in the true Telstar spirit.
But the Ventures, Teen Riot, & los Straitjackets are the true all-time Champs here. Joe Meek shall inherit the earth!
Teen riot hold that last note forever, that's the track I would have gone out on
if I had sequenced this set myself.
Some of the Joe Meek cuts are just *too* kitchen sink for me, but I can't dispute that they're in the true Telstar spirit.
But the Ventures, Teen Riot, & los Straitjackets are the true all-time Champs here. Joe Meek shall inherit the earth!
VISIT www.chestnutbankproductions.co.uk for my Joe Meek connections and reviews on my version of Telstar. Full details on site. Well worth a visit.
Byron Elwell, Derbyshire, UK.
Byron Elwell, Derbyshire, UK.
VISIT www.chestnutbankproductions.co.uk for my Joe Meek connections and reviews on my version of Telstar. Full details on site. Well worth a visit.
Byron Elwell, Derbyshire, UK.
Byron Elwell, Derbyshire, UK.