PRICE:
$23.00
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ARTIST
TITLE
Music From Planet Earth Volume 3: Moon Tunes, Signals From Saturn & The Full Martian Experience
FORMAT
10"

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CATALOG #
STAGO 078LP STAGO 078LP
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RELEASE DATE
2/23/2018

Stag-O-Lee presents the third and final 10" in a series devoted to space-age sounds from the '50s and '60s. Includes a signed and numbered 24x24 cm screenprint of the front cover drawn by well-known artist Marcel Bontempi. Features: Rose DuBats, Dave Diddle Day, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Les Baxter, Russ Garcia, Gale Storm, Butch Paulson, Gene Vincent, Frosty & The Diamonds, Sun Ra Arkestra, Space-Men, and Marty.

"It's a perennial starting point for conspiracy theories, the perfect excuse for lost homework or any kind of irrational behavior. Alien intervention solves everything. Things from other planets are a sustainable reason to many unanswerable questions and, across the music industry in the late '50s and early '60s, in the wake of a slew of space-based exploitation movies, a series of 45s and suitably unearthly concept albums emerged to capitalize on this burgeoning, bizarre and mysterious idea. Everyone was viewing far off planets with wonder, amazement and the occasional well-directed sound effect. No-one really knew what aliens could do, so the potential for music to accompany whatever they did was limitless. Over 50 years after these sides were released in a fit of futuristic creativity, we're still asking about the potential of water on Mars, puzzling of the rings of Saturn and wondering if anything really did happen at Roswell. 'Aliens stole my dog' screams the headline in the National Enquirer. Of course they did." --Dave Henderson, MOJO magazine, 2017