Jan 10 2008
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Flying Saucer Music #33
This second installment by Rodd Keith is another of his “song poems”– which were recordings made from lyrics sent in by hopeful song stylists to small companies which would put music to the words and record the results. They would then send a few 45 RPM copies of the song to the client. The heyday of song-poem activity was the 1960s and ’70s.
Of course, this was a recipe for bizarre and hilarious results, but “Music Man From Mars” is actually halfway “respectable.” The arrangement is sophisticated for the genre, and Keith obviously has fun with it. The track is available on a CD compilation called I Died Today.
For more on Keith, see this profile by his son, who is a jazz saxophonist in New York City. He never met his father, and the story is strange and touching.
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January 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Greg
You MUST write a book about the history of UFO related music and the people involved!
January 10th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Let’s not forget all the bad electronica sci-fi music from the 70’s for your book. There must have been dozens really bad versions of 2001:ASO, Star Trek:TOS and Star Wars themes done badly on a Moog Synthisizer. You should also include music from bad space/scifi movies like Santa Claus vs. The Martians. It chould also include the sorta decent space related stuff done by Sun Ra and George Clinton and other artists who got the bug.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Gregg: I don’t have any way of contacting you other than posting to your site, so this is off-topic, though potentially interesting. I confess that I don’t have the background to competently assess what the man is speculating here: http://cheniere.org/articles/paranormal%20pictures.htm, but hypothesize it might provide insight into the emanation of UFOs into three-dimensional space. Perhaps other readers on this site possess the requisite physics background to evaluate it properly.
January 10th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Ahahaha — noooooo! That’s just crazy; now I’ll never get this tune out of my head. No sir…
January 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Oh wow, that was great. That’s a catchy tune Greg. Definitely one of the better tracks. Also, what a interesting story told by his son.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Congrats Greg, I’m still humming that song and will be doing so tomorrow. “No sir….”
January 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Nick,
The idea man strikes again! I’ll send that one out with my next batch of proposals.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
crg,
Good ideas. I guess it depends on the whims of the editor/ publisher.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Gavilian,
I’ll get in touch with you. I’m still trying to understand the M-Brane theories in a way that I don’t sound like an idiot when trying to describe them.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Rob,
I listened to the song a few times yesterday. Same story–can’t get it out of my head!
January 11th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Ben,
Funny how such a lowly genre produced some actually memorable tunes, and of course Keith is a story in himself, what with throwing himself onto the Hollywood freeway in either a drug-induced haze or a depression-induced suicide.