Flying Saucer Music #10
Here is one of the few examples I have been able to locate of actual vintage contactee music, this one from sometime in the early 1960s. The artist is Mollie Thompson, who was an ordinary British housewife until she was contacted by Adamski-type aliens and felt moved to compose an entire album of folksy songs about her experiences and her new philosophy, entitled From Worlds Afar. Normally, I don’t prefer this sort of tunesmithing, but it’s about the SPACE BROTHERS fer crissakes! Apart from Howard Menger’s album Music From Another Planet, it’s one of the few in the genre that I am aware of. The sincerity and innocence of Thompson’s feelings come through with every note.
The song, Cockeyed Ballad, tells of her contact with the gentle space people. Thompson describes them in a couple of lines: “They wear one-piece suits/ You can’t see any seams/ But apart from that, they’re just like us.”
The 1992 documentary Farewell Good Brothers featured vintage black-and-white footage of Thompson performing this song in a different key, which plays under the opening credits, accompanied by annoying sound effects and a cartoon spaceship.
Here are Thompson’s comments from the original liner notes:
There is a surprise around every corner – and one of the biggest and loveliest surprises that met me was to the discover that there IS life on other planets and in other galaxies. And so how was I to set about sharing this fact with other people? I have tried talking to them – a few listened with interest but the majority dismissed the whole idea as science-fiction-fantasy.
It is almost as though I have a garden full of roses, all of different colours and perfumes, but when I open the gate and invite people into my garden they run in the opposite direction as fast as they can go.
People are funny things but I am very fond of them – so now I am going to see how far my singing will carry. You can join in and sing, you can dance if you want to, or you can just sit and listen and see if you like the thoughts you can hear. The words and music came into my head, though I am neither a writer nor a composer, so I think I can say that this record is the result of “inspiration” – a word which to me simply means “breathing in” – (the air in my rose garden is full of a variety of novel ideas).
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Mar 15 2007 
March 16th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
This is great stuff!
You guys might also enjoy some ConspiraPop tunes from a current UFO band called The j Rods.
Rogue Naval Space Command pilots who have a story to tell.
http://www.thejrods.com
http://www.garageband.com/artist/thejrods
March 19th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
This is great! I was looking for “(When You See Those) Flying Saucers” by the Buchanan Brothers
at Bear Family records,from “Atomic Platters”-which is listed as “(You Got To Pray To The Lord) When You See Those Flying Saucers”– long story> found this place.
Thanks!
Mollie Thompson is wonderful -
checkin’ out the site here waiting for Dr. Haines ‘O’Hare Report’-
best,
m
btw of interest>
Eddie Cletro - Flying Saucer Boogie-3rd down
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/BearFamily.html
and here> search for “Flying Saucer”
http://rootsandrhythm.com/roots/rr_rock.htm
example:
from “Rocket Ship” collection
http://rootsandrhythm.com/roots/VINTAGE%20ROCK/vintagerock_various_buff2.htm
THE LOVE BROS: Flying Saucers Rock & Roll
“Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer” - Ella Fitzgerald !
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:44 pm
“They wear one-piece suits/ You can’t see any seams/ But apart from that, they’re just like us.”
Greg, how disappointing - for a second there, I thought the lyric was go’n'o go:
“They wear one-piece suits/ You can’t see any seams/ But from out of their *rse/ there shine beams!”
January 6th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Here is a video of this same woman singing a live version of this song.
This is one of my fave saucer songs. She is SO CUTE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8yxoXdlQGc
SMiles