Flying Saucer Music #12
Man, dig those giant loafers.
Forward into the past with another song, this time from 1964. This among my favorites for the simple reason that the “martian” doesn’t sound like one of the Chipmunks. It must be a fake thrown out by the Men In Black to get me off the trail of my chipmunk/ alien conspiracy theory.
I haven’t been able to find anything on Floyd Robinson. Most of the search hits are for a Chicago White Sox outfielder from the 1960s. I don’t think he recorded any UFO songs, plus, he was black. Any help would be appreciated.
Here’s a little easter egg from me: The single is for sale on ebay right now!
UPDATE!! (April 9th) Floyd Robinson is also the songwriter behind the “Little Space Girl” song! He was apparently Jesse Lee Turner’s cousin. I have uploaded another version of “Little Space Girl” without the vinyl noise.
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Apr 03 2007 
April 5th, 2007 at 5:56 am
Fantastic stuff as always greg - I still listen to that great compilation CD you made me.
hey can we skype about MM very soon - my handle is elminko. we’re trying to fix our schedule for coming to the USA at the end of *this* month!
cheers
Mark
April 5th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Floyd Robinson was a sing-song writer from the awful days of the late 50’s and early 60’s Nashville music scene when they were trying desperately to break into the pop music scene ala the squeaky clean, Pat Boone imaging. You should have seen what they did to Willie Nelson. One of the many reasons that he(Willie) told Nashville good bye and headed to Austin to start the outlaw country movement which basically saved C&W music from collapsing within itself in the early ’70’s. Back to Floyd, he wrote songs for the Everly Brothers, worked as a NBC studio musician and later founded the Charlie the Hamster Ministry, an evangelic rodent target children. And we sometimes wonder why they drink the CoolAid?
http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/09-2.html
April 5th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Crg,
You da man. I guess I wasn’t dogged enough in my search, even though I do actually have some Charlie The Hamster recordings. Excruciating stuff, although I do enjoy the “Sabbath Day” track more than I should.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Greg, I can tell that you really are a totally brain-washed, Dr. Demento fan. Bet you didn’t know that he was secret CIA MJ-12 operative broadcasting a secret post hypnotic suggestion to you using subliminal messages.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Crg,
Well, in this case, I’m glad he brainwashed me, because now I can go where he refused to go due to the FCC and his own warped sense of what was “real” music! This also worked on the 365 Days Project people and other outsider music luminaries like Irwin Chusid. Praise be to Frank Wisner, et al!
April 8th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Good stuff Greg. I hope there’s a whole lot more to come!
Some more Floyd Robinson info:
Born in Nashville in 1932 he began his career as a singer-guitarist and performed lead guitar and harmony vocals in the backing bands of various country and rockabilly artists. Accordingly he has credits on their albums for rhythm guitar, 12 string guitar and harmony vocals. In addition he performed/recorded duets in the early ’50s with Autry Inman as Jack and Daniel and later recorded at least one single with Don Winters (The Yodeling King) as The Winters Brothers - Don and Floyd. In January 1959 Chet Atkins signed him to the RCA Victor label and his single Makin’ Love reached #20 in the US charts and #9 in the UK charts later that year. In the early ’60s he returned to his roots becoming lead guitarist for a band called The Homesteaders. They recorded an album in 1962 but mainly hit the tour circuit, later also as backing on Jeannie C Riley tours. He left the band in the late ’60s and I lost track of him after that until the Charlie the Hamster era.
Click on his name in this link (item 1.11) for the close-up profile which adorns the reverse of the cover above http://www.chronoglide.com/WWWS_Show/.htm
This link gives info re Chipmunk sound-alike recordings, including Charlie the Hamster and towards the end a number of space aliens http://www.roctober.com/roctober/chipmunks.html
April 9th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Butterfly,
Thanks a lot! I knew my people would rise to the challenge. See the update above for more news on Robinson/ Jesse Lee “Space Girl” Turner.
April 11th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Greg,
Have you heard “Semjase” by Big Dipper? It’s on their 1988 album “Craps.”
April 11th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
mulder,
No, but I’d like to. Do you have a download site?
I probably won’t post some music, as there are copyright problems or I don’t think that they’re unusual enough. My personal taste enters into this!
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Greg, are you go’n'o be covering less obvious examples of more ’serious’ material from more ’serious’ artists?
For instance, many people are familiar with David Bowie’s ‘Starman’, an artist and a song which I presume’d fit very easily under your present terms of reference, (whereas his ‘Space Oddity’ and ‘Life On Mars’, which initially sound as if they would, on closer inspection probably wouldn’t, or so I suspect).
I was thinking though of a less obvious example of his material which most people’d assume had nothing to do with your banner ‘Flying Saucer Music’ but which very definitely has.
Namely, ‘Drive In Saturday’ which, even though it doesn’t sound like it, was apparently inspired by David’s observation of a silvery dome shaped UFO whilst being driven through the Californian desert, hence the line:
“Perhaps the strange ones in the dome/can lend us a book we can read up alone”