Flying Saucer Music #14
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This week’s ditty is from an incredible album released in 1960 and entitled Folk Songs For The 21st Century by a gifted actor/ writer named Sheldon Allman. The lyrics describe a strange mix of contactee/ abductee emotions, which of course comes to us with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. Sheldon’s lost love exists in a world that he (and we) cannot visit. He might try DMT or certain ritual practices if he wants to win her heart.
From the indispensable CONELRAD website:
The remarkably gifted and versatile actor/composer Sheldon Allman was born in Chicago, IL on June 6, 1924 and raised in Canada. Mr. Allman returned to the United States as a young man and graduated from the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music.
In addition to being a prolific character performer, Allman was also the composer behind the theme for the popular late sixties cartoon “George of the Jungle.” He was also the singing voice of TV’s “Mister Ed”…
Mr. Allman appeared in films…and on numerous television programs (including The Fugitive; Gunsmoke; Batman; The Untouchables, etc.), but he is perhaps best remembered as one of two aliens in the twist ending of the Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” His 1960 album “Folk Songs for the 21st Century” contains 14 songs that he wrote and arranged. It is a prescient and humorous “concept” record that features some of best song titles of the era.
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Apr 20 2007 
April 24th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Greg,
Really enjoying the music!! Thanks
for a unique and entertaining site!
May I suggest a song?…How about
“Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue”, from
“The Best Of Allan Sherman”?
I’ve got a lot of SF oriented things,
music, movie themes & trailers, etc.;
if you’re interested in anything, feel
free to drop a line!
Continued success!
Best,
Tom (Uncle Bela)
E-mail: UncleBela62@aol.com