Thursday, May 25, 2023

Save the Drama fo' Yo' Saucerama!

 That's what you'll feel if you tried to get this post from its 2015 link. It's defunct.


Let's try again!

1 Rockin' in the Rocket Room The Larks 1954
2 Flying Saucer Rocket Ferrell Duncan and His Rockers 1955
3 Flying Saucers (unissued) The Thunderbirds 1957
4 The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor The Big Bopper 1958
5 Hello World Horace Heller 1959
6 Shooting for the Moon Carl & Norman 1960
7 The Moon's Not Meant for Lovers (Anymore)  The Royal Teens 1960
8 I Go Into Orbit Johnny Acey 1962
9 Rocket Ride Johnny Greco 1963
10 Moon Race The Citations 1963
11 The Invasion Buchanan & Greenfield 1964
12 War Of The Worlds The Atlantics 1964
13 Moon Child The Ventures 1964
14 Solar Race The Ventures 1964
15 Everyone's Gone To The Moon Jonathan King 1965
16 Lunar Funk The Fabulous Counts 1969
17 Saturn Gene Page 1978
18 Destination Venus The Rezillos 1978
19 Man on the Moon MTV 1983
20 Fly Me To The Moon The Legendary Space Cowboy 1984
21 I Took A Trip (on the Space Shuttle) The Legendary Space Cowboy 1984
22 Creature from Outer Space Big Eyed Beans from Venus 1985
23 Spaceships Have Landed Frances Cannon and the Extraterrestrials 1987
24 Rocket To Nowhere Webb Wilder 1996
25 Little Green Man Godless Wicked Creeps 1997
26 Dangerous Tools Frances Baskerville 1999
27 Flying Saucer Astronaut Wife 2003
28 Spooks in Space Aural Exciters 2003

Now you may be spaced out!  PS the cover art was taken from the cover of Frank Stranges's book of the same name.

See you Monday for our last comp in this amazing MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY!
  

Monday, May 22, 2023

When Superboy Ate the Uranium ...

... He got an ATOMIC ACHE.

Well, that joke is the excuse I came up with for the title of this compilation about nuclear life.


01 - Vaporize Me, Atomize Me - Moose Lodge - 1984  (2:53)

02 - The Meltdown - Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band - 1980  (3:50)

03 - 20 Tons of TNT - Flanders and Swann - 1963  (2:31)

04 - Fire from Above - SM Corporation - 1983  (3:45)

05 - I'd Rather Be Like a Hermit - Frankie Ervin & Austin McCoy - 1951  (2:39)

06 - Microwave Radiation - Xterminators - 1978  (3:17)

07 - Strange Eyes - Sons of Heroes - 1983  (4:26)

08 - The Civil Defense Sign - Mark Spoelstra - 1962  (3:46)

09 - Got My Call Card - LB Lawson and James Scott - 1952  (3:25)

10 - Nuclear Age - Synthetic Products - 1986  (5:04)

11 - Red Car - Trees - 1982  (4:42)

12 - Dig a Hole - Digits - 1980  (2:56)

13 - The Atom - Bob Harter with Dickson Hall & His Mountaineers - 1960  (2:29)

14 - Meltdown - The Reactors - 1979  (2:51)

15 - Four Minute Warning - Mark Owen - 2003  (4:12)

16 - The Great Atomic Power - Raul Malo, Pat Flynn, Rob Ickes & Dave Pomeroy - 2004  (2:40)

17 - Uranium Lou - Lew Tobin's Orchestra - 1957  (2:18)

18 - The A-Bomb Woke Me Up - The Swimming Pool Qs - 1979  (2:54)

19 - Fallout - Data - 1981  (3:34)

20 - Three Eyed Freak - Angelo & His Egos - 1985  (3:53)

21 - Khrushchev Twist - Melvin Gayle - 1962  (1:57)

22 - (We've Got) The Neutron Bomb - The Weirdos - 1978  (2:58)

23 - Doomsday - Zen Fuller - 1962  (1:55)

24 - Legacy of Morons - The Trilobites - 1986  (2:53)

Listen to these and be edified by the freed0m of opinion on bombing, fission, power generation, or trying to sleep late.

The original image is from Superboy #115, cover-dated September 1964.

(Maybe Superboy ate one of these.)  See you on Thursday!
  
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