Off Until August 1st ... See You Then!

We're taking time off in preparation for SoonerCon and to rest up a bit.

We'll still be sharing beautiful, odd, cheesy music on Spock's Record Round-Up, though.

See you Monday, August 1st.  After blowing up your fireworks, make sure you still have the proper number of fingers!

MA-70 - Of Other Worlds

Here's another concatenation of musical excursions into the Great Out There.

01. Beep-Beep-Beep - Bobby Day (2:32)   1957

02. Satellite Love - Lil Randolph (2:14)   1958

03. Space Time - Danny Overbea (2:28)   1958

04. I Got a Rocket in My Pocket - Jimmy Grubbs (1:45)   1958

05. Blast Off - The Tyrones (2:29)   1958

06. Rocket to the Moon - Chris Kenner  (2:26)   1959

07. Italian Martians - Pasquale and Luigi with Tony (3:14)   1959

08. There's a Hole in the Middle of the Moon - The Embers (as The Ravens) (2:28)   1959

09. Blast Off - The Spacemen (2:47)   1959

10. Beep Alonia - Glenn Mooney (2:52)   1963

11. The Moon Man Is Back (Satellite Stroll) - The Moon Man (Willie C  Echols) (2:17)   1964

12. Spaceship Races - Carole King (3:07)   1970

13. Into the Void - Black Sabbath (6:13)   1971

14. Satellite of Love - Lou Reed (3:41)   1972

15. Moon Rock - Dory Previn (4:54)   1973

16. I Want to See Another World - Jefferson Starship (4:29)   1975

17. Space Captain - Joe Cocker (5:03)   1976

18. We Called Him E.T. - Tom Wayne (3:32)   1982

19. A  Fun Bunch of Guys from Outer Space - Sparks (4:06)   1983

20. Zero Zero UFO - Ramones (2:25)   1989

21. Men in Black - Frank Black (3:01)   1994

22. Spacetravel - Bush (4:46)   1999

23. UFO - Newton Faulkner (2:36)   2007

24. Rocketship - The Montesas (2:40)   2009

As you listen, you may well come to the idea that some of these song about otherworldly things are merely speaking --- ahem --- metaphorically, as in Tracks 4 and 14.  Any implications drawn are strictly your seeing-to.

https://www.filefactory.com/file/6xduza1bw1u0/MA-70.rar

Thanks for zooming by!
 

I Was There! at Explo ‘72

[This is a cross-post between Mark’s Super Blog and

Spock’s Record Round-Up.  It’s got music AND memories!

Explo ’72 was sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ and took place June 12-17 in areas around Dallas, TX.

 I was a few months shy of my 16^th birthday.  I went with a group of perhaps twenty to thirty other kids, on my first bus ride, about a five-hour trip.

If all the others were like me, then age has only improved the Christian behavior of the attendees.  At 15 I wanted to do good and be good.  I wanted to tell people that God loved them.  The only problem, the person trying to express these laudable insights was me! --  an  immature, self-centered (by nature), awkward teenager.  Someone who had little concept of cause-and-effect, and little understanding at how poorly sarcasm and sniping behavior reflected on his so-called King and Prince of Peace.

Thank God for the passage of time and the (somewhat underused) growth and wisdom it can bring!

Apologies aside, the plan was to equip all of us well-meaning youngsters with some evangelistic tools … to learn how to better tell the world that Jesus loved them.  There were plenty of workshops and sitting-around discussions, of which I remember very little.

This sticker was distributed to friends and family beforehand.  My copy is on the front of one of the books I still own from that time, Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood (talk about creepy!).

Many evenings there were services in the Cotton Bowl; one featured Billy Graham sermonizing. 

There was a big concert on Saturday, June 17.  Like many musical events of the 1970s, the concert area was bordered by people hawking their wares.

One of the things I came home with -- one of the few items that survive -- is this inflatable pillow.  I can’t recall if it was a freebie or if I paid a buck for it.

The Saturday concert lasted many, many hours.  Our group was only there during the middle of the day, for five or six of those hours.

A few months later, an LP was assembled from some of the performances.  I don’t know if all of these numbers came from the Saturday concert, or if some were recorded during musical parts of the nightly sessions at the Cotton Bowl.

After we came home, we were able to send off a request for the LP.  Here’s the link to a download of a CD burned from my copy:

Jesus Sound Explosion

  

01 -  Johnny Cash  -       I See Men as Trees Walkin’     3:26

02      - Armageddon Experience  -   One Way    3:32

03      - Randy Matthews  -      Didn't         He     4:26

04      - Andraé Crouch & the Disciples  -  I'm Satisfied         3:37

05      -Larry Norman   -         Sweet          Song of Salvation          3:51

06      -Great Commission Company  -      Anticipation         3:05

07      - Danny Lee & the Children Of Truth - Spread a Little Love Around       2:54

08      - Connie Smith  -  Plenty of Time      4:12

09      - Forerunners  -    Lord 2:48

10      - Willa Dorsey  -  I Have the Joy in My Soul       2:40

11      - Love Song  - A Love Song    5:34

12      - The Speer Family  -     The King Is Coming       3:50

BONUS TRACKS

(from Love, Peace, Joy - Myrrh)

13 - 2nd Chapter of Acts - Love Peace Joy   2:30

14 - Malcolm & Alwyn - Fool's Wisdom   3:05

15 - Eddie Robinson - I Give My All to Thee  3:36

16 - Randy Matthews - It Ain't Easy  2:37

17 - Love Song - A Love Song  1:45

18 - Petra - Parting Thought  1:22

The last six tracks are from a sampler LP released by Myrrh records in 1974.

In a mechanism similar to the zip-open tabs seen on cereal packaging, the LP had a flap the folded over from front-to-back and sealed shut with a zip-off strip.

When you zipped the strip open to flip the flap to the right and slide out the LP, there were a few more graphics under the part covered by the folded-over flap.

It’s not surprising that the media noticed this mass invasion of the Dallas area by Jesus freaks.  The general “establishment” view seems to have been, “at least they’re getting together over something positive.”

The only press coverage that I clipped-and-saved was this Newsweek article from its June 26, 1972.  As a student worker in the school library, I was uniquely equipped to pick up on current trends.

It’s not the text of the article that made me keep it.  No, two of my friends are in the photo!

See the two circled girls?  The one on the left is Beth Webb, the circled girl on the right is Sally Sharp.  Like me, both came to Explo from Bartlesville; both attended Sooner High School.

These photos are from the 1972-73 yearbook.

It was great to be gathered together with so many others whose primary intention was to know God, and make him known.  If so many of us were young, raw, and inexperienced, I also know that some of us, at least, have continued in the faith and tried to grow.

Are there any of you, dear readers, with reminiscences of Explo ’72?  I’d love to hear from you.

other articles:

https://www.cru.org/about/what-we-do/what-really-happened-at-explo-72.html

https://absolutegrace.wordpress.com/tag/explo-72/

MA-65 - Space Race

Well, who made it?  Who was the winner of the Space Race?  The guys with the starred sleeves were first into the pool, but the guy bearing the stars'n'bars made it to the other side first!

1      Sputnik Announcement      USSR Radio   (0:18)          1957

2      Rice University Space Speech (edit)      President John F Kennedy    (1:45)         1962

3      Sputnik Baby      Roosevelt Sykes  (2:21)          1957

4      Space Race     Allen Bradley Quintet (2:31) 1958

5 Ghost Satellite Bob & Jerry (1:52) 1958

6 Sputnik #3 Buel Moore & The Garnets (2:03) 1958

7 Super Sonic Marty Wilson & The Strat-O-Lites (2:27) 1958

8 I'm on This Rocket Marvin Moore (1:27) 1958

9 Able & Baker Gene & Al with The SpaceMonks (2:42) 1959

10 Rockin' Satellite Ray Sawyer (2:10) 1960

11 Man in Orbit Space Man (2:11) 1961

12 Happy Blues for John Glenn Lightnin’ Hopkins (5:20) 1962

13 Mister Glenn Little Willie John (3:05) 1962

14 Space Walk Roger Booth and The Escorts (2:14) 1965

15 Armstrong John Stewart (2:40) 1969

16 The Battle of the Moon Sonny Hall (1:42) 1969

17 Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins The Byrds (1:51) 1969

18 The First Step on the Moon The Cape Kennedy Construction Company (4:35) 1969

19 The Walk of Ed White Up with People (4:50) 1969

20 Footprints on the Moon Judy Lynn (3:27) 1973

21 Ride, Sally, Ride Casse Culver (3:32) 1983

22 Tranquility Base Planet P Project (1:55) 1983

23 Countdown Rush (5:50) 1983

24 Flying for Me John Denver (4:38) 1987

25 Fire in the Sky Jordin Kare (4:38) 1991

26 My Dog Is an Astronaut Though Pond (3:52) 1997

27 Bless Thou the Astronauts Hastings College Choir (2:56) 2010

Have fun with these boisterous, silly, and/or solemn paeans to the Great Space Race

https://www.filefactory.com/file/5hdke67q6w7y/MA-65.rar

See you Monday with a reminiscence from 1972.