MA-38 - To Men of Earth

The cover art is adapted from a book of the same name by contactee Daniel W Fry.

1 -    Count Down     Casey Grams      1958

2 - Venus Rock     The Rollettes       1958

3 -    Take Me to Your Leader  The Vi-Counts   1959

4 -   Land Beyond the Moon  The Motions       1962

5 -   The Beatle Flying Saucer Ed Solomon 1964

6 - Just Beyond the Moon Tex Ritter 1967

7 - Moon Flight Vic Venus 1969

8 - Flying Saucer's Daughter Alex Harvey 1972

9 - Unfunky UFO Parliament 1975

10 - Rocket Ride   KISS 1977

11 - Another Girl Another Planet The Only Ones 1978

12 - Hangar 18 Megadeth   1990

13 - UFO Rosie Weeping Tile 1995

14 - Sky Babies The Wildhearts 1996

15 - Talkin' Alien Abduction Blues   * Dan Bern 1997

16 - The Grand Deception (Channel Zero)  * Canibus 1998

17 - Unmarked Helicopters Soul Coughing 1998

18 - Spaceship Sean Lennon 1998

19 - Poor Man's Shangri-La Ry Cooder    2005

20 - Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland Sufjan Stevens 2005

Here we have another planetary potpourri of attitudes towas space life, from angry to whimsical.  Have fun!

https://www.filefactory.com/file/1nrfxrb34ifa/MA-38.rar

 See you Monday.
 

OKC Memories - Lord, Teach Us to Measure Our Days

That’s a paraphrase of part of Psalms 90:12. 

            If you’ve ever been charge of a payroll department, it could be your prayer!

            Back before auto-calculations and payroll computer programs, accountants and paycheck figurers were forced to keep paper records.  Of course, in a world that ran on paper, there would have been an entire section of industry dedicated to helping the hapless tracker-of-earnings.

            Enter the Two Weekly Time Book!

            This particular volume, according to a sticker inside the cover, came from Wesbanco, an office supplier once located in downtown Oklahoma City.  According to a Google search, this concern is now part of  Southwestern Office Supplies.

 

            Using this handy-dandy Table of Wages, you could multiply how many hours an employee worked, times a range of hourly wages from 25¢ to the lordly sum of $1.75 -- thus coming up with their pay.

            That chart was only the opener.

 

            The rest of the book was for recording the work of your employees.  As indicated by the cover, a conscientious employer would use one book for each two-week period (thus guaranteeing a market for the supplier of these blank books).

            Other than the Wesbanco sticker, there’s no printer or publishing info anywhere in the book.  No dates either.  I’m guessing that this book hails from the 1940s.  Anybody a better guesser than me?  Do any of you know more?  Let me know!

            See you next time.

  

MA-14 - A Saucerful of Songs: Space-Age Pop Music

1        Two Little Men In a Flying Saucer      Joe Loss & His Orchestra    1949

2       Rollicking Man From Mars     Scotty MacGregor 1955

3       The Fang  Nervous Norvus           1956

4       The Little Blue Man  Betty Johnson      1958

5       The Little Space Girl Jesse Lee Turner 1958

6 Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll    Love Brothers    1958

7 Martian Love Song Pete Seeger 1958

8 Santa Claus Meets The Purple People Eater Sheb Wooley 1958

9 Take us To Your President Conried-Pearce 1959

10 I'm The Little Space Girl's Father Jesse Lee Turner    1959

11 We Get Messages Jimmie Haskell 1959

12 Flying Saucers   The Mell-o-Tones 1960

13 The Fall of the Planet Earth The Moonbillies 1960

14 The Screemin' Meemies From Planet X Merv Griffin 1961

15 Fireball XL5 Theme Don Spencer 1962

16 That Martian Jubilee Rodd Keith 1964

17 Cockeyed Ballad Mollie Thompson 1966

18 Beautiful Zelda Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 1968

19 Space Odyssey The Byrds 1968

20 The Moon Bug    Delsu and the Smarts1969

21 Spaceman Harry Nilsson 1972

22 UFO Larry Norman 1972

23 Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft Langley Schools Music Project 1977

24 Ain't No UFO Gonna Catch My Diesel Joe Dolce 1981

25 Flying Saucer Brave Combo 1995

26 Music Man from Mars Rodd Keith 1996

27 Alien Abduction Background 2000

28 Let Me Fly Your UFO Frank Smith 2005

29 Spaceman The Killers 2008

https://www.filefactory.com/file/7i9zaxkkuv5o/MA-14.rar


Amongst many fun tunes, #23 is of interest.  It was created in wish fulfillment that some of this wonderful Space  Brothers would deign to show their advanced science and morality to us poor Earthbound types.

This is a fairly typical device used by people who reject the idea of God, but still feel inclomplete without a high-five from somebody or something Out There.  But as a couple of guys observed,

            And what may be winking at us from the other side is not likely to be anything benevolent.

            -- Nelson S Pacheco and Tommy R Blann

 See you Monday.
  

A Guide to Yoda-Speak, It Is! Hrmm!

Courtesy of our friends at Grammarly.com, here's a nice little infographic about how to emulate one of our favorite talking-backwards guy.  You know, that fellow with the big ears who's NOT a Vulcan.

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Much improved your writing shall be, hooo-hrmh!

Next time see me you shall, urrr!