My copy of Telstar (b/w "Jungle Fever"!) came out in 1962, which would have made me 6 years old at the time.
More old folk - triple hurrah! All this Telstar talk has inpsired me to do a silly thing and make a list of all the "That song sounds just like that" comments I can recall or have come up with myself. So: Mayfly...'Telstar' - The Tornados Dog on wheels...'Alone again or' - Love Seeing other people... Peanuts theme by whoever Lazy line painter Jane... 'I can't stand it' - Velvet Underground (the intro, anyway - listen to it) Slow graffiti... 'The laughing gnome' - David Bowie The stars of track and field...'Shangri-La' - The Kinks The Boy done wrong again...'Pink moon' - Nick Drake (well he had to go somewhere) Hmmm.. haven't quite completed the Donovan Lovedrake triangle. Can anyone suggest a plausible Donovan song? Or any other daft comparisons? I think someone once came up with one for 'Le Pastie.." that I really couldn't see myself, but I've forgotten it. Sudden thought: people might get angry with me for doing this. Please understand that I mean no harm, am rarely seen sporting a cagoul, and don't think for one minute that Belle & Sebastian are shameless plagiarists who need exposing. This is my new defence against flaming - come over so wet in the original post that that the flames can't catch. Nick _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------