You know the song "telstar" by the Tornados?

[HEyHEY]

It makes me wish I owned a rocketship - that is all

[elperromagico]

1. It's a good song.

:)

[moof]

2. Love to help you build one but

[HEyHEY]

5. Gary Larson!

A truly great mind!

[Kat45]

3. Yup. n/t

[Whitacre D_WI]

4. Joe Meek was an interesting fella.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. I remember going out at night

and watching for Telstar and the other early satillites. Back then it was really special and awesome.

[Mz Pip]

8. I remember that too.

The whole neighborhood was our it in street waiting for Echo to fly by.

Now when I lay on my deck at night there's one going by every couple of minutes.

MzPip
:dem:

[NightTrain]

7. I fucking love that record!!!

:headbang::yourock:

[LoZoccolo]

9. There were words to it.

My dad was telling me this. Something about "...send a message to my love..." but I can't find them on the web.

[LoZoccolo]

10. Hmmmm...getting warmer...

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=telstar+lyrics&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=785tnk%245s4%241%40comet3.magicnet.net&rnum=1

[agingdem]

11. I love that instrumental!

Does any remember what Telstar was? The first US communication satellite, right?

[Hand]

13. Yep...

Quite a big deal when it went up. All the TV stations carried the first short broadcast--Stars and Stripes and a waving flag... symbols of a more hopeful time.

[Hand]

12. Wow! That's an oldie...

and a GOODIE!!!

:yourock:

[RetroLounge]

14. Didn't the Ventures cover this too?

RL