LRC.HJJH@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (02/12/84)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Name That Tune! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I was cruising along the highway tonight and getting sleepy, so I switched from the "easy listening" station to something pop and contemporary. A song came on, not too clearly, that must surely have been one of the pop-songs-with-SF-relevance which were discussed on SF-LOVERS a while back. It seemed to have something to do with spaceships, maybe the shuttle. There was a 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 countdown (tho no blastoff type sound), with "floating" and maybe "flying" in what was probably the chorus. Can anyone identify this for me? -------
karl@dartvax.UUCP (Karl Berry) (02/15/84)
Perhaps David Bowie's first Major Tom song, which I forget the name of but is the first song on his Changes One album?
DBarker@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA (02/16/84)
>From the all too brief description it sounds as tho' the song in
question could be David Bowie's "Space Oddity" which first appeared in
1969.Lippard@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (02/16/84)
From: "James J. Lippard" <Lippard@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> I believe the song you are referring to is "Major Tom" by Peter Schilling.
okie@ihuxs.UUCP (B.K. Cobb) (02/16/84)
The present song about our hero, Major Tom, is a kind of tribute/ sequel to David Bowie's earlier (1974?) song "Space Oddity." In it, Major Tom also gets stuck up there, but he doesn't sound as happy about it as the present Major does. BKCobb ihnp4!ihuxs!okie
andree@uokvax.UUCP (03/01/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1663600:uokvax:5400045:000:205 uokvax!andree Feb 27 20:24:00 1984 Unless I'm badly mistaken, there's a thing floating around (I keep trying to drown it, but just can't :-) called "Why Me" that could fit that description. Unfortunately, I've forgotten who did it. <mike
alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England) (03/02/84)
+ > Unless I'm badly mistaken, there's a thing floating around (I keep trying to > drown it, but just can't :-) called "Why Me" that could fit that description. > Unfortunately, I've forgotten who did it. The song "Why Me" is done by the group Planet P. Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxb!alle