I was about three years old when it came out and I do remember it well as my young mum and dad bought it, and just being really young and the music of the time....reminds me of being at the start of life - I love it so much.
@clintalexander7750
5 жыл бұрын
jimmy c
@loplopthebird1860
4 жыл бұрын
Ok boomer
@dinahmorris8759
4 жыл бұрын
@@loplopthebird1860 this is one annoying catchphrase that has jumped my shark...try WWG1WGAll. 20/20 Vision....teach your children well....we didnt cos of twerps like you hahah ok effwit? oh dear me trigger you
@terrymurphy66
4 жыл бұрын
I got this as a christmas present when it was released never forget it
@anitalala5k54
4 жыл бұрын
sounds like the future and past at the same time
@ballhawk387
4 жыл бұрын
The future ain't what it used to be.
@joegongora2200
3 жыл бұрын
Ballhawk 387 & the future doesn't look soo promising either. Because things have changed drastically even though it took a gradual process.
@AlexandraAnneBurns
3 жыл бұрын
for anna
@Godgotron
3 жыл бұрын
Well said and funny that you say this coincidentally it seems to be the blueprint for the song >PassFuture< by Jean-Jacques Perrey 😲 on 1970's Moog Indigo, a classic, a song that evokes in me as much as (Telstar) the same feeling as yours and i have a Rational explanation for myself. Check this out it's long but you'll get a kick out of this story. 😉 Two decades ago i had a strange cool dream of me as a japanese anime character from the 60s 70s looked like Captain Harlock my fav and i was there with my spaceship and crew consisting of my cats and dogs in humanoid form in spacesuits in a Cleary outdated style of anime about something in the future with spaceships fighting a great evil. It felt as if i had seen this as a child irl and it just came back to me at that moment. In this anime dream i heard a song that could either be Telstar or Passport to the future, before i even heard them IRL. Isn't that weird!? 🙂 While this was playing in the credits of the anime dream, a title appeared at the very end of the credit, C-Hya. So i woke up and goggled C-Hya, turns out to be the Hydra constalation!!! The Hydra Beast, child of the Leviathan or something, in space! On a side note, i promised myself on that morning that one Day i would write this story and incorporate into my music and do a comic book with IT. If it turns into a succes with a movie i want Telstar and Passport for opening and ending themes. Haha! Btw strangely Telstar is about space, even saw rockets on some pictures... Yeah! 🤷 Anyway to finish the story, i was deep into old electro music discovery like this here and making some soulfoul electro too with a friend. One day not long after the dream i stumble into Passport because of my love of analog keyboards and i scream to my friend "This is the song i heard! In my C-Hya dream!" and no i'm not some crazy person, just have an exceptional dream memory. 😁 Today, two decades later i'm listening to the Professor of Rock talking about Boston's More than a feeling being influenced by Telstar, a song about feelings certain melodies gives us and he plays a clip and i'm like "Whoa! Wait a minute! That's the song again! Wth!?" So i come in here to discover the similarities between this and Passport and i stumble into your comment and i'm like "Whoa! Who's this person, why is she describing my feelings attached to this song, should i talk to this person? Who are you? What's going on here? Are you like the other side of the coin or something. 😆
@anitalala5k54
3 жыл бұрын
@@Godgotron what kind of anime? you sound like a great person. this is a very beautiful song. to answer your question: who am i? i am a friend! i am flipping the coin, just like you :)
@wstevenpray
7 жыл бұрын
This song always reminds me of my childhood sweetheart. We were neighbors from the ages of 1-5 and we were inseparable. Then we moved to another side of town and I only saw her every once in a while. She grew beautiful and I became the typical awkward nerdy kid. I last spoke to her her at an 8th grade dance. As this song played, I fumblingly tried to tell her I always loved her and would never forget her. We moved to a new town a couple of years later and she became a lovely memory. I married my dear wife and am a grandfather. She died not long ago. Whenever I hear this song, I wish her gentle spirit the very best. The first love always seems so pure and innocent. Rest in Peace, Judee.
@zuesnastrio3062
3 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace Judee… rest in peace
@mattheweley7644
3 жыл бұрын
Those were the best days our country knew.
@elizabethpeterson7165
3 жыл бұрын
@@mattheweley7644 So very true!
@iansimpson7058
3 жыл бұрын
A lovely tribute Sir💕
@pedromrgluum2322
3 жыл бұрын
you made me cry with your story, it's true, first love is pure and innocent
@annteve
10 жыл бұрын
I used to crawl under the covers with my transistor radio at night and hope for this song to come on.
@cowtippingrocks
7 жыл бұрын
Ann Teve that is so awesome
@randysteele6741
4 ай бұрын
Me, too! I got a Zenith transistor radio one Christmas in the early 60's. It changed my life forever. Those were the days...
@twostepron
Жыл бұрын
As a young soldier I was sent to Germany around mid December 1961. My first Christmas away from home and I heard this song several times. It just brought back memories of that period. I'll be 80 soon and it's almost like yesterday hearing this. Merry Christmas to all. Thanks.
@wavester46
Жыл бұрын
The power of music enables one to time travel.
@NormAppleton
Жыл бұрын
The good bone chilling Cold War. You missed Elvis. Johnny Cash was on radio monitor in 1953 and was the first person in the west to hear of the death of Stalin.
@dakotaotero4245
2 жыл бұрын
It’s epic how Matthew Bellamy’s dad is in this band!
@emilyh.8704
3 ай бұрын
Ahhh 1962..i was ten years old..living in Austin when Austin was still a small Texas city and it was still safe to walk the streets anytime without harm..we played outside till it got dark with friends and made our own toys.. especially when your family didnt have money..and it was just my beloved mama raising us 5 kids..but we made it..yes, those were the days my friends..such innocents and carefree days long gone..but never ever from my memory and heart and thanks to KZitem memorable music like this..❤️🙏❤️
@compostcorner5934
3 ай бұрын
It seems whatever country we live in today everyone is saying similar about it not being as safe as it once was. Same in the UK in some areas too. I was only 1 year old in 1962 but I remember this track playing for decades since
@stolenjunk
2 ай бұрын
I remember when Austin was small and had dirt roads. I miss the way Austin use to be. Couldnt pay me to live there now.
@1kmjac
3 жыл бұрын
First heard this on a warm sunny day as a 7 year old little boy. I was on holidays at my grandparents home. I am now a grandparent myself, but each time i hear this melody I am transported back to a very happy time and place almost 60 years ago. Cherish every second of your life and love everyone who is in it, time goes by so very very quickly........Peace and Love to all.
@jyggalagdaedricprinceoford6239
3 жыл бұрын
26 here remembering hearing this when I was 6 on my grandparents old vinyls. Now its one of the few songs that gets my son to sleep.
@odiekarone
3 жыл бұрын
Lovely memory. Happy times!!
@asthmaticmonkey1
3 жыл бұрын
Great advice 1kmjac. Best wishes to you.
@toddholmes4480
3 жыл бұрын
I hear ya! I'm 62 and I remember this song, and tons of others. The Beatles especially. Yep, old age comes faster than you think.
@mariellemartin7372
3 жыл бұрын
❤
@barbaramorrison1775
2 жыл бұрын
My mum is 84 and still gets up to dance to this 💃 whenever it's played in the radio 📻 she loved and danced to this tune back then and still does to this day, she had original 7" vinyl copy 💿 🎸 ❤
@nomedia2009
2 жыл бұрын
This is a perfect example of early 1960s pre Beatles rock'n roll. It's obvious use of electronic instruments gives it that early 1960s feel. It goes perfectly with 1962 Chevy Impala convertible with the reverb radio unit speaker in the back seat. Electric guitars and amplifiers used that reverb system to create a form of early wanna be stereo. It had that distinctive early electronic sound. Telstar seemed to perfect electronic instrumentation for this era of radio sound. If you didn't live through that period it's basically impossible to explain the modern era of 1962. That particular sound only lasted to maybe the middle of 1963. By then we saw popular music go through an almost complete reformation with the Detroit rhythm and blues and the British music invasion which changed rock'n roll forever. So this Telstar recording existed right before that rock'n roll era of complete change. Telstar is a 1962 time capsule. That is what makes it and 1962 such a special place in pop music history.
@nomedia2009
2 жыл бұрын
One more thing to note it was the perfect for runner of the early 1960s surf guitar sounds which was a genre of its own.
@suburban_guy
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@pablocruise7323
2 жыл бұрын
Yes and I remember so many surf band players used Fender guitars, which led me to want either a Telecaster or a Stratocaster, but I could only afford to rent a Mustang guitar!!! hahaha
@moemcgovern7345
7 ай бұрын
They played this on Lawrence Welk.
@alffry5454
2 ай бұрын
To some extent The Peddlers grew out of this sound, though they have faded into obscurity as their Hammond Organ style became dated. Today, their lesser known songs and instrumentals remain stylish and impressive music, especially for a 3-piece group. I consider their version of ‘Smile’ to be the definitive version.
@stanstan7426
5 жыл бұрын
I remember coming home on the school bus 1962 top deck and everyone was whistling this, remember whistling?
@jovischoll9367
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, kinda miss it.
@petediamond2721
4 жыл бұрын
LOL!! That's a good one Stan "whistling"
@ideclair5866
4 жыл бұрын
I remember this song from kindergarten.. My gosh, what a different world it was.
@stanstan7426
4 жыл бұрын
@@ideclair5866 Very different, we imagined the world would just keep getting better. It did in some ways.
@ideclair5866
4 жыл бұрын
@@stanstan7426 .. Everything was wonderful. How could it be any different?
@eddybrodersen2935
2 жыл бұрын
I was 13 when this came out. It was an amazing, exciting, almost cosmic sound for its time !! Also just gave me a good feeling in a beautiful time to be alive !
@admiralcraddock464
2 жыл бұрын
It seemed to symbolize the hope for the future in the early sixties. The austerity years of the fifties was behind us, childhood diseases were almost a memory, there was full employment and the welfare state was in full swing. Little did we know that in less than a decade it would all go wrong
@maskedavenger2578
2 жыл бұрын
@@admiralcraddock464 Back then people only used the welfare state when they were absolutely genuine & desperate ,not as a life choice .
@paulsmith5398
4 ай бұрын
I loved that song in 1962, and still do in 2024.
@jacquelinemink4548
5 жыл бұрын
My dad absolutely loved this song and played it all the time when we were young. So when he passed away and they asked what songs we wanted played at his funeral all 3 of us called out "telstar" and this was one of the 2 songs we chose. We know our dad would be thrilled to have this song played at his memorial we did it for him. He loved this song so much.
@honeybun6320
3 жыл бұрын
This warms my heart ❤️ this was also one of the 3 songs we selected for my dads funeral.
@Adywood45
3 жыл бұрын
Me to my dad wore the grooves out on his single he played it that much lol. Also the b side jungle fever was a good tune as well.
@bobbysolo5411
3 жыл бұрын
This was fueled in part by the fact that the ''Telstar'' com sat was brand new. It was just barely no longer ''sci-fi''. They indicated it was sent via the Telstar comsat to America which gave it all sorts of boost. They played it in my 8th-grade homeroom like it was headline news, just a short time before we did the same with the news of JFK's assassination. Not equivalent events, but similar responses minus the grief.
@ralphmoore7812
5 жыл бұрын
This song is always a joy to hear. A truly timeless classic. It will never get old.
@MrDaiseymay
3 жыл бұрын
and the breaks in the middle are great too. plus of course the beginning and end, which was pure , early electronic trickery.
@williamteti3739
4 жыл бұрын
1962. The year I got married. This song says it all ; everything going at top speed and my head spinning. Wish I could go back to those happy days.
@santoganino7975
Жыл бұрын
1962 i was 12 years old and still remember wonderful music.
@MrIveyIsBonkers
9 жыл бұрын
This sounds like one of those tunes that can make someone who lived during this age look back and cry. The song just seems so nostalgia-ish and inspirational.
@lenspaulding
9 жыл бұрын
+Robert Ivey ....and you have sh-it for ears and brains as well.
@MrIveyIsBonkers
9 жыл бұрын
lenspaulding Scuze me but who the fuck are you?
@wulff707
9 жыл бұрын
+Robert Ivey He is just a common troll that has nothing better to do till mommy makes him turn off the computer!
@lenspaulding
9 жыл бұрын
+Robert Ivey ....these were "propaganda" songs that influenced an entire Generation with bullsh-it. Now we have "millions" of "TELSTARS" beaming signals and destroying this precious Earth.....dumbsh-it!
@lenspaulding
9 жыл бұрын
+wulff707 and Robert Ivey are two typical "old dumbsh-its".
@stewartsnape2936
3 жыл бұрын
This has to be the best instrumental of all time , it was awesome in 62 and still will be in 2022, this was around the time colonel John Glenn went into orbit
@Jammies944
4 ай бұрын
Those guys were gorgeous 😊
@TheOldrecordclub
10 жыл бұрын
Hi everyone, if you are liking the videos i am uploading on this channel then why not follow this link to my new channel where most of the new videos i have been making will be found, everyone is welcome kzitem.info/rock/mU3QT2Y4AaWdf-LSxnN4hQ ... Carl
@taqueriaontheroof9711
10 жыл бұрын
Hi, about 1:25 appear 'The TornadoEs' i think that's a different band, cause i can't find George Bellamy in the photo (sorry for my english)
@johnlove3360
9 жыл бұрын
Wayne Smith In the UK we spell it "Tornados", in the US it's "Tornadoes". The "Tornados" US records came out under the name "Tornadoes". As Wayne said, the other "Tornadoes" were an unsuccessful California surf band formed in 1960.
@Cerena51
9 жыл бұрын
+TheOldrecordclub I love your site as you seem to find the vintage originals of these old songs; like Telstar and Cherokee nation! Good job!
@DB-pr4rc
8 жыл бұрын
+John Love I'm from Kansas, Tornado Alley, and I assure you Americans are quick to drop extraneous vowels. Just type the word "thru". Liberating, isn't it?
@mightymystery9204
7 жыл бұрын
I had to listen to this just now, in tribute to the astronaut who rode his little Mercury, Friendship 7, into space that year: we'll miss you, John Glenn. Definitely, a man with the "Right Stuff"!
@carolinaviola5244
3 жыл бұрын
Such memories of living in Vienna in 1963/1964 and hearing this music at the bowling alley in the Prater.
@cloviscameron7233
2 жыл бұрын
I can remember this record being played on RJR in Jamaica when I was 12, this was around 1962 it brings back memories
@dntlss
6 ай бұрын
Awesome Tune, Telstar while no longer communicating still orbits the Earth, how cool is that? going round and round since 1962, Joe would have liked that.
@ryanjustice2670
3 жыл бұрын
My dad passed away 3 days ago(July 15 2021) and I was going through some of his 45's and found this track.🤘
@martinyates1488
3 жыл бұрын
Obviously a gentleman with good taste. Sorry for your loss.
@patrickbateman3206
3 жыл бұрын
May he rest in peace.
@ryanjustice2670
3 жыл бұрын
@@martinyates1488 Sorry for taking a week or so to respond to you. But yeah, he had great taste in music and I remember listening to his EP's and LP'S when I was a kid. I just never knew he had this particular 45. Thank you for your condolences.🤘
@ryanjustice2670
3 жыл бұрын
@@patrickbateman3206 Thank you. I know he is.🕊️
@robertmasina4610
3 жыл бұрын
If this song was on the charts before your time, one can't blame you for not being familiar with it.
@janhunt6042
Жыл бұрын
I was 15 when Telstar came out and have always loved it. A shame it isn't played more often on oldie stations. I remember riding with my bf in his convertible, top down and Telstar playing! Great Great memory of being a teenager in 1962!!!!
@puffdaddy69
Жыл бұрын
Listening to this for the first time in 2022 is cool af
@barbaramorrison1775
2 жыл бұрын
My mum is 84 and still gets up to dance to this 💃 whenever it's played in the radio 📻 she loved and danced to this tune back then and still does to this day, she had original 7" vinyl copy 💿 🎸 ❤ A fabulous music era long gone, but never forgotten
@joegongora2200
3 жыл бұрын
Very great song indeed, "Who's still listening to this song in 11/20/2020". I was in the 1st grade in 1962 & 63 I'm 65 Yrs old. That's a time when music was great.
@bradenanderson6989
3 жыл бұрын
joe gongora weird to see one of these comments on the very same day
@bradenanderson6989
3 жыл бұрын
And yeah, this music rocks, love this stuff
@robtana2526
3 жыл бұрын
I live in Australia and in the early 2000s i worked at a special needs school in Sydney and a lot of our bus drivers for the school did this as side hustle and one driver i worked with a ex truck driver from his early days loved this song so much as it always played on the radio. He said it reminded him of serving in Vietnam in the mid 60s or 70s. I guess i love this song too and i am 33 years of age.
@carlloud1187
3 жыл бұрын
Listening 12/6/20...I was 11 when this song came out...do the math
@pinkrose5796
3 жыл бұрын
Remember listening to the at night when my parents had the radio on and we're going to sleep. My dad was stationed in Germany and I was about 7 or 8 years old. I used to love hearing this song and falling asleep to it- so relaxing:)
@wendyvinshlikapoltz8211
4 жыл бұрын
This makes me feel oddly nostalgic for an era I never experienced
@Gabriel-t6y2i
4 жыл бұрын
Me too
@tomfrazier1103
4 жыл бұрын
Displaced nostalgia-a condition I've had since the 1980s. East L.A. 1960-Paradise on Earth. Too many family stories, El Monte.
@im7700
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine what this song does to me! I DID experience that era and this song, like many from the 60s that I hear nowadays, transports me back to a beautiful time in my life that I cherish and wish I could go back to but of course, that's impossible so all I can do is reminisce.
@jeffreydillingham7630
3 жыл бұрын
Sublime comment, just like the song!
@collincovid6950
3 жыл бұрын
It was a brilliant period because it was hard and down to earth. What a fecking mess we have come to today. I never liked the hard times, but who did, and yet I would go back to them in an instant rather than be in these shallow, lying times when even music is from a very dark place
@donaldwhite1928
20 күн бұрын
When I was seven listening to on a transitor am radio in the summertime at night laying on a blanket looking at the stars a being mesmerized
@johnchandler1687
7 ай бұрын
I remember standing in our frontyard watching telstar, the satellite, crossing the sky. A little point of light, but everyone in the neighborhood was outside watching. 😢 Damn I'm old. 😊😊
@mrstupid
7 ай бұрын
Me too and i was just 9 years old
@danielomalley4394
5 ай бұрын
I saw it too! My Mom took us out on the front lawn and there it appeared, a star moving across the firmament east to west!
@alanmackenzie6909
Жыл бұрын
One of the sounds of the sixties. Yes, those were the days, gone forever, bye bye. I weep for lost youth.
@kathleenlopiparo2053
Жыл бұрын
Yes you are soooo right! Love my 60s days!
@ThePaleGuy01
4 жыл бұрын
That is an extraordinary song. Even it is not a bit sad or melancholy it brings tears to my eyes for some reason. Maybe because it calls the long gone old and better times to mind.
@martincaughlin5478
2 жыл бұрын
I was a little boy and remember dancing with my mate to the record. Then I went to school and was told it's not ok to dance with boys.
@rickicoughlan8299
14 күн бұрын
I was just days off being four years old when this was released. It's my first musical memory.
@georgesmith8988
3 жыл бұрын
I was 10 when this came out, and I loved it, and still do
@neilpurcell8188
5 жыл бұрын
Remember coming in from school hearing this on the radio in 1962 when I was 9 years old ,my mum preparing evening meal those where the days .
@tynaedwards8452
Жыл бұрын
As I get older, these old great songs tug more on my heart strings. Makes me homesick for those days.
@robertkolesnik3982
18 күн бұрын
I have loved this song for more than 60 years. It remains one of my favorite songs of all time.
@michelsmet2611
12 күн бұрын
And you are not alone ! Greetings from Brussels, Belgium.
@god-xu3ig
9 күн бұрын
It's not a song.
@ianr7023
5 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing this everywhere I went in1962....it was so different. Hearing it always brings back those memories.
@anngillingsspinks2799
8 ай бұрын
Didn’t we have such great music and singers back in the 50 s and 60 s ? I feel like a teenager again atv76
@jdb10715
8 ай бұрын
Same here. Music therapy of hits when you were young are powerfull.
@donaldmorrow3096
8 жыл бұрын
Most records get older with each listen. The best records often don't age at all. This one positively gets YOUNGER with each listen especially when you hear some of the hits being played today. When I heard this on the radio here in the US for the first time, I thought I was in the capsule with John Glenn. They could never play this one enough for me. Say what you will about the life of its creator, Joe Meek, but this man was busy creating the genre EDM (Electronic Dance Music) when the Beatles were just getting around to writing "Love Me Do." Rock music turned an important corner thanks to this record. Who could ask for more?
@murciadoxial8056
8 жыл бұрын
maybe he had a timemachine and he traveled to 1998, listened to some one hit wonders and to neutral milk hotel, came back and made this to close all the loops
@AylaVoets
6 жыл бұрын
I have always considered this to be the first EDM song. I'm sure some 20's moog music might technically be the first, but this uses much of the same theory seen in a lot of modern EDM tunes -- from trance to hardcore. You are the first person that I've seen say the same thing =)
@michaelsolomons1456
2 жыл бұрын
I was 12 when I first heard this at the flower bowl cafe St. Peter’s Guernsey nearly 60yrs ago still stunning and oh so moving and so powerful where has that time gone
@Larrymh07
9 ай бұрын
It's a sad melody to me. Like when I heard it as a little boy, I knew there would come a day when I would miss a lot of people.
@hombre1965
8 ай бұрын
I know exactly what you mean.
@imbatmanyoureaquaman
8 ай бұрын
Word, man. Word 😢
@pajarofantasma7
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you David Lynch 🤩🤩
@andycharles6921
Ай бұрын
I would pick this up from Radio Luxembourg on a Grundig radio,in southern Germany in 1962! Great times!
@felixmadison5736
Ай бұрын
I was 13 years-old in 1962, and this sounds as good now as it did back in the day when I first heard it on the radio. It was one of those songs that gave me 'goose bumps', and still does.
@joydas7149
4 жыл бұрын
Makes me so nostalgic for a time period when i didn't even exist
@nordeide
4 жыл бұрын
It sounds futuristic, even to this day.
@danielb9807
Жыл бұрын
please take me back to those times ... PLEASE !!!
@emilyh.8704
Жыл бұрын
PLEASE TAKE ME WITH YOU!
@DeutschlandGuy
Жыл бұрын
Be careful what you wish for.
@SteveRandell-x8o
Жыл бұрын
1 am 75 years young and still my very favourite song since childhood..
@patcom1013
5 жыл бұрын
There's something distinctly clean and pure about this, like sunshine on a bright summer morning.
@derekmccallum510
3 ай бұрын
I remember sitting on a swing, listening to this on my portable transistor radio, OMG I am old
@daviddickey1994
3 ай бұрын
Me too
@jaddison1112
3 жыл бұрын
I was young and impressionable when this instrumental came out. I loved it. It brings back memories to me of the days of the Mercury Space Missions, Alan Shepherd, John Glenn, President Kennedy, Jackie and Camelot. So long ago.
@karlnemo8658
3 жыл бұрын
Back when the US had a real space program, before we let the robots have all the fun.
@jeffcarter403
2 жыл бұрын
My mom before she passed told me that when she heard this song. It was her Dad saying hello from beyond. She said one day she would be gone, and when I heard this. It was her saying hello to me.
@juliestrom412
2 жыл бұрын
😭
@b.anders
5 жыл бұрын
This is a hymn on human inventiveness and the opportunities that it brings us. It conveys uninhibited optimism and a believe in a bright and happy future for all as only was seen in the sixties. It gives me wings listening to it and at the same time makes me sad when I think where we stand now in the world.
@tonystephen6312
5 жыл бұрын
agree, sadly..
@blaggercoyote
5 жыл бұрын
I lived about 5 miles from the groundstation in Cornwall when Telstar was launched so I remember it like it was yesterday.
@adrianwilliams469
5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a great memory to have.
@blaggercoyote
3 жыл бұрын
@@adrianwilliams469, yes it is. I remember well it being built. I was about 13 or 14 at the time. I remember also the first trans-Atlantic pictures being received. I think Raymond Baxter was the presenter of the programme. Raymond Backscratcher, my dad called him. ;-) I don't think Telstar was a geostationary satellite so there were only certain times that transmissions could be sent and received. What a long way we have come since then, eh?
@mikedunning9414
5 жыл бұрын
I cry each time. Everyone I knew r dead already miss them so much
@destroyernoah
5 жыл бұрын
@Stouffer amazing song though heheheh
@livianomuratori2014
Ай бұрын
Mi porta indietro nel tempo. Un splendido momento della mia vita. Grazie
@TheMaccagirl56
8 жыл бұрын
There is something so free and powerful about this song. Maybe it just came out at the right time.
@alexandrevezere2232
8 жыл бұрын
We were at the dawn of our youth ...Now, young years are flown !... Only, our sweet memories remain...
@surferpam1
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Mary, you are so very right; youth, optimism, nobility if you will, the feeling that we (in the United States anyway) had in Pres. Kennedy a leader who would indeed take us to the moon -- and "do the other things." We felt honest -- not corrupt as we do today.
@flyingmerkel6
8 жыл бұрын
America was at the top of it's game. Western Europe had recovered from WWII. The future looked bright. The right time indeed
@freeguy77
8 жыл бұрын
Surferpam1, Wow, did you just summarize accurately the temper of those years! We could do anything, but it all started crashing down with a presidential limo turning onto Elm Street on a sunny day in November, at 12:30pm CT
@kingwithoutacrown1
8 жыл бұрын
+mary love Fully concur. I was born one year after this song was released. I like to believe this was my "intro siundtrack" ;-)
@aranyaofficial7082
3 жыл бұрын
Really gives me an ethereal feeling whenever I listen to this piece..... Awesome work by The Tornadoes..... 🚀🛰🌏🌎🌍
@ricoaugnoo1897
2 жыл бұрын
Was only 3 years old when i heard this musical masterpiece ,my mpm was a great fan of the tornados ,and the shadows etc,since then this music has never left my ears
@dianesimpson4626
26 күн бұрын
I was 10 and loved this and I still have the original 45 vinyl :)
@wish21100
24 күн бұрын
Played it to death on the Cafe Jukebox 😂 If my memory serves me well is the B Side “Jungle Fever”
@flywings111
9 күн бұрын
It is probably worth quite a lot today
@HEMISUPERBEE426
5 жыл бұрын
MANY AN INSTRUMENTAL HAS COME AND GONE, BUT NONE WERE AS GREAT AS THIS WAS....AND STILL IS ! !
@berniesauger3401
9 ай бұрын
I remember hearing this song in the early 60th and loved it from the time I first heard it. 🇨🇦🇩🇪
@loreman7267
6 ай бұрын
I first heard this song in the late 70s/early 80s, on the Golden Oldies session on Radio 5, in South Africa. To this day, it brings me back to blazing hot summer days, with high-altitude sun shining on dark Kikuyu grass in the back yard, on a weekend with nothing to do but play with my siblings or the dog. Childhood memories can be so joyful!
@MrDaiseymay
6 ай бұрын
music always awakens memories
@robertlannon
5 жыл бұрын
For something so old, out of the loop of current CRAP I marvel at the extremely current comments....KEEP IT UP folks....lets never let these studio musicians be forgotten !
@grainneoboyle8566
Жыл бұрын
Loved it age 7. Still love it age 67.
@dodsonrh
Жыл бұрын
Exact years for me as well
@therealautisticdj
Жыл бұрын
24 years old here and I enjoy the song too
@jimmystokoe6917
Жыл бұрын
Same here 5. Now 65
@painkillerjones6232
Жыл бұрын
Ha, you old fart!! I'm only 60!! Dammit!!! 61!! (tomorrow)
@countessratzass5408
5 жыл бұрын
My band plays Telestar. It makes the audience insane, an anthem. Love from Memphis.
@michelsmet2611
Жыл бұрын
One of my very favourites - even now, in 2022 !
@kennethhuang371
2 жыл бұрын
Telstar hit #1 for the Tornadoes back in 1962. Now in 2022 I’m here. Let me listen to that. Kenneth A Huang 9/25/22
@robertmartin5308
10 ай бұрын
Met my wife at Lincoln Air Force base in 1962 and this was our song
@goaway152
7 ай бұрын
its a timeless tune. as i hope your marriage is. :D love from T-town.
@compostcorner5934
3 ай бұрын
I've heard this tune every now and again my whole life . Im 63 now and remember hearing it for the first time as a young kid at Butlins,we used to go every year in the late 60's to late 70's and would hear it being played a lot ,also Liquidator by Harry J all-stars was a popular tune id hear a lot too .. Great tunes from a great era . Cant beat a bit of nostalgia to awaken those memories 😁🎵🎶 Ps I was only 1 year old in 1962 when it was released but it has been played for decades since
@mrjuvy49
2 ай бұрын
Roller rink music, organ music.
@TheDavidtweddle
Ай бұрын
@@mrjuvy49 Silverblades, Streatham.
@bobwalters3040
Ай бұрын
Wonderful!!..utterly astonishing for its age!
@kellycoleman715
2 жыл бұрын
That’s one unique song that will transport you back about sixty years immediately. Yes, I can remember back that far. (sigh)
@cliffordyawn4647
2 жыл бұрын
Me too Kelly. God bless
@kellycoleman715
2 жыл бұрын
@@cliffordyawn4647 Thank you. God bless you too!
@leadeterding8808
2 жыл бұрын
@@cliffordyawn4647 Me too. This has always resonated with me.
@X-Prime123
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my God! I found it! After 30 years of having this song stuck in my head from my childhood, I finally found it!!!! This is the last childhood song I couldn't find, and I stumbled upon it by accident while listening to the Nut Rocker. Excuse me while I go cry a little.
@DieyoungDiefast
3 жыл бұрын
30?, I've had it stuck in my head for almost 60. Seem to recall being in a pram in a supermarket in Plymouth with this on the PA
@MrDaiseymay
3 жыл бұрын
The most important thing is--THIS, is THE original, Decca 7'' inch vinyl, that most of the world bought. All re-do's and cover's, just don't cut-it.
@juliestrom412
2 жыл бұрын
Ahh!
@mattjackson9859
2 жыл бұрын
Trying to imagine just how futuristic this must have sounded to someone in 1962..
@MrTremewan
28 күн бұрын
Born in 1961. This instrumental, coming from Mom and Dad's old radio, is one of my first memories.
@christopherwilsher1494
2 жыл бұрын
1962. If you could bottle optimism and distill it and turn it into music, it would sound like this.
@josephcope7637
4 жыл бұрын
In the summer of 1969 our local TV station used Telstar as the theme for their news coverage of Neil Armstrong's return to his home town of Wapakoneta after his moon landing. What exciting days!
@jimboy302
6 жыл бұрын
Can never grow tired of this beautiful instrumental song.
@denisegalipeau8622
Жыл бұрын
Entrance theme song and dance at my wedding. If I ever get married. Hauntingly beautiful guitar solo, drums. Love this so much.
@dustylover100
2 ай бұрын
I think it captures perfectly the excitement surrounding early outer space missions, including launching exploratory missions and satellites.
@margueritefischer3835
4 жыл бұрын
2020 and still LOVE this song!
@NormAppleton
3 ай бұрын
This just stunning
@jenniecosio3654
25 күн бұрын
My mom would hear this song on the radio 📻 she live it amen 💖 miss you Mom 💕🙏
@j.m.turner1756
3 жыл бұрын
This song speaks to me more than most songs that actually have words.
@hrlaser
6 жыл бұрын
1962.. I was 12 or 13 (eighth grade, probably).. a friend and I rode our bikes a couple of miles from San Gabriel to a very famous record store on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena and each of us bought one single.. he bought Herb Alpert's "The Lonely Bull" and I bought "Telstar" in a plain brown sleeve.. singles were under $1.00 back then.. (if you were a middle class kid in the early 1960s, you didn't have a lot of money to spend on records).. I drew a sketch of the Telstar satellite on the sleeve and I still have the record and the sleeve.. probably the first rock single I ever bought..
@hrlaser
6 жыл бұрын
I have a similar story.. fast forward to 1968.. a friend and I drove up to, and are wandering around on the Sunset Strip and we go into a record store a spit away from where Pandora's Box was (but I'm pretty sure it had shut down).. so we're in this hole-in-the-wall record store and we each buy an album.. he bought one of Simon and Garfunkel's early albums, maybe the first one, very mainstream music.. Jimi Hendrix' second album, "Axis: Bold as Love" caught my eyes, so I bought it.. the cover art drew me in and the music sealed the deal.. I played the living daylights out of that album, and still do, and yes, even though I later bought it on CD, I still have the 12" vinyl I bought on the Sunset Strip..
@roberteckhardt6653
Жыл бұрын
The 60's was the greatest decade in music history!
@barnaby5548
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely.
@chetpomeroy1399
2 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of my wonderful, carefree days of the early 1960's as a youngster living with family in the sunny, warm environment of California's San Gabriel Valley.
@pablocruise7323
2 жыл бұрын
Chet, yes I agree!! I grew up in Orange County and some of these SO CA surf bands would be playing at various events in the area sometimes! It truly was wonderful and carefree days!!
@williammarshal303
7 ай бұрын
I remember listening to Telstar on my transistor radio. Great time to live through. Looking back, seemed like America was at it's peak. Good times.
@philwillett9102
3 ай бұрын
For some people....
@cricketbat09
5 жыл бұрын
Jo Meek produced a masterpiece. It is a timeless classic.
@nathanielorthmann4830
Жыл бұрын
I spent years trying to find out what this song was called and just finally gave up. About a year ago I was at an elderly neighbors house helping them and Jeopardy was on the tv. They mentioned a hit song in 1962 called Telstar, so when I got home I looked it up and once I heard the first few seconds a smile went across my face. Now I’m just glad she didn’t turn off the tv because I’d still probably have no idea what this masterpiece was called.
@Brutusbarrow
Жыл бұрын
That's awesome
@thean_huatong5513
9 ай бұрын
.... sounds like from a movie, no?
@katherinehuffman5738
3 жыл бұрын
Got their album for Christmas and drove my family crazy playing Telstar over and over.
@TheMafrand
Жыл бұрын
Can't believe it's from 1962. Way ahead of it's time.
@robertkolesnik3982
Ай бұрын
This is always been one of my favorite songs. A number one hit in 1962.
@rondohunter8966
Ай бұрын
I was 6 years old listening to this on the old AM tube radio. Where were you?
@robertkolesnik3982
Ай бұрын
@@rondohunter8966 - I was nine years old and listening on my little, brown transistor radio in San Gabriel, California.
@rondohunter8966
Ай бұрын
@@robertkolesnik3982 Wow, I'm way over here on the East Coast, J-ville, FL. (We don't say the full name aloud for fear of attracting a demon, or Florida Man.) Hey we're both still alive and kicking the jams. Take care and stay healthy my friend.
@god-xu3ig
9 күн бұрын
It's a tune, there are no lyrics.
@lesliegibson5964
2 ай бұрын
Why does this remind me of the Time Machine from 1960s every time I hear this jam I feel the vibes of it
@janhunt6042
10 ай бұрын
I was 15 when this song came out. BF and I went out riding around in his convertible, a beautiful day and Telstar came on. What a great memory. Love Telstar!
@patriciaoakes8689
5 жыл бұрын
Telstar, how wonderful to listen to the original.,.
@maryyoung1602
4 ай бұрын
This tune “sticks”-once heard never forgotten! ❤Love It! Best instrumental ever-period!
@NormAppleton
4 ай бұрын
It's the ultimate brainworm, that makes you feel good.
@StudiosNYC54-tl9pt
4 ай бұрын
Yes, I was only 10 when this came out, it has certainly stuck in my mind, brilliant record.
@petervandemotter5653
6 жыл бұрын
Those of us old enough to remember, Telstar was an early communication satellite that revolutionized telecommunication. A fitting tribute.
@carolinaviola5244
2 жыл бұрын
I lived in Vienna in 1963 - 1964 and they plsyed this music all the time at the bowling alley in the Prater. Such memories!
@chefdonalskehan
Жыл бұрын
Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here.
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