First there was Gustav Holtz composing music about the solar system, then there was Harry Revel. Released in early ’56, Music From Out of Space was the first album by record producer and TV/film composer Stu Phillips.
In his memoir, Stu Who? Forty Years of Navigating the Minefields of the Music Business, Phillips explains the album was financed by his father, who “was never to see that money back.”