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 recording session was financed by his father, who “was never to see that money back.”
Andrew at Parlogram Auctions has an appreciation of one of my all-time favorite albums, the absolutely superb Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies.
Here’s the album in all its creative perfection.
If you look carefully at record labels, many have the letters BMI.
BMI is Broadcast Music, Inc., a music licensing company. Founded in 1939, BMI was acquired this year by New Mountain Capital, a private equity firm.
BMI is also widely known as body mass index. An article in MIT Technology Review suggests that BMI should be replaced with another measurement — SAD, sagittal abdominal diameter.
Perhaps under its new ownership, BMI will develop a method for measuring the fat content in music.
Before America’s Nirvana, there was England’s Nirvana.
Stereo mix
Mono mix
Let’s see Trump dance to this. Oops! Sorry, I’m supposed to be ignoring him.
Enough about politics and Trump. Let’s MAMBO!
