Hi everyone, this week Jim wants us to talk about Coms! Jim as always has a great blog up explaining what he wants us to do and the rules. So all I can add is to say to you all ” go here to Jim’s fabulous page and join in.” As always Jim a huge thank you for the prompt.
So I am going to leave the great songs by Lady GaGa, Debbie Harry, Cliff Richard, ELO,Dr Hook, Glen Campbell and the like , because I know everyone has great taste and we will get to hear them! So my first choice is from my favourite singer Immie and Deadmou5.
“Telemiscommunications” is a song by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5 and English singer Imogen Heap. It was released on March 12, 2013, by Ultra Records as the fifth single from Deadmau5’s sixth studio album Album Title Goes Here (2012) and the seventh single from Imogen Heap’s fourth studio album Sparks (2014). The song is an electropop ballad whose lyrics depict a dysfunctional phone conversation.
Work on “Telemiscommunications” began after Deadmau5 emailed Heap. According to Deadmau5, the two never met in person, and only sent two emails and made two phone calls to one another during the making of the song.
On September 25, 2012, “Telemiscommunications” appeared as the thirteenth track on the 2012 album Album Title Goes Here. It was released with four remixes as a remix EP on March 12, 2013, through Zimmerman’s label Mau5trap.
The music video for “Telemiscommunications” was released on March 12, 2013, during a Google+ Hangout with Deadmau5 and Heap. The video features animations from 20 different animators, submitted as part of an international contest held by Heap.
Space Oddity” is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was first released on 11 July 1969 by Philips and Mercury Records as a 7-inch single, then as the opening track of his second studio album, David Bowie. Produced by Gus Dudgeon and recorded at Trident Studios in London, it is a tale about a fictional astronaut named Major Tom; its title and subject matter were partly inspired by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Bowie’s feelings of alienation at that point in his career. Its sound departed from the music hall of his debut album to psychedelic folk inspired by the Bee Gees; it was one of the most musically complex compositions he had written up to that point.
“Space Oddity” tells the story of an astronaut named Major Tom, the first of Bowie’s famous characters.Major Tom is informed by Ground Control that a malfunction has occurred in his spacecraft; but the astronaut does not get the message. He remains in space “sitting in a tin can, far above the world”, preparing for his lonely death. In 1969, Bowie compared Major Tom’s fate to the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey, saying: “At the end of the song Major Tom is completely emotionless and expresses no view at all about where he’s at. He’s fragmenting … at the end of the song his mind is completely blown – he’s everything then. The authors David Buckley and Peter Doggett comment on the unusual vocabulary in the lyrics, such as “Ground Control” rather than “Mission Control”, “space ship” rather than “rocket”, “engines on” rather than “ignition”, and the “unmilitary combination” of rank and first name for the character.
Bowie’s biographers have provided different interpretations of the lyrics. According to Doggett, the lyrics authentically reflect Bowie’s mind and thoughts at the time. He writes that Bowie shone a light on the way advertisers and the media seek to own a stake in a lonely man in space while he himself is exiled from Earth. Chris O’Leary said the song is a “moonshot-year prophecy” that humans are not fit for space evolution and the sky is the limit. Similarly, James E. Perone views Major Tom acting as a “literal character” and a “metaphor” for individuals who are unaware of, or do not make an effort to learn, what the world is..In 2004, the American feminist critic Camille Paglia identified the lyrics as representing the counterculture of the 1960s, stating, “As his psychedelic astronaut, Major Tom, floats helplessly into outer space, we sense that the ’60s counterculture has transmuted into a hopelessness about political reform (‘Planet Earth is blue / And there’s nothing I can do’)”.
Personally I take it at face value and love it!
Lastly but not least and no apologies to anyone my favourite Lad, soon to be Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, Sam Ryder ( and yes we are going) singing the song he wrote for the Eurovision song contest. In 2022 when he was runner up to the Ukraine.
Well I know you’ve seen and heard this song adnausium and probably here too! So here is a brilliant classical version. If you look in the lyrics he talkes about speaking to satalites. Okay I am pushing the boundaries but it my blog. 🤣🤣🤣
Space Man” is a song by British singer-songwriter Sam Ryder, released as a single on 22 February 2022 through Parlophone Records.It represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy, after being internally selected through TaP Music and the BBC, the British broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest.Co-written by Sam Ryder, Amy Wadge and Max Wolfgang, it appears on Ryder’s debut studio album There’s Nothing but Space, Man!,
Lyrics to Sam Ryder’s Spaceman.
Meri Wilson Edgmon (June 15, 1949 – December 28, 2002), known professionally as Meri Wilson, was an American singer born in Japan. She is best known for singing double entendre novelty songs, and jingles.
While singing some jingles in a Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas studio in early 1977, she caught the attention of former Bloodrock vocalist Jim Rutledge from Fort Worth, who introduced her to music producer Boomer Castleman. Wilson began recording for his BNA Records label and taped her self-composed song “Telephone Man” based on her brief affair with a Dallas telephone technician installing the phone in her new apartment there.
Filled with suggestive lyrics and her breathy squealing voice, the song became a surprise hit single, climbing the UK Singles Chart to No. 6, spending ten weeks in the listings, as well as making it to No. 9 in Ireland and New Zealand and No. 18 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. It reached No. 42 in Australia, and was also a minor hit in Canada (No. 76).
It became a gold record, selling over one million copies in the U.S. alone. The song became a favorite on the “Dr. Demento Radio Show”. “Telephone Man” and “Telephone Line“, ELO‘s song, were back-to-back on the Hot 100’s top 40 for two non-consecutive weeks in the summer of 1977.
On the strength of the song’s hit, she rapidly put together a full album of songs after quickly being signed with the GRT Records label and released her first and only album, First Take. Unfortunately, although the album contained two more released singles, a second novelty “Rub-A-Dub-Dub” and “Midnight In Memphis”, it yielded no further hits, and after her novelty’s appeal waned, she went back to singing jingles, modelling and song writing. She also continued to write more novelty songs, including “Peter The Meter Reader,” “Dick The DJ”, “Santa’s Coming,” and “My Valentine’s Funny,” but none of the songs matched the success of her first release. She became known as a “one-hit wonder“.
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