The Tornados ~ Telstar (1962)
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- Опубликовано: 23 фев 2011
- This fantastic instrumental by "The Tornados" was released in 1962 and made number 1 in the UK charts, and also number 1 in the U.S in the same week. As instrumentals go they don't get much better than this one...
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Just love this instrumental...
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.
jimmy c
Ok boomer
@@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
I got this as a christmas present when it was released never forget it
I used to crawl under the covers with my transistor radio at night and hope for this song to come on.
Ann Teve that is so awesome
Me, too! I got a Zenith transistor radio one Christmas in the early 60's. It changed my life forever. Those were the days...
sounds like the future and past at the same time
The future ain't what it used to be.
Ballhawk 387 & the future doesn't look soo promising either. Because things have changed drastically even though it took a gradual process.
for anna
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and i was there with my spaceship and crew consisting of my cats and dogs in humanoid form in spacesuits in a Cleary outdated style of anime about something in the future with spaceships fighting a great evil.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. 😆
@@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 :)
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.
The power of music enables one to time travel.
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.
It’s epic how Matthew Bellamy’s dad is in this band!
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.
Rest in peace Judee… rest in peace
Those were the best days our country knew.
@@mattheweley7644 So very true!
A lovely tribute Sir💕
you made me cry with your story, it's true, first love is pure and innocent
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.
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.
Yeah
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
They played this on Lawrence Welk.
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.
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.
Lovely memory. Happy times!!
Great advice 1kmjac. Best wishes to you.
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.
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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 !
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
@@admiralcraddock464 Back then people only used the welfare state when they were absolutely genuine & desperate ,not as a life choice .
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.
+Robert Ivey ....and you have sh-it for ears and brains as well.
lenspaulding Scuze me but who the fuck are you?
+Robert Ivey He is just a common troll that has nothing better to do till mommy makes him turn off the computer!
+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!
+wulff707 and Robert Ivey are two typical "old dumbsh-its".
My dad passed away 3 days ago(July 15 2021) and I was going through some of his 45's and found this track.🤘
Obviously a gentleman with good taste. Sorry for your loss.
May he rest in peace.
@@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.🤘
@@patrickbateman3206 Thank you. I know he is.🕊️
If this song was on the charts before your time, one can't blame you for not being familiar with it.
I loved that song in 1962, and still do in 2024.
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 💿 🎸 ❤
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.
This warms my heart ❤️ this was also one of the 3 songs we selected for my dads funeral.
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.
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.
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.
😭
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
Those guys were gorgeous 😊
I remember coming home on the school bus 1962 top deck and everyone was whistling this, remember whistling?
Yeah, kinda miss it.
LOL!! That's a good one Stan "whistling"
I remember this song from kindergarten.. My gosh, what a different world it was.
@@ideclair5866 Very different, we imagined the world would just keep getting better. It did in some ways.
@@stanstan7426 .. Everything was wonderful. How could it be any different?
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.
This just stunning
This makes me feel oddly nostalgic for an era I never experienced
Me too
Displaced nostalgia-a condition I've had since the 1980s. East L.A. 1960-Paradise on Earth. Too many family stories, El Monte.
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.
Sublime comment, just like the song!
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
There is something so free and powerful about this song. Maybe it just came out at the right time.
We were at the dawn of our youth ...Now, young years are flown !...
Only, our sweet memories remain...
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.
America was at the top of it's game. Western Europe had recovered from WWII. The future looked bright. The right time indeed
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
+mary love Fully concur. I was born one year after this song was released. I like to believe this was my "intro siundtrack" ;-)
This song is always a joy to hear. A truly timeless classic. It will never get old.
and the breaks in the middle are great too. plus of course the beginning and end, which was pure , early electronic trickery.
I can remember this record being played on RJR in Jamaica when I was 12, this was around 1962 it brings back memories
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.
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.
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?
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
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 =)
I was at secondary school when this came out. Before every morning assembly the music teacher was required to play a short piece of classical music on the organ to settle us down. One morning he cleverly sneaked a few bars of Telstar into the middle of piece. I don't know if any of the other teachers noticed, but all of us pupils shared knowing grins as we relished the music teacher's subversive act. He rose mightily in our estimation from that moment onwards.
Lovely story, beautifully written. Thanks for that memory.
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!!!!
Listening to this for the first time in 2022 is cool af
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. 😊😊
Me too and i was just 9 years old
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!
I just have to tell this story. For some damn reason, my twin brother was humming this once and I decided to ask him what it was and he told me I had to figure it out. Every few months, in very random circumstance, he would remember it out of the blue and hum it and tell me to figure it out - and I thought it’d be a song I knew. You couldn’t imagine my joy and excitement when the most wonderful coincidence happened. In quarantine, I’ve started Mad Men. And at the very end of episode 10 of season 2, I hear the tune that’s been bugging me for quite literally maybe 2 years or a bit more. I rushed downstairs and told him I figured out and he was just as shocked as me. What a wonderful coincidence, such a random burst of happiness, as random as every other time it came up. I love my twin, and I’m so happy to have figured out the tune :).
GOD works HIS wonders....or something! Is your twin always so tricky???
Dinah Morris Both, but we’re both a bit mischievous together haha. I thank God for giving me my twin brother from the bottom of my heart, and I thank Him for giving the mischief to both of us and the stories and coincidences that bring joy in our lives :)
Anna, that is one of the best stories Ive heard come out of this crazy time. So sweet. This song was my childhood. Im glad its now a good memory for you, as well. 😉💖👋💜💚
Nice story to read. I can picture it
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.
joe gongora weird to see one of these comments on the very same day
And yeah, this music rocks, love this stuff
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.
Listening 12/6/20...I was 11 when this song came out...do the math
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:)
Last month,i was in hospital suffering from pneumonia, i was put on a course of medications,which made me hallucinate,i also got telstar playing in my head like a continious tape for over a week,i hadn't heard telstar till the 1960s.
What an interesting story. I'm glad you're okay.
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
I was 10 when this came out, and I loved it, and still do
One of the sounds of the sixties. Yes, those were the days, gone forever, bye bye. I weep for lost youth.
Yes you are soooo right!
Love my 60s days!
Thank you David Lynch 🤩🤩
Such memories of living in Vienna in 1963/1964 and hearing this music at the bowling alley in the Prater.
The song was made for Telstar the first telecommunications satellite made and launched into space by the USA . The first photograph sent by Telstar was of the American flag
That’s one unique song that will transport you back about sixty years immediately. Yes, I can remember back that far. (sigh)
Me too Kelly. God bless
@@cliffordyawn4647 Thank you. God bless you too!
@@cliffordyawn4647 Me too. This has always resonated with me.
Met my wife at Lincoln Air Force base in 1962 and this was our song
its a timeless tune. as i hope your marriage is. :D love from T-town.
Makes me so nostalgic for a time period when i didn't even exist
This sounds like the ending to a 60’s Godzilla movie where they’re all standing off in the distances waving goodbye to Godzilla.
🤣🤣🤣 I know exactly what you mean
If you play Godzilla backwards, it's about a big lizard that re-assembles a ruined city with his fiery breath, then moonwalks backward into the ocean.
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.
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
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.
Ahh!
I was a teenager in NYC when this tune came out and me and my friends were all into music. We used to sit around and wonder how these guys came up with a tune that captured all the elements and sounds of this event called Telstar. It was ground breaking back then and still is. Joe Meek was a musical genius.
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.
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.
That's awesome
.... sounds like from a movie, no?
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.
agree, sadly..
This fully captures the excitement of the early space launches.
I remember being 9 years old and watching the first live trans-Atlantic TV broadcast from Europe over Telstar. Great event and great song!
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.
I know exactly what you mean.
Word, man. Word 😢
Trying to imagine just how futuristic this must have sounded to someone in 1962..
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 .
As I get older, these old great songs tug more on my heart strings. Makes me homesick for those days.
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.
Back when the US had a real space program, before we let the robots have all the fun.
I lived about 5 miles from the groundstation in Cornwall when Telstar was launched so I remember it like it was yesterday.
Sounds like a great memory to have.
@@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?
This tune “sticks”-once heard never forgotten! ❤Love It! Best instrumental ever-period!
It's the ultimate brainworm, that makes you feel good.
Yes, I was only 10 when this came out, it has certainly stuck in my mind, brilliant record.
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
1962 i was 12 years old and still remember wonderful music.
Loved it age 7. Still love it age 67.
Exact years for me as well
24 years old here and I enjoy the song too
Same here 5. Now 65
Ha, you old fart!! I'm only 60!!
Dammit!!! 61!! (tomorrow)
The Telstar 1 satellite was launched on July 10, 1962 and is still orbiting the Earth. It has a diameter of only 34.6 inches & weighs 77 pounds. It became inoperative 7 months after being placed into orbit.
No warranty,Huh ??
Let’s pray it doesn’t transform into a VEEGER!
For the record - the little satellite became inoperative after radiation damaged some of its transistors.
@@popculturetimeline1472 low orbit Russian nuclear test created artificial radiation belt and wiped out Telstar to my understanding
I learned this song last year while i was still in the school band. Was sad that I never had a chance to perform this on stage or during parades, but Im glad I was able to discover such a wonderful song ❤
Can't believe it's from 1962. Way ahead of it's time.
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!
I cry each time. Everyone I knew r dead already miss them so much
@Stouffer amazing song though heheheh
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
It sounds futuristic, even to this day.
I remember hearing this everywhere I went in1962....it was so different. Hearing it always brings back those memories.
There's something distinctly clean and pure about this, like sunshine on a bright summer morning.
Really gives me an ethereal feeling whenever I listen to this piece.....
Awesome work by The Tornadoes.....
🚀🛰🌏🌎🌍
My grandfather asked me to show him this song and instantly started to cry bringing back his old memories ❤️
Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here.
Mad Men played such great music at the end of each show
And it was so fitting to that particular episode.
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..
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..
please take me back to those times ... PLEASE !!!
PLEASE TAKE ME WITH YOU!
Be careful what you wish for.
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.
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!!
Those of us old enough to remember, Telstar was an early communication satellite that revolutionized telecommunication. A fitting tribute.
I was 7. A great age for a kid.
This tune represented a glorious future of space exploration, enlightenment, scientific discovery and knowledge. The "human adventure".
Somewhere along the line the message became diluted, or lost.
Truly regrettable, but I remain optimistic.
I'm near your age and felt the same. Hope is not lost, look up SpaceX, they are doin' it. Reusable rockets, ferries to the International Space Sation, both cargo & people, and around 1,600 comms satellites like Telstar was. They are aiming for Mars, with the Moon as an interim contract with NASA.
Got their album for Christmas and drove my family crazy playing Telstar over and over.
If I ever get to travel in space, I'll definitely take off with this song.
This is so beautiful, makes me glad to be alive even if just for a moment.
Knights Of Cydonia's father :')
I bet it's a proud father :'D
yei1
Inspirational song
jeje
I agree 100%
In fact, the matt bellamy's father
Literally
A true blast from the past. The biggest selling instrumental in the history of modern popular music.
This song speaks to me more than most songs that actually have words.
2020 and still LOVE this song!
Hmm I kinda feel a sad vibe in this song. I can't really put it into words.
I've always said the same thing. There is a certain longing about it, especially the guitar solo part.
aarxn82
Yes, when I was small, I could not stand that song. It made me sad and afraid. It is exactly what you both say, it touches a string in my tummy, i cannot explain. Something like restlessness, it makes me tingly in an awful way.
Might have something to do with the time period. We had the U-2 Incident, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, all within a few years of each other.
It was an anthem for a wondrous future that quickly went flat.
Arie De Bruin I thought I was the only one to feel this sad vibe. I figured out why for me. I graduated in later years than when this song was released, but this was our graduation song that was voted on. It makes me feel sad that these school years- along with my youth- are gone.
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
Telstar was the beginning of satellite telecommunications that we have today.
I was a baby when this song came out and it use to make me cry. I guess for me it must have sounded very sad. I use to cry whenever I heard the song from Lassie, or a sad song. I would be in my rocking chair crying and I was just around two. Funny, the memories a song brings.
Me too, me too, but I would never let my mother turn the radio off - I wanted to listen and sob all the way through. To me, it's sad and touching but beautiful. I still feel this way today.
MANY AN INSTRUMENTAL HAS COME AND GONE, BUT NONE WERE AS GREAT AS THIS WAS....AND STILL IS ! !
I'm telling my kids this was knights of cydonia.
Lmao yes
Just without the words 🤯💯🙏
His dad was guitarist on this !
Entrance theme song and dance at my wedding. If I ever get married. Hauntingly beautiful guitar solo, drums. Love this so much.
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 !
I wonder how many people even know what "Telstar" actually was. As a kid, I watched it in the evening sky from our rural ranch home looking like a slow moving star gliding silently across the sky. I always loved this song.
In Miami we could follow the blinking light naked-eye from the ground in '62.
I never knew
Telstars still fly or at least satellites bearing the name do. Seems the original partially got fried by an idiotic weapons test called Starfish Prime. Telstar 19V launched in 2018 on one of those self landing rockets.
This was truly a 'stellar' hit that was definitely "out of this world". I have treasured "Telstar" ever since it came out in 1962. (I was 9 at the time so it has no doubt made a lasting impression.)
I'm a baby-boomer who listened constantly to top 40 radio from 1960 to 1969. My favorite instrumentals from that era include, TELSTAR, WALK DON'T RUN '64 by The Ventures, and LONELY SURFER by Jack Nitzsche (he also composed, UP WHERE WE BELONG, heard throughout the movie, Officer and a Gentleman). - - - Tom Brody, Ph.D., Berkeley, CA
My band plays Telestar. It makes the audience insane, an anthem. Love from Memphis.
The 60's was the greatest decade in music history!
Absolutely.
1 am 75 years young and still my very favourite song since childhood..
I lived in Vienna in 1963 - 1964 and they plsyed this music all the time at the bowling alley in the Prater. Such memories!
Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here.
Can never grow tired of this beautiful instrumental song.
this band was decades ahead of its time, not just years, decades, about... 3 decades
Joe Meek.
Murcia doxial funny because one of the guys son is in a famous band
he killed his landlord with a shotgun....sad story
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!
My older brothers would play this 45 rpm when I was barely a toddler, yet it is one of my earliest memories and I'm now 61. It was a one-of-a kind way of playing music that was fun to listen to. Thank you for showing this.