I'm behind you by a few years, but not so many! And I totally agree with you. TELSTAR the song is both truly epoch defining, and strangely timeless, all in one. It stands as a welcoming gateway to a bright beckoning future and to a BRAVE NEW WORLD.
I liked this song since I was a small child but never understood what it was about till I was almost an adult when they would have old song times on the AM/FM radio where they would explain the song and the band or artist that performed it.
I remember coming back from the shore on a date, riding on the NJ Parkway with the windows down in my old beat up 69 Chevy BellAir. This song came on the radio and my date snuggled next to me and I felt so amazing and - long story short. We will celebrate 35 years in a few weeks......
My favourite instrumental ever. I played it when my mum was ill and also when I was having my first baby. Very sadly they both died within 10 days of each other.😥
Yes, he's lonely, travelling through the heavens, but he endeavors to persevere.....he's fearless, he's dauntless, he who is travelling fastest is travelling alone.....
Couldn't agree more about the sad yearning sound of this track, i used to listen to it when iwas about 9 or10 and it always made me glad and sad at the same time.
Born in 1951 as a boy of 11 this was a magical time.Space age just starting with a sense of wonder and excitement.Takes you back to those great Days.Thanks Joe and the Boys from a 70 year old dreamer!!!
same age...it was a completely different world back then as we were just learning about life back then. I guess everything is relative...to the individuals that are 10 or 11 in this society today. I'd take ours for sure over today's!
@@fredfredricj.lowecfp-tm3299 What I find ridiculous is that Telstar is still up there circling the earth ! . It does not work but it's there. No one has tried to bring it down to earth
This song makes me think of my dad. He died in 1964 and would have been amazed at the strides we've made in space since then. I miss you daddy. You left me way too soon.
I don't know another piece of music that embodied the sense of wonder and optimism of the days when humanity took the first steps into space - a sense that miracles beyond imagination were just around the corner - and that the human race was on the cusp of fulfilling its promise and destiny. God - I wish I could feel that way again...
Tablature Butler- I found your post to be so close to my feelings that it is spooky! I think you're comments are brilliant! The sense of hope for mankind has been killed off by corrupt leaders and the dumbing down of Americans. I hope you are sharing your thoughts on many other sites! I found them to be encouraging. Best Wishes!
Kurt Kieffer - You are too kind. After WWll, the USA surged forward with a renewed sense of purpose and national vitality - we enjoyed then the broadest-based prosperity and greatest social mobility the world has EVER known. Somewhere between then and now what was a cornucopia of promise and plenty was turned into a trough of greed, and our national spirit has darkened accordingly. More's the pity. We know what we're capable of because we've lived it - every day I feel a sadness for what we've lost and what could have been...
I first heard it in Dec 1962... I was 13 that October. It has to be one of the best... if not the best... instrumental tune for me. Everytime I hear it, I'm put into memory of that time in my life. A beautiful piece. 😍
Telstar was launched the year I was born. But was played on the radio for at least two years! It may be the first song I remember hearing, it has been in my mind for over 50 years! I play it daily and it makes me feel good!
Wow, Didn't realize that this Song meant so much to so many People as it Does to Me! I was 10 when it was released. I remember hearing it played often at the Keansburg, NJ Amusement Park and Boardwalk at the Shore. It seemed to play on the Loudspeakers for Many Years. I have had it on my 1960's Jukebox for nearly 30 years and play it often. It NEVER gets boring and every time I hear it, it brightens my day and brings back such pleasant memories of all the great times at the beach and Amusement park with my Parents and Relatives. It brings me back to a wonderful time of my Childhood that can never be pushed aside.
I was eleven years old it was a wintery night i was sent to get fish and chips at seven o clock when i entered the fish and chip shop i heard this song Telstar coming out of the juke box it was amazing the boys and girls were standing around jukebox listeniing to the song, they played song again i knew then this song was special and all these years on its still special ,
Know what you are saying. I'm 74 and it WAS a great time with great music. My dad was an engineer at Patrick AFB in Coco Beach in the late 50's. He worked on the very early rockets like the Navy Vangard, the Explorer I (launched on a Jupiter-Redstone), and then later on Apollo-Soyuz. I still remember this instrumental. REALLY brings back the feel of that time. Love and miss you, dad.
I'm 40 and I remember my grandparents playing this song from the age 3 and it's by far the most touching deep songs of all time. It taught me music and understanding it.
I watched that first trans-Atlantic broadcast via Telstar I in 1962, and I've loved this song ever since I first heard it. Still sounds like the future to me---the one I wanted to live in..
Agreed especially when you consider that he made a basic instrument set up sound quite unlike anything else in 1962 and it was the first US Number 1 by a British group. Speaks volumes.
I first heard this instrumental when I was six years old (born in 1956). I had a neighbor who was about ten years older (Peggy was her name), and, played all the rock and roll songs while her father would yell PEGGY TURN THAT CRAP OFF!! This sounds 100 PERCENT BETTER on my phone than the old transistor radio I used to have(a gift from my grandparents).❤❤❤😊😊😊
I was born in 1954 and remember when this song came out. Your post brought back LOTS of memories, THANK YOU! I had a transistor radio too and used to listen to this song on it, loved it then, still do.
I heard this song when I was in my 20s around 1991. Remembered the way it went and loved hearing it on Art Bell bumper music. Took me years to find it again. Didn't know the name but happy to say I'll never forget it now. Onward to Space.
I was 3 or 4 and recall Telstar was used by an early Australian TV channel in a promotional short film. It had an animation of "The Telstar Satellite" flying overhead with a hand out waving as it passed by. It evoked the "wonder and optimism" of early space exploration referred to by another commentator. Love listening to it again.
Sad thing about Geoff Goddard he died in 2000 of a heart attack and worked in the catering department at Reading University, would occasionally do renditions of he's past hits for the students on the piano. Geoff also wrote "Johnny remember me" for John Leyton. If I met Geoff I would say he was and is a legend and it would be I'm not worthy moment.
As a young workings class child in the sixties this was incredible to hear on the radio. It reached into my iner soul and made the brutality of life around me less painful
Somehow I stumbled on to this video. I couldn't believe it when I listened to it! This came out when I was only two years old and all my life there have been times when it gets stuck in my head and I never knew what it was! Love it.
A love song written for a piece of technology created for nothing more than unity and peaceful purposes. And I remember as a kid watching a show broadcast "from Japan via Telstar." We didn't know if it was a mixup or on purpose, but a Japanese Xerox ad cut in right in the middle of the show. A well dressed Japanese lady secretary making copies and a voice talking about the product. Very impressive.
WE had a cool 59 Mercury Monterrey in 62 when i was just 10 and I remember listening to this as we would ride thru a dark cool winter night . those years of cars had windshields that swept up into the roof so you could see the sky as you rode, I sure miss that . so much promise in this song to latch onto and achieve, never too late so have faith and do well and good.
The guitar break is killer, I used to listen to this when I was a kid on a valve Alba record player, maybe around 1966, the B side, Jungle Fever is also epic.
Incredibly wonderful melody. Remember so well. Our minds watched ahead....thanks to songs like this. I miss it terribly. This song is soundtrack of my childhood. Lovely.
Its funny how music can take you back , I was about 18 (75 now) when this came out, yet it takes me back instantly to the room I was sitting in when I first heard it.
I was 5 years old when listening to this and it had a profound effect on me.I was sad..and still is today.I wonder where my youth has goneI wonder where my friends are today.I ask myself why did I not make an effort to keep contact with my friends...I feel that all is forgotten and lost in these busy times that we live in.These past songs on you tube serves as a reminder of the good old days when I was not bombarded with information overload of world issues....All I knew that I will get my supper at 1730 when my dad gets home and all will be fine when we listen to the radio afterwards....together....with no-one staring into a cell phone.I feel lost and kicked aside... My era has gone and so has my smile and verve..I lost the eager gleam in my eye..My eyes only have tears now...My world in the past seems out of touch with today and it hurts me.I feel like I do not belong anymore to the world of modernisation.What is that...?I am going to listen to "Reflections of my life" by the Marmalade now...the original version..He sings..." The world is a bad place..."That will make me cry so that I can get this torment out of my soul and accept that I am reminiscing about a time that will never come back.I have to stop now....tears are streaming down y face.Willie
That’s sad Willie. I’m sure there are a mountain of things you’ve forgotten that you did in your life that enriched others lives. Keep in mind that there are many people that are only meant to be in our lives for a while. And the others for a lifetime. Your still around on this old world for a reason. There’s no doubt you still have things you need to do. Smile and look around you. BTW... im no spring chicken and I remember this song. It doesn’t make me sad. It makes me chuckle. Parts of it makes me think of a giant bee with a space helmet on. Just buzzing around!! 👽🐝😁 Happy New Year!
This was and should be the anthem for all rocket launch for space exploration. It is courage, bravery and trust in human spirit and the Unknown all in one song. An everlasting, like Space, music.
Playing the toilet flushing backwards. There's something very quirky British about that, but nonetheless just as Barnes Wallace invented the bouncing bomb in his garden shed, Joe Meek invented a 21st. Century sound in his Bedroom in the mid 20th century, 58 years on we are still marvelling at it. We Brit's are eccentric nuts, but somehow geniuses at it. They're be playing this I hope when mankind lands on Mars. It will happen, one day.
Geoff Goddard played the lead instrument, the clavioline, without which it wouldn't be what it was. Geoff was never credited for his massive input. You've done a good job of the supporting video for this, and the sound is good, well done.
@ a roundtable discussion in college, our prof said a discouraging word re Telstar/Tornados in passing. I stood up, WAIT A MINUTE! & I began enumerating e'thing special about the record. He smiled & bowed, I stand corrected.
In 1962 there was such great hope for the future in all things in America, don't know where it all went. This song always reminds me of President Kennedy and that awful day in November 1963 when he was assasinated.
This song always reminds me of President Kennedy and Camelot as well. What we have now is a joke, with no inspiration and no hope. Something about America died on November 22, 1963, and it has never been the same.
Thank you joasha156 for this work....I was in the 7th grade and everybody was happy..We had won the space race...and it was all so innocent...So many memories of that time...Peace and Tranquility
The Russians did initially get ahead of us with Sputnik & Yuri G. but they never landed a man on the moon. Plus we had the first space station; Skylab.
This was my elder brother Jerry's 'Theme-tune' for his mobile disco, in the 80's & 90's, in South Lincolnshire. I think this great tune is the reason he decided to call it 'The Telstar Roadshow'!! Such great memories, being his 'roadie', setting up his gear, taking requests, & even getting on the 'decks' occasionally!!
Joe meek did not realise how talented he was and how his life was cut short at 37 I wasn't even born when this came out but I remember my mother playing it & telling me all about it
This takes me back as a little boy struggling with everything, but this gaves me a hope for the future, and so it is that I now play it on my own fantastic electronic organ system! Fabulous!
This came out when I was in the sixth grade. Was the most popular song for awhile. This was an innocent age, and in many ways still is. What's going to happen tomorrow?
I remember watching john Glenn being launched into space and how the rocket lifted off the ground and we watched it until it was out of sight. perfect soundtrack for that scene!
Wenn man sich diesen song von Camillo Felgen (ehemals Radio Luxemburg) mit dem Titel "Irgendwann erwacht ein neuer Tag" anhört, hat man wieder Hoffnung, egal wie schlecht es einem geht:)))
Wow! It figures so prominently and significantly in the soundtrack of my life that I can imagine that when I leave this world, I'll hear "Telstar" playing.
Brilliant .. much ahead of its time ... Close your eyes and it's a much gentler simpler time. A kid could be a kid , neighborhoods were safe. Optimism ruled America .. god bless those first brave astronauts 🇺🇸.. God Bless America .. we will be great again !
The most popular song ( musical piece) of the very month I was born .I love the tribute they played to space with this.And It is quite ironic to me that I'm a nerd about outerspace and the magnificent splendor of God's domain He created; which He blessed us with the ability to gawk at and cherish with wonderment and humbled respect for His Love and Power.
Both Telstar Satillites (1 & 2) remain still in orbit today! Both signals died out decades ago (lack of shielding from EMP). Yet if the circuits suddenly came back online, both are still capable to provide service again.
I still get chills when I hear this song! It reminds me of a better time in America when knowledge,education and success were celebrated and the exploration of our galaxy lay ahead of us. The brave astronauts and test pilots were heroes who opened up an unlimited future for their country and the world. But we've devolved into perverted country led by banksters, paid for politicians and a Traitor in the White House. They have lowered our standards of decent behavior and sold us out to our enemies who will finish destroying our once great nation.
I think our country ,our world ,humanity needs something akin to that excitement, I think if we discovered super intelligent life elsewhere that would be exciting and would be the end of this cosmic loneliness we feel as a species
It reminds me of the night while watching television they presented a relay from Telestar. I was mesmerized, and this piece brings it all back again. The relay was a mirage!
This was my first ever favourite 'song from the charts'! I stiil vividly remember trying to buy the record from a shop when I was four. I didn't know what the tune was called and I was trying to sing it to the sales person, depsperately hoping they might recognise it!
Voyager1 being 47:years old and reconnected to ground control brought me here. Memories of listening to it on vinyl played through a wood cased record player at my grandparents house brought a tear to my eye. ❤
No mate. The lead guitarist was Alan Caddy. George Bellamy was rhythm guitarist and Heinz Burt on bass. No matter it is the greatest pop instrumental of all time. I was 14 when it came out in Sept.1962. Never heard anything like it before. Made even The Shadows sound boring. Wish it was 1962 again.
This was the first record , that I heard, played on our new dansette radiogram , back in the sixties everything seems possible, the dawn of the new age.
Been listening to this since I was 10. I'm now 70 and still love it
same here
I'm behind you by a few years, but not so many! And I totally agree with you. TELSTAR the song is both truly epoch defining, and strangely timeless, all in one. It stands as a welcoming gateway to a bright beckoning future and to a BRAVE NEW WORLD.
I liked this song since I was a small child but never understood what it was about till I was almost an adult when they would have old song times on the AM/FM radio where they would explain the song and the band or artist that performed it.
I'm.65...I've been listening to it again, after so many years of not finding it! I love it!
I remember coming back from the shore on a date, riding on the NJ Parkway with the windows down in my old beat up 69 Chevy BellAir. This song came on the radio and my date snuggled next to me and I felt so amazing and - long story short. We will celebrate 35 years in a few weeks......
what a lovely story :)
Congratulations on your wedding anniversary
I guess that your date sent you into orbit ! Lucky guy !
Nice story I am 62 and always epitomises the 60s to me.
This is my all time favourite. I was 14 when it came out. Magic.
GREATEST INSTRUMENTAL OF ALL TIME !!!
My favourite instrumental ever. I played it when my mum was ill and also when I was having my first baby. Very sadly they both died within 10 days of each other.😥
Totally
True
Right there with ya
I'm glad you're with me.
To me, it sounds very lonely and melancholy, and dynamic at the same time. Incredibly beautiful.
Yes, he's lonely, travelling through the heavens, but he endeavors to persevere.....he's fearless, he's dauntless, he who is travelling fastest is travelling alone.....
I have always loved this instrumental the sound Joe Meek gets on the organ is fantastic
Life is like that!
This is what I am having played at my funeral.
Couldn't agree more about the sad yearning sound of this track, i used to listen to it when iwas about 9 or10 and it always made me glad and sad at the same time.
Born in 1951 as a boy of 11 this was a magical time.Space age just starting with a sense of wonder and excitement.Takes you back to those great Days.Thanks Joe and the Boys from a 70 year old dreamer!!!
same age...it was a completely different world back then as we were just learning about life back then.
I guess everything is relative...to the individuals that are 10 or 11 in this society today. I'd take ours for sure over today's!
Born 1952 , saw ECHO 1 and so many 👍👍🌻PEACE ON EARTH , 🌻🌻🌻🌻🙋SLAVA UKRAINE 🌻🌻🌻👍
@@fredfredricj.lowecfp-tm3299 What I find ridiculous is that Telstar is still up there circling the earth ! . It does not work but it's there. No one has tried to bring it down to earth
For us folks around back then this song never fails to bring tears!
But probably Elon's fav song from the past even tho he had yet to be born.
This song makes me think of my dad. He died in 1964 and would have been amazed at the strides we've made in space since then. I miss you daddy. You left me way too soon.
Me too my Dad played this for me when I would go to sleep I was 5 when Telstar came out and 17 when he died in 1974 I hope to see you soon Dad
I don't know another piece of music that embodied the sense of wonder and optimism of the days when humanity took the first steps into space - a sense that miracles beyond imagination were just around the corner - and that the human race was on the cusp of fulfilling its promise and destiny. God - I wish I could feel that way again...
Don't we all! Thanks for watching
The anthem of the Space Age.
Tablature Butler- I found your post to be so close to my feelings that it is spooky! I think you're comments are brilliant! The sense of hope for mankind has been killed off by corrupt leaders and the dumbing down of Americans. I hope you are sharing your thoughts on many other sites! I found them to be encouraging. Best Wishes!
Kurt Kieffer - You are too kind. After WWll, the USA surged forward with a renewed sense of purpose and national vitality - we enjoyed then the broadest-based prosperity and greatest social mobility the world has EVER known. Somewhere between then and now what was a cornucopia of promise and plenty was turned into a trough of greed, and our national spirit has darkened accordingly. More's the pity. We know what we're capable of because we've lived it - every day I feel a sadness for what we've lost and what could have been...
But will the corporate greed of the top 1% of the wealthy who have bought our government allow it?
Seems they are determined to stomp on us.
I first heard it in Dec 1962... I was 13 that October. It has to be one of the best... if not the best... instrumental tune for me. Everytime I hear it, I'm put into memory of that time in my life. A beautiful piece. 😍
Who's here with me in 2020 lockdown? 😊
im with you bro stay safe
Hell yeah!! 😆
Two months later..... me!!!
Yes im here-heard this at school in 1962-great memories of a bygone age!
With those great memories, I am here with you. Take care!
Telstar was launched the year I was born. But was played on the radio for at least two years! It may be the first song I remember hearing, it has been in my mind for over 50 years! I play it daily and it makes me feel good!
I was born in 1962 and I'm Tommy, what a great time to be born.
The Bass is just incredible.
Timewharp please.
ME TOO!
same here; 21.12. 1962! We are from Space Generation!
Brilliant Joe Meeks
I remember this time and age, born in 1959, on this very day (8 Nov) in fact.
I want this at my funeral, when the curtains close around the coffin and I'm on my way!!
Me too xx I was 2 when I heard this first time at the Kersal funfair at Southend.
I understand that Jean.
This is my go to song for my dad absolutely love it
Me too...
Definitely a funeral song, I never tire of it, so beautiful!
goosebumps still 2022
Goosebumps in 2024.
For us born in the first part of the last Century……. This song totally captures the hope… the dream… the reality that was….
Too bad we have faltered…
We lived in the Golden Age...
@@chesterhackenbush… our parents always told us this…. Mine did.
I thought but I want this… this… this… but, my goodness, for me it was golden .
THIS WAS THE BEST I EVER HEARD I BECAME 7 YEARS IN THAT YEAR 1962, GREETINGS FROM ELI BALKE AMSTERDAM❤
YES, ITWAS A WORLD-WIDE HIT.
Wow, Didn't realize that this Song meant so much to so many People as it Does to Me! I was 10 when it was released. I remember hearing it played often at the Keansburg, NJ Amusement Park and Boardwalk at the Shore. It seemed to play on the Loudspeakers for Many Years. I have had it on my 1960's Jukebox for nearly 30 years and play it often. It NEVER gets boring and every time I hear it, it brightens my day and brings back such pleasant memories of all the great times at the beach and Amusement park with my Parents and Relatives. It brings me back to a wonderful time of my Childhood that can never be pushed aside.
definitely agree with your words and remembrance from when we were young!
Yes, we had our own memories of these oldies, not the MTV “memories” created by videos.
Brother I'm from Jersey. Lovedt the Jersey shore, Sea Heights, Pont Pleasant boardwalks. Miss those days, I feel ya.
As teenagers, we were excited and scared about space. Great timeless tune. Thank you some 54 years later.
My dad brought me here. Love this tune. Thanks dad! Can't get enough of it!!
Still get goosebumps listening to this, even after all this time. I was only 6 when it came out.
I was eleven years old it was a wintery night i was sent to get fish and chips at seven o clock when i entered the fish and chip shop i heard this song Telstar coming out of the juke box it was amazing the boys and girls were standing around jukebox listeniing to the song, they played song again i knew then this song was special and all these years on its still special ,
Know what you are saying. I'm 74 and it WAS a great time with great music. My dad was an engineer at Patrick AFB in Coco Beach in the late 50's. He worked on the very early rockets like the Navy Vangard, the Explorer I (launched on a Jupiter-Redstone), and then later on Apollo-Soyuz. I still remember this instrumental. REALLY brings back the feel of that time. Love and miss you, dad.
Listening to this in October, 2024. A masterpiece!!!
Me too 31st
@@MrDaiseymay Happy Halloween!!
I'm 40 and I remember my grandparents playing this song from the age 3 and it's by far the most touching deep songs of all time. It taught me music and understanding it.
I watched that first trans-Atlantic broadcast via Telstar I in 1962, and I've loved this song ever since I first heard it. Still sounds like the future to me---the one I wanted to live in..
Me too---from GoonHilly Down in Cornwall England.
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Joe Meek was massively underrated.
Agreed especially when you consider that he made a basic instrument set up sound quite unlike anything else in 1962 and it was the first US Number 1 by a British group. Speaks volumes.
One of my all time favourites
I am in my early 40's, and I love this song!!!!!!!!!!!
I first heard this instrumental when I was six years old (born in 1956).
I had a neighbor who was about ten years older (Peggy was her name), and, played all the rock and roll songs while her father would yell PEGGY TURN THAT CRAP OFF!!
This sounds 100 PERCENT BETTER on my phone than the old transistor radio I used to have(a gift from my grandparents).❤❤❤😊😊😊
I was born in 1954 and remember when this song came out. Your post brought back LOTS of memories, THANK YOU! I had a transistor radio too and used to listen to this song on it, loved it then, still do.
This timeless instrumental classic will turn 55 this year.
Masterpiece!
I was laying in the hospital, an 8th grader with a broken hip and an uncertain outcome. This song somehow gave me hope.
I was in 8th grade, too. Remember this well! Also, the Cuban missile crisis.
Scott Mçkày I’m not old at all, but I know my history, that must’ve been terrifying for you, the threat of nuclear war.
Who remembers this song?
So do I Bob. Still have my original 45.
Remember it? Who can forget it.
I think Jungle Fever was o the flip-side
bob meadows I remember.I bought the 45.
Unfortunately....just kidding. this song used to freak me out....
I heard this song when I was in my 20s around 1991. Remembered the way it went and loved hearing it on Art Bell bumper music. Took me years to find it again. Didn't know the name but happy to say I'll never forget it now. Onward to Space.
I was 3 or 4 and recall Telstar was used by an early Australian TV channel in a promotional short film. It had an animation of "The Telstar Satellite" flying overhead with a hand out waving as it passed by. It evoked the "wonder and optimism" of early space exploration referred to by another commentator. Love listening to it again.
Yes, I remember it too. Closed with a London red double decker bus orbiting the earth.
Legendary instrumental created by a Legendary Genius- Mr. Joe Meek and generous help from Mr. Geoff Goddard. X X.
Sad thing about Geoff Goddard he died in 2000 of a heart attack and worked in the catering department at Reading University, would occasionally do renditions of he's past hits for the students on the piano. Geoff also wrote "Johnny remember me" for John Leyton. If I met Geoff I would say he was and is a legend and it would be I'm not worthy moment.
@@campfreddy3547 EXCELLENT, THANKS FOR SHARING
As a young workings class child in the sixties this was incredible to hear on the radio. It reached into my iner soul and made the brutality of life around me less painful
Still hidden away in a cupboard corner somewhere. Still gives me goosebumps.
then play it--- Show you love it
Somehow I stumbled on to this video. I couldn't believe it when I listened to it!
This came out when I was only two years old and all my life there have been times when it gets stuck in my head and I never knew what it was! Love it.
A love song written for a piece of technology created for nothing more than unity and peaceful purposes. And I remember as a kid watching a show broadcast "from Japan via Telstar." We didn't know if it was a mixup or on purpose, but a Japanese Xerox ad cut in right in the middle of the show. A well dressed Japanese lady secretary making copies and a voice talking about the product. Very impressive.
A favourite of the late Mrs. Thatcher. 'Marvellous tune' ' 'full of life' 👈
I WISH SHE WAS GOVERNING THIS COLLAPSING COUNTRY NOW. OCT. 2024,
Love it. 2023.MEMORIES!!
I was 12, living in central Africa - we had no TV; when I heard Telstar I was blown away..happy memories.
I was eight years old in 62 and this still one of my favorite songs! Magic.
lovely best music i am 73 year i rember.
WE had a cool 59 Mercury Monterrey in 62 when i was just 10 and I remember listening to this as we would ride thru a dark cool winter night . those years of cars had windshields that swept up into the roof so you could see the sky as you rode, I sure miss that . so much promise in this song to latch onto and achieve, never too late so have faith and do well and good.
The guitar break is killer, I used to listen to this when I was a kid on a valve Alba record player, maybe around 1966, the B side, Jungle Fever is also epic.
The anthem of the Space Age.
Grace Skerp perfect description
Humanity on its way to .....
You've put it so perfectly that there is no other way to describe this song and the wonderous ideals that it meant to all Americans at that time.
It's so hopeful and happy. Meanwhile, the music from Midnight Cowboy is on my sidebar. Not so hopeful and happy.
TRUE, NONE MORE FITTING.
5 years old and a girl it took me to the stars love it still ❤xxxx
Incredibly wonderful melody. Remember so well. Our minds watched ahead....thanks to songs like this. I miss it terribly. This song is soundtrack of my childhood. Lovely.
July 2020 anyone..?? Just Shazam-ed this in the pub. My dad used to listen to it! What a discovery!
Its funny how music can take you back , I was about 18 (75 now) when this came out, yet it takes me back instantly to the room I was sitting in when I first heard it.
I heard it when I was around 9, 30 years ago and I get the same feeling.
This music goes under my skin til today:)))
I was 5 years old when listening to this and it had a profound effect on me.I was sad..and still is today.I wonder where my youth has goneI wonder where my friends are today.I ask myself why did I not make an effort to keep contact with my friends...I feel that all is forgotten and lost in these busy times that we live in.These past songs on you tube serves as a reminder of the good old days when I was not bombarded with information overload of world issues....All I knew that I will get my supper at 1730 when my dad gets home and all will be fine when we listen to the radio afterwards....together....with no-one staring into a cell phone.I feel lost and kicked aside... My era has gone and so has my smile and verve..I lost the eager gleam in my eye..My eyes only have tears now...My world in the past seems out of touch with today and it hurts me.I feel like I do not belong anymore to the world of modernisation.What is that...?I am going to listen to "Reflections of my life" by the Marmalade now...the original version..He sings..." The world is a bad place..."That will make me cry so that I can get this torment out of my soul and accept that I am reminiscing about a time that will never come back.I have to stop now....tears are streaming down y face.Willie
That’s sad Willie. I’m sure there are a mountain of things you’ve forgotten that you did in your life that enriched others lives. Keep in mind that there are many people that are only meant to be in our lives for a while. And the others for a lifetime. Your still around on this old world for a reason. There’s no doubt you still have things you need to do. Smile and look around you. BTW... im no spring chicken and I remember this song. It doesn’t make me sad. It makes me chuckle. Parts of it makes me think of a giant bee with a space helmet on. Just buzzing around!!
👽🐝😁 Happy New Year!
My first record for my new record player Christmas 1962.
This was and should be the anthem for all rocket launch for space exploration. It is courage, bravery and trust in human spirit and the Unknown all in one song. An everlasting, like Space, music.
The great Joe Meek producing- he taped the toilet flushing and played it backwards then used a clavioline for that other-worldly sound...
It worked a treat! Thanks for watching Andy.
ONE TOP GUY
Makes you wonder what Joe could have produced using Synthesizers...
Joe must have been the best,so sad as he was a tormented soul.
Playing the toilet flushing backwards. There's something very quirky British about that, but nonetheless just as Barnes Wallace invented the bouncing bomb in his garden shed, Joe Meek invented a 21st. Century sound in his Bedroom in the mid 20th century, 58 years on we are still marvelling at it. We Brit's are eccentric nuts, but somehow geniuses at it. They're be playing this I hope when mankind lands on Mars. It will happen, one day.
Thank you for your video. When I hear this song, I feel like I'm riding the stars.
Geoff Goddard played the lead instrument, the clavioline, without which it wouldn't be what it was. Geoff was never credited for his massive input. You've done a good job of the supporting video for this, and the sound is good, well done.
My aunt played the original Decca single to me on her Dansette when it came out; I've never came back! One of the greatest recordings ever made.
Fantastic piece of music. Seldom equalled, never bettered.
Fascinating sound,🥰 I feel some kind of "pinch" in my soul. A liner in life. Beautiful music ❤
@ a roundtable discussion in college, our prof said a discouraging word re Telstar/Tornados in passing. I stood up, WAIT A MINUTE! & I began enumerating e'thing special about the record. He smiled & bowed, I stand corrected.
This one of the greatest Tracks I ever heard! So emotional...💕
In 1962 there was such great hope for the future in all things in America, don't know where it all went. This song always reminds me of President Kennedy and that awful day in November 1963 when he was assasinated.
This song always reminds me of President Kennedy and Camelot as well. What we have now is a joke, with no inspiration and no hope. Something about America died on November 22, 1963, and it has never been the same.
Sempre apprezzata!! Bellissimi ricordi. Alessandro Firenze Italy
Thank you joasha156 for this work....I was in the 7th grade and everybody was happy..We had won the space race...and it was all so innocent...So many memories of that time...Peace and Tranquility
The Russians had won the space race...Sputnik..first man in space etc etc.
The Russians did initially get ahead of us with Sputnik & Yuri G. but they never landed a man on the moon. Plus we had the first space station; Skylab.
One of the great instrumentals in pop history!
This was my elder brother Jerry's 'Theme-tune' for his mobile disco, in the 80's & 90's, in South Lincolnshire.
I think this great tune is the reason he decided to call it 'The Telstar Roadshow'!!
Such great memories, being his 'roadie', setting up his gear, taking requests, & even getting on the 'decks' occasionally!!
I'm born in 1964, and I'm glad to casually find again the first intelligent song of my life ❤
Used to listen to several stations before going to sleep, always had to hear this one before turning the radio off.
Visual effects AWESOME!!!
Joe meek did not realise how talented he was and how his life was cut short at 37 I wasn't even born when this came out but I remember my mother playing it & telling me all about it
This takes me back as a little boy struggling with everything, but this gaves me a hope for the future, and so it is that I now play it on my own fantastic electronic organ system! Fabulous!
This came out when I was in the sixth grade. Was the most popular song for awhile. This was an innocent age, and in many ways still is. What's going to happen tomorrow?
My favorite song as a kid. At 2:29 I always imagined it dropping one of the stages and getting an extra burst of speed.
I remember watching john Glenn being launched into space and how the rocket lifted off the ground and we watched it until it was out of sight.
perfect soundtrack for that scene!
I was 2 ... loved this song and still do ❤️
Haunting and beautiful.
Wenn man sich diesen song von Camillo Felgen (ehemals Radio Luxemburg) mit dem Titel "Irgendwann erwacht ein neuer Tag" anhört, hat man wieder Hoffnung, egal wie schlecht es einem geht:)))
Still a brilliant piece of music; I remember it well and the time.
Wow! It figures so prominently and significantly in the soundtrack of my life that I can imagine that when I leave this world, I'll hear "Telstar" playing.
A-W-E-S-O-M-E & I-N-S-P-I-R-A-T-I-O-N-A-L ! ! ! AND THE VISUALS WORK REALLY WELL WITH THE MUSIC ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Brilliant .. much ahead of its time ...
Close your eyes and it's a much gentler simpler time.
A kid could be a kid , neighborhoods were safe.
Optimism ruled America .. god bless those first brave astronauts 🇺🇸.. God Bless America .. we will be great again !
The most popular song ( musical piece) of the very month I was born .I love the tribute they played to space with this.And It is quite ironic to me that I'm a nerd about outerspace and the magnificent splendor of God's domain He created; which He blessed us with the ability to gawk at and cherish with wonderment and humbled respect for His Love and Power.
one of my favorite songs :)
SONGS HAVE WORDS
Both Telstar Satillites (1 & 2) remain still in orbit today! Both signals died out decades ago (lack of shielding from EMP). Yet if the circuits suddenly came back online, both are still capable to provide service again.
Someone shoud try to get them, and examine their condition. Maybe take them back to a museum. 🤓
Telstar holds its own, for a purely instrumental song.
I still get chills when I hear this song! It reminds me of a better time in America when knowledge,education and success were celebrated and the exploration of our galaxy lay ahead of us. The brave astronauts and test pilots were heroes who opened up an unlimited future for their country and the world. But we've devolved into perverted country led by banksters, paid for politicians and a Traitor in the White House. They have lowered our standards of decent behavior and sold us out to our enemies who will finish destroying our once great nation.
More socialist nonsense. Nobody can leave a great song be without this turgid garbage.
Whatever you say, Pollyanna.
I think our country ,our world ,humanity needs something akin to that excitement, I think if we discovered super intelligent life elsewhere that would be exciting and would be the end
of this cosmic loneliness we feel as a species
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up, Ken.
It reminds me of the night while watching television they presented a relay from Telestar. I was mesmerized, and this piece brings it all back again. The relay was a mirage!
I was only three when I first heard this. I’ve loved it ever since and it made me realise my passion for music
Greatest instrumental in pop history!
This was my first ever favourite 'song from the charts'! I stiil vividly remember trying to buy the record from a shop when I was four. I didn't know what the tune was called and I was trying to sing it to the sales person, depsperately hoping they might recognise it!
OVER the decades has renained CURRENT .
Brilliant Joe Meeks
Voyager1 being 47:years old and reconnected to ground control brought me here.
Memories of listening to it on vinyl played through a wood cased record player at my grandparents house brought a tear to my eye. ❤
Absoluteley brilliant.
1962 ahead of it's time 2020 still ahead of it's time
The guitarist for this song is the late George Bellamy. The Father of Matt Bellamy who is currently the lead singer and guitarist of rock band Muse.
No mate. The lead guitarist was Alan Caddy. George Bellamy was rhythm guitarist and Heinz Burt on bass. No matter it is the greatest pop instrumental of all time. I was 14 when it came out in Sept.1962. Never heard anything like it before. Made even The Shadows sound boring. Wish it was 1962 again.
i love this track . . . .
This was the first record , that I heard, played on our new dansette radiogram , back in the sixties everything seems possible, the dawn of the new age.
BEST SOUND EVER,ELI
Still have the single...
Exciting times..Telstar and Echo....remember watching Echo move among the stars...
A space age love song.. Joe Meeks was a tortured genius who had his own take on the wall of sound!