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Tag: Apollo 11

"Moon Flight"
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Apollo-Themed 45 Releases

When I was in 11th grade, the unthinkable happened:  I received two Fs in the same quarter!  One of the Fs was in Physics class, an absolute nightmare.  Thankfully, Paul Guinnessy of the American Institute of Physics has helped me deprogram from this hellish experience, thus empowering this historian-in-training to

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"Moon Maiden"
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Duke Ellington Meets Apollo 11

Eternal debt of gratitude to Larry Appelbaum of WPFW’s Sounds of Surprise program for pointing listeners (including myself) to a fascinating moment in our nation’s history about which not enough seems to have been written. “Moon Maiden“ Duke Ellington Quartet @ ABC in NYC July 21, 1969 A rather surreal

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"I Know You Aries"
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“I Know You Aries”: Mort Garson Asks, What’s Your Sign?

How nutty to release 12 albums of Moog synthesizer music simultaneously, one for each sign of the Zodiac.  And yet Mort Garson somehow convinced A&M to do so in 1969 – “I Know You Aries,”  the lead-off track on the Aries LP, could have been the A-side of a 45:

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