Electronic THEREMIN Samuel HOFFMAN Radar Blues/ Lunette Les Baxter Capitol 872 _
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A series of great JAZZ Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records
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Music Unusual Featuring the Theremin - bandleader Les Baxter and composer Harry Revel with theremin player Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman released on Capitol
Theremin With Vocal Group And Orchestra, Harry Revel & Leslie Baxter* & Dr. Samuel Hoffman* – Radar Blues / Lunette
Label: Capitol Records – 872
Released: 1947
A Radar Blues
B Lunette
Credits
Composed By – Harry Revel
Conductor – Leslie Baxter*
Theremin – Dr. Samuel Hoffman*
Notes
Single taken from Music Out Of The Moon: Music Unusual Featuring The Theremin, but primarily credited to the generic-sounding Theremin With Vocal Group And Orchestra
Music Out of the Moon was noteworthy for being one of the first albums to feature a full color cover – a risqué photograph by Paul Garrison of partially clothed actress Virginia Clark of the Earl Carroll Theatre, Hollywood,[4] sprawled across a bed – which made it stand out in an era of monochrome album packaging.
The Hollywood producer Mickey Kapp compiled a cassette tape of tracks from the album for astronaut Neil Armstrong, who brought the tape on the Apollo 11 moonfight in 1969.[8][9] He played it from the spacecraft during the flight back from the moon when it was about 275,000 kilometres from earth, and explained to Mission Control, "That's an old favourite of mine, about – It's an album made about 20 years ago, called Music Out of the Moon."[10] (NASA audio recording)
Please see top of the page for conditionDr. Samuel J. Hoffman
Died 1967, Los Angeles, USA.
Initially a violinist, he became one of the world's most famous theremin players and contributed the sounds of the early electronic instrument to several Hollywood movie soundtracks.
Music
The music was a mixture of late 1940’s lounge jazz and film music underpinned by Hoffman’s otherworldly theremin playing. According to the liner notes: "Harry Revel created the basic "idea" and themes while Leslie Baxter, conductor and arranger, has given them appropriately unique tone color, using mass harmonies of human voices as well as unusual instrumental effects with woodwinds, strings and bass; some without rhythm, others with a dominant, demanding beat."
Cover
Music Out of the Moon was noteworthy for being one of the first albums to feature a full color cover – a risqué photograph by Paul Garrison of partially clothed actress Virginia Clark of the Earl Carroll Theatre, Hollywood,[4] sprawled across a bed – which made it stand out in an era of monochrome album packaging.
Reissues
The Hollywood producer Mickey Kapp compiled a cassette tape of tracks from the album for astronaut Neil Armstrong, who brought the tape on the Apollo 11 moonfight in 1969.[8][9] He played it from the spacecraft during the flight back from the moon when it was about 275,000 kilometres from earth, and explained to Mission Control, "That's an old favourite of mine, about – It's an album made about 20 years ago, called Music Out of the Moon."[10] (NASA audio recording)
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