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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2018 20:13:48 GMT
I hope you'll bear with me here...
When I was a young space fanatic in April 1981, I tape recorded the TV broadcast of the 1st space shuttle Columbia launch. What an exciting day that was....and I used to listen to that cassette over and over. So imagine my surprise just a few months later when I heard pieces of shuttle audio in my newly-bought ELO album, Time!
It's used in "Ticket to the Moon"...especially at the very end of the song. You can hear, "you're lofting a little bit, you'll probably be slightly high at staging". The original audio is at the 6:44 mark in this launch video (link below)
What really blew my mind was how quickly the audio could be mixed into an album and put on vinyl! Thanks!
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Post by Horacewimp on Nov 8, 2018 20:38:22 GMT
That’s cool I never knew that before.
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Post by Timeblue on Nov 8, 2018 21:04:57 GMT
Well spotted! the 'beeps' give it away I think. I wonder when Jeff actually wrote TTTM? if Columbia launched in April and the album was released in July,then it must have been done in the intervening 3 months and 'The Jeff Lynne Song Database' site only says that the single was written between March and the summer '81...
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Post by tightrope on Nov 8, 2018 21:55:13 GMT
That entire album was pure genius.
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Post by BSJ on Nov 8, 2018 22:02:05 GMT
Yes, very, very cool info! Really exciting that launch. Drama! Remember watching before I went to work.
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Post by ShardEnder on Nov 9, 2018 1:20:53 GMT
I wonder when Jeff actually wrote TTTM? if Columbia launched in April and the album was released in July,then it must have been done in the intervening 3 months and 'The Jeff Lynne Song Database' site only says that the single was written between March and the summer '81... The answers you seek will definitely be in my upcoming book, and to give you a preview for now, did you know that Jeff wrote Take Me On And On after watching a documentary on the Columbia launch while he was in Los Angeles mixing the Time album? My guess is that he also sampled this portion for Ticket To The Moon as a last minute addition, just as he previously applied a filter to the opening part of Telephone Line right as the master was being cut to disc.
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Post by StrangeMagic on Nov 9, 2018 5:13:51 GMT
This is so cool, ghl3. May I share it in my Facebook group?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 20:10:59 GMT
Certainly!
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