ALL SCI-FI

Bud Brewster

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There are a number of enjoyable pieces of music that don't sound much like science fiction themes. Love songs, rock tunes, and swingin' title themes for spy movies that dabbled in sci-fi.

Enjoy these unusual musical numbers associated with science fiction movies from the 1950s and 1960s. Cool

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______ Nat King Cole - Destination Moon (1950)

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________________ Robinson Crusoe On Mars

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___________________ The Blob Theme Song

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PAT BOONE — Twice As Tall, Journey to the Center of the Earth

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__ Frankie Avalon - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

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____ Journey to the Seventh Planet Love Theme

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__Bing Crosby - Around The World In Eighty Days

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______________ Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger

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___ Village Of The Giants Theme - Jack Nitzsche

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________________________ Our Man Flint

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______ The Green Slime Theme - Richard Delvy

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ETTA JAMES - Hold Me, Squeeze Me (1955) Sci-Fi Babe Gallery

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____________ Do The Jellyfish by Neil Sedaka

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__________________ Fireball Xl5 Music Video

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Pow · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:36 pm Post subject:

Thanks Bruce, these were fun to listen to. Had no idea that The Blob had a song to it. Goldfinger is a classic; I've enjoyed many of the musical scores to the James Bond movies. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is one of the best scores, For Your Eyes Only is another one I enjoy.

The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea one is kinda a corny but I've always liked it. It was wise of Irwin Allen to not use it again for the Voyage television series though, the score they came up with for the series is perfect.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2023 2:19 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Mike. I'm glad you enjoyed them. D

scotpens · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2023 7:38 pm Post subject:

Re Journey to the Seventh Planet: Boy, nothing says "outer space adventure" like a cheesy Euro-pop love ballad!

The Jack Nitzsche composition "The Last Race" was first released in February 1964 and later became the theme from Village of the Giants. It also showed up in Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino's segment of the 2007 double-feature film Grindhouse.

Pow · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:08 pm Post subject:

Guess I just forgot about having heard the Blob score before. Unmemorable for me.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:19 pm Post subject:

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Golly, Mike, I love that song! The title for The Blob was played on radio stations in 1958. And Serius XM plays it on their oldies channel now!

Back in the 1990's an oldies FM station on Atlanta actually took requests from listeners, and if someone amused the DJ, he would play a recording of the listener making his request.

My friend Rod Bennett made a cassette tape from that station so I could hear him requesting The Blob. I still have the tape. Rod's request went like this.

DJ: What can I play for ya today?

Rod: I wanna hear . . . The Blob!

DJ: Ah-ha. The theme from The Blob.

Rod: You know that one, don't ya? It has some guy making that popping sound with his finger in his mouth.

DJ: I do remember that!

Rod: I guess that means it's a Pop record, right? Laughing

DJ: (Ends the call while chuckling as the song starts to play.)
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

tmlindsey · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2023 3:44 pm Post subject: