Music to Moog By

Music to Moog By

Track Listings

1. Hey, Hey

2. Scarborough Fair

3. For Alisse Beethoven

4. Sheila

5. Pop Corn

6. Twinkle, Twinkle

7. Nowhere Man

8. Sunset Sound

9. Trumansburg Whistle

10. Paperback Writer

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Product Description
Originally released in 1969 by Audio Fidelity Records, Gershon Kingsley's Music To Moog By was a masterpiece of electronic pop, featuring the first appearance of Kingsley's international dance hit 'Pop Corn' (which shot to number 1 on the German charts, selling over 1 million copies in Germany alone). In an attempt to prove that the Moog was not just an unwieldy electronic toy, Kinglsey also took songs like the Beatles 'Nowhere Man' & 'Paperback Writer', & Paul Simon's 'Scarborough Fair', & classical pieces like 'For Alisse Beethoven' & the children's lullaby 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' & transformed them into 100% Moog rockers, proving that the synthesizer was the instrument of the future that would change music forever. Original Artwork. Features 10 tracks Packaged in digipak format. Dagored.

Tracks:

Hey, Hey
Scarborough Fair
For Alisse Beethoven
Sheila
Pop Corn
Twinkle, Twinkle
Nowhere Man
Sunset Sound
Trumansburg Whistle
Paperback Writer

Album Description

Originally released in 1969 by Audio Fidelity Records, Gershon Kingsley's Music To Moog By was a masterpiece of electronic pop, featuring the first appearance of Kingsley's international dance hit 'Pop Corn' (which shot to number 1 on the German charts, selling over 1 million copies in Germany alone). In an attempt to prove that the Moog was not just an unwieldy electronic toy, Kinglsey also took songs like the Beatles 'Nowhere Man' & 'Paperback Writer', & Paul Simon's 'Scarborough Fair', & classical pieces like 'For Alisse Beethoven' & the children's lullaby 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' & transformed them into 100% Moog rockers, proving that the synthesizer was the instrument of the future that would change music forever. Original Artwork. Features 10 tracks Packaged in digipak format. Dagored.

Album Details

Originally Realeased in 1969 by Audio Fidelity Records, Gershon Kingsley's "Music to Moog By" was a Masterpiece of Electronic Pop, featuring the First Appearance of Kingsley's International Dancee Hit "Popcorn".

Customer Reviews:

One of the great Moog albums, with the original "Popcorn".......2004-02-20

Gershon Kingsley was another one of the early electronic pioneers, he even released his share of albums with Jean Jacques Perrey even before W. Carlos gave us Switched-On Bach. Kingsley was born in Germany in 1923, but since he was Jewish he fled to Palestine in 1938 while still a teenager, because of the rise of the Third Reich and the persecution of Jews. In 1946 he came to America, and by 1955 he was living in New York. He involved himself in songwriting arrangements for television, Broadway, religious songs, etc. He even worked for Vanguard Records. In the 1960s, he decided to go hi-tech, team up with French-born Jean Jacques Perrey, and released a series of albums. Music to Moog By, released in 1969 on the Audio-Fidelity was his first solo album. This was one of many post-Switched-On Bach moog albums. You get to see several pictures of Kingsley's modular Moog (looks like a III-C, like what Keith Emerson used) in the cover artwork as well as the back of the album. Here Kingsley does his share of pop hits and classical on the Moog as well as a few new compositions. One of the new compositions most noteworthy is "Popcorn", which later became a hit in 1972 with Hot Butter (which I understood consisted of musicians from Kingsley's First Moog Quartet, the project he would do after Music to Moog By). "Hey-Hey" is another original, where you keep hearing "Hey Hey" being shouted, where you can't tell if it was the Moog doing it or a real person. There's a nice version of the traditional English folk song "Scarborough Fair" (which wrongly says Paul Simon written it, although it's well known that Simon & Garfunkel were the ones who made it famous). I liked this flute sound (apparently produced by the Moog itself) that you hear in this song. Two Beatles songs are covered here, "Nowhere Man" and "Paperback Writer" (misprinted as "Paperback Rider"). It's nice hearing these two songs in a Moog format. He also does a Beethoven song called "Für Elise", which he titled "For Alise". The only misfire on this album, in my opinion, is "Twinkle Twinkle", a Moog rendition of the children's song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". I think doing a kid's song on Moog is just plain cheesy. Regardless, this is truly a wonderful album for those who enjoy early Moog recordings.

Good Moog, But Not Top Moog.......2004-01-18

I did enjoy this CD, especially the opening tune "Hey, Hey," which is one of Gershon Kingsley's own compositions. While I liked the take he did on songs by Paul Simon, Lennon & McCartney, and his unique spin on Beethoven, I enjoyed the tunes that bore his name on the writing credits.

Kingsley is, after all, the guy who wrote the music for Moog's most recognizable hit "Popcorn." The version on this CD is the original, not the one that made a hit on the radio in the early 1970s (the hit version was done by Stan Free's nom de plume "Hot Butter"). If you want to hear where the roots of the hit originated, this CD is a "must buy."

This is good Moog muzik, but if you want prime and funky Kingsley, I highly recommend the sounds he made with Jean-Jacque Perrey, namely "The In Sound From Way Out!" That work, created in 1966, is the fabulous personification of mid 20th Century Space-Age Muzak, so hep, hardly anybody realizes it!

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