Joe Meek Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes - The Telstar Story (LP, 10inch)

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(Cherry Red Records) 8 tracks THE FIRST RELEASE FROM JOE MEEK’S LEGENDARY TEA CHEST TAPES!... more

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Joe Meek: Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes - The Telstar Story (LP, 10inch)

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THE FIRST RELEASE FROM JOE MEEK’S LEGENDARY TEA CHEST TAPES!

CELEBRATING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ‘TELSTAR’ SINGLE, RELEASED BY THE TORNADOS IN 1962.

FEATURES PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN DEMOS, SOUND EFFECTS, ORIGINAL VERSIONS AND ALTERNATE RENDITIONS.

ALL IN SUPERB, PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD CLARITY, TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM JOE MEEK’S OWN TAPE ARCHIVE.

TAPE WORK AND MASTERING BY MARTIN NICHOLS.

SLEEVENOTES BY ROB BRADFORD, EDITOR OF THE JOE MEEK SOCIETY’S ‘THUNDERBOLT’ MAGAZINE.

Released in August 1962, ‘Telstar’ became both Joe Meek’s signature recording and one of the best-selling and best-loved British singles in history.

Famed for its revolutionary blend of far out sound effects, pulsating pop rhythms and an other-worldly melody courtesy of the clavioline, the tune resonated across the world, making Meek a household name and shining a light on his home studio and secretive recording techniques.

Recently discovered among his legendary ‘Tea Chest Tapes’ archive, the eight tracks featured here, alongside Rob Bradford’s excellent chronology and track-by-track notes, tell the story of a remarkable week-long burst of energy which saw Joe Meek conceive of, write, record, overdub and edit the song ready for rush release to capitalise on the launching of the Telstar satellite.

Through a trio of demos, the original, non-overdubbed Tornados track, sound effects, alternate versions and a previously unheard Glenda Collins vocal version renamed ‘Magic Star’, prepare to be transported to 304 Holloway Road in the early 1960s.

The kettle is on, the neighbours are banging on the walls, Meek is at the height of his powers and tape is rolling….

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Interpret: Joe Meek
Album titlle: Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes - The Telstar Story (LP, 10inch)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Cherry Red Records
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Vinyl record size LP (10 inch)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 5013929790131
weight in Kg 0.21

Meek, Joe - Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes - The Telstar Story (LP, 10inch) LP 1
01	JOE MEEK – TELSTAR VOCAL DEMO	Joe Meek
02	DAVE ADAMS – TELSTAR CLAVIOLINE DEMO	Joe Meek
03	NORMAN HALE – THE THEME OF TELSTAR	Joe Meek
04	THE TORNADOS – TELSTAR (ORIGINAL SPEED CLEAN VERSION)	Joe Meek
05	THE TELSTAR SOUND EFFECTS TAPE	Joe Meek
06	THE RHYTHMICS – TELSTAR	Joe Meek
07	GLENDA COLLINS – MAGIC STAR	Joe Meek
08	THE TORNADOS – TELSTAR (ALTERNATE EDIT)	Joe Meek

Joe Meek Meek came from Gloucester and did his National Service in the RAF as a radio... more

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"Joe Meek"

Joe Meek

Meek came from Gloucester and did his National Service in the RAF as a radio technician in the early Fifties. In 1953, he came out and went to work as an engineer at the IBC studio, at that time one of only two independent studios in London. There he engineered records by Frankie Vaughan (`Green Door'), Denis Lotis, Lita Roza, Shirley Bassey, Anne Shelton, Harry Secombe and Petula Clark. In 1956, Meek went to work for Denis Preston at Lans-downe Studios, where he was engineer on several of Lonnie Donegan's early hits, including 'Cumberland Gap' and `Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O' as well as trad jazz records by Humphrey Lyttelton and Chris Barber. He also began dabbling in songwriting and in 1958 wrote Tommy Steele's Tut A Ring On Her Finger'.

Leaving Lansdowne in 1960, Meek built his own studio in a flat above a shop in Holloway, North London, equipping it with £3,000 worth of second-hand equipment. He called it RGM Sound and simultaneously activated his own label, Triumph, going against all odds at a time when British pop was monopolized by the three major labels.

A cover version of an American hit, 'Angela Jones' by Michael Cox, reached the Top Ten in June, 1960 but none of Triumph's other releases were successful and Meek discontinued the label in favour of tape-lease deals with the majors. He scored the following year with John Leyton's eerie, futuristic 'Johnny Remember Me' and 'Wild Wind', Mike Berry's poignant `Tribute to Buddy Holly' and several smaller hits by the Outlaws (with Richie Blackmore) who backed many of Meek's artists on record.

In 1962, a combination of Meek's session musicians recor-ded an instrumental he wrote titled `Te!star', under the name of the Tornados, which proved his biggest selling hit, reach-ing No. 1 in both Britain and America. In production terms, it still remains far ahead of contemporary records. The Tor-nados followed up with several slightly less successful records including 'Robot', 'Globetrotter' and 'Ice Cream Man' be-fore being swamped in the ensuing Merseybeat craze. Never-theless, Meek scored early in 1963 with Mike Berry's 'Don't You Think It's Time' and in 1964 with the Honeycomb's `Have I The Right', but found the going hard in the mid-Sixties.

He had no hits in 1966 and faced with increasing anxiety through personal problems, blew his brains out with a shotgun on February 3, 1967.

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