Interplanetary Melodies
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| Artist: | Sun Ra |
| Release date: | 2009 |
| Genre: | Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz, Rock |
| Tracks: | 15 |
| Duration: | 38:40 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie (45 Version) (featuring Cosmic Rays) | 3:03 |
| 2. | Dreaming (Unissued) (featuring Cosmic Rays) | 1:29 |
| 3. | Bye Bye (45 Version) (featuring Cosmic Rays) | 2:47 |
| 4. | Somebody's In Love (Unissued) (featuring Cosmic Rays) | 2:17 |
| 5. | Summertime (Unissued) (featuring Cosmic Rays) | 1:52 |
| 6. | Honey In The Bee Box (Unissued) (featuring The Crystals) | 3:27 |
| 7. | Spaceship Lullaby (Unissued Studio Rehearsal) (featuring The Nu - Sounds) | 2:12 |
| 8. | I'm Through With You (Unissued) (featuring The Nu - Sounds) | 2:03 |
| 9. | Africa (Extended Version) (featuring The Nu - Sounds) | 5:03 |
| 10. | Dabba Dabba Dabba Du Bay (Unissued) (featuring The Nu - Sounds) | 1:41 |
| 11. | It's Christmas Time (45 Version) (featuring The Qualities) | 2:43 |
| 12. | If I Only Hadn't Sinned (Unissued) (featuring The Qualities) | 2:51 |
| 13. | Love Letters Full Of Promises (Unissued) (featuring Juanita Rogers) | 2:02 |
| 14. | Teenager's Letter Of Promises (45 Version) (featuring Juanita Rogers) | 3:40 |
| 15. | Tony's Wife (Unissued) | 1:30 |
Details
[Edit]More stuff from Sun Ra's archives, this time focusing on his work with doo wop groups. Sun Ra had a home tape recorder early on, and most of these are previously unissued home rehearsals. The sound is generally excellent given that these are '50s home recordings (except for the studio tracks released on Saturn as singles and their studio rehearsal counterparts). Sun Ra clearly knew and loved this type of vocal music and probably could have had a career cranking out doo wop numbers (he wrote most of the tunes here, and some are really catchy). But Sun Ra was Sun Ra, and some of these tracks move more into territory he was exploring with the Arkestra, whether it's the exoticism of the Nu-Sounds' "Africa" (a longer take than on Nubians of Plutonia), "Spaceship Lullaby" (which shares some lyrics with "Rocket Number Nine") and its outer space themes, or the avant-garde intro and backing to the Cosmic Rays' version of Gershwin's "Summertime." In addition to the doo wop, there's the hilarious and impossibly rare "Teenager's Letter of Promises" by Juanita Rogers in both the issued single form as well as a studio rehearsal. Perhaps most interesting of all for Ra collectors is "Tony's Wife," a snappy Xavier Cugat ditty whose lyrics are decidedly earthbound for Sun Ra.