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experimental pop. mid-century modern. Space age pop or bachelor pad music is a subgenre of easy listening or lounge music associated with American and Mexican composers, songwriters, and bandleaders in the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s. [1] It drew on contemporary fascination with technology, outer space, and "exotic" locations, exploiting ...
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Space age pop or bachelor pad music is a subgenre of easy listening or lounge music associated with American and Mexican composers, songwriters, and bandleaders in the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s. It drew on contemporary fascination with technology, outer space, and "exotic" locations, exploiting new audio technology such as stereophonic sound, multitrack recording, and early electronic ...
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Background. Exotica and Space Age Bachelor Pad Music began to hit its stride in the mid-50s, about the same time that rock-n-roll was in deep into cover frenzy. Just as many mainstream pop artists rushed to cover Fats Domino's own cover of Smiley Lewis' "I Hear You Knockin'," hi-fi and stereo arrangers fell over themselves to cover "Caravan" and "April in Portugal."
Ten Basic Space Age Pop Albums. The textbook for countless exotica recordings. First recorded in 1951, Ritual of the Savage contained all the essential ingredients we would come to look for: primitive rhythms, melodies from far away places, song titles evoking a mythical land of mystery, savagery, and romance, and a call to long-repressed ...
Space age pop often doesn't fit neatly into any of the standard genres such as jazz and rock, so many of the men and women who created space age pop have gone unrecognized, absent from any standard reference book or history.
Born 28 August 1918, Brooklyn, New York. A ttilio Mineo might have moved from obscure to completely unknown but for the enthusiasm of a few devoted fans like Jack Diamond and Stefan Kery, who kept trumpeting praises of Mineo's innovative early electronic space age pop work, Man in Space with Sounds. Created for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair ...
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, also called Space Age Pop or shortened to SABPM in this acronym-friendly age, actually spans pre-stereo "high fidelity" recordings introduced in the mid-1950s to the brief and unsuccessful attempt to push quadrophonic recordings in the early 1970s. It encompasses a huge range of music, but is best characterized by ...
