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Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: [looking-for-answers] Re: Album Openers (Was: Deadwing)
I believe Max Crook's home built Musitron gets the gold star on Del Shannon's "Runaway"-early '61
Pete
http://www.delshannon.com/runaway.htm
Carlos Baez wrote:
According to the Henry Ford Museum research center: "The first Moog
synthesizer was one of two prototypes built by Robert Moog from
July-September 1964, with additional modules added in 1964 and 1965. One was
taken to Toronto University in 1965, while one was kept by the inventor and
his colleague, Herbert Deutsch. It was used in live public performance for
the first time in a concert at Town Hall in New York City on September 25,
1965."
I'd always heard that the Monkees were the first to use one on record as
well, but given the above dates, it appears someone else might have actually
preceded them.
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> Can you, Tom, or anyone else for that matter, cite an
example of the Moog synthesizer being used on a pop record earlier than
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones, Ltd. by the Monkees?