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Subject: [looking-for-answers] Re: Album Openers (Was: Deadwing)

From: "Bernie Kornowicz" <kornowicz@...>
Date: 2005-06-02

There seems to be some similarities:

http://go.zibycom.com/members/002222119/Site4/solovox.html
http://go.zibycom.com/members/002222119/Site4/maxmusitron.html


--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "jonesalley" <jonesalley@c...>
wrote:
> "Musitron???????" That was a Hammond Solovox.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: marabus
> To: looking-for-answers@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:14 AM
> 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.
>
> _________
> > 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?
>
>
>
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