Mellotronists

Fascinating bit of reading.  I believe an ancient issue of "Keyboard" 
magazine or one of its linear predecessors was my source for the "Runaway" 
info, which I found no reason to doubt when I got my hands on my own Solovox 
around 1980.  Play that solo on the Solovox, and it is indistinguishable.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernie Kornowicz" <kornowicz@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:54 AM
Subject: [Mellotronists] [looking-for-answers] Re: Album Openers (Was: 
Deadwing)


> There seems to be some similarities:
>
> http://go.zibycom.com/members/002222119/Site4/solovox.html
> http://go.zibycom.com/members/002222119/Site4/maxmusitron.html
>
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> --- 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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