Musical Interlude: How 'bout some retro goofiness? The easy-listening orchestra 101 Strings once did an album of groovy space-aged tunes that is a blazing example of high camp today. Put on your go-go boots!
"Orbit Fantasy," performed by 101 Strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWVfyPhmvvQ
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Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000 by 101 Strings, released in 1968 on Alshire Records.
Swirling guitars and proto-ambient electronica sounds from many light years away! ...These are the sounds of epiphanies concerning the future, space and sounds on the horizon, circa 1969. The tracks for this album were recorded by Cole and other players during sessions for a separate longplayer and were deemed to be outtakes; the details as to how they became Astro Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000 are dark and distant, but the 10 tracks here were first issued sans strings in 1967 as The Animated Egg, with alternate song titles. Two years later the recordings were overdubbed with the swirling, piercing phase-shifted strings mix you hear here, creating a spectacular fusion of psych-rock, R&B, easy listening and fuzz guitar, with hints of the coming worlds of ambient and electronica...
https://astrosounds.bandcamp.com/album/from-beyond-the-year-2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vozNPNJ4zqI&list=RDvozNPNJ4zqI&start_radio=1
“Eclanage” / “101 Strings - Play Songs Of France” (1 user) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SfrgswzzWo #101Strings
101 Strings - Award Hits from Broadway and Hollywood (1972) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydHKNiO161c #101Strings #YouTube
