They just played the best song in this world (or out of this world) on Radio 4!!!

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Ed makes us listen to Radio 4 on Sunday mornings while he reads the Observer. They've got some wanky actor playing a bunch of shit for his desert island discs, but THIS was fantastic:

3.‘Destination Moon’
Performer: Dinah Washington
Composer: Alfred/Fisher
Publisher: Columbia
CD Title: Dinah ‘62
Track: S1 T2
Label: Columbia
Rec No: SX 1453

I want this song played at my WEDDING!!! It's a jazz standard all about taking a supersonic jet to outerspace for a honeymoon on the moon!!!

How can I find out more about this record? Like, lyrics and things? And how can I GET A COPY so I can play it next time I DJ?

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Can no one help me out with suggestions of how to chase this down? I know how to chase down rare indie records, but I have no idea how to find Jazz things...

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and suggestions for other songs about lunar adventures would be appreciated so I could make a whole set about trips to the moon... Destination Moon, Holiday On The Moon (Love & Rockets) and Bike Ride To The Moon (Dukes of Stratosphear).

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

www.allmusic.com - Search for Dinah, search for the song, um, check amazon afterwards? If you can find out the album it's on, go to the library website for where I work, and search her name in the author field. We've got 10,000 jazz/blues/etcetera records - if we've got it I'll CDR it for you off the vinyl if you like. We've got these things of Dinah in our collection.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Fly Me To The Moon by Frank, obv.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 23 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Definitive Fly me to the moon is Astrud Gilberto.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god, there's a version on the Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders soundtrack!!! This IS the song I want played at my wedding.

Not that I'm, erm, ever going to get married oh no, I'm not obsessing about anything or anyone, oh no, I am cool as a cucumber and I do not care.

SONGS ABOUT OUTER SPACE SEARCH AND DESTROY!!!

Extra points for anyone who can find any tunes about Jupiter

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Track 14.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but I think that's about the god, Jupiter, and not the planet.

(Oh god, now I am thrown into a flurry of confusion... taking sides, classical mythology vs. astronomy... Jupiter was a CRAP god, he was an irascible skirt-chasing freak, not to mention just a pale watered down rockist imitation of Zeus, who, despite being a skirt-chasing freak who visisted gurls in the form of golden showers and freaky beastiality, at least got to play around with thunderbolts and stuff...)

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't make me start listening to Holst...

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, "Destination Moon" is a different song to "Fly Me To The Moon," but Dinah Washington recorded them both, and you can get 'em on her "Best Of" on Roulette Records which is £6.99 in HMV.

― Marcello Carlin, Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I know that they are different songs! They are both great! if I can get them both on the same album, that would be AMAZING, so thanks mucho for the suggestion! As soon as I get paid (next week) that best of will be mine! Yay!

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

(and a big :-) to see you, Marcello!)

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

what a lovely thread!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The version of Fly Me To The Moon that I really want is this weird syruppy JapanPop version that was the theme music to ... erm ... which anime was it? One of the really complex, cool cult ones... I think Evangalion or something? It was wonderful, the balance of this really dark, really metaphysical and deep anime with this fluffy, cute, sparkly theme. Really used to freak me out.

― kate, Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

'Everyone's Gone to the Moon'-Jonathan King
'Trip to the Moon'-Acen
'Diamond Hard Blue Apples of the Moon'-The Nice
'Everybody Gets to go to the Moon'-Buddy Greco

― Paul R (paul R), Sunday, 23 February 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The only Jupiter titles in my collection are:
In The Marketplace (Interlude)/Jupiter - Earth Wind & Fire
Jumping Jupiter - Nico Orts Ventin
Jupiter Jazz - Underground Resistance

As for the moon, in an SF trip sense rather than a "look at the moon/by the way it's june" type, and ignoring multiple Fly Me To The Moons, the only additions I can make are:
Moonwalk - Joe Simon
Rockin' On The Moon - Deacon and the Rock 'n' Rollers
A Trip To The Moon - Gary US Bonds
Trip II The Moon - Acen
Walking On The Surface Of The Moon - Wreckless Eric

Some other travel to alien planets tunes that I have:
Pullman Car To Venus - Blessed Ethel
One-way Ticket To Pluto - Dead Kennedys
Rock It On Mars = Terry Dunavan
Flight To Uranus - Nesta
Destination Venus - Rezillos
In The Court Of The Martian King - Sewer Zombies

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 February 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Though Destination Moon was fantastic, George Clooney also chose 'Artificial Flowers' by Bobby Darin (sp). I'll have Destination Moon at my wedding, but that at my funeral.

― stephen. s (yaye), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget Walking On The Moon by The Police

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 24 February 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

on the general outer space tip of course "Walking On The Sun"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 24 February 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget Walking On The Moon by The Police

Or Lucia Pamela...

― Phil (phil), Monday, 24 February 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Only yesterday I was singing 'I've got a ticket to tbe moon / but I'd rather see the sun rise / in your eyes' by ELO.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

yesterday, I was singing 'oh yeah' by yello.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

OOOh! Moonchild - Nina Simone the ultimate moon song!

― JLH, Monday, 24 February 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

'destination venus' man or astroman

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread hits my eye like a big pizza pie!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

FRED VOM JUPITER! who did that? the best song eva!

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Jupiter Crash by The Cure!

― Paz, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the one in The French Connection that the Supremes-like black female singing trio are doing when Popeye spots the drug dealers in the bar? 'Everybody's Going To The Moon' or something?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, the J-pop Fly Me to the Moon was indeed at the end of every Evangelion. I wish they had sung it in Japanese though so I could learn the words and do it at jam sessions. I still think of NGE every time I play that song.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Note: My favorite Evangelion pasttime was trying to sing the English subtitled words to the (Japanese) opening theme song and get them all in. Try it, it's fun!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe my thread has been up this long and no one (no, not even me!) has mentioned YMA SUMAC!!!

― kate, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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