Telstar / Jungle Fever

by The Tornados

Telstar / Jungle Fever cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 17 August 1962
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 5:31
  • Community rating: 4.06/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Composed and engineered by eccentric, visionary producer Joe Meek to celebrate the launch of the Telstar communications satellite. The entirely instrumental track features a swooping, futuristic melody played on a clavioline, heavily treated with Meek's signature over-compressed tape delays and echo effects. It became the very first song by a British group to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, preceding the Beatles' invasion.

Genres

Descriptors: space, melodic, instrumental, atmospheric, retro-futuristic

Tracklist

  1. Telstar (3:16)
  2. Jungle Fever (2:14)

Credits

  • The Tornados - primary artist
  • Joe Meek - written-by
  • Geoffrey Goddard - written-by

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