OK, Craig, prepare for your life to be complete. Not only do I think I know
what you're talking about but I even have a link so you can download the
tracks. If this is right then there were a whole series of these each
covering a different area of science.

Have a look here http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/ and hopefully this
is what you were talking about.

Cheers
Mark


----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Leve" <CraigL@ori.org>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: first records


> Wow, you guys are amazing.  Seriously - I don't have any idea what the
first
> record I bought with own money was. I wish I did. I'd like to read my own
> tea leaves. Damn.  I do recall having a pretty impressive collection of
John
> Denver and Olivia Newton-John cassettes. Except my parents labelled
> EVERYTHING. Must of have stock in the DYMO labeler company.  To this day I
> think of Olivia as ON-John as every damn tape was labelled 'O N John'
>
> But here's the real question.  This one has bugged me for years.  If one
of
> you can help well it'll be scary, it'll feel like the circle of my life
has
> been completed.  So beware if you know the answer to this one.  When I was
> really a young 'un I remember my parents buying me this album that was
like
> all these 'Science' songs that just reeked of the era - space technology,
in
> particular. A couple titles / lines "Seven Miles a Second" (referring to
the
> required velocity to escape earth's atmosphere).  Another had the lines
"the
> world is just a great big grapefruit, 25,000 miles around; You could see
> from here to China, if you could dig through the ground". Any bells
ringing?
> Scary I realize..but this is like the primordial ooze of my
memories....and
> I've wanted to find this record for years.
>
> thanks,
>
> n.p. Thomson - s/t (or AMG calls it "Nuclear Love") - wow..fans of Cosmic
> Rough Riders, Velvet Crush, General Store, ante up..this one is wonderful!
>